Is there any software to store recovery records that can be used for recovery from data corruption, like RAR does? I periodically rsync from a primary backup location, that I assume corruption-free, to a secondary one, that I consider corruptible - so I'd like to store in the destination some recovery data.
View 1 RepliesI've got a, as it seems to me, strange problem.I've inadvertently deleted my user from the group admin so I'm in the same situation of a lot of other users (read a lot of messages about it).My problem is that when restarted in recovery mode there is no way I can choose the 'drop to the root shell' or similar in the menu.The menu appears for a second and then I've got an empty screen. If I press a key I've been requested for a username and password that of course is not what I need.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04 32 bit. I am familiar with the option on the alternate CDs to check CD integrity. Is there such a thing for the normal desktop live/install CD? I know the download image is OK. I have created several virtual machines from it. I believe the CD is OK - I have installed 2 physical machines from it.
I am now installing on my old Dell Poweredge 400 SC. When I first boot from the CD I get the message "The installer encountered an unrecoverable error..." then it brings up the Live CD OS. From there I can manually run install. The first time it got about half way through copying files to the hard drive and died. It indicated an I/O error. Could be dirt in the DVD drive - it is older than dirt. Or it could be the CD. Dirt I can clean with some compressed air. How do I verify the CD? I am downloading the alternate CD now as I try a second run at installing.
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Thunderbird could not install the file at
file:///home/rodney/Downloads/spell-en-AU.xpi
because: Install script not found -204
I get this message when I try to install a spell checker in Thunderbird.
Also when I click on any links in Thunderbird nothing happens.
Is there a default sfv checker program? I saw there were a few sfv checker programs in the repository, I just don't want to install another one if I already have one.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've tried to install Linux Ubuntu 9 on an HPmini 110, since this type of netbook doesnt have any optical unit (CD/DVD Reader) I decided to install Ubuntu from an USB flash drive, I created the booteable USB drive with Lili USB Creator, then when I reboot the HPMini and select the "check integrity" option before install, it's always the same error, when the check is finished it tells me "Encountered 1 error in 1 file" (With no description of this error whatsoever) even when Lili USB Creator previously did a succesfull integrity check of the same ISO I'm trying to install.
I'have installed this same version of linux before (on the same machine), from the same ISO image without this error, I also have tried with 3 different flash drives and lately even tried downloading again the ISO image of Ubuntu 10, I dont think is my hardware either since Ive tried to install this same image in 2 different laptops 1HPmini and 1 HPCompaq CQ60 with the same results at the integrity test.
I am experiencing some strange behaviour with sound, and I have been messing around with installing some ALSA drivers. I suspect that I might have corrupted some part of the installed Ubuntu packages. Is there a way to check all the packages on the system for integrity using apt-get or similar?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am not able to find any information to verify a downloaded .iso file for security and integrity at [URL]../download/ubuntu/download .Are they supplied elsewhere?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to get a program to check (a) hard disk and (b) file integrity. I have had a file - ODS spreadsheet accessed using LibreOffice - that appears corrupt. I have drilled down and down and eventually identified a corrupt component image inserted in a sheet.
The error that is thrown by LO is a "Error saving
the document FILE: Write Error. The file could not be written."
error. The thread can be read here... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.d...fice.user/9266.
What has confused me is that my machine can not save the file once a sheet is deleted. It is specific to a particular file. The file is stored on n ext4 disk mounted by fstab. I also share the file using samba. Regardless of how I access this file I get the error. If however, I access the exact same file using OpenOffice 3.1.0 OOO310m11 (Build: 9399) from an old Windows Vista Tablet and I can manipulate the file successfully - no error is encountered. I can also access the same file from another Ubuntu machine via NFS and Samba and both work. I am confused. I am beginning to think my disk is damaged or something. How do you check hard disks to verify that the disk surface is intact, and that the expected file sum value matches the value stored in the Linux equivalent to the FAT table.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and all hard disks are formated with ext4. All formatting and management of the disks have been done using the 'Disk Utility' in the System > Administration' menu. If I look in gparted it will not check the disk the file is on stating "eslabel: no such file or directory... couldn't find valid filesystem superblock...". The filesystem mounts OK however without any errors. Another harddisk on the same system currently being used for backup does not even have the menu option for checking the disk highlighted.
What is the best way of verifying the integrity of the filesystem, actual files and the underlying physical media? I should point out it is only this single file that currently displays any issues. I either have a damaged disk, corrupt file or LibreOffice has a very peculiar bug that only appears in a unique combination of events just on my machine. As part of my investigations I have been updating ubuntu, reinstalled LibreOffice from their website and checked all dependencies have been met.
We need to harness the power of computing technology but, since I'm no programmer, I am posting here if some people can help with our situation.For many hours per day, we have to go through paragraphs and paragraphs of text. We have our own style guide to follow when it comes to:
capitalization
hyphenation
compound words (spaced out as two completely separate words?; hyphenated?; or joined together without any space?) We understand that Microsoft Word has a bit of customizability with it. But, to make the long story short, it's not good enough. So what we're looking for is to be able to paste several paragraphs into some program, and with rules that are 100%-created by us, have it alert us of the errors. If it could alert us the way that MS-Word or OpenOffice Writer does, that is, by using zizag underlines in red or green, that would be great. If you are a programmer or know a program that is 100% customizable (by 100% customizable, I mean that the only errors the programs considers errors are those that I tell it are errors).
recommend any utilities that would check the hard drive and its contents (if they are still good) following a power outage?
View 1 Replies View Relatedis there a way to "repair" or check the integrity of ogg files? They all work on my desktop but some seem broken on my mobile (Nexus One). I have the feeling my converter may have corrupted some files or the conversion was corrupted by the original file.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there any panel applet for KDE that can alert me when I have new E-mail in my Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts? I just have the basic, free accounts.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut for spell check suggestions in firefox. My requirement is actually to work in a website which does not allow right click. When I encounter a red underlined word in the text I typed, I have to copy and paste the same to another tab of firefox [of some other site]to get the alternate suggestions/right spelling. Any tweak to change the button binding from right click to double click or Alt click etc will also do.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAnyone know any good word programs with a good grammar checker? i tried language tool with OOo but it is still buggy lags to find grammar, and unless the sentence is quite simple, it misses alot. tried lightproof too, it has yet to find any error, even in hyphenation which is what it is specifically meant to do. This would be nice to have so I can ween myself entirely off windows.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using kile in ubuntu and am wondering if there is a spell checker and even a thesaurus for kile? And is there a way to get a live pdf preview next to where you enter text into kile?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been going crazy trying to get some sort of grammar checker working in Libreoffice on Maverick. I installed language support-fr -en and -de through terminal but they only check spelling. I then installed the extension "languagetool" in libreoffice and while it does work a little bit it is very unstable. It makes libreoffice crash on start and randomly while in use. Is there any solution to getting a stable grammar checker with libreoffice or are my attempts useless?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using the new ocr app 'cuneiform' that has appeared in the Lucid repo.It is command line and works very well.However, the rest of the household would like to use it and desire a gui front-end.Mepis has this and it is called YAGF. Works well.We are told to install only from trusted sources.how can I check the integrity of this .deb and freedom from malware before installing it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI used to have a spell check every where I typed in Ubuntu and Fedora. I just noticed it's not happening on openSUSE. How do I enable it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a RH 5.5 server which boots from SAN and i use device mapper multipath driver.all the ports are up(see the multipath -ll output below) and i can see all the device but still when i do the multipath command it gives me this output, im wondering whether this is a lvm.conf configuration issue.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI had bad experience with disk checking in windows. Boot checker just moved all more and more of my files to a hidden folder without me knowing. I lost a lot of photos due to this. Afterwards when I checked that folder I found that most of the files were intact and I was able to open them without a problem. How dumb is that a program moves files without your permition to do so So I'm wondering what happens with files on Ubuntu if they get corrupted or are suspected as corrupted? And how can I know if the automatic checking procedure that runs when booting found any corrupted files, bad sectors etc... ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to test the integrity of USB sticks?
View 4 Replies View Relatedcreate one tar.gz file that contains my /home, /etc, /root directory.
a) The process ended with a 88GB file size (which is ok) but with the following message.Code: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors.I have searched a little but I could not find what went wrong.
b) What are the limitations of tar and gz for backups. Of course I fully understand that they can not be used for differential backups (if it is called like that)
c) Let's say that my backup will be a file of 100GB and I want to see the contents of the .tar.gz. In kde there is a program called ark. Can ark handle so big files? Does it use my hard disk (eg. /tmp) to uncompress the file so to show me its contents? It might be the case that might be the compressed file is much bigger than the left space on the hard disk?
d) How can I do an integrity check when my tar.gz file is created?
When I'm typing something on a site the spell checkers (dictionary or whatever) leaves a lot to be desired. Sometimes I am forced to type the word into google's search engine & having it give me the correct spelling. So, is there a way of making this thing "smarter"?
To clarify, say I type in goverment, the checker isn't smart enough to know that I need the "n" - government - (this is just an example word & is not actually the case with it as I can't think of any right now that is) & gives me a bunch of meaningless, non-related words to choose from.
My ubuntu (lubuntu) installation came with abiword, which I like, but I can't get the spell checker to work.
I've tried various suggestions from Google but am floundering.
I'm currently backupping our home data (pictures, videos, our CDs ripped to FLAC which I spent a lot of time to tag accurately ), totalling almost 300 Gb, on 2 external USB drives, one of which is meant to stay at a friend's. I left the factory msdos filesystem as it was, thinking it could be useful to be able to connect the drives to a windows machine with no problems. It's certainly useful to have «normal» data that I can take with me e.g. when visiting my family.
I'm simply using rsync manually, checking for suspicious changed or deleted file before commiting the change. I do that every 2 weeks or so.
Now I want to add a file integrity management to my backupping scheme: I want to be able to check that new data I'll be committing has not been tampered with (integrity check before updating tags on my main drive), and I want to be able to check that backupped data is still sane on my USB drives, especially if I need to recover from data corruption on my main drive.
Since I'm essentially mirroring the data, I thought run of the mill integrity software would let me just rsync the integrity database, and I'm done.
But after browsing through the docs of tripware, afick and the like, I fear they work only with absolute paths, so the database for my main drive wouldn't work for my USB drive, that's mounted elsewhere when I plug it in, obviously.
So, I feel I'm missing something. It looks to me I'm trying to solve a very common problem, how do people do it?
Did I miss a file integrity software that works with backups?
Is there a trick like using a symbolic link pointing to whatever file hierarchy I want to check, and have tripware/afick/... monitor that link?
Should I run a more elaborate backupping system than plain rsync? Which one? (Storebackup for instance looks promising since it involves md5 sums, but it's targetting a completely different problem, and I'm not sure I can use it at all for what I need.)
I've been using Brasero to burn iso images on DVD-Rs, and although the burns are successful (I know by testing them), Brasero doesn't seem to perform its file/image integrity check from Tools>Check Integrity. The Brasero plugin "File checksum" or "Image checksum" is checked (can't have both checked), and when I perform a manual check with an md5 file and its burned DVD,it"always" gives me, immediately, a success message: "the file integrity was performed successfully," even when I insert a different image with the previous md5 file! So, immediate response (doesn't seem to be checking anything, I know that a 4Gb DVD md5 checking should take some time), and success whatever the DVD image used with one md5 file. Something must be wrong or the feature is broken.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow to do an easy file integrity checking on fedora 11 ? just to make sure that the necessary core os files are not corrupted using rpm and yum.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf you do, after the completing the test - it will eject the CD.
and how are you going to reinsert the CD to complete your install? you're remote remember ??
System is Fedora 13 64 bit. Today, an update dropped for all of the clamav packages. After they finished installing, I ran freshclam, and this is just part of the output of tail /var/log/messages:
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I checked my DNS settings, my DNS server, and everything was good to go. I even removed all files from /var/lib/clamav, including the mirrors.dat file, and still no go, got the same errors. I downgraded all the packages, and still got the same thing... Is anyone else having this problem?