Ubuntu :: Harddrive Hdd Continually Being Accessed And Freezing 10.04?
May 31, 2011
My Ubuntu 10.04 freezes continually when it starts accessing the HDD. I will be working normally, then when i switch windows, it will suddenly access the HDD and spin up for 4 to 7 mins. I can't access anything during this period. The processor is generally only 1-5% impacted during this. I think its accessing the swap.
I admit, it's an older computer with only 2gb of RAM. Wondering how to debug this and if I should install an older version of Ubuntu to fix the issue. I've tried three different harddrives, so i know it's not errors on the disk.
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Mar 9, 2011
i've worked with Linux for a while now, but never in a double boot kind of way (except using wubi), and i'm still kind of a newby.i have 2 harddrivesfirst one has only 1 partition; Windows XPsecond one has 1 empty partition, simple storageand another partition where i installed fedora core, and GRUB is also located on this harddrive.I changed harddrive priority to my second harddrive, result:GRUB comes up, no problem, but when I try to boot windows, it tells mentldr is missing ctrl alt del to continueso i changed the harddisk priority back to the way it was, where the first drive containing windows is first priority... but then, no GRUB.i've tried editing the grub conf,i've tried fixboot/fixmbrtl;dr:no ntdlr when linux harddrive is main priorityno grub when windows harddrive is main priority
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Mar 28, 2010
I have a kernel error that repeats itself every few seconds that Ubuntu is up. After a couple of hours my /var/log file is up to 625M. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, but I would like to know what's going on.
Here it is in my kernel log:
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Here is its first appearance in dmseg. It repeats mixed in with other stuff untill the end of the log.
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Apr 1, 2011
i recently installed ubuntu 10.10 64-bit on my laptop and installed all the drivers and updates i saw. When i first started it up my top panel was a solid gray and had a classic look, i saw online that i had to do Alt-F2, type gconf-editor then go to apps,panel,global click locked down, then i log out, log back in and it is fixed with my system theme. after i restart my computer it has the same classic look, and i have to go back to gconf, log out, relog, log out, relog and it finally works. why is it doing this?
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Apr 13, 2011
Within the last couple of days or so, my wireless has been on the fritz. It keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every minute or so, which is annoying to say the least. The information relating to my wireless network is:
Laptop model: Toshiba Satellite L350
Wireless interface: Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
Interface:
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Jan 16, 2011
I'm just having a bit of trouble with activating my wireless card (see title for details). rfkill - I installed it but nothing was soft / hard blocked (whatever they mean). I did the rfkill unblock command anyway but it didn't appear to change anything Tried doing it manually through system-config-network but this yielded no luck either. Basically all it does is continually ask for my WEP key, even though I've typed it in correctly a million times. why I don't have WPA2 because I do not have the ability to change it
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Mar 29, 2010
Running Debian GNU / Linux 5.0.4 on an older Gateway tower. Have been using this for a year now but it seemed lately that the browser was loading pages slowly. I checked the Network Icon and every time I check it indicates "disconnected" then refreshes and indicates connected. The log makes references to redat, which my machine has nothing to do with? I checked the system logs and get the following repeated messages:
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Jul 8, 2010
10.04 and Nvidia video card.
This sequence:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf (not sure what to choose, I just pick an option at random)
sudo ldconfig
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and then restart gets everything apparently working correctly, with my desktop spread across two monitors.
However, after two or three computer restarts, it 'forgets' and defaults back to low graphics mode and all the common error messages mentioned in multiple threads here, with my second monitor just duplicating the primary monitor.
Under System-Hardware drivers it says Nvidia_current is activated but not in use, regardless of whether it starts normally or in low graphics mode.
What's up? It's a pain to have to go through that sequence over and over again, and then restart my computer every two or three days, and leaving the computer on 24/7 isn't an option. power saving and all that.
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I have an Linksys NSLU2 with four usb harddrives attached to it. One is for the os, the other three are setup as a RAID5 array. Yes, I know the raid will be slow, but the server is only for storage and will realistically get accessed once or twice a week at the most. I want the drives to spin down but mdadm is doing something in the background to access them. An lsof on the raid device returns nothing at all. The drive are blinking non-stop and never spin down until I stop the raid. Then they all spin down nicely after the appropriate time.
They are Western Digital My Book Essentials and will spin down by themselves if there is no access. What can I shutdown in mdadm to get it to stop continually accessing the drives? Is it the sync mechanism in the software raid that is doing this? I tried setting the monitor to --scan -1 to get to check the device just once, but to no avail. I even went back and formatted the raid with ext2 thinking maybe the journaling had something to do with it. There are no files on the raid device, it's empty.
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Feb 1, 2011
My server is Ubuntu 10.04 which is used to test an Open ERP system.
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Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?
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Mar 8, 2010
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Are there specific things I need to do to allow users to see my site? Yet, why does she not get messages saying that "failed to access" or something like that?
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Nov 30, 2010
I have a teenage daughter that understands Ubuntu, but not so much the terminal, and she does not know the superuser password. Unfortunately, she regularly goes on the Internet during the nighttime and in the early morning. What I am attempting to do is prevent anyone from going onto the Internet during the night (11 PM - 5:30 AM) unless they know the superuser password or a fair bit about the terminal.
I have already tried some commands, however all of them can be bypassed by restarting the computer. ex. sudo ifconfig eth0 down
For additional information on my Internet:
My Internet connection is relatively slow, so I would prefer if the solution does not hinder it any further. It is slow because there is no high-speed in my area, and I am forced to use Xplorenet -> "Fixed Wireless". I do not have a router.
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Jan 28, 2011
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Apr 21, 2011
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Here is what my route looks like:
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Apr 4, 2011
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Now, I've created new users on the server, including Tony. But when I open a Samba share from my Windows computer, it does so as htpc. This is not a setting I ever put anywhere. I don't care about specific user names, but I want to have a folder that only I can access from my Windows box, and for someone else to have a folder only they can access from their Windows box.
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Apr 23, 2011
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Unfortunately, the only way to access a particular server at work (call it Server A), is by first SSHing into an intermediate (Server B), which is the only one with a public ip.
My process for transferring files from Server A is currently:
myComputer $ ssh serverB
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Needless to say, this gets tiring, and multiple transfers are slow.
Is there a way to mount serverA directly on my computer (by tunnelling through serverB in the background)? Failing that, how about using sftp?
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