Slackware :: Files Disappear & Are Reverted To Original?
Oct 12, 2010
After 2 weeks of work to restore my server to working condition (after a failed HDD) I am facing a very strange problem. Basically, random files (config, scripts, etc) are either going mising or are reverted to original states. Example1: This morning, I went to use VNC to remote login in my server. I couldnt start the VNC server. I used ssh to login and searched for a lock file (.pid) or anything else preventing VNC from starting, only a few minutes later to open rc.local_shutdown and discover that it was only containing:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local startup commands in here. Also, if you have
# anything that needs to be run at shutdown time you can
# make an /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown script and put those
# commands in there.
All my custom commands were gone...
Example2: Yesterday, I was still using my NFS shares to play music and movies. All worked perfectly. A few minutes ago, I tried to mount the NFS shares on my laptop but it did not work. I used ssh again to login in the server and discovered that nfsd was not running. I tried to start it and it said that there were no exports to share (or something like that). I opened /etc/exports and it was PLAIN empty!! However, I had a export.orig file in /etc... SO somehow, something erased my exports file but care to create a backup of it!
Question: What could do such stupid stuff? Hints: I did not install anything. I did not fool around with anything. The server was unpowered between yesterday and today.
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Aug 18, 2010
I have a Sony Vaio vgn-sz440. Here is what the specs say about the video card.
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I do not understand, do I have an Intel video card, or an Nvidia video card? Should I install the Nvidia video card driver, because every time I try, everything gets real glitchy and I revert back to my original setup.
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Mar 28, 2010
i have a large directory of .bsp files that i would like to convert .bz2 archives. I've been searching for some time and all i can find is the obvious compress multiple files into one large archive. If anyone knows how to convert each file individually, while retaining the original file name (testmap.bsp would be archived as testmap.bsp.bz2)
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Feb 6, 2011
NFS server is on Slackware-current64 and client is on 13.1. The directory being exported is vfat formatted on a firewire drive. I've been accessing this share on the client with Amarok and Juk without incident for a couple of months. Yesterday I decided to try out moc on the client with this setup. After many revisions to fstab options on both the server and client I still get the same result: after a couple of hours running moc post remounting and re-exporting, the directories on the nfs share on the client start disappearing or corrupting.
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Jun 29, 2011
Slackware 13.37, tested on 2 different PC;
affected: mousepad and tcl/tk applications
I am using mousepad and tcl/tk application to view text files with long lines. Sometimes ago I found that some characters (part of line) in long lines disappear. The problem is shown on a very small video. [URL]
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Jun 8, 2010
When booting into my slack12 fluxbox desktop today my fonts were so small they were hard to read. The same is true if I use kde. I didn't change anything that I can think of. I tried running fc-cache but it didn't change anything. My xorg.conf hasnt changed. Interestingly, my xterm font didn't change size, but the konsole font is tiny like my other desktop fonts.
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Dec 16, 2010
I have discovered that after employing the Wicd Network Manager I can no longer connect via ppp. The reason, it seems, is that each instance of Wicd changes the content of my /etc/resolv.conf file from:
Code:
search SPRINT
nameserver 195.128.182.5
to:
Code:
Generated by dhcpcd
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line
It has been suggested that I write a script that does this.
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Jul 2, 2011
dear the Admin(s) and all of the members
suppose that we wanna install a program, so we must do this : sudo apt-get install program_name after installing that file, yeah indeed we can run that program, but where can actually we find the original-downloaded file in our ubuntu?
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Jan 26, 2010
Could someone help me find a way to rename a file to a different name containing parts of its old name?
For example:
Original file name: filename1.abc.xyz.some.other.stuff
Final file name: filename1.abc.xyz
The length of the file name is not constant. the abc.xyz is not constant but that format is (three numbers.three numbers) the .some.other.stuff is not constant and its what i want to get rid of
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Jun 12, 2011
I am running a recently installed minimal install. I am having some fun building the system up but trying to keep things slim. I have installed the ATI catalyst drivers working from the tutorial here under 'Installing the Restricted Drivers Manually': [URL]... After successfully getting the ATI driver running, I realise I really don't need or want it and am wanting to uninstall it completely and return the config to the way it was. Some of that I can do with the aid of some of the links I have found but installing the ATI drivers no doubt killed some of the packages that were there in the first place (graphics was fine in the first place incidentally). Question: What might these squashed packages be so I can reinstall them and have graphics setup as it was before I installed the ATI drivers and how can I remove all trace of the ATI drivers?
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Jun 19, 2010
This works on my Slackware64 13.1 using KDE 4.4.4, Conky version 1.8.0. This is a simple .conkyrc tweak that doesn't need feh, it doesn't have the distracting faun shadow-border and most importantly, it doesn't disappear when you click your desktop (On my system anyway). These are the relevant sections to edit:
Code:
own_window_colour black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_130
own_window_type override
own_window yes
I found that getting rid of the own_window_argb_values yes suggested in other fixes and replacing it with a specific alpha and then changing window type to override solved all my issues. I've noticed no bugs or strange happenings. This seems to be a common problem with a lot of workaround solutions. I think this is a much more elegant way. Edit: Not persistant... After 2 reboots it's back to normal.
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Jan 27, 2009
I installed F9 for a friend. She wasn't getting any sound. I ran aplay -l, but got no sound card listed. I ran lspci -v, but got no sound card listed. However,the output of lspci -v said the computer had a particular motherboard. I Googled for it and was told it had an onboard sound card. That led me to the package called realtek-linux-audiopack-4.06a, which I installed. It included an installation script, which I ran.
The script didn't work to compile various files it was supposed to, but it did work to delete various files from my friend's system. Here are the bits of the script that removed files:
echo "Remove old sound driver"
if [ -d /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VER/kernel/sound ]; then
rm -rf /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VER/kernel/sound/pci > /dev/null 2>&1
[code]....
In the result, the failure of the compilation didn't matter, because lspci -v lied. She didn't have the motherboard shown, but a different one without an onboard sound card. Of the files deleted by the script.
I was able to reinstall libasound.so.2 and libasound.so.2.0.0, but I haven't yet tried to reinstall the other ones deleted by the script. Now, I want her to buy a sound card, but I'm afraid it won't work unless all the deleted files are reinstalled. I'm looking for guidance as to how I can reinstall the files deleted by the bits of the script I set out above, without completely reinstalling Fedora.
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Aug 3, 2010
I'm running Slackware64 13.1. When I change the bright of my screen, xfce power manager show a info bar. But now it disappear, when I run xfce4-power-manager from a terminal I get this info:
Quote:
Another thing, Slackware don't have cpu governors?
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Jun 10, 2010
I am using Rhythmbox as my music player.It is a great little app. I've got over 4,000 songs. This can be a task to manage if something were to happen to the ID tags, etc. Also I've got some rogue songs with incorrect genres. When I RC the songs and change the Genre tags, they move tot he correct Genre. However seconds later they revert back to the previous Genre.
How can I get Rhythmbox to write the changes to the song's tag so I don't have to use another program to modify the tags? I know that Windows has this functionality... not to compare... but to would also be something like this available for Ubuntu. I did install the nautilus-script-audio-converter, however I didn't see a difference after installing this.
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Dec 31, 2010
Initially, I was trying to get around a Nautilus log in error. Using this, I was able to log in, but I entered what seems to be a perfectly clean version of Ubuntu...with no access to my files. [URL].... Now, I can't seem to find any of my original files. Some of the commands I entered in the terminal included:
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I'm afraid that I may have deleted the files, or have moved them to another user or someplace on the drive I can't see.
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Jun 3, 2011
I have a: debian squeeze(with last updates),sound system(Bose companion 5 USB) and Alsa Version 1.0.21. Sound system is work(good work) in:Ubuntu 9.10,Suse 11 and Windows But in Debian i have a starange problem:periodic sound is disappear(simply so or when i'm switch differents video files). It's not a problem with video players. /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart(stop|start) not help. Remain only restart all system, but it's not always help.Sometime it's help only 3 or 5 restart time. Mother board audio card is disabled(in BIOS). Detailed about strangeness:
1 Variant: sound is disappear when i'm swich differents video files(simply video or online video).
2 Varian:When Debian is starting:sound eat in logins form(sound a drop),but at once sound is disappear.
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Dec 5, 2010
I have managed to write a bash script that moves files to the recylce bin instead of being deleted. Then (with a bit of assistance) wrote another bash script that deletes the files from the recycle bin. Now I need to write one that will restore the files preferably to their original location? I am very new to linux and stuggling with where to even begin...any ideas? There seems to be some advice about creating a cloning tree, but I've never heard of them?
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Jun 20, 2011
When i work in Ubuntu on a dual boot system with a shared NTFS data-partition where Windows is hibernated, and then reboot and continue working in Windows from the hibernated sesion, strange things happen. Files disappear, files that i worked on suddenly have the content of another file.
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May 10, 2011
I installed the UbuntuStudio-looks package which i guess reverted the window manager back to gnome. any suggestions on getting back unity?
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Oct 18, 2010
I have a problem with keyboard mappings on F13. I have the following in my .xmodmap file that is run from .bash_profile:
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The problem is that at seemingly random times the roles of the caps lock and control keys (and the other customisations) gets reverted back to normal - which makes for an awful lot of confusion! Running xmodmap again switches them to how I like it, but again after a seemingly random period it resets itself. This occurs under KDE and Gnome in F13, but did not occur in F12. Using the KDE keyboard settings dialog to switch caps lock and control does the exhibits the same behaviour.
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Oct 22, 2010
i want make a bash panel and i want he will copy files from orginal folder to $user folder i mean when for explame i type i want install some server he say cp: cannot stat 'root/Desktop/2/files/beckup/sa-mp-steam': No such file or directory.
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Dec 13, 2010
I made a bzip2 file by
bzip2 -c /home/os/picture1 > /home/os/Desktop/pic.image
bzip2 -c /home/os/picture2 >> /home/os/Desktop/pic.image
But now extracting pic.image by bzip2 -d /home/os/Desktop/pic.image returns
bzip2: Can't guess original name for pic.image -- using pic.image.out
And then it just creates one file pic.image.out.
How do I access picture1 and picture2 from pic.image?
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Apr 23, 2010
I am giving 10.04RC a try instead of Windows 7, so far so good. I can connect to my network shares fine using "Connect to a Server" & bookmark with the file browser, however when I use OpenOffice writer Spreadsheet to open/save files the shares disappear in the"Open/Places". Is this a bug in Ubuntu or Open Office? Is there an update/fix?
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Jul 1, 2011
In search of the vi help files, I thought 'grep -irlw vi /var/log/packagtes' would do. But it appeared in ten packages. Do you know the package name?
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Jan 4, 2010
I've been installing a fair amount of packages from slackbuild.org. Is it a good idea to backup the tgz files i get from building the .SlackBuild files?. I think this would save me time in case if i reinstall slack, then i can install these packages by doing just
Code:
Instead going through the whole:
1)Download source,SlackBuild script
2)Run SlackBuild script
3)finally installpkg if successful.
Will there be any problems with configurations if i don't do it from the beginning?. I thought of this because some packages took helluva time to download and compile.
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Apr 25, 2010
I just encounter a problem after installing slackware 13, that I can not run someexecutable files as easily as before in 12.2.Here is an example:
hwang@hwang:~$ ls -l
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 hwang users 4096 2010-04-24 23:32 Downloads/
[code]...
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May 13, 2011
I recently had Pardus 2011 Installed and i moved a pile of files from my extra hard drive and cleaned it and moved files back onto it. The music files/folders wont show up on SlackWare but if i flip in a ubuntu live cd or run pardus they show up just fine. But here is the kicker. If i for example one of the cd's was a band from in town where i live. If i hash check the torrent so it is seeing if the files are on my computer to share. It will show them if you show directory and if you use Dolphin you cannot see them at all. Is there some kind of setting somewhere i have tried the action of showing hidden files.
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May 7, 2011
alright im curious if I can copy a file over ssh,, im not sure exactly how to go about this, if memory serves there is a scp command ?? can someone give me a walk through,, or if im wrong set me up with the code to copy a file over ssh
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Mar 2, 2011
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Jan 13, 2010
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