I upgraded from Fedora 12 to 13 a couple of days ago, and it seemed to go off without a hitch, but I can no longer boot into Windows. Disk Utility reports that partition as Unknown. It still says HPFS/NTFS (0x07), but it shows no flags, and it doesn't show the file system type the way the others do. Is there a way for me to recover this with a minimal loss of data (preferably none)?
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When I recently upgraded my desktop to Karmic, my postgresql 8.3 no longer starts. I've got data in 8.3 that I need, but now no way to access it. Karmic upgrades to Postgresql 8.4, but leaves 8.3. Problem is, I can't seem to start 8.3 no matter what I do (there's no error message. I even tried removing 8.4 entirely--without effect. When I try to start 8.3 (using command line or boot-up manager), there is no error message, either in system logs or in the postgresql log file. There is also no indication of an active postmaster in ps aux or anything listening to postgresql ports in nmap (for that matter, seems there's nothing listening even with 8.4 activated).
I could try to 'upgrade' my data cluster to 8.4. Never tried that before and am concerned about possibly losing data. Also, I made a load of tuning adjustments to 8.3 that I'd have to replicate with 8.4. I'd rather stay with 8.3, if possible. There are also two pieces of software, postgresql-common and postgresql-client-common, that presumably allow one to run two versions of postgresql simultaneously. Maybe this stuff is even the source of my start up problems. No idea where to learn how to use this software, and, esp., whether this would solve the 8.3 start problem.
I've just (finally!) gotten around to upgrading a couple of machines at a company I do some work for. One machine had a problem when I rebooted onto the new system. During the boot sequence, when it was checking and mounting the filesystems, it was unable to find the /boot partition. Now, this machine does run LVM on all but the /boot partition. The two SATA drives are mirrored, and they have the same partition layout:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I got the system to boot by commenting out the /boot partition in /etc/fstab, but this is certainly only a temporary solution. The other system that I upgraded came up just fine, as have several of my own. Unfortunately, I am doing these two systems by remote control via ssh as I have only limited plysical access to them. (I did have to get to it to figure out why it didn't boot up..)
I'm running skype on my Debian squeeze with kde 4.4. If I minimize it, on a task bar it remain for a wile, and then disappear. I know it's still working because some times I see some message (user x it's online, user y it's off line etc etc) and if I type:
ps -aux | grep skype,
I receive the PID number. But I'm not able to bring it accessible in my desktop.
I've installed Ubuntu Server and set it up 3 weeks ago, it was working fine until today. Just recently, someone IM'd me @ jabber saying that none of services running on it work (http, ftp, svn, jabber, ssh). So I've checked stuff on my PC, and everything seemed to work well (at least for me). I've tried to see if http works via proxy, but it seemed like no. I've called my ISP, on their side everything looks fine, server was accessible via their machines too (well it's obvious). I asked them to see if other networks (TP, GTS Energis, Energis) could connect to it as well, the answer was - no. (I don't think it's firewall, since I didn't even had time to set it up...)
(hq.lime-entertainment.com). Running Ubu 10.04 LTS Server
I get the error: Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported.Of course I know I can remove all the contents of the trash directly via ~/.local/share/Trash/ however, I'd rather have Ubuntu the work the way it was intended.I've tried opening Nautilus using the gksu command, but the problem persists.As per another post, I also tried a fsck on the partition, and no errors were returned.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhy i can't access the Tomcat6 default website after i do the install ?
Code: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://10.2.3.189/
The following error was encountered: Connection to 10.2.3.189 Failed
The system returned: (111) Connection refused
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Setting up authbind (1.2.0build3) ...
root@SSV:~# /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart
* Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ]
* Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/lib/tomcat6
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I installed Ubuntu Server because I want to learn Linux and I want to learn about servers. I did a newbie tutorial and then shut down. When I booted up today, the files in my home directory were replaced by Access-your-private-data.desktop and readme.txt, but I have no idea why. I followed the instructions in readme.txt and typed ecryptfs-mount-private. It told me
INFO: Your private directory has been mounted.
INFO: To see this change in your current shell:
cd /home/rmob
But if I do ls /home/rmob, it still shows me Access-your-private-data.desktop and readme.txt instead of the files I created there yesterday. Every time I reboot, it tells me
keyctl_search: Required key not available
Perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-mount-private'
If I try ecryptfs-mount-private again, it still tells me it has mounted it, but still just shows me those same two files. Googling about this tells me this means the directory got encrypted somehow. I tried typing touch ~/.ecryptfs/auto-mount which I found in this tutorial, but it didn't make a difference and I can't find any other solution anywhere.
I can't get even a simple NAT router setup to work. The network topology is dirt-simple:
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ISP gateway X.Y.Z.65 ->
Linux NAT router box X.Y.Z.108 (eth1) and 192.168.0.138 (eth0) ->
Windows Vista laptop 192.168.0.2
I'm running Debian "squeeze" - plain vanilla install with Gnome.
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I was looking for some way to make 'watch folder' and I found and installed inotify and incron. Explanations were perfect and everything seemed great. So I made test script and it worked as expected.
Now, bash script that was evoked by event by incron consisted this terrible line:
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mv * /some/folder/
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which I expected to be run from watched folder, but instead it is run on holy root /
Rest is tragedy: everything was moved to this folder and I can't access any command. Terminal was opened but it did not accept commands. I cd to '/some/folder/bin' then tried to execute command but no luck. I tried also Ctrl+Alt+F1 - same.
What can I do except reboot. Now what? Grub rescue failure prompt. I went in BIOS to make it boot from separate SATA HD with Windows 7, but it somehow isn't listed there. I can't think why. I tried from this Live CD to move folders to correct location, but it's Permission denied
[edit] Re-reading now, in terminal command 'cd' (change directory) was working, but sure not ls, mv and others. Maybe I could have done something, but probably not, network connection was lost, music stopped playing everything was vanishing...
I have a DLink 323 NAS with a USB port for a printer. Im trying to setup the printer. When I get to the part where I have to enter the username and password for the NAS, no matter what I put in for a password and username, I get the same error message (see attached screenshot). I can not get my network printer to work because of this.
View 7 Replies View RelatedOne of our home school students, toying with the Power Management panel on our 700mHz iMac since there are no brightness control keys that work on it, set it for full display blackout and now can't get the screen back since we can't see the controls. We turned the machine off and on but his account keeps blacking out on log-in though it doesn't happen with other accounts. How can we fix this to retrieve all his work?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a Ubuntu - windows 7 dual boot (in two partitions of the same HDD) desktop PC for a few months. I was learning terminal commands and, although I don't think I made such a big mistake, but the fact is that the a very strange thing happenned: "Preferences" and "Administration" from System disappeared as it did also "Applications". After rebooting the same it remained the same. No big deal, I thought, because I haven't yet saved any important work on Ubuntu. So I reinstalled Ubuntu. Done that everything was nice until I booted Windows... Since then I counldn't start windows after GRUB due to:
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."
Windows Live DVD Repair is useless. I've tried CHKDSK utilities, no result. Windows partition in Ubuntu's Disk Utility is OK but I can't access the files (all "broken links"), just can explore a few directories after which I find myself entering the same folder endlessly. I wanted to repair windows boot or at least recover some important files in Documents and I thought I had backup (but turns out that, for some reason that I'm still trying to understand, they aren't...).
I am running Karmic on my laptop, and I have three 1.5 TB external hard drives which I swap between frequently. My problem is that if I leave the drives in, and do not access them for a period of time, they become inaccessible, i.e. I will click on the icon on the desktop or in Places, and it will tell me there is no device mounted, even though I was using it fine just an hour before.
i have a feeling that it is because the USB drives spin down after a period, and Ubuntu detects them as being 'disconnected'. Would it help if I added individual entries for each in fstab?? Or do I need to adjust some settings elsewhere?
EDIT: If this information helps, the HD's are all Seagate Expansion drives, formatted to ext4.
I'm nearly at the end of creating a shell script that automates changing network settings by prompting the user for desired settings, then applying them.
In the course of my development, I created temporary copies of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0_tmp1, for example) so as to not alter the original file. Little did I know that on boot the system would attempt to load each of these kinds of files and associate it with an ethernet connection, in this case eth0.
So..... now there are multiple copies in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts diretory that essentially have the same settings. They are..
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0_tmp1
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0_tmp2
Now when the system boots, it attempts to load them all. The boot doesn't appear to complete, and I can't ping, login, or otherwise access the system through convention routes (putty, etc.).
The easy solution would be to delete the tmp files and reboot. Now, how do I do that without being able to log in to the server. It's a VM by the way, if that makes a difference.
I just realized that the "Documents" folder in my home directory has changed to a file which is a link to the /home/user/Documents and it is unaccessible. It does not (no longer) show in the "file browser" when I try to click it from "places" it says:
Error: Could not open location 'file:///home/user/Documents' No application is registered as handling this file When I list from the terminal (i.e. %ls -ltr ) it list the file (which was suppose to be the directory) as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 24 2010-11-01 18:20 Documents -> /home/user/Documents
NB. user in this case is my user name on the system, I am just using user for this forum. how to retrieve the information from the folder and remove the linked file to remain with the original folder
I am completely new to Linux in general, and have recently downloaded Fedora 15 KDE spin. I tried dual-booting between Windows 7 and Fedora by shrinking one of my Windows partitions (I have two, this partition not containing the Windows installation). I tried shrinking it to 30 GB less than the total space available on the partition, and after pressing continue, received an error (which I unfortunately dismissed quickly and can't remember). In the file manager, Fedora showed that my partition changed from 1.3Tb to 1.2 Tb, but I couldn't access it. Upon rebooting into Windows, I still can't access it, receiving a "format drive before use" popup and then error stating that it is possibly of a different filesystem or corrupt.
Unfortunately, I stupidly didn't backup any of my data (which I will be sure to remember to do in the future). I installed EASEUS Partition Master 8.0.1 Home Edition, which states that my drive is still of NTFS filesystem and has the total space it should. However, upon clicking "check drive," it states there are no errors and when trying to "explore files," it doesn't find any (yet it shows the correct amount of used and unused space). I then tried running TestDisk, but only allows me to check my media drive E, which is my dvd drive that has my Fedora Live CD in it (which cannot be ejected manually or through Windows, an error stating it cannot be ejected). I didn't go through with TestDisk for my DVD drive because I needed to verify the type of partition (which to my knowledge shouldn't even exist). It shows 700 something MiB / 600 something MiB. Although I have decent general knowledge about computers, I am a complete novice when it comes to doing something like this.
I just upgraded an ubuntu-server from 8.10 to 9.04 via "do-release-upgrade" And after reboot, no partition from one of my hard drives can't be mounted : Drive is /dev/sdc
And when i try to mount it :
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root@mob:~# mount /BACKUPS
mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist
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Is it possible to upgrade (in my case from 8.04 to 10.04) into another partition?
Explanation: I have a system with 2 200GB disks:
Disk 1:
1. swap (4 GB)
2. / (20 GB)
3. /home (40 GB)
Disk 2:
1. /srv (200GB)
Is it possible to create a 4th partition on the first disk and to let the upgrade procedure to use the new partition as target?
The advantages will be:
1. Possible to execute without disturbing the running system.
2. Possible to keep the original partition as a fallback.
3. Very simple activation/fallback procedure: reboot on the correct partition.
I must say that I'm using Sun Solaris at work and I'm doing this operation regulary with the "Live upgrade" tool.
One partition of my pata drives is not recognized anymore after upgrade. Using fdisk the partition is seen but just 33,8 GB of the 205 GB drive is recognized at all.
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root@7of9:~ >>> /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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The filesystem is ok. Booting Slackware 12.2 the partition is recognized and mountable. why /dev/sdd4 is not recognized by Slackware 13.1?
I have an Asus EeePC 901, running Ubuntu 9.10. I'd like to upgrade it to 10.04. I don't want to reinstall, since I have a bunch of scripts and programs all set up.However, when I attempt to upgrade using sudo do-release-upgrade, I get an error asking me to free up another ~600MB on /.
My / is mounted on sda0, which is a 4GB SSD. I do not have 600MB worth of deletable stuff on /.I've emptied my trash, and done apt-get autoremove and apt-get clean.I do have plenty of space in /home, mounted on sda1 (a 16GB SSD).Is there some way I can tell apt-get to use a different download/temp directory?
I currently have FC3 Linux which installed itself on the hard disk using LVM partitioning, so it is basically all one big partition. I would like to try some other distributions and upgrade to something newer, but don't want to lose my current capabilities and data files, and I know nothing or less about LVM. Is it possible (and if so an example would be nice) to install a non-LVM-based distribution on the LVM disk and have multi-boot options? Or do I have to start over new and drop the LVM? My guess is that I should save my /home (data files and .rc files) on a backup device first, then somewhere/somehow create a new partition for installing another distribution.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed 9.04 then tried to upgrade to 9.10 and it froze so I had to reboot. Since then I have not been able to re-install 9.04 or see my partition. Everytime I try to reinstall it says and shows that it can't find the partition like there isn't a hard drive installed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a partition on my hard drive that i use for documents. In 9.10 i would just click on places, and then on the partition name. It would ask for my password and i would be able to access the files. I just upgraded to 10.04 and first off i do not see the partition at all. I navigated to filesystem>media and found my partition but i has a gray X on it. I did gksu nautilus and when i access the folder, there is nothing inside.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI dual boot Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows XP. I booted into Ubuntu 9.10 and upgraded to 10.4 and upon reboot Ubuntu could not find the boot partition, it reported only /dev. I restarted my pc and and selected Windows and, fortunately, I was able to boot into that OS.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe swap partition is not working on my computer, I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. I don't remember whether it was working or not in 9.10. Here is the output from TOP:
top - 23:40:29 up 2 min, 2 users, load average: 2.69, 1.37, 0.52
Tasks: 150 total, 1 running, 149 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 93.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 315168k total, 302344k used, 12824k free, 35264k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 127912k cached
I am new to Ubuntu so I am not quite familiar with UNIX commands yet. I would like to know how to find the ID of my swap partition (I am positive the there is one) and what lines to add or change in my FSTAB to activate the swap partition.
I have a dual boot WinXP / Kubuntu system. Recently, I tried to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. I have my Kubuntu partition set up with separate partitions for / , /home , and swap. Naturally, I wanted to wipe the slate clean, so I formatted / and left /home alone before doing the install. However, my /home partition was encrypted with the standard crypto that you get when you install. I just deleted the way in by wiping my / partition. Now all of my files are on my drive but encrypted. I do have the unencrypted passphrase given to me when the hard drive was first encrypted, so I am sure there is some way to get my files, but I am unsure how to apply it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed Redhat Enterprise 3 on one of my servers. In my haste I didn't properly partition both Hard Drives and only properly partitioned one of them. Thus now I have
/dev/sdb1 478711768 137858256 316536328 31% /
/dev/sda1 101089 15346 80524 17% /boot
Where /dev/sda1 is actually a 80 GB hard drive. Is there anyway I can safely and easily repartition the unpartitioned space without causing a huge mess? I have a very important Oracle database on /dev/sdb1 and thus I want to be able to back it up on the second disk. I can create a partition on that drive?
Recently I reinstall Grub, but I have chosen on ntfs (windows 7 partition E: drive). After this I chosen /dev/sda which is correct boot partition.
Now Fedora 10 and Win 7 booth are working properly.
How can I get back my E: drive safely?
In Fedora 10 E: is not available, where as in Win7 it is available but asking for Format.
how to get back my E: partition which was chosen wrongly as boot partition.
I installed fedora 13 64 bit and it works great but I encountered several issues when setting up guest OS with KVM. The problem seems to be related to selinux. But let me first ask question about logical volume. By Default fedora created logical volumes:
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"If you expect that you or other users will store data on the system, create a separate partition for the /home directory within a volume group. With a separate /home partition, you may upgrade or reinstall Fedora without erasing user data files." seems to suggest I have to create a separate physical partition and assign that to /home. But reading elsewhere it seems to suggest logical volume acts like a partition. My goal is to make it easy in case fedora is hosed and I have to re-install it without affecting /home where my cirtical data resides. Given above do I need to create a separate physical partition or I am just fine?
I have a second hard disk that originally had windows and all my data. Windows is hosed but I can see my data from within Fedora and Windows is gone and I created created new partition in its place which used ot be the C:/ drive appears as 53 Gb filesystem. My data which was originally D drive appears as 215 GB filesystem. As given in [URL] I want to create a new logical volume in 53 Gb filesystem which I want to use as space for virtual disk to install guest OS's in KVM. Currrently 53 GB filesystem is mounted as /media/3467BH89JK789 but this does not work well with KVM. how do I create this logical volume out of 53 Gb filesystem partition and add proper selinux info and do I add to vg_vostrolx volume group and in a different volume group?
