Whenever I have an open OS-generated window (Software Center, Settings etc), the text will be corrupted if the window is scrolled. This can be restored by highlighting the text - and sometimes it will self-restore given time, but the corruption will reappear if the text is scrolled again.
The behaviour does not happen in program-generated windows, such as Firefox.
Dell 1340 Studio XPS, NVidea GT310 Hybrid SLI graphics.
fixing a text corruption issue / advice for filing a bug report (if necessary). So, generally speaking the stability I am experiencing with Natty is as I expect; I'm fully aware that this is a very very early development release and so all sorts of things can go wrong. I just wanted to point that out So while Gnome/Unity are up and running, graphics run more or less perfectly, the boot process text is completely garbled and if after everything is fully loaded I hit Control+Alt+F1-F6 the text looks like:
* this
* the above image close-up
The above links are supposed to be of the ubuntu login prompt. The problem occurred after running the upgrade command:
Code:
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
As is standard upgrade procedure. Is there anything obvious going on that I can tweak to make it all happy again? Since I have a working GUI.
I'm having a problem that I've not seen before, in that I ma constantly getting corrupted Ext 4 filesystems on my / and /home partitions. I am having to boot using a cd rom and run fsck -y on at least one of these partitions almost daily (mainly / partition)Looking at the system log, I'm seeing stuff like this:
04/08/11 04:28:37 PMValkyriekernel[ 28.090570] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
04/08/11 04:36:54 PMValkyriekernel[ 524.098006] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr
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From time to time, I check out the latest compiz-fusion just to play around with it. Everything compiles and installs just fine under my Slackware64 13.1 install, and I follow the build order that's been posted here and on SlackBuilds.org. When I switch over to compiz and emerald from Xfwm4 using fusion-icon, everything looks just fine. However, all of the text that *I* input into aterm is corrupted. Using the xfce terminal doesn't seem to be a problem. When I move the cursor using the arrow keys, a similar type of display corruption occurs. When I close aterm, an outline of the window remains until I tell fusion-icon to reload the window manager.
View 2 Replies View RelatedEnabling visual effects to either of normal/extra result in a serious problem-scrolling down any page results in overlapping of text, which is corrected only when i minimize and maximize the window.
View 4 Replies View RelatedToshiba Tecra. I'd like to upgrade from 9.01 to 11.04 but soon as I select 'Install Ubuntu' on the DVD I just get a screen of scrolling text files rolling by continuously. (I tried installing Kubuntu and Xubuntu and get the same thing)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using Chromium 10 from the build service and just installed the upgrade to version 10. Now there seems to be an issue with scrolling. When i go to reply to an email in gmail there is something weird when i try to scroll. The scrollbar will move like i am scrolling but nothing actually in the text area moves
View 9 Replies View RelatedIt takes about 25 seconds for my Grub to load, about 10-15 seconds of a black screen with flashing cursor before the first (Grub version 1.5 etc) message, then another ten seconds or so with the message "grub loading please wait" (from memory) before the menu appears. Is that normal for a system with three HDs and three different OS (SUSE 11.2 and 11,1, Ubuntu 10.04)? Maybe it is, but it would be nice to shave off a few seconds as Grub now takes longer than booting the OS... Also, when I set the resolution in YaST2 of the Bootloader to my maximum of 1920x1200 (24bit), I get scrolling text over the bootsplash which I didn't get when the resolution was set to the previous value of 1600x1200 (8bit).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am playing around with PyGTK and come across a problem: When I put a TextView inside a ScrolledWindow, and type text into the TextView until it reaches the edge, the cursor goes outside the viewport and I can't see what I'm typing. How to make it so that the ScrolledWindow automatically scrolls so that the caret in the TextView is always in visible?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThis doesnt really bother me at all, Im more curious than anything but- When I first installed fedora 9, during startup there was a bootsplash during the boot process. When the kernal was updated, the bootsplash was replaced with scrolling text (I have done several kernal updates, it was after the first one the scrolling text happened). Is there a way of reverting back to the bootsplash or is it more trouble than what its worth?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need some help in determining how to have a color splash image display in place of the Linux scrolling-text during the boot-up process on an embedded Linux device. The kernel used is a stripped-down version of Linux (kernel 2.6.29), which has been custom configured. I am using syslinux as the bootloader. I was told that Plymouth might be the way to go with this, but I'm not sure.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI used to edit grub from /etc/default/grub and change line.But after doing that now in Natty I still get a graphical boot, the Ubuntu logo just doesn't show anymore, but it isn't a text boot. Anyone know how to get this to work?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've just recently put Ubuntu on my 2010 Macbook Pro 13 inch, and all seems to be running more or less alright.One thing i miss from OS X is the ability to reverse the scrolling direction, also inertial scrolling.Is there any way to implement this in Ubuntu?Also, i have already installed the Mactel trackpad drivers.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed 11.04 on a t420 Thinkpad, and sometimes it suspends normally, but sometimes it cuts to a black screen with white text (attached) and won't finish suspending, making me do a hard reboot.
I tried to fix it by using s2ram, but that did not solve my problem.
Between Intrepid and Jaunty, the database schema for Tracker changed from QDBM to SQLite FTS. This caused corruption problems for many, the only solution to which (as far as I can tell) was to delete the contents of .cache/tracker. Unfortunately I have many thousands of file tags which I'm not willing to lose, so that isn't an option for me. So I've stuck with Intrepid, waiting for a solution to come along. It doesn't seem to have happened yet.
So ideally what I'm after is some way to convert my file-meta.db file to the current schema, or a way of exporting and then re-importing my tags. Failing that, a way of running Tracker 0.6.6 under more recent versions of Ubuntu would do.
I'm having an interesting issue with my computer right now. It has Ubuntu lucid installed, which was upgraded from karmic shortly after it became available and was up to date as of September 1.
The issue is as follows: It will not boot the internal hard drive (250GB Seagate barracuda). When I select any of the kernels, it appears to be booting, but 6 Hours later, no joy. If I select any of the Kernels in recovery mode, it does nothing, so again no joy.
It will boot my 500GB removable drive via USB (Samsung on the inside), which contains a backup of my lucid (cloned with Clonezilla) from June-ish, but will not do so if the internal hard drive is hooked up, so I cannot access the internals contents while using the backup USB HD.
Now this is where it get's interesting, at least for me. It will boot up a livecd while the internal HD is connected, which was the only way for me to access the contents of my Ubuntu partitions in the internal HD. I have since pulled the Internal out, removed the USB 500GB HD from it's case, installed it into the internal HD bay, hooked up all the cables, turned the computer on and it did boot. While it did seem to take a long while to boot, I'm hoping this may be because it needs a serious amount of updates (294 updates, 485MB are ready via synaptic!). So I now have placed the 250GB Seagate into the USB HD case and can now access it, but the only contents that can be seen, are the items in my defunct vista partition and I cannot find any remnants of my Ubuntu installation, despite gparted being able to see all of the partitions.
When I run WoW through wine there is severe graphical corruption. I am using opengl and have tried windowed/nonwindowed mode. No luck. Any assistance concerning this?
Here is a pic: [URL...ldofwarcra.png (I am running a w2k theme, this IS linux)
After I've upgraded to 10.04, the Korean text has become unreadable or very hard to read, on both KDE/Qt and Gnome/GTK apps. The text appears thiner and some characters/symbols are not fully rendered.
Has anyone encountered the same issue?
Update: In Dolphin and Nautilus the text is not rendered clearly, in Konsole is displayed just fine.
G`Day, I`m getting corruption of some kde apps in gnome. While k3b & vlc look fine, others like KRDC & kolourpaint are corrupted. Problem remains if I enable compiz or not.Ubuntu 10.04 nvidia card . Have two boxes (32 & 64 bit) both with nv cards, and problem happens on both
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhile using my computer the other day (I was sending an email) it suddenly turned off. I didn't get any low power warning, but I was running on battery and had my iphone charging from a USB port.
As I didn't think there was low battery, I just turned it back on again. As it was booting I saw the battery light flashing, indicating low power. I went to get the charger, but before I got it, mid boot-up it turned off again.
This seemingly damaged something hard-disk-wise.
Upon turning it on again it dropped into busy box with some message similar to this:
Quote:
No init fount. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of build in commands
(initramfs)
That's not the actual message (copy pasted from another post) but the message is VERY similar to that.
If I "exit" busy box, I get a load of message about "kernel panic" before it freezes up.
I have booted a live USB (what I am using now). I thought since it wasn't cleanly unmounted, simply mounting and unmounting would do the trick. I was wrong.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I had previously ran e2fsck (after checking it was unmounted) but it wouldn't run also because it was reporting that the device was already mounted, busy, or being exclusively used by a process.
I don't want to do any more for fear of causing further damage.
I am astounded that such damage can be caused so easily!
I'm facing a big problem with a corrupted disk on my wife's computer after she hard resetted the box after it froze up solid.Upon restarting it dropped into Busybox reporting something like
Quote:No init found. Try passing init= boot arg BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2.2ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash) (initramfs) ...This is VERY similar to a problem I had just a few weeks back with my own computer - see this thread for details of that. From that problem I learnt a lot, so I thought this would be quite straight forward, but I've ran into problems.The first thing I did was get a live disk, I chose Ubuntu Rescue Remix. It's a command line interface, which I am ok with, but I can't copy/paste the outputs here....so I am currently downloading System Rescue CD.sda1 is the root partition, it is corrupted. I used dd to make a back up of that by mounting sda7, and dding the whole partition image into /mnt/sda7/sda1.img .This seemed to complete properly, but, when I ran e2fsck on that img file, it wouldn't complete, throwing up a lot of errors.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/sda7temp$ sudo e2fsck sda1.img e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Error reading block 2129920 (Invalid argument). Ignore error<y>? yes
Force rewrite<y>? yes[code]....[code]....
When I download and boot into System Rescue CD, I'll be able to run some more tests, in the mean time,I really want to save this disk otherwise my wife will be back on Windows permanently.
I'm wanting to create a one-time snapshot archive of all my data in case something catastrophic ever happens to my main hard drive and my backup drive. I should add that I update my main backup regularly, which means that I wouldn't notice any creeping data corruption problems until it's too late...which is another reason a one-time snapshot is so important.Since I'm archiving a snapshot of all of my data at once, only a hard drive is big enough to handle the job. (I'll copy a small fraction - the truly 100% irreplaceable stuff - to DVD-R's too, but that doesn't mean I particularly want to lose any of the other stuff either.) Unfortunately, this means my storage medium doesn't inherently have any CRC's, error correction/redundancy bits, etc. built into it like data DVD's might.
So: What archive format would you suggest using for maximum reliability and resistance to corruption?My main concern is making sure that I can still open the archive and extract surviving files even if some of the bits (or the entirety of other files) go corrupt. This is my last-ditch fallback archive, so if I ever need to use it, I really, really don't want to get a message saying the archive is corrupt and cannot be opened at all! Because of that, it's important that the individual files and folders are compressed separately from each other...if at all. I don't care about the compression ratio, and I'd even be happy if the archive was 150% the size of my data thanks to a gigantic recovery record. I also care about CRC's and such, since I'll want to know which files/folders/etc. are corrupt vs. which ones are still intact.
I want to install Ubuntu (10.10) on the 1TB drive I need to unplug the SSD while installing it in order to dual boot by pressing F8 (the way I want it to be) so that Grub doesn't get installed on the SSD. What I want to know is can I partition the 1TB drive to install Ubuntu without any data corruption or anything? I have read that NTFS can lose data if partitioned with data already on it (I have no way of backing up my 100GB of files on the drive, as currently this IS my backup drive). What I want to do is have 900GB for files, and a 100GB partition (or partitions adding up to 100GB) for Ubuntu- what is the best way to do this? I don't need seperate partitions for ubuntu, can I install the whole thing to the 100GB partition and boot from it? Or do I need swap as well? I was thinking of making 900GB partition, 4GB partition for swap (if needed) and 96GB partition for Ubuntu (/ if I understand) as this is what the "erase entire drive" option creates.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a problem, my filesystem seems to show random corruption. For example:
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This has happened to many files, they suddenly contain random garbage. Fsck seems to say the filesystem contains no errors I tried to run it multiple times.
Installed Natty a few days ago and everything was working fine. I have a dual head setup with the left monitor rotated Clockwise 90 degrees (AKA rotate left). When I setup the the displays properly, instead of just cloning, I noticed a problem, making Unity unusable. When I apply the rotation either in the xorg.conf fle or using xrandr, the display shows a corrupt looking image. When I turn compiz off and use metacity instead it works perfectly fine.
Display Adapter:
Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]
xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Desktop"
Screen "RightScreen"
Screen "LeftScreen" LeftOf "RightScreen"
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I'm currently running a dual boot system of Win XP & Ubuntu 9.1. When first installed, about a month ago, all was working fine then I started running the update manager and for a while that was good also. Suddenly I started having problems, for example, I couldn't download new software. I kept getting a message about waiting on other software managers or something. (since the re-install that is no longer an issue). Next I was having problems installing updates for some reason. Apparently something got corrupted. When my wife tried to boot up the computer last night we got a message that had to do with the kernel and Ubuntu wouldn't load at all and I wound up re-installing the OS.
Obviously something got screwed up with some of the updates and now that I've got Ubuntu up and running again I'm afraid to download ANY updates at all. What is a person to do if you can't trust downloading updates from supposedly trusted sources? My attitude now is, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
So I built a new system few months to act as a development/"mess around with" server with an Asus Mobo and a Q6600 processor and 8 gigs of ram. Along with file, web and app hosting, I also do some virtualization on it... or atleast I had hoped to.
Ever since the first install, I've been randomly getting crashes and lockups. Sometimes it would just dump an error to the screen but stay alive, and sometimes it would dump an error and then lock up fully. The error mentions something about "kernel not tainted" etc. I will post the detailed error once it comes up again, as I have just formatted it again.
Other problems include downloaded files becoming corrupt. Files downloaded through any means (wget, torrents, ssh, ftp etc.) seem to randomly get corrupted (ie: the hashes are wrong).
I currently have one WD 150GB raptor as my primary OS partition, and 3 WD 1TB greens as my storage in an mdadm raid 5 array. At first, I had thought it was the raid array or it's drives causing issues. After painfully transfering the data off of it, I took the drives out and tried to run ubuntu with just the OS drive for a while. This still had the same issues. I then put in only one of the 1TB greens and had the same issue...
I downloaded WD's hardware diagnostic tool and ran full scans on all the drives. They all check out fine.
I left memtest running overnight and it had no errors either.
Most recently, ubuntu would not even install. It would get stuck at the stage of partitioning, and the keyboard lights would flash. After much googling, I tried popping in "noapic nolapic" to the end of the grub string, and it managed to install.
Now, I'm in a fresh system and just wgetted vmware server. However, it wont untar, I just realized the MD5 hash doesn't match!
So definately not the memory or the hds... I'm assuming it has to do with the APIC? From what I found on google, it seems as though this is only needed for the install.
Do I really need this to be on the boot string too? From what I understand, APIC allows processes to be divided out to the least loaded CPU. Having a quad core, I'd rather leave this on since it seems somewhat beneficial... I have yet to try putting this into the grub yet since I'm offsite and need
As a side note, this latest install is using just the WD Raptor as an OS drive.
And I'll post up the dumped errors if I get them again. There were none dumped out when the vmware download corrupted. The message format is very similar to the one here: [url
However, sometimes it mentions ext3 (or one of the other filesystem types I had tried with thinking it was a problem with ext3) Again, the error message is not the EXACT same, however the format is very similar...
I installed Debian Lenny on a friend's computer which is an older Dell workstation. The install went well. I delivered the machine last week, got it set up in there house and all was fine. 2 days later they said it crashed with a black screen and lots of words they didn't understand. I get there today and rebooted. X would not start but it ran a whole bunch of automatic self tests but could not recover. I was able to log in as root and run fsck. That made the necessary repairs. I was able to reboot and log into the KDE Desktop. Hopefully they don't break it again.
I asked them what they did to it to cause it to freak out like that and they had no idea. So, as to my question, what causes something like that? I know there must be a log file somewhere on the computer that will give me some insight into the matter, but I'm not sure where to find the file.
Last night I was working on a document on my brothers Laptop computer. While working on it however, the computer locked up hard and I had to press the power button. When I booted back up I loaded up OpenOffice.org and it offered to recover my progress as normal, so I gave it the go ahead but it gave me a blank page. No big deal, I thought, and went to load up the original document. That is when the *beep* hit the fan. The original document was corrupted. My theory was that it was saving at the time of the crash. A 50 KB document now reads as only 4 KB. I did have a backup of the document from about a month ago, but that is ten pages shorter than the document that I lost.
Is there anyway I can recover my progress on the document? The computer is my brothers Dell Latitude D600 running Fedora 12 and he is using OpenOffice.org 3. I checked the "~/.openoffice.org/3/user/backup" directory and found two documents, but those are just useless files from when we were doing Grade 10 Social Studies. I doubt the remains of the file are much use, as it has shrunk in size dramatically. So it seems I may be up a certain creek, but I thought I would ask a few of the guru's here for some advice.
I did learn how to make it automatically backup files in OpenOffice.org through. Hopefully that will help prevent these kinds of situations from occurring again.
I have 11.4 with kde 4.6, all up to date via YAST. Radeon driver, legacy ATI display hardware. LibreOffice is latest from the Stable:11.4 repo.
When I open LO, it causes the desktop to break up - diagonal stripes of blocks, and garbage (offset blocks) form all mouse movements from there until kdm restarted.
I restart by switching to F1 console, init 3, the init 5 as root. I can't seem to find any useful messages or logs.