I've had Ubuntu Netbook as my OS for about six months or so now, and suddenly it won't open anymore. I have a partition so that I can open Windows 7 if I want, but ever since I updated it last night and have restarted it, when I go to open Ubuntu it returns me to the screen to choose which OS to open.
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Got a boot problem on a sony vaio with ubuntu 10.04. All was working fine, and now, suddenly, it can't boot anymore....
Sometime, I get
Error : hd0,2 Out of disk
Most of the time, I get
udevd[87]: worker [94] unexpectedly returned with status 0x100
udevd[87]: worker [94] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2'
udevd[87]: worker [97] unexpectedly returned with status 0x100
udevd[87]: worker [97] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5'
ALERT! /dev/disk/by_uuid/fc478e75-0c7e-4dec-abf1-a2c4b8fd2b87 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Busybox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in-shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
initramfs
It looks like there is no disk in the machine. Yesterday, there was one... So I boot with a liveCD. and have a look with fdisk:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x598c9b19 .....
With disk utility, I can find my swap partition 4Gb, my system partition (Ext4, 20Gb), and 476Gb of freespace.
my touchpad worked out of the Box after insalling Xubunut 11.04 and did so ever since. But since yesterday it doesn't. It worked when i shut down the laptop and didn't when i booted later. How do i fix this? Yes i read the article about thouchpads.
View 2 Replies View Related I'm running on Debian Testing, and I just distro-upgraded from Squeeze just a month ago. When I did, I had some strange sound and video problems. For the sake of this topic I'm just talking about the sound ones. Back then, my sound would only work as root, otherwise without any visible errors, I would play sound files and no audio would come out. I'm aware that this usually means that my user is not a member of the 'audio' group, but I did and Ihave confirmed it and all of my users are. Then, suddenly my sound inexplicably started working again, so I took it as it was. However two hours ago it disappeared again. The important information here is that nothing I did as a user could have effected it. All I did was let a video file buffer, write a text file to my documents, and send an email.
According to Alsamixer my sound card is HDA Intel & my chip is SigmaTel STAC9200. When I upgraded to Wheezy, the terminal told me that I would need to install proprietary drivers to get my sound (and especially) video working, however every tutorial I've found on how to do this seems to dead-end for my computer on the current testing branch of Debian.
I am using UBUNTU 9.04 on a HP mini notebook. I pratically never had problem connecting wireless with my netbook, expecially with this connection at home. Until yesterday. There were some line problems, that have been solved after some hours. Then I was able again to connect.
I didnt do nothing on the netbook. After 2 hours, connection gone. Now, even if other laptops are wonderfully connected (to the same line), mine has a dramatically slow connection (in the sense that is able to open just the first page of google if I am lucky) or no connection at all (even if the signal looks good on the network panel.
I tryed the help for wireless troubleshooting, checked for device recognition. Putting in terminal sudo lshw -C network Says disabled. But the device of the wireless on my pc is on, and it's also enabled in its panel.
I recently switched from fedora 14 to 15. Today my computer suddenly shut down during an update, as I thought it overheated I decided to clean the cooling system and reapply thermal paste. However, now the system won't boot anymore ("kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block").
I would like to either solve this booting problem, or mount the fedora 15 filesystem and recover some files. Whichever is easier.
I have another drive with fedora 14 (antec below) which boots fine:
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I've been using Thunderbird for a while. Well today it wont open anymore.
I'm just getting a very small and empty window frame, but that's it.
I've tried the command line with -safe-mode, didn't work. I've tried the command line with -profilmanager, didn't work.
The weird thing is that when using gksudo thunderbird, it does open (but of course with an empty profile)
How am I supposed to "repair" what seems to be a broken profile ?
Not sure exactly when it started, but when you try to click on any icon on the desktop, like Computer, or my home folder they will not open anymore. The screen act like it will but then nothing happens. I can use Dolphin to brows the file system, but I hate it.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi booted up 8.04 and the display is huge. i tried ctrl alt backspace hoping it would come back normal, but after three times i gave up on that. i can't find anything in System to fix this. i can barely use it this way.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI don't know what happened, but suddenly I can't log in my Ubuntu 10.04 install. It was working fine as recently as yesterday, and nothing nasty happened to the hard drive it's on (hardware failure, poweroff without proper shutdown, etc.). When I tried to log in earlier, all that happened was this: the screen blanked momentarily, then I was back at the login screen again, as if I had never tried to log in.
It's not that I'm entering an incorrect password. I don't get any kind of error message. I just get kicked back to the login screen. WTF is going on? I'm posting this from my Ubuntu 9.10 install, which still works. I guess I could use Ctrl + F1 to login to Ubuntu 10.04 on the command line, but I'm not sure what I could do from there to find out what's gone wrong.
I upgraded my old HP Pavilion desktop to 11.04 a few weeks ago and at first things were fine, but recently the PC refuses to wake up in the morning. I assume it's going in to sleep mode overnight, but no matter what I push on the mouse or keyboard it won't wake up. I have set both the PC and screen in Power Management Preferences to Never go to sleep, but it doesn't seem to matter and it sleeps regardless. how I can either make it not sleep, or sleep a little lighter so it wakes up without a hard reboot?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter performing an update that the OS told me to do, I no longer have any sound available in any application. I tried rebooting into older versions of 9.10 and the problem persists. It is not a hardware issue, because the sound is fine in Windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI tend to forget stuff if I don't work with it for awhile. somehow I struggled through and figured out (with a lot of help) how to set up Ubuntu Intrepid server edition on my computer, and am serving my website from my computer. For times when the free DNS nameserver is 'closed' (often lol) I use localhost and can see/work on my site. Suddenly, when I type localhost into the address bar, I get a blank page, nothing! I'm not sure what to do....can someone please help because am going to use my website to present a class project, and was going to use localhost (bring my computer) in case the nameserver was down, I have to be able to display it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo I was watching a video, and I changed the volume, and then the sound cut out, and it has not come back. No sound can be heard, from flash nor from files; through my laptop speakers nor my external speakers
View 1 Replies View RelatedI haven't do any updates so it shouldn't be anything wrong with the system...Even after restarting my comp, it still won't work.I was plugging in my earphones to the jack last night as I didn't want to disturb my family while watching starcraft 2 commentaries...So this morning i plug it out and wanted to use my speaker and it don't work anymore...it was working fine all the time...so is there any way using the earphone might have cause the problem?
View 2 Replies View RelatedShut down speed all of a sudden became slow.. I'm running 10.04 on a dual core 3.2gig cpu with 4 gig ram. Boot up is in seconds and shut down was almost instant. Now shut down takes about 15 seconds. Is there a way to see what is causing ubuntu to hang when shutting down?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to copy folders from one ubuntu machine to another. Both have ssh and openssh-server installed and have worked in the past.ing "scp -r Pictures username@192.168.1.1:/home/username" after entering the remote password, I get a bunch of lines.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAll of my PHP web pages are now loading incredibly slow. I created a simple "Hello World!" script and timed retrieving it from a terminal using wget and it took 3min 9seconds. A wget of the home page of a PHP-based site also took 3min 9seconds. I have a PHP script that I run from the command line that I use to look for malicious FTP attempts and it took - you guessed it - 3min 9seconds. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and have applied all of the latest updates for that version.
One thing I did notice was a proliferation of apache2 processes. With every request for a page I seem to get 7 or so new apache2 processes.
Here is my problem using K3B when writing Multi-session Project:
"Writing CD-R
Using Wodim 1.1.10.
Starting TAO to writing at 48x speed
performing Optimum Power calibratpo;;p;9;n
starting disk write
mkisofs crashed
cdrecord has no permission to open the device
You may use K3bsetup to solve this problem"
I have the same problem with the other cd-burner programs, such as:
Brasero Disk Burner, Gnome Baker CD/DVD Writer, xfBurn, and CD/DVD Creator.
Why all the programs are malfunctioning since yesterday? I un-installed some of them, re-started the pc, but the problem continues...
Here is the "Debugging Ouput" for the K3B:
Devices: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C SB03 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] [%7]
K3b::IsoImager
mkisofs print size result: 110167 (225622016 bytes)
System
K3b Verspo;;p;9;n: 1.91.0
KDE Verspo;;p;9;n: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5)
QT Verspo;;p;9;n: 4.6.2
Kernel: 2.6.32-30-generic
Used verspo;;p;9;ns .....
I have no idea what happened, but as of around a week ago, I can no longer print in Ubuntu 10.04.
The printer is a Brother MFC-7440N connected to my LAN. I have never had a problem before printing to it from any of my computers, regardless of whether they were running Windows XP, Windows 7, or Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04. I am still able to print from Windows 7, so I'm reasonably sure there's nothing wrong with the printer or network configuration.
But I can't get it to print at all from Ubuntu. I already tried reinstalling the drivers and re-setting it up in CUPS - no change. Every time I try to print a test page, the printer does nothing, and "Document Print Status" shows the job as eternally "Pending."
If I go to the CUPS printer page [url], the job status shows as "Paused - "Unable to locate printer 'MFC-7440N'!"
I don't know why CUPS thinks it can't locate the printer. When I was setting up the printer in CUPS, CUPS properly detected it on the network, no problem.
I can see the printer in the CUPS administration page, and even change settings. The one thing I cannot do is get it to actually print!
Like I said, the printer works fine through Windows, so I think this is an Ubuntu problem, not a printer problem.
When I open "System->Administration->Printing," there's an icon of the printer with a green-circle check mark, as if everything is OK. But if I right-click, the "Enabled" box is not checked. Checking it myself has no apparent effect.
My portable HDD is suddenly saying that I don't have write permission anymore.
properties>permissions says that I have full read/write permission over the top folder of the drive. After looking in the permissions I'm out of ideas.
I checked the properties of the drive itself and it said "Permissions could not be determined"
I haven't changed the permissions deliberately - I use this hard drive every other day to move movies across to my TV.
I was trying to install PlayOnLinux but it froze at about 85% after it downloaded via the Software Center. So I had to shut the Software Center. The PlayOnLinux did install despite the fact it froze at 85%. I can't install any more stuff bec the Software Center seems opened all time some how and I get the "You have to repair this before you can install or remove any further software." error.I tried the "sudo dpkg --configure -a" command it gives me this, looks like it's stuck at some connection. I'm pretty new to Linux.
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Connecting to internode.dl.sourceforge.net|150.101.135.12|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
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I have ubuntu 10.04 and lost the ability to use synaptech package manager. I was able to use it yesterday and everything was fine;however, yesterday evening it stopped seing my internet connection. I am connected to the internet I can surf the net, but when I try to use ubuntu software center it says "Failure to download package files" and in the in the details it says " cannot connect to [my ip address]:8080 ,now 8080 is the port that i remember closing like this $ sudo uwf delete allow 8080", so i tried to open it with $ sudo ufw allow 8080" but that didn't work, so i tried $sudo iptables -F even though i never installed firewall but that did nothing either.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI cannot log in into Ubuntu anymore. I had Ubuntu 10.04 installed. My log in setting was 'automatically log in'. Later I upgraded to 10.10. When I changed the password settings to 'Show the screen for choosing who will log in' I cannot log in anymore. When I restart the laptop I see a screen with my name. When I click on it I hear a short sound and cannot enter a password. I made a short video of the log in procedure: [URL] When I go to System->Administration->Login Screen I cannot 'Unlock'. So I cannot change the setting back to Automatically login.
The way I log in into GUI is to:
- go into recovery mode
- log in as root
- log in as myself
- start 'startx'
I have this major problem with the latest version of Ubuntu (10.10). Since I applied this automatic update Ubuntu won't startup anymore.I am 99% sure it's something to do with the graphics drivers. I have an ATI Radeon HD5850. I can still boot up in safe mode in one of the older kernels of Ubuntu. But with the latest kernel I can't even get into safe mode.What I want to do now, is to remove all traces of any potential drivers and then reinstall them. What is the best way to do this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHaving enjoyed Ubuntu 10.10 for about a week parallel to Win7, I can't boot it anymore. I suppose it's because of the following: on win7 I have the Acronis Disk Director Suite (version 10.0). The Acronis OS Selector comes with it. So I thought it might be a good idea installing it before I install linux to be able to switch between the OS's afterwards. Then having ubuntu installed I ran windows and uninstalled the OS selector as I saw that ubuntu has it's own bootloader and the Acronis one didn't even run. I restarted my Laptop and win7 started automatically. No bootloader anymore. So I installed the Acronis OS Selector again and it can't even find linux (It was able to find both OS's before...) even though it shows the linux-partition (I ran the predefined installation where ubuntu partitions on its own) is still installed. So Ubuntu is still on there I just can't run it.
Where did my Ubuntu bootloader go??? (I NEED Ubuntu cuz Windows7 doesn't support my soundcard...)
Accidentally, I deleted Windows root files. I do not know why, but I cannot recover them. The point is that I had installed two versions of Windows XP Pro SP2, so from grub I had other step before starting one Window versions. But now grub does not detect windows, and if it could, I would not be able to start it because of the lack of the files at root.
The result of bootinfo gives:
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I do not know what happened to sdb5. Is it a way to avoid reinstalling windows?
This seems to be a kind of epidemic.
We are at least 3 people on the French Ubuntu forum with the same issue which has just appeared...today.
We start our laptops and they don't boot, we have just the message:
"* Stopping System V runlevel compatiblity [OK]" ...and a blinking cursor.
Old HP computer, came with XP, installed Ubuntu 8.03, upgraded to 9.10, installed xubuntu-desktop for speed.
Ever since I've started dual-booting Ubuntu with Xp, I've been able to access my XP partition by going to Places-HP_PAVILION, which has always been mounted at /media/HP_PAVILION, but recently, within the last few days or so, it hasn't been appearing anywhere. I'm still able to mount it if it use # mount /dev/sda2 /*mount point*, but that's a pain, and I'd rather not use a workaround if I don't have to. Any suggestions? I'd really prefer if it mounted to /media/, and had it's own shortcut in the Places menu, like flash drives, memory cards, and such get. I've tried my Flash Drive, and that does everything it's supposed to.
I turn on my laptop running 64-bit karmic (if that helps anyone), open GNU Emacs 23.1.1 with the org files I've been working on, and for some reason it is not recognising standard key bindings, for the first time ever, with no reason I can conceive. What does "M-kp-enter is undefined" mean when it seemed well defined not long before? It seems using Esc-enter still works.. can anyone suggest if there are any config files I might need to edit, or what else could have gone wrong?
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