I tried using scalpel to recover some files that i had deleted. It went through the first pass but on the next pass there was an error message saying disk full The next time I tried to boot ubuntu I got a strange screen filled in a very large font and a message in the top corner: The configuration defaults for gnome power manager have not been installed correctlyI do not want to reinstall Karmic Koala as I may lose my email messages and other data.
I have been trying to recover data off an external hard drive using scalpel. I got the files types done set up the external folder and then I go to run the program and I get an error message "ERROR: Couldn't open input file: /dev/sdb -- Permission denied" I tried resetting the permission for the external by right clicking the drive and going through the permission menu but every time the permission reset themselves.
I ran Scalpel to retrieve some files from an old HDD, what I didn't realise is how much larger the output from Scalpel is than the original disk space.
So what happened is at about 5% of files carved (pass 2/2) my disk space was full and the program aborted.
Then when I rebooted Ubuntu I can't get in unless using Recovery Mode.
I think this is because there is no disk space left. The error I get is to do with Gnome Power Manager not being configured, I never had this error before.
So I went into CLI prompt and performed 'find -maxdepth 2 | grep *.mpg' and I can see a tonne of mpg directores called ./~/mpg-1-6, ./~/mpg-1-7, etc, and they all have lots of files.
Now I have no way of deleting these, I tried using 'sudo rmdir */*mpg' and it cannot find the directory.
When I go to my home folder and 'sudo ls -al' these aren't listed.
The only way I can see them is using the 'find' command.
Can I chain the find command with a delete command somehow?
How can I recover My deleted files in ubuntu? What's the difference between "foremost" and "scalpel"? And is there any other program(or package?) For this purpose in ubuntu? I am running ubuntu 9.10
I'm working on a ~1 TB disk that was loaded with all kinds of images and documents that lost it's HFS+ partition table. The person for which I'm doing the favor of running scalpel says it's likely there's 90GB of stuff. Somehow, the disk got relabeled/MBR changed to some FAT variant that works on the whole Terrabyte.
Attempts to recover the partition info failed.My first try with scalpel finds more than 90GB of image file headers alone and that blows through all of my storage. Of the headers found and recovered as images, a simple test shows most of the image files are broken. The cluster size option does not work if I use it by itself. It errors out before it gets going.I want to speed things up and skip the countless broken image files.
As it says in the title I need to use the scalpel file recovery tool, or something similar to be able to recover a lost mysql storage folder.. The system crashed, and I really need these files as fast as possible. So I would love any help I could get.I have been searching in different search engines (including this forum) for an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find it.How can I configure scalpel, or any other similar application to be able to recover my mysql /var/lib/mysql storage directory. I really need these files... And.. I know, I should have taken backup
I am using sda1 as /, which is a bootable drive. I do not know if my problem is that I did not create a /boot drive. After removing the iso dvd, I tried to reboot and I get this back: -bash: /sbin/reboot: input/output error Then it returns me to the terminal prompt.
Further to this LQ thread which Tinkster solved by suggesting the last command (thanks Tinkster) I have been exploring last -x reboot and have found that the reported duration is incorrect for the last reboot and shutdown when a old wtmp file is used. Not having a record for the following shutdown, last assumes that the system has been up until the current time and similarly for the shutdown.
The output comes in time order, latest first, each line showing the time of the reboot and the uptime from then to shutdown. Using last -x reboot shutdown to show the shutdown time, here's an illustration
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shutdown system down 2.6.29.6-smp Sun Mar 7 15:35 - 03:02 (11:27) reboot system boot 2.6.29.6-smp Sun Mar 7 09:35 (05:59) 09:35 until 15:35 is 05:59.
When the uptime exceeds 24 hours it is shown as (<days>+<hours:minutes) like this Code: shutdown system down 2.6.29.6-smp Sun Feb 21 12:39 - 13:20 (00:40) reboot system boot 2.6.29.6-smp Sat Feb 20 09:39 (1+02:59) 09:39 until 12:39 the next day is 1 day 02:59.
The time in parentheses at the end of the shutdown lines is normally the time until the next shutdown.
So far so good. The incorrect output is for the last reboot and shutdown of an old wtmp file. Here's the output of last /var/log/wtmp -x reboot shutdown; last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 -x reboot shutdown
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[snip] reboot system boot 2.6.29.6-smp Fri Mar 12 07:42 (01:54) shutdown system down 2.6.29.6-smp Fri Mar 12 01:31 - 09:37 (08:05) wtmp begins Thu Mar 11 08:25:26 2010 [snip] reboot system boot 2.6.29.6-smp Wed Mar 10 14:12 (15+01:42) shutdown system down 2.6.29.6-smp Wed Mar 10 12:41 - 15:54 (15+03:13) [snip]
The boot started at "Wed Mar 10 14:12" which had an actual uptime of 1 day 11:20 is reported as 15 days 03:13 which is the time from then until the last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 -x reboot shutdown command was issued. The time from shutdown to shutdown is similarly affected.
I use a few different hard drives that I plug into one PC instead of partitioning, since it causes problems. I plugged in my Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit and it booted up in 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024 which is the default resolution for this monitor.Why would it change when it's been 1280 x 1024 everytime but this time? When I check the display settings it doesn't even have 1280x1024 anymore?
I'm using 10.04. I had sound this morning, and after a reboot ... no sound. When I click on the speaker in the panel and choose "Sound Preferences..." and then choose "Hardware" it's blank. In the "output" tab all I have is "Dummy Output" (it's stereo at least). I don't remember updating Ubuntu since the morning, but I might have. If I type in "pulseaudio" into terminal I get this:
i have been encountered this issue since ubuntu hardy 8.04.3, and now after i clean installed to ubuntu lucid 10.04 with the latest update up to june 6, 2010, i still could not reboot via command line in a remote ssh.
I'm running 9.10 64 bit. Yesterday, I installed some updates (through update manager) and, upon reboot, I go into the CLI and am unable to get to the GUI.
Things that I've tried:
1) Reverted back to the most basic xorg.conf file.
Quite often (I'd say 50% of the time) when I install updates that ask me to restart my computer, I just get a black screen upon reboot. Normally, I can go in with the live cd, revert to the oldest xorg.conf file, reboot, install drivers, reboot again, and I'm good.
Not so much this time. Reverting back to the oldest file didn't change anything - I still boot into the command line.
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This causes my computer to flash black (like x is starting) but then the command line reappears with a bunch of messages of the form
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Where the "x" stand for random numbers. These messages are followed by the following:
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waiting for X server to shut down ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
I get these messages regardless of the version of xorg.conf I am using.
I've also tried
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and
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But neither do anything (the first tells me to try the second, and the second gives me a bunch of random errors that I don't feel like reproducing, but will try.
3) Code:
This does absolutely nothing. I get no output at all. It doesn't ask me any questions or produce any error messages. I just get the prompt again on the next line.
I am posting here rather than in the Maverick Meerkat section because this happened in Lucid too.I have just rebooted my system and ram usage is at 16% (of 2GB) whilst nothing is running other than desktop and Compiz. However if I leave the system running for 2 days (just using suspend from time to time) the ram usage will increase to 25 or 26% at idle.This will reduce again to 16% after a reboot.In short it seems that some processes are not fully releasing the ram they use and there is a build up of wasted ram.Does anybody else notice anything similar? Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to nail down the offending processes?
I have a PC running 10.10 Gnome 2.32.0 Kernal 2.6.35-24-generic-pae, i686
I am using /dev/sda3 on my primary hard drive (200Gb) to run my Kernal I have all my documents stored on a second, 500Gb hard drive: sdb2
I have noticed in the past 2 days that I delete or move files and folders, but when I reboot they re-appear. I have ALSO noticed today that the Templates folder within my Documents folder, I have a copy of my /etc/ directory... It is a copy and I am wondering:
How can I log out of gnome without rebooting/shutting down? I want to cancel the graphic session keeping the computer on/running and having access to the consoles.
Why my pc freezes upon reboot once in a while, especially after certain updates? It never happened under Vista. I'm with Ubuntu 10.10 since October, never used Linux before. I think it's a bug in Maverick but I'm too lazy in reading the very long sticky! What happens at those very few times is a normal reboot, but a few seconds after a gradual and then complete freezing, you would have time to click the firefox icon but it will never open. Fastest way to get out of trouble is to reboot forced or other if you can.Maverick then works fine as ever.Just embarrassing I have to undergo all this. Can this bug be solved in the near future? My PC is Intel 32 bits 2 core with 2 GHz and 320 GB and I have 4GB RAM but I think it has nothing to do with the hardware, it has more to do with the OS!
I noticed that every time I reboot some system settings sort of roll-back automatically to some time in the past.
So far I noticed these: -All the aMule setting. Includes connection ports and Incoming folder, very annoying.
-Firefox search box engines. every reboot the list of engines rolls back to include a lot of engines i don't want and have to remove every time. this is the only thing in Firefox that is affected, bookmarks and add-ons stick.
-Keyboard layouts. Tried clicking "apply system-wide". still rolls-back after reboot.
What could cause this? How can I set these things permanently?
I have to reboot every time I put a different sd card in.After I take the first one out the built in reader in my Dell monitor sdf1 still has those first photos in it no matter how many other cards I put in.
So the thread title kinda sums it up. If i have eth186 and i reboot I have to open wicd and change it to eth187 get connectivity. I'm currently at eth200 so this has been a problem for a while.
I have recently upgraded to the 10.04 Alpha and have been unable to reboot or shutdown. I know it's just an alpha and therefore problems are bound to exist, so I tried reinstalling from a live cd of Alpha 3. But I am still unable to reboot or shutdown.To clarify what happens, I click on shutdown or reboot, the pop-up appears, I click on the shutdown/reboot button and it seems to complete it. It says that processes have been killed and something has exited with 255. But my computer is still on. I am guessing that Ubuntu is shutting down, it's just not actually shutting my computer down or restarting it.
After a system crash while watching a video with vlc and downloading somthing, i can't reboot my system.In the secure mode i get this informations[4.774621] device-mapper: dm-rai45: installized v0.2594b[ 1166.832045] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt recived, switching to interrupt modeNow the scree is black (20 minnutes later
I am using Ubuntu Intrepid now, (no more Karmic, at least for some time)...
I connect to Internet through a proxy server. I have to configure my connection by going to Network Manager and then editing IPv4 settings, making the address selection manual instead of DHCP and then enter the static IP provided to me by the server and also the address of my gateway... Then I have to go to the Network Proxy under System --> Preferences and set my system proxy (Apply System Wide)...
Well that seems normal, except that I have to do the connection configuration part every time I reboot... Every time i reboot, the connection is back to default i.e.
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Name: Auto eth0 IPv4 Settings --> Method: Automatic(DHCP)
One of my friends reported the same thing to me after a fresh installation... So maybe that is a bug in the Network Manager of Interpid... I need to know a workaround, or a repair.
I was using Ubuntu 9.10 and was using fireftp ( firefox plugin ) to do some ftp operation. And then I noticed firfox is fozen so I reboot my pc by switching off the power ( restart doesn't work ). When I turn it back on again, no GUI anymore. I was taken to ttyl login commend.
Okay, I don't think any of that would have hurt anything. Well then I was messing around and I created a shutdown launcher using the command
Code: sudo shutdown -h now
I engaged the launcher to see what it would do and it caused a rather violent shutdown. When I turned my computer back on my emerald theme was gone and I can't seem to get it going again.
I have an old PIII laptop I wanted to tinker with. I tried ubuntu, xubuntu and netbook remix and get basically the same issue - after the install I get a prompt for login and then a user@laptopname:~$ How to fix this or is the laptop too old?
