Ubuntu :: Compiz Is Unusable In 10.04?
May 4, 2010
Like my title states, Compiz or any desktop effects aren't usable for me in 10.04. Never had any problem with any previous release. I'm using the open drivers with my ATI 1950 GT. At first I thought it was due to the fact that I have dual monitors now, but after disabling one and trying again it still acts up.
All I can explain it is it's as if my desktop were "lagging". My mouse cursor will jump and stay in a certain area and I can only move windows a short distance before my mouse pops off and the window jumps back. Minimizing windows also seems like it's a burden on my computer and will take a few seconds to do so.
This is the same setup I've had over various distributions and this is the first time I've experienced it. Anyone have any idea if it's fixable or if my computer is just finally getting too old? I can post the rest of my specs if they're needed.
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Oct 15, 2010
A couple days ago a made a dist-upgrade on ubuntu 10.10, soon after that all my compiz effects were completely disable and i'm not able to get it back on. In the "effects" bar on appearance when i change it to either normal or advance, just says it wasn't able to activate the effects. On compiz-config manager, composite, opengl and gnome compatibility don't activate when selected and doesn't recognize each other (when activate opengl indicates that needs composite active to work, even if it is already active)
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Nov 19, 2010
I recently bought a second monitor and I had this set up perfectly fine with two panels on my primary display and one on my secondary. I've now gone away for the weekend (leaving the monitor) and I went to turn on my laptop and it didn't work.
When I login to a gnome session (or indeed a failsafe gnome session) I just got two horizontal white bars (where the panels would be). I switch to a terminal, login and run top and see that gnome-panel is on 100%. Running 'killall gnome-panel' does nothing (tried a few times).
I've had to install xfce4 just to type this message. Is there any way I can 'reset' gnome-panel or any other fix? Or even a workaround would be nice. I'm on 9.10 by the way. I am going to upgrade at some point but its not really an option yet.
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May 1, 2011
So if we don't like Unity or the way it crashes with alarming regularity, the fact that it requires multiple mouse clicks to do things we used to do with a couple and the fact that the launcher is not configurable in any meaningful way, we can always go back to Ubuntu Classic, right? Wrong!
Trying to enable desktop effects in Classic under amd64 and NVidia proves something of a nightmare.
1. There is no 'Desktop Effects' tab anymore. We are told that this is no longer necessary as Compiz is running by default.
2. Jockey reports that the NVidia driver is installed and that the driver is activated but 'not currently in use'. This is a bug and has been reported. However, this could tempt people to uninstall and re-install the driver (I am one of these) with disastrous results.
3. Trying to enable things like the Cube and Cube rotation break Compiz and remove *all* the settings in CCSM. Window menus and borders disappear and have to be restored by resetting the Window Manager to Metacity.
4. Getting applications like Radio Tray or Shutter to show in the System Tray involves circuitous circumventing of a 'Whitelist' (which is there for our protection because we shouldn't really want to use applications which put icons in the tray!) is really going to put off people installing applications which then apparently don't work. (They do work, they just become unusable because you cant see them or do anything with them!)
5. Skype will sometimes load and sometimes won't. Sometimes the sound is corrupted and sometimes not. Despite the fact that Skype is proprietary software, many people need to use it. If it becomes unreliable many people will look elsewhere or go back to Wingedows.
6. In both Unity and Classic the task bar will randomly freeze and become unresponsive, requiring a reboot.
Natty Narwhal? More like Natty Dread at the moment. I dread turning it on and it is dreadful. I'll try Gnome 3 or go back to 10.10. I can no longer recommend Ubuntu as a viable alternative to Windows to my customers.
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Jul 23, 2010
I've been using Ubuntu 10.4 for nearly a month now and am very happy with it, especially the ability to add and upgrade programmes which up till now was a nightmare with worries about dependencies etc. I do have one major gripe, and that is Firefox 3.6.3. I gather others have had the same problem. At start-up Firefox works fine, but after about 12 hours, it becomes so sluggish as to be unusable. Web pages that would take seconds to download now take minutes and the hard drive starts churning and grinding away. The whole system becomes slow and sluggish, and when I do a "top", Firefox is right at the top. Very often the only way to get out of this is to physically turn the machine off and then back on again, which I know is a bad thing.
Its not as if I am overloading Ubuntu. The last time I had to switch the PC off, all I had running were 2 terminals, a calculator and gedit. Firefox was running about 10 tabs. Even when I do a kill -9 pid on firefox and then restart it, within minutes, the system is grinding away and slowing down. The only way to remedy this is to switch the PC off. Someone else who had this problem says its as is Firefox is getting tired and needs to refresh itself completely. Is there any solution to this problem as I gather others have been experiencing it.
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Apr 5, 2011
I recently built a pc to run 10.04 and EMC2 from linuxcnc.org I havent even gotten to the point of trying out EMC2 on this machine because Ubuntu runs so slow. The build spec's are as follows:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...714-CEL24-PB-R MS-6714 mobo
Intel 2.4ghz celeron processor
2x512 PC-3200 patriot ram
using integrated graphics
40gb Maxtor IDE hd
I installed using the live CD downloaded from linuxcnc.org and Ive used that same cd multiple times so I know that's not my issue. Now to my problems. The computer runs, just very very slow. Opening 2 web pages at the same time takes 2-3 minutes, and if there is a lot of pictures or content there's no point in trying. Running EMC2 works ok, but if I open a complex program in the viewer all bets are off.
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Jul 7, 2011
Since 11.04 was released, I've used it in Gnome and now also KDE, and this problem is in both. Aptitude is completely unusable. The main issue is that when downloading packages, it disconnects every minute if not every half a minute, making package installing a very hard process and making the configuration of a new OS take days (just to install 1GB of packages). Ontop of the disconnections, aptitude doesn't even want to go full speed when it IS connected.
The other issues involve repositories. Whether it's the official Ubuntu package servers, ANY of its many mirrors, or even my own custom PPAs, connecting to ANY repository when I reload my packages is a hit-or-miss, and it's completely impossible to get them all in one refresh (in fact, I don't think I've been able to access the main server since upgrading. Ever. I've been on the US server). This makes installing all of my packages take even LONGER. Also, to add insult to injury, the list files in /var/lib/apt/lists constantly corrupt themselves and make themselves unusable, ESPECIALLY the PPA lists (anything that uses launchpad has to be disabled at all times unless I have to update its program, or else I have to delete those list files every day).
Googling any of these issues separately gets me nowhere, so I'm making a topic, and it better not be the millionth topic I've made here that never got solved. The problem can't be my router or modem because my brother runs aptitude just fine on his 11.04 laptop. This issue is within my computer.
I meant apt-get. You mean they aren't the same program with two ways to run them? Yes, apt-get is the problemed one. I never actually type "aptitude" into the Terminal. As a consequence, Synaptic and KPackageKit and any other apt-get-using program is messed up as well.
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Aug 1, 2011
this time last week I was happily running 10.10. I decided to upgrade to 11.04 via Update Manager (not a fresh install), and of course I didn't like Unity so gave Gnome3 a shot.
Well.. at this point the system would stall whilst booting.. so I downloaded the 11.04 disc and reinstalled it (I desperately need to keep my data and don't have any backup options at the moment).
But, now when I boot into Ubuntu (using an Acer Aspire 5741), the resolution is about 800x600, and the mouse doesn't work. Has anyone got any ideas how I can force Ubuntu to reconfigure the system as if it was a completely new install?
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Mar 20, 2010
I have an old Dell desktop that normally runs XP. It has 512mb of ram and I think its a Pentium processor. From what I understood Linux is a simpler, and more stable and efficient OS so I figured I'd give it a shot. First I tried the Wubi installer and got nothing but error messages after the install and it kept freezing and eventually just wouldn't boot at all. So then I tried the full install from disc. Better at first. I soon discovered all the customizable themes and went a little nuts trying to make one user exactly like W7 and the other exactly like OSX leapord just for fun.
I noticed significant slow downs and after some research I came to find that it was taxing my old graphics card. So I setup a user with no changes, still really slow. Then I deleted and reinstalled and I'm now using the bare bones UI. Its still really, really slow. I get lots of mouse drag and just now it took about 7 seconds for the applications window to drop down and 35 seconds to open the home folder. Also about 10 seconds for right click window to drop down.
I'm trying and I really want to like Ubuntu but as of now I'm finding it unusable for even the most basic of computing. I realize my computer is old but xp still runs like gangbusters. So maybe Ubuntu is designed for more modern hardware and more ram, am I screwed? I was looking forward to playing around really customizing my GUI but more importantly I was planning on putting on my girlfriends laptop with similar specs. Her computer needs a reformat but she doesn't have the XP disc. As it stands her XP is still much more usable even with all the viruses then Linux is as a fresh install on my desktop. I don't want to delete xp and end up with a slower linux.
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Apr 11, 2010
I have encountered the strangest bug, filled with so many inconsistencies that I am unable to comprehend why or how it is happening. It has only happened once and whilst it seems to resemble another bug that I found when looking for this one, it is fundamentally different. Here are the facts:1. I am using an Acer Aspire One netbook.2. This netbook is running Ubuntu 9.10.3. It has been running Ubuntu 9.10 since the first time it was released as stable.4. Yesterday, whilst I was engaging in an intellectually stimulating debate through the convenience of Pidgin, I encountered the said bug with the following attributes:The keyboard has the appearance of not working.
But if one applies a lot of pressure to each key, one is able to type.This bug is not resolved by a system reset.This bug does not affect my BIOS or even Ubuntu until I log into the particular account where it first happened.When I log out of the account and log into another one, my keyboard is perfectly responsive.When I log back into the "damaged account", the keyboard is once more unusable.The right click menus do work, in stark contrast to another, similar bug, the report of which I encountered in my search for this one.So, clearly, an undesirable workaround would be to migrate to a new user on my system. This, however, does not change the fact that I do not wish to do this another time if the bug repeats itself. Furthermore, if it is only active in a session of the "damaged account", it is likely that it is a configuration error of sorts, no? I have another strange configuration error on that account. The little icon that allows me to choose to which wireless network I wish to connect is random in when it chooses to appear or not, although the service is active (as I am greeted with a message directing me to click on the non-existing icon in order to select the network...). Yet again, this only happens when logged into a particular user, while other users seem completely unaffected.
What I conclude from this is that Ubuntu's configuration system is pretty erratic and it makes seemingly random yet seemingly irreversible changes to user configuration. I would not even know where to start when faced with reading through different configuration files. Furthermore, I would feel as though my PC were constantly working against me. It is a strange feeling, when I bought it with the intention that we might work together.
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Apr 12, 2010
I'm using 9.10 Desktop 64bit on a Dell Latitude D830. I have 4 gigs of RAM and a 7200 rpm sata hard drive. Everything works pretty well, video, sound, and network. Flash isn't as smooth as in Windows but I assume that's a Flash/64bit thing and not necessarily an Ubuntu thing.
However, one area of performance still lags far behind my Windows XP experience, and that's disk writes. For instance, when I'm copying a large amount of information from a USB drive or from my Windows partition to my native partition, I can barely switch windows until the task is complete, nevermind trying to surf the Web. I thought that that might be related to the slow performance of the ntfs driver, but recently I have been doing a lot of work with VMWare, and I get the same result when trying to pause virtual machines - it writes a largish amount of information to disk in a short amount of time and I can't do much until it finishes.
Here are some things I looked at based on other threads to try to debug my issue:
~$ sudo hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
multcount = 8 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
[Code].....
That disk read speed is a little faster than average - several more tests showed it hovering around the 66 MB/sec range. Of the other info, I see that UDMA is on which I understand is good, but if there is something else there that I should fix I don't see it.
I know that my computer can handle these tasks (at least the vmware stuff) without such a significant interface slowdown because in XP I did it with less RAM than I have now. Is this just the way that the linux kernel scheduler fails to account for UI needs?
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May 2, 2010
I've been using UNR since the 9.04 release on my Eee 1000HE and have been generally happy with it as a solution since then. Tonight I've upgraded to 10.04 using the package manager and everything starts correctly but when I start any application it minimises itself straight away making the system unusable. If I click on the application to bring it to focus, I get about 1/2 a second of typing before it minimises itself again. Using that method I've been able to get around the problem with a sudo apt-get remove netbook-launcher - but I like the netbook launcher and I'd like to keep using it.
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May 15, 2010
I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my hard drive. The results are worse I keep getting segmentation fault errors, black screens, lock ups, etc. This time I can't get it as stable as on Wubi. It can't stay stable more than 3-4 minutes - then the interface blinks and goes to black screen or shows weird colored strips/squares, locks up or shows tons of errors in the terminal. I did the kernel recovery mode partition check, no errors were found. I installed 9.04 on my harddrive, everything works fine, I log in and it stays great for about 1 or 2 minutes, then it freezes.
It shows the terminal with 'segmentation fault' errors, or goes to black screen and locks up. Alt+SysRQ+B is the only solution and sometimes it doesn't work either. I got Ubuntu 9.04 running through Wubi before and it ran perfectly stable occasionally on few boots. But I can't get it like that on my hard drive installation It just keeps crashing. I did a long memtest (10 tests passed), ubuntu file disk check went fine, my current operating system Windows 7 runs great and another Live CD Linux based system like Knoppix runs perfectly stable. Should it be a driver issue?
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Jul 1, 2010
I'm using SecureCRT on a Windows host to connect to Ubuntu 10.04 using the default VT100 setting, and having a problem working with Ncurses (ie. output from "make menuconfig":[URL]...
- The screen is difficult to read/navigate
- Neither ESC nor F12 work so I can exit menuconfig
how to solve this issue?
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Aug 11, 2010
I've just installed BitDefender on my 10.04 netbook, updated and activated it, completed a scan, and found Backdoor.Generic.284566 The thing is, it won't let me delete/quarantine the nasty. BitDefender does give me a warning about my screen resolution being too low (800x600), i believe this may be the problem. The option buttons are not visible on the screen, therefore I cannot use the program properly.(i tried the max resolution 1024x600, but to no avail )
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Sep 29, 2010
After doing the standard sequence to go from 10.4 to 10.10 beta, the system is now unusable.There are no icons and no thees. The GDM login shows a big question mark where a graphics would normally be.When I log into the session, I get nothing: no desktop, no panels. Alt+F2 does nothing, so I can't even launch a terminal that way.After starting a terminal from a virtual console, I can start looking at what's wrong. Metacity crashes right awaywith:metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:meta_ui_get_default_window_icon: assertion failed: (default_icon)Aborted (core dumped)
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Oct 12, 2010
When I press the calculator key on my keyboard and the calculator comes up, I can't use my mouse anymore. I can move it but I can't click on anything. Is there a fix for this?
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Nov 5, 2010
Did anyone try to get ATI Radeon 9200 working on Maverick? For me, the DVI flickers all the time like crazy and is totally unusable.
frglx doesn't seem to support it anymore, adding Option "NoAccel" partially solved the issue
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Nov 25, 2010
I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 and later it got updated to 10.04 via automatic upgrades.
Previously, I having Windows. My HDD had 3 partitions. I installed Ubuntu in the C drive of Windows partition, left D drive as it was (in NTFS, because it had crucial data), and wanted to extract some part of E to be used as Swap. I marked E to be used as swap, but it took all of the drive as swap space, and later when I corrected it so that it takes only 2 Gigs and went ahead with the install, it made that partition unusable.
Maybe because it doesn't allow more than 4 physical partitions.
I am attaching two screenshots of Disk Utility results and Disk Part too.
Disk Utility Report:
GParted view:
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Nov 8, 2010
my bcm 4312 wifi card gets disabled after each reboot, now that ive installed compat-wireless patched for mac 80211 frag attack... in order to get my wifi card fired up again i have to browse tom my compat-wireless source folder in /home/user/Downloads/compat-wireless and issue the commands sudo make wlunload and then reload my wifi driver via sudo modprobe b43. is there any way to fix this problem? or furhter troubleshoot here is what dmesg says on boot:
Code:
[ 22.425475] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_device_is_enabled
[ 22.425481] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_device_is_enabled (err -22)
[ 22.432766] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_pmu_set_ldo_paref
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Jan 19, 2010
Im running a dell studio xps 16 computer with windows 7. Im now trying to install a dual boot with ubuntu. My problem is that ubuntu refuses to create a new partition, claiming that i already have 4 main partitions. According to any partitionprogram run in windows I only got 3. It looks likt this in Gparted (from live cd):
dev/sda1 | fat16 | system reserved | size: 40 MiB
dev/sda2 | ntfs | size: 797.5 KiB
dev/sda3 | ntsf | size: 100 MiB
dev/sda4 | ntsf | 87.56 GiB
The 40 mb partition is probably for some dell recovery stuff. The 100 mb partition is some windows 7 backup, it is also flagged as "boot".. The 87 gb partition is my main windows 7 disk. I have no clue what the 797.5 KiB is for. It dosnt show up anywhere when looking at partitions in windows. I also tried deleting it from ubuntu (live cd) and then booting windows again, and when I booted ubuntu again it was there even tho i deleted it last time. What the hell is this? Can I just delete it and move on with installing ubuntu? Or should I instead delete the fat16 system reserved partition?
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Jun 7, 2010
After trying gnome-shell and unity on my Intel graphics card, I decided to install Lucid, and give it a try on my Sony Vaio VGN-NW21SF Notebook, equiped with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics card.
Software info:
Operating System: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Video Driver: fglrx 8.732-0ubuntu1 (ati website 10.5 catalyst), repository.
Gnome Shell: repository, ricoz, last build.
Unity: repository
Report: I experience the following: constant flickers, rendering problems (text is deformed, windows are not rendered), basically its unusable.
I understand that gnome-shell is still in beta, and it will not be included in Maverick as default, but how about Unity. This is a serious problem, which basically affects many users (I saw numerous complaints about ATI)
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Jun 25, 2010
Windows refugee here trying out different flavors of Linux. I like Ubuntu a lot but have noticed some peculiar behavior sometimes with the Indicator Applet Session becoming mangled and unusable. If I click on it nothing happens. I haven't determined any particular cause yet but it seems to have happened twice after using Google's Chrome browser.
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Oct 13, 2010
Screen flicker Ubuntu 10.10
After installing Ubuntu (Version 10.10 DVD �amd 64Ubuntu 10.10 live DVD).
On the following hardware
Gigabyte GA-K8VT800-RH motherboard
3GB ram
AMD Sempron 3400 cpu.
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro Video card. 256M ddr2 AGP VGA/TV0/DV1-1
p/no 882c85-03
The screen resolution looked very good with all screen resolutions working well The colours and fonts very clear. All other device drivers worked 100%. But unfortunately the display flashes about every 10 seconds and the partial beak up of the display only lasts a fraction of a second and very distracting and is unusable. Testing with Ubuntu 10.10 live DVD. With this months Linux Format Magazine also exhibits this problem. However deleting the partition and installing Ubuntu 10.04 Beta1 DVD -386. And all updates downloaded. Works 100% with no screen flicker.
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May 2, 2011
I have never been more diappointed in the new user experience after an os upgrade. No, not even Vista was this diappointing. Unity just isn't for me. That's ok, I can just stick to Ubuntu Classic. As for the problem: I cannot use many of my applications. When I launch something, Firefox for example, all I see is a window filled with white. There is a title bar and nothing else. Sometimes, if I am really lucky, switching to something else then coming back fixes it. Usually it does not fix it, and can even cause other apps to go all white. This has happened in every app I have tried (I have tried a lot of them). It also happened under both Unity and Gnome.
My normal web browsers have not worked once since I upgraded. In general, the applications that seem to work most often are simpler ones. I am writing this post using w3m since it was the only way I could get this box online now... Does anyone have any advice for fixing this problem? This is not the first time I have been burned by a X.04 release. I might have to reinstall maverick...
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Jun 6, 2011
I recently upgraded to Natty (11.04). Looks great but: I can't use it when my laptop (dell latitude E6410) is plugged in my dell docking station. It seems like the attached monitor (DVI) does not get signal input and hence turn to sleep mode.I can say that Ubuntu is still running fine when I unplug it from the docking station.I am using the NVidia driver 270.41.06 (installed as a third party driver by the install process).I can successfully connect and configure an external monitor thru the VGA port.
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Aug 19, 2010
I had a working ubuntu 10 on my old laptop. Not sure what's happened but now whenever you start any app, the app starts in the foreground, then immediately the desktop gains the focus. This happens all the time on any app that is either already running or started from scratch. Thus making the system unusable.
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Feb 19, 2011
As said here: [URl] I want the sphere deformation, but that needs the PPA apparently (I can't find it anywhere in the default compiz Ubuntu 10.10 ships with.) Compiz starts, but it says it can't load plugin 'decoration.'
Code:
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Adding plugins
Initializing core options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing resize options...done
Initializing place options...done
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'decoration'
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May 31, 2010
I have had a good look round the forums but cannot come up with anything quite like this and the problem prevents me from using my NAS box and stuff is starting to stack up on my main PC now...
I have a Dell desktop running Ubuntu 9.04, a Shuttle running Mythbuntu 9.10 and a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, all of which worked fine until this problem started. I have done nothing to any config files nor have I modified any settings from the outset, as far as I can remember I have just used everything as it came. This problem probably started a month or so back when update manager suggested a Samba update on both PC's which I accepted. I don't fire up my NAS box more than once or twice a month to back all my photos, music, video etc. so it was a while before I did (following the update) I could see the NAS and the Shuttle from the Dell but couldn't browse them I just got the error message 'Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server' which I gather is all too common. I have searched around a bit on these forums and have tried a few things in the command line to gather information and I found something that worried me rather a lot. From Dell:
Code:
geoff@geoff-dell:~$ findsmb
*=DMB
+=LMB
IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
[Code]...
I haven't done any updates on the NAS box firmware so it can't be that and now I don't even see the shares in filemanager. What on earth is going on??? I know there are many other threads similar to this but but I am hoping that the slight difference might make this more obvious to solve. I forgot to mention that now I don't even see the shares in filedmanager - another thing that happened all by itself!
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Jul 26, 2011
I formatted a 1.5 Tb western digital external usb drive to ext4 for media streaming on ubuntu-server. I tried FAT32/NTFS before but it keeps unmounting itself for no reason. I tried everything I could find on Google but no luck. After formatting it to ext4, it worked OK for a while but for some reason it has stopped working. Running mount -a makes system unusable indefinitely. It works only if I restart it.
UUID=db261dd6-2edf-4020-a0f5-17613a6e94ea /media/wd ext4 defaults 0 0
Is ext4 not a compatible format for external drive? Since, I have I tried different formats and Ubuntu keeps unmounting them. Should I try a different distro?
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