Ubuntu :: Inconsistent Disk Naming On Ubuntu And Derivatives
Mar 8, 2011
I have a SATA internal hard disk and a USB external hard disk, both with several partitions) plus two USB flash sticks and a multicard reader. When I boot Ubuntu (or any distribution based on it) the internal disk partitions can be /dev/sdan, /dev/sdbn or even on one occasion /dev/sdhn. This caused me some problems with my /etc/fstab file and swap partitions, which I have now largely solved by using disk and swap labels.
Since opensuse 11.3 I can't use wine properly again: picasa (built-in wine) and crossover office will both extremely slow down my desktop, even if the wine-application will launch in slowmotion. Along with this issue, there is often a KDE box appearing with the announcement that display-settings have changed. These will appear in mass and overlap (from 6 to 70 message boxes). There is clearly a big issue with the last openSUSE. Is it already known? How to fix it?
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit desktop edition (on intel core 2 quad 8200, intel dg41ty motherboard, 2gb ram). My problem is that i installed screenlet and drapes wallpaper changer but every time i start my computer the drapes application failed to load and some of the screenlets also not start. In the panels the icons automatically changes their position and sometimes. i don't know what is the problem. Please help me because it is very annoying for me every time i start some screenlets manually and click on the drapes error.
When I setup Intrepid (upgraded to Jaunty now), I chose to create a swap partition. I don't remember the size I specified. Here's what I'm confused about When I do 'cat /proc/meminfo' or 'free' or use the system monitor, it reports my swap size as 1262304 KB (i.e. 1.2GB). But if I do a 'fdisk -l', the partition size is reported as 746991 blocks (of 1024 bytes) and if I use the partition editor it says it's 729.48MB. XP disk mgmt shows it as app. 700MB too
able to find anything on this particular issue. The problem I'm having is that the contrast ratio of text in firefox seems very inconsistent. For example: if I'm reading an article on NYtimes, from one paragraph to the next it looks like some sentences are in bold-face and others are not. If I refresh the page, it'll be different areas that are or aren't bf. Sometimes they even change (getting darker or lighter) as I'm sitting there reading. I tried to take a screenshot but unfortunately the text all becomes uniform as soon as I hit prt-scr so the image doesn't show the effect.
Another example is viewing my personal favorite forum where threads that I haven't read are in bf as opposed to those I have read which are normal. The problem is that when I do a mouse-over of the bf threads the font rendering becomes more greyed out. It's still bold-face, just not as dark.
A final example is in text-entry boxes. As I'm typing this right now the line I'm on looks normal but the paragraph above seems to go from regular to bold-face from one line to the next. The paragraph above that looks entirely bold-face...
It did occur to me that this could be a monitor issue or even a vid-card issue. But it's definitely not monitor because I can scroll the whole screen and the variation moves with the text... And it's not vid-card because I installed Chrome as a check and it doesn't have the same problem. None of the above symptoms carry over to that application.
So, after the upgrade to 10.10, my bluetooth devices keep cutting in and out, and my Jabra bt125 won't connect to this computer. The Jabra won't even show up on btscanner or bluewho, but it will connect to my phone. The phone connects, but quickly disconnects. When left alone, the two will connect again! A friend's other headset connected, but had the same problems as the phone. That was an LG HBM-210. The signal was good for up to a minute, then down for at least a minute, over and over. Before the upgrade everything worked perfectly. What happened, or what did I forget to do? Might I have removed something critical when I switched Maverick 64-bit to the lubuntu package, and tried to remove some redundancies?
Currently I have a HP G62 Laptop and it's been great but recently I've started getting really inconsistent wireless access. When I boot up the computer - it will connect to the wireless and work for awhile but 10-15 minutes later, websites stop loading entirely so I have to restart to get it to reconnect. If I don't restart and disconnect/reconnect... it doesn't do anything, it shows it trying to connect and then a weird "hiccup" happens and it tries again until it finally decides that it cannot connect. I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu I believe.
How can I make workspaces have names under 10.04? Under 9.10 I can given different workspaces different names, under 10.04 I can't. Workspace-switcher-preferences has less options.
I installed Ubuntu two ways, both by partitioning the hard drive and installing Ubuntu in its own partition, and also where the "run within Windows" option was available. I then upgraded both to Ubuntu 11.04. When I start Ubuntu in the "own partition" installation, Unity runs without complaint. When I start Ubuntu in the "run within Windows" installation, Unity baulks, giving an error message that I don't have some (unspecified) of the hardware it needs to run, and I am kicked back to the classic Ubuntu control screen setup. Obviously the two ways to install Ubuntu don't result in it having the same behavior. Alternately, since the version installed to "run within Windows" seems to do no such thing, and also gobbled up almost all the free space in my Windows-7 partition without prior warning, any clue how to uninstall that version cleanly?
I recently upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. I'm on a Dell XPS Studio 1640 and have Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box.A lot of the time when I log in the main menu goes to an old grey theme and windows are the same when opened. I think the Gnome theme is not been loaded correctly?Sometimes it is fine and has the nice default Ubuntu-Default-Dark icons.
I have a number of partitions, each having an icon on the Desktop.However, they are only referred to by size of partition. What I would like to do is give them a relevant name, e.g. photos, MP3s, etc.My fstab uses UUIDs. Can I change the names while using these to refer to the partitions?
I have 4 SATA hard drives, and they are named sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. My problem is that the drives always randomly switch between these names when I restart my system. It is not really a problem as far as mounting, because I use the UUID option. I'm using the sensors applet to monitor the temps of the hard drives, and I can never tell which one is which, because the drive names are always changing.Is there any way to have the drives named the same way every time?
I can't boot the 2.6.35-22 kernel, since I get the "Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure" every time. However, the previous kernel I have installed, 2.6.32-25, is booting without a problem, so I'm forced to use that until this problem is solved. What can I do?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on my desktop and the 70-persistent-net.rules file seems to be ignored. The ethernet interfaces are randomly shuffled around on boot (i have 4 interfaces). The original one was configured to have a static IP address (eth0). Is there anything that prevents the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules from being applied/used?
After upgrade to 10.04, my disks are randomly named (sda, sdb, sdc) at each boot. My drive labeled "XP" is sometimes named "sdb" and sometimes "sdc", while my other drive "DATA" is respectively "sdc" or "sdb". This wasn't the case before upgrade with KUbuntu 9.10.
Due to this random naming, my auto-mount in fstab often fail at boot time !
Any solution for this (not found here by myself) ?
Is this linked to Grub troubles reported many times here ?
I am trying to read the info for Groff using KDE Help Center. The paragraphs take turns in using monospace and sans-serif. There is no apparent logic behind this variability. Additionally, several lists are misplaced (not indented).
ive installed it before but that was with help and i want to dualboot it on my laptop with windows when i get to partitioning setup it tries to delete my windows partition and says "cannot resize due to inconsistent fs." for my windows c drive and recovery drive i dont want to delete it becouse i have data on it.
i have 2 iso files. the first i downloaded from net, the second was created by me. Both files have the same files. the only difference is the content in one of the files.In other words:1. i downloaded the 1.iso2. mounted, cp -pr ./ ; vi ./<one of the file3. mkisofs -o 2.iso.
I have a 10GB IDE disk that Parted says has a single 10GB partition (/dev/sdb1) which is mounted at /home. However, df and the Gnome file managers see it only as a 3GB partition. It was a 3GB partition when I was using Fedora 9 but the partition was resized to 10GB during the installation of Fedora 11.Can anyone suggest how to make df and Gnome see it as a 10GB partition?
I have a script that sends short reports via the mailx command which is failing a lot lately.
Syntax used is basically: mailx -s "the subject" -r somebody@somewhere.com myemail@gmail.com < textfile.txt
For what ever reason this command has become very unreliable lately. I've tested on the command line and sometimes it works but frequently fails. The -r address seems to cause problems as it always fails with a -r set to my work address. I've read several theads and tried adding a .mailrc file but couldn't get past the NSS configuration setting. (Using my mozilla x123x.default dir results in Error initializing NSS: Security library: bad database. )
The nail command behaves about the same. what would make email sending so intermittent?
I've checked the /var/log/maillog but see each mail session end with the following and no errors reported:
My wireless card works most of the time, however with prolonged usage results in a temporary halt in functionality. I am not sure how to go about diagnosing or solving the problem, and I do not know what information I should be providing.
Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure I was making my first system update yesterday, and had to restart after 6 hours of downloading, while the indication bar was about 60%.
Today, I was booting into Centos 5.1 and GRUB gave me this screen: root (hd0.0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6 18-53.e15 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quite crash kernel=128M@16M
I have got a question about some terms in Debian package name, for example: 1:9.6.ESV.R3+dfsg-0+lenny1 What do ESV, R3 and lenny1 mean? I can't find information about it anywhere...
I have scanner working nicely, but...When I launch xsane, the scanning for devices upsets my tv-tuner.Xsane accepts a device name in the command line, but how to put it there?sane-find-scanner gives:found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8, product=0x341b) at libusb:003:003found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c45, product=0x602d) at libusb:002:002
I have two computers, a HP DX2250 with dual SATA drives and a HP D530 with 1 EIDE drive and 1 SATA drive. On each computer Windows XP Pro is installed on the first drive and Fedora is installed on the second drive. I have had no problems installing and running Fedora 15 on the the DX2250.
My persistent problem lies with the D530. I have installed Fedora 15 on the SATA drive several times. I used the Fedora live cd and I have used PreUpgrade. Every install results in the Error 16: message occurring during boot and ending with a Grub prompt. I have even unplugged the EIDE drive during Fedora boot and still get the problem. I might also add: the machine hard drive boot is controlled via F10 and changing the drive controller order. I have installed and used Fedora on both machines from Fedora 11 thru Fedora 14 with no problems. This error is new with Fedora 15. My next attempt is to install Fedora 15 on the SATA drive with the EIDE drive unplugged. All ideas or SWAG guesses are welcome.
I got a new laptop recently, it came with an ssd drive and preinstalled win7. I downloaded the latest gparted livecd and shrinkd the win partitionto make room for slackware (i'll need the win instaltion for a month or so). Slackware current runs very well on it. Except for the strange error when I run Lilo:
Code: root@tofiks:/boot# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added Slack * Warning: Device 0x0800: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry CHS address in PT: 153:27:3 --> LBA (2315063) LBA address in PT: 2459648 --> CHS (162:162:3) Fatal: Either FIX-TABLE or IGNORE-TABLE must be specified If not sure, first try IGNORE-TABLE (-P ignore) When I add that option "-P ignore" it installs fine and I can boot.
Code: root@tofiks:/boot# lilo -P ignore Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added Slack * Warning: Device 0x0800: Inconsistent partition table, 2nd entry CHS address in PT: 153:27:3 --> LBA (2315063) LBA address in PT: 2459648 --> CHS (162:162:3) Warning: The partition table is *NOT* being adjusted. Added w7 3 warnings were issued.
