Armory at “Building Databases 0%” for 15 hours

[btc123thatthere]

Hi there, I've spent the last few weeks trying to get Armory 0.93.3 in a ready-to-work state (on Ubuntu 16.10, but it keeps on getting to “Building Databases, 0%”, and staying there indefinitely (21 hours so far.) It's infrequently accessing the hard drive.
Ubuntu's system monitor is staying right up at 100% CPU usage (both cores on this 2-core machine), but when I go to the 'Processes' tab it says that 'bitcoind' is only using ~17-20%, 'python' is using 2%, 'gnome-system-monitor' is using 2%, and 'compiz' about 1%.
I am scratching my head trying to figure out if it's actually doing work and getting there, or if it's basically stuck and needs intervening. I'm wondering why it's still at “Building Databases, 0%” after 21 hours.
It took 1.5 weeks to download the blockchain (gotta love it.)
The machine I'm running is a Toshiba Tecra M5, Intel P2500 @ 2.00Ghz, 2gb ram, 500gb hdd.
Cheers.

[OgNasty]

The requirements for Armory got pretty crazy for a bit. I believe I even ran into similar problems in the past.

I'd recommend downloading the latest version of Armory and giving that a try.

https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/download/

If that doesn't work, I'd be happy to recover your funds for a tip if you had the desire.

[btc123thatthere]

Yeah, it looks like Armory version 0.93.3 is the latest version I can use, because I'm using a 32-bit machine.

Thanks for the offer, but I wouldn't consider sending private data over the net.

Any thoughts on what might be gobbling up the CPU time with no apparent work being done?

Thanks

[Hhampuz]

Just letting you know that ognasty is a very trustworthy member of the BTC community at a whole. And I'm sure he could help you out with security issues if you do not want to send private data online.

Other than that I really hope you solve the issue, sure is annoying when this happens.

Happy new year!

[btc123thatthere]

Ok, long story short:

I bought a 1TB USB HDD to use on my 64-bit laptop (Pentium P6100 2Ghz, 6gb DDR3, USB 2.0), loaded Ubuntu onto it, and installed Armory and Bitcoin core.
It was the same deal as I had on the 32-bit machine: Gave it afew days downloading, then it froze and I had to reset it once or twice, then it downloaded it all (.bitcoin folder got to 113.3gb and it wasn't doing anything even after I reset it again) and Armory doesn't know what the heck to do.

I'm thinking that maybe I should have installed the Bitcoin core first, let it download, and THEN install and run Armory.

Also, I tried to upload the log files to this forum but it says it's the 'wrong format' even after I tried changing it to a .txt file.

Oh, and I just tried rebooting into Ubuntu on the external HDD and it keeps coming up with a hard drive error and leaving me at the command line.. so it looks like I'm gonna have to format the hard drive anyway. I'm tempted to format the drive, and do it on windows! (Using the external HDD.. as I've only got like 50gb free on my laptop's 256GB SSD.)

What do you think?
Thanks