Ubuntu :: Errors With Cd/dvd Drive - Is The Problem In The Drivers?
Jun 15, 2011
I am having problems with a cd/dvd drive and I would like to know if it could be a driver problem or what?
I can boot from cdroms but I almost always have problems mounting the cdrom's filesystem.
The laptop has been working for years with the same ubuntu release (hardy) but there are always a couple of warnings during boot time saying that certain drivers should be updated but I don't know how.
These are the persistent messages from dmesg output:
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[ 12.693449] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 12.700371] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 12.708884] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 12.715663] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
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Jan 3, 2010
This is the first time I have pixel errors when using my setup in linux, have resently installed the debian squeeze rlz, with rglrx drivers from the debian wiki how to.
Now I have pixelerrors in pictures and they are static for the pictures aka, the pixels are static in the picture even if I move a webpage for instance.
Any buggreport on this? Or how to fix it, its hard to make a screendump but I could take a picture of the screen with a cam if someone like to see it
In win7 or ubuntu there is no indications of this problem.
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Sep 14, 2010
I've made the real mistake of buying a laptop with a Broadcom wifi adapter on it. (That thwacking sound is me kicking myself for not noticing after spending weeks and weeks carefully choosing the model I wanted.)
lspci gives this:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
I have downloaded the 32 bit drivers from here (am running Mandriva 2010.1 Free 32 bit). The readme indicates the 4727 is supported by the latest OS drivers amazingly. [URL]. I have installed the Linux kernel source files.
First problem comes with the first instruction in the readme.
# mkdir hybrid_wl
# cd hybrid_wl
# tar xzf <path>/hybrid-portsrc.tar or <path>/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64.tar.gz
The tar instruction just does nothing, so I just right clicked in Dolphin and unpacked it to its own directory. I navigated the terminal to where it unpacked and did make. I got this:
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[robertw@localhost hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36]$ make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.5-2mnb'
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.5-2mnb/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
CC [M] /home/robertw/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36/src/shared/linux_osl.o
/home/robertw/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36/src/shared/linux_osl.c:1: error: code model "kernel" not supported in the 32 bit mode
/home/robertw/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36/src/shared/linux_osl.c:1: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
make[2]: *** [/home/robertw/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36/src/shared/linux_osl.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/robertw/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.5-2mnb'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Jan 29, 2010
So xorg was acting up, and I went into the Hardware Drivers menu to see if the driver had a problem. The driver was disabled, and could not be activated. I downloaded the new ATI driver. I uninstalled the old one, installed the new one, and ran the config step just like it specifies in the install instructions. Upon reboot, I got a blank screen instead of the login screen.I managed to drop back to the command line and uninstall the driver, so now I'm stuck in ubuntu with one monitor instead of 2.
I'm going to attempt to revert to the old ATI driver (which I still have in my home dir), but I wanted to be sure to get this into the forums before I ruined my GUI again.
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Nov 7, 2010
I still try update my broadcom drivers, because when I try use airodump-ng i receive error.
This error:
Interface Chipset Driver
eth1 Unknown wl (monitor mode enabled)[code]....
I dont know why receive this error WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/mobile/Desktop/wdriver/wl.o
see include/linux/module.h for more information
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May 6, 2011
Sometimes, in Firefox, after looking a video and closing the corresponding tab, a still picture of the video appears in other tabs, even in some other applications than Firefox (e.g. Terminal). I've installed the nvidia drivers on Fedora 14. They seem to work properly.
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Mar 22, 2011
Whenever i do a cold startup (as opposed to a restart), i end up with a repeatable i/o error after roughly 5 minutes. This completely renders the system useless, and i'm talking to myself about raising elephants. I can _always_ restart right after the incident, and it _always_ starts up and i can use linux without incident for _days_.
What would do this? Is there a log i can peruse that might offer insight?
Also, this is a new sympton as of the last 2 kernel updates.
Actual solution:
See This launchpad bug. solution is about halfway down
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Mar 21, 2009
Sometimes when I do anything write heavy such as transferring backup or downloading large files from the net, the machine crashes almost completely.
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Jul 13, 2010
i just built a new ubuntu 10.04 system for my mother because her windows machine died. I was wondering is there anyway i can get here email address and stuff from outlook onto Evolution. i have the old harddrive in a external box via usb, so i can get to the files. i can not boot from that drive because windows has seriouse errors in it.
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Feb 3, 2011
I am trying to backup my ~ directory to a portable drive. In the meantime rsync is giving me all kinds of messages like this:
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This drive is neither plugged into my computer nor is it involved with my backup script:rsync $base_options -narv /home/noleks /media/Personal1/Linux_bak. I think the question is, does rsync have a queue somewhere of operations it did not complete? If so is there a way to rest this? It is possible something went awry with a previous sync on this drive but I cannot remember right now. Either way why is it trying to complete that sync when I'm asking it to do something else?
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Jan 22, 2010
Someone explain this to me. I often thought in the back of my head, how do I check if my drive is bad in Linux? I always excused it thinking well I guess besides gaming that's another reason to keep a windows partition around. I boot up yesterday and Gnome was acting weird. Then, it happened. "We have detected bad sectors in your hard drive." I thought, no, you're stupid, this hard drive is less than a year old (however it was a replacement for another one that died). So I reboot.
Boot back up - Different error message. But instead of getting it a few minutes after log in, I got it right away. "We have detected potential hard drive failure." Okay, Linux. Want to play this game? Booted to Vista, downloaded Seatools to test my Seagate drive. It failed... Swapped SATA cables... it failed... So I ask - how does Linux have this auto detect capability like that? As much as I love Ubuntu, I was like there's no way it could just magically tell like that without running the Seagate program. But alas, Ubuntu was dead on target.
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Sep 24, 2010
I have a laptop, running Windows Media Centre unfortunately, and I think the hard drive is hosed. I was wondering is there away of checking the hard drive for errors using the ubuntu livecd? I would put ubuntu straight onto it only there are various items within Windows that the owner needs to get.
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Nov 8, 2010
i am currently running palimpsest (system -> administration -> disk utility) and letting it "check" an unmounted filesystem.
i know its just running fsck.ext3 on this drive... the drive is formatted ext3, and is used on a hardware media player (WDTV Live Plus) in another room... i just moved it in here to avoid copying recorded HD shows over the LAN.
anyway, i was informed at boot with this drive connected that it needed to be checked, after booting it is mounted, but says it has errors and needs to be checked. it is checking, i would assume messages from fsck.ext3 would be logged to /var/log/fsck/checkfs, but i have never been interested in this type of thing before... usually when my drives start to get errors, its time to replace them... this one im sure is caused by being unmounted incorrectly by the stupid WDTV Live Plus...it locks up sometimes, lol...
i dunno, this is a big drive. just wish there was some "status update" other than a whirling indicator... im tailing the log file i mentioned above, but so far it just has "Nothing has been logged yet." (which i take as a really good thing at this point.
EDIT: at the very end of the filesystem check, i got a message about the filesystem being clean with no errors. id still like more of an indication than "whirling indicator thingy"...guess ill go back to CLI for checking filesystems. lol
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Mar 17, 2011
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I do not want to put data files back on the server if it has some errors that will bite me later.
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Apr 13, 2011
This comes up when I try to boot my laptop, 'Errors were found while checking the disk drive for /'
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Oct 12, 2010
I have been running 10.4 with no problems for some time now. Today when I booted up it started checking the drive for errors, and I just left it to do its thing. I came back to this warning screen: Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode.Your screen, graphics card, and input device settings could not be detected correctly.
I've tried all of these with no luck. When I select to run to low graphics mode, it says "Stand by one minute while the display restarts...OK".I select OK and then it gets stuck checking for battery state.I try to reconfigure the graphics, and nothing happens when I select any of the options on the next screen.
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Jan 18, 2010
anyone shed some light into these errors I keep getting for multiple files when I run rsync in verbose mode to a FAT32 external hard drive?
rsync: stat "/mnt/usbdrive/Batch 2/od venezuelan" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mnt/usbdrive/Batch 2/joseph gangster" failed: No space left on device (28)
I have 588GB available on my external hard drive, and i'm only trying to rsync 200GB to it, so its not out of space or anything like that. I've tried rsync with -r -t --size-only --delete and -r -t --modify-window=1 --delete and both ways seem to give me the message. or should i just reformat as NFTS and start over? i already had another 200GB data set copied on here, was trying to add a second. its all JPG pictures.
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Jul 10, 2011
I just bought a new hard drive for my lenovo ThinkPad R60e. It is the following model:
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# hdparm -I
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD5000BUDT-63G8FY0
Firmware Revision: 01.01A01
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After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
It is regardless which kernel version I use (latest ARCH Linux 2.6.39 or 2.6.23 from a grml live system), the error is persistent everywhere.
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Sep 1, 2010
I am constantly replacing server drives at work. Our terminals use Transcend 2gb Compact Flash Drives. Sometimes we run into drives that need to be replaced due to IO errors. Which brings me to my questions.
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Sep 8, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 beta yesterday and most of it is working very well. However, I ran into a problem with permissions today.I have a HDD containing my home folder and a HDD containing my data folder. The HDD with the data folder is mounted on /media/data/data_1.
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jensen@jensen-desktop:~$ ll /media/data/ | grep data_1
drwxrwxrwx 8 jensen jensen 4.0K 2010-09-07 23:10 data_1/[code]....
I made sure I had set a+x rights on the file, tried executing it as root but the permission error stayed.When I copy that same file to my Desktop folder I can perfectly execute it.When it's located on the other hard drive I can't. I tried several command line scripts and they all work when I execute them from my OS hard drive,but not from another hard drive.
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Oct 23, 2010
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when I boot into Windows, it says the hard drive is the size I set it at. However, the Ubuntu installer and Gparted still see the Windows partition taking up the entire hard drive. So, for the installation, do I have to set the size of the volumes manually, or is there a way to make Ubuntu see what ntfsresize has done?
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Jul 10, 2009
I just upgraded to Fedora 11. (I decided to give 64bit a try and I am extremely impressed.Not one problem at all! Kudos to the devs.) Whenever I log in I get the Palimpsest Disk Utility telling me two of my hard drives have a reallocated sector count.I have two 1.5Tb Seagate drives (model #: ST31500341AS). One is a backup of the other. On the first disk the disk utility tells me I have 22 reallocated sectors and 53 on the second. I've been on Google on discovered that there is no easy way to fix this and that a few bad sectors are okay but too many is a sign of imminent drive failure. This obviously concerns me because both my main drive and its backup are showing errors.
I went to Seagate's website and downloaded their diagnostic software (Seatools for DOS) and it passed both of these drives.So, questions: is it possible that Fedora is giving me a false positive? If not, is 22 and 53 sectors something to be concerned about? If so, should I contact Seagate and see if I can pull warranty on these drives? Is there a way to repair this damage?
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Dec 16, 2010
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I backed up all my data to an external 'USB' drive, opened the case, (a big old under the table 'desktop', why do they still call them 'desktops'?) shoved in the new SATA drive and rebooted, intending to format the new drive to EXT4 and partitioning it before installing F14 again! OOOOOOOOOW! Major drive failure, missing OS, whole list of SDB errors! Control D, to reboot, BIOS only sees one drive; SDA (I have three, two IDE and one SATA) plus the one I just put in makes four. I go into BIOS and discover that it not only cant see any of the other drives, but my two DVD drives are missing too!
Now I've been building my own systems and mucking about with computers since before you could buy them, and Ive never seen a problem like this one! At first I thought the new drive had screwed my system, for on removal, the problem persisted! Then I noticed that the IDE connector in drive SDB, (the long 40 pin job) was just slightly out of line with the back of the drive, pushed it firmly in and what do you know, everything works! We moved recently and I think the vibration was enough to loosen the connector to give intermittent faults, and pulling the cables about to get the new drive in, pulled it out further......
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Apr 18, 2010
A few sectors on my Hard drive on my toshiba laptop are having issues, so i have to load Ubuntu (9.10 i believe) from a USB drive. Is is still possible to save things, download programs, drivers, and anything so i can still use most of ubuntu's features without everything resetting after a reboot?
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Feb 22, 2010
I',m executing ping, but it didn't work, in order to find the mistake in my network I would like to know how to see the errors:
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Oct 28, 2010
I have a Dell Vostro 3300, i5 460 processor with a NVIDIA 310M Graphics Card. I'm doing a KUBUNTU 10.10 (Maverick) install with the following results. The Live CD boots just fine to, "TEST," or "Install." Installation goes fine. However, the graphics card being used is the Intel i915. I have tried installing the NVIDIA drivers directly from the, "Additional Drivers," tool and after the reboot I get through the boot screen to the console. I try to manually startx and I get the errors, "no device found," "no screens found." The second install I tried purging and blacklisting the nouveau drivers and entering safe mode. Then using apt-get install nvidia-current. After that, nvidia-xconfig. Same results.
The third attempt I re-installed and this time downloaded the drivers from the Nvidia site (version 256.53). Blacklisted nouveau, remove all nvidia, updated initramfs, etc. The install went fine however I still end up at a console after boot with the same messages as above. No device found, no screens found. I've tried searching through the forum and web and have tried things like adding the modset option along with many other hacks, tips and fixes. still, no go.I can live with the Intel graphics for now although I lose 512MB of memory. Unfortunately there is no way to disable or change this set-up in the BIOS. I've seen quite a few bug reports at Launchpad:
1. Is this something I should just wait til a fix comes? Will a fix come?
2. Is there, or will there be an official Updated Ubuntu Guide for Maverick to install NVIDIA drivers with this tecnology?
3. Lastly, is there anything else I should try??
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Jul 20, 2009
I am trying to install the reiserfs drivers to read/write to my external drive. But keep getting command not found. Although the system can get man pages for modprobe.
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Feb 26, 2010
I am running Valgrind on my program. It shows me two errors but mentions only addresses against them and not actual code even on a debug build.
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==23002== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
==23002== Copyright (C) 2002-2005, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
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May 14, 2010
I recently got a computer donated to me for free from my Computer Science class, as the teacher couldn't figure out what the problem was that was preventing him from booting to the startup screen (all I could figure out was that the slot the memory card was in was bad, so I switched slots and got it working). The hard drive on the computer was wiped with a disk nuker called DBAN. Now I would like to install a Linux OS on the computer, but whatever disc or distro I try gives me similar "unable to read" errors. I would like to know if there's anything software-wise I need to do before attempting to replace any hardware. An example of the error I'm getting is as follows (using a mandriva livecd):
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1281: /var/log/dmesy: Read-only file system
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xa6e58
SQUASHFS error: unable to read cache block [29b963ea:782]
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Sep 17, 2010
i installed Fedora 12 on an external hard drive. Everything went fine with the installation and it was working perfectly until i tried to install my video card drivers. I have done this many times before and it has worked. I have an ATI card. Anyway after installing the driver i rebooted and now when it starts it show the loading bar on the bottom but then nothing happens its just a black screen!. The worst part is that when i go into windows and my external is plugged in windows wont read it and i have very valuable data on it. I go into disk management and it shows up but windows says that its empty. which is obviously not true because Fedora starts to boot. I really just want Fedora off my external and for windows to read my external with all the files still on it. Is there a way to get by that blank screen?
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