I have two HDs, one is a 80gb OS drive(Parallel ATA) and the other is a 1T storage drive (SATA). Well after each reboot they swap between /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, over and over again. One boot the OS is /dev/sda and the next its /dev/sdb, same goes for the second drive. This makes it difficult to setup fstab so it will mount the large storage drive on boot.
View 3 RepliesI'm working with a program that uses Open Motif to create all of the widgets, including the Open File dialog box (obviously). However, Open Motif being kinda old-timey, 80's vintage, and for the most part now an abandoned project, it is quite clunky. So, actually what I need to do is to open some files located on my work server. I have already successfully connected to the relevant server directories with Samba, and with programs built with GTK+ (such as GIMP) I can open files across the network because I have created a bookmark in Nautilus, and those bookmarks appear in the Open File dialog box created by GTK+. Now, Open Motif is different: it doesn't see network locations, orNautilus shortcuts. When I type "smb://serveripyadayada" in the search folder, it really doesn't like it and complains. So, what do I do? Can I get somehow Open Motif to open a network location? Or can I do a run-around and place a shortcut in the file system that points to the network location?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been testing ubuntu 10.10 maverick, it has some nice features. Anyway I am missing the possibility of writing manually the folder you want to go on nautilus using the Location bar. It was used to have some kind of icon which you can click and it switched between graphich breadcrumbs or the location of the folder and you could changed it manually, you know what I mean?
View 2 Replies View Related100% and keeps swapping over
View 9 Replies View RelatedI currently have Ubuntu installed onto my laptop, on a single drive partitioned into /root /home /swap. I now have an additional spare HD that I was thinking of installing Win XP onto. So If I needed to use XP for a specific program then I could just swap out the HDs instead of having a Dual Boot system on one drive. confirm that by swapping out the HDs this will not affect the Grub Boot Loader and I will be safe to do this without screwing up my Ubuntu, as if it will screw it up I will just stick with Ubuntu on my Laptop and forget about XP.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe hdd that my system boots from is named "sdb". But sometimes it's named "sdc". It changes from boot to boot. There are four hdds in this desktop and my boot disk keeps swapping names with a data disk (sdb and sdc). No raid. Never affects the other two disks. I am running Ubuntu 10.10, but this problem began when I was a running 10.04.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have installed xubuntu. I have a total of 12034MB of main Memory of which ~1000MB are normally used.When I leave the computer and come back, it is swapping a lot. Whenver I display a window (firefox i.E.) that I have not displayed yet since I left the computer alone, I can here the HD working, and the system monitor shows me how more memory is used and less swap space.
But there is absolutely no need for it. I have at least 10000MB of free Memory at all the time!Can I somehow tell my xubuntu installation to stop swapping unless there is really little main memory left (lets say less than 2000MB)?My kernel version is 2.6.35-29-generic because I have trouble with the raw1394 module in the newest version.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04, 64 bits. I need to swap sata hard drives (they are installed in drawers). If I umount and remove a disk, and then put the same drive in it's place, I can mount it again with no problems. If I put another disk in place of the original, it says: mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist. If I reboot, the new disk is mounted correctly (sdc1 is in fstab).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using an Apple Keyboard (DK-layout) on my PC running Ubuntu 10.4. The problem: My key used to type <, > and is swapped with the key used to type and If I connect a standard PC-keyboard with DK-layout using USB, it works just fine. The problem exists both in the console and X. I solved the problem in the console by installing the console-keymaps package, made a copy of dk-latin1.kmap.gz and swapping keycode 86 with keycode 41 and loading the new keymap with the loadkeys command. I only need to figure out how to load the new keymap at boot time.
However, in X, I want to do exactly the same. I suppose I have to use Xmodmap. I simply can't figure out how to do it.
i'm using an apple macbook pro with ubuntu 11.04 and i'm having a little trouble swapping my cmd and ctrl keys.I'm use to copying and pasting using cmd + a, c, v etc. Instead when i press cmd im getting the unity bar popping up.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAs the title says /dev/dsp and dsp1 are swapping places causing mythtv to pull the wrong audio from the wrong tuners. It does this when the machine is rebooted.
How can I make it permanent it? I'm using Mythbuntu 9.04.
I am running Ubuntu 9.10. My work requires me to frequently swap video cards between an ATI Radeon 5870 card and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX card. My question is: can the ATI driver (fglrx - catalyst 10.2) and the NVIDIA driver (nvidia 190.29) co-exist? Or do I need to reinstall the driver every time I change the card? I would like for the drivers to be able to co-exist so it would only be a matter of restarting my machine with the new card and choose the right xorg.conf file (perhaps from the GRUB menu).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have 3 Dell r610 servers all running 10.04 and 1/3 can't connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com the other two are fine. I've tried swapping the cable from one of the other servers to the one with the issue, switching the IP address, restarting the networking module and nothing resolves the problem.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04 x86 with all updates.
MB is MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with 2M Ram and AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Using Conky part of which is
CPU: ${hwmon 1 temp 2}�C
NB: ${hwmon 1 temp 3}�C
CORE ${hwmon 0 temp 1}�C
HDD 1: ${hddtemp /dev/sda}�C
HDD 2: ${hddtemp /dev/sdb}�C
CPU FAN ${hwmon 1 fan 2} RPM
MB FAN ${hwmon 1 fan 1} RPM
Conky is set to start on boot, but usually doesn't. If i run Conky from terminal i get
Conky: can't open '/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/temp2_input': No such file or directory
please check your device or remove this var from Conky
Segmentation fault
If i edit conkyrc and change hwmon 0 for hwmon 1 and vice versa all is ok until next boot, and so it goes on.
My etc/modules is# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
lp
# Generated by sensors-detect on Thu Jul 8 10:16:02 2010
# Chip drivers
w83627hf
Added blacklist k8temp to blacklist.conf but as not in above probably a waste of time.
I have heavy swapping going top and free are indicating a lot free memory in cached form.Why does the kernel not use this memory instead of killing my desktop by swapping like crazy.
View 6 Replies View Relatedchange as I salvaged an old old computer and got it back into working order. Windows 7 kills the computer and the media being served is sluggish and slow.
The computer spec are as follows:
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Bios 1303
Asus Nvidia En210
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I'm having a little trouble with a mdadm RAID array at the moment in which the four hard drives in the array change their /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd/ /dev/sde placement on every reboot.
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently installed Ubuntu, I've got 2 * 500GB HDDs, mounted and partitioned, but I don't have read/write access to them, only root does.. How can i get access to save files and create folders etc?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi found that 10.04 hasn't edit location icon at location bar of nautilus. how to get it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedActually I'm not sure that it's swapping like mad: I've done more testing and it looks like there may some interference causing the noise that may be correlating with network usage. I'm accessing a MacMini (with MacOS X 10.4) from my Linux machine using VNC. My Linux machine has 4 GB of ram and I run a lot of various apps on it and I've got no issue at all. It's all snappy and don't hear the hard disk swapping/read/writing too often. Now with VNC, the hard disk is swapping like mad. When I'm moving things on the OS X desktop. So I was thinking of creating a ramdisk and forcing the temp VNC files to go into that ramdisk but the problem is I can't find any temp files.
I've attempted to do that:
#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]
do
lsof | grep vnc
done
The VNC version I'm using is this one:
$ vncviewer -version
VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Jan 30 2009 19:33:16
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
No matter how much data is coming from the Mac, there should be plenty of memory (4 GB of ram) so there's really no reason to swap like crazy.
How to restrict the swapping kernel memory and user process memory? Memory locking like mlockall()? Disable swapping feature in linux kernel? My system runs 64-bit CentOS under 6GB RAM.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have read others getting Grub error 2, but i cant fix the problem. I have 2 sata HDDs. I suspect the problem is something to do with RAID?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy reality distortion field went through a polarity shift today, and nothing's been working like it should. After the 10,000th problem, I decided to just make room for a fresh lucid install and the accompanying stability. It worked well, then I had some sort of a boot error upon reboot. So then I just decided to reinstall. The problem is that neither of my 2 internal HDDs is registering. Currently sda is an 80GB drive with a slackware install, sdb is a 120GB with a 60GB mint partition and (upon previous install) 60GB lucid partition. I've got no important data on any of my partitions yet, but also no net connection. I have install dvds for lucid, mint kde 9, and slackware plus a gparted live. I'm seriously considering making this machine a slack standalone, but then I've got legacy nvidia drivers to deal with.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have my current computer set up with 2 HDDs in it. A 500GB with GRUB and Windows 7 on it and a 160GB HDD with Ubuntu on it.
I would like to someone replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu on the 500GB drive, but I'm not sure how I would be able to do this and still keep GRUB and such .
EDIT: I'd like to do this without re-installing anything.
I have a NAS box that runs Ubuntu Server and Samba. 4 of the HDDs are in RAID5 (/dev/md1) and I've configured them to spin down after 10 minutes of inactivity. This filesystem is mounted on /share/Media. The other 2 HDDs are NOT configured to spin down. My other computer runs Ubuntu Desktop. I'm mounting the entire /share folder (that's located on NAS) using this entry in /etc/fstab:
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I'm in the process of swapping out my current HDD with a SSD. Are there any configurations that need to be made after a fresh install? If anyone currently have SSD and running linux, I'd like to here your experience and whether or not you have/had issues.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm new to the world of Ubuntu 10.10. My PC had windows Vista running on an 80GB HDD, and on Friday 03/12/10 I decided to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a second 160GB HDD. Wrongly I assumed I could simply have 2 HDD's in my PC and it would magically allow me to chose between Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.10. Well that was 50 hours ago and I still can't get it to work. As you can see I have the results of my boot_info_script055.sh below.
PHP Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
Grub 2 isnstalled in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition # 1 for (,msdos1)/boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdbsda1:
File system: ext4 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Ubuntu 10.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub .....
i have a question regarding how data is placed on a media, for example the daily used hdd: when we talk about storage we often speak in heads sectors and cylinders. my question is if heads, sectors and cylinder is the true way data exists on a hdd platter?
lets take for example, disk_x
1000.2gb = 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track 121601 cylinders.
fdisk -H 128 -S 32 /dev/disk_x each cylinder will be shrank to 2097152bytes, number of cylinders will grow to 476934. but everything will be much more aligned and readable or there is something i don't know and i will loose almost half of the total sector count on the hdd cause 63-32=31. i asked the partitioner just to use 32 sectors from each track and only 128 tracks of the cylinder.
or another example, if i have a cluster size of 4k. why not making each track use 56 sectors or 7 clusters. theoretically i have all files in my storage and each one of them occupies 14 clusters isn't it wiser to make it as described. what happens when i invoke fdisk -h -s params? what will be changed, the disc physically and the way it is accessed or only the partition table? you probably asking your self what the hell does this dude wants? i want to get maximum i/outputs and the widest bandwidth and the nicest readble partition tables and to understand better fdisk -H -S.
I whant to know,is HDD Regenerator for linux? I completely at linux and sometimes i need to create usb flash hdd regenerator for testing hdds.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been following grub-common bug #606845 and in coming to a solution for the issue, these guys are using dd as a brute force means of swapping out master boot records or trampling them, if you prefer. (Background: The issue is related to grub and certain xp installations)
An sample snip of code:
dd if=/mbrxp.bin of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
1) Is mbrxp.bin a back-up of the mbr taken before installation of squeeze (or grub in general)?
2) Am I fubar if I didn't make a back-up of the mbr before installing grub?