+1 on the loose SATA cable, I had a similar problem with an encrypted LVM. I have a 128GB SSD for my system and /home is stored on a 1TB traditional HDD, I started to have slow logins, I'm talking...
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+1 on the loose SATA cable, I had a similar problem with an encrypted LVM. I have a 128GB SSD for my system and /home is stored on a 1TB traditional HDD, I started to have slow logins, I'm talking...
I never trust the "old age" or "pre-fail" flags.
What's the output of
$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdX
Can you run yahoo IM from a terminal then pastebin the output?
Did you install/remove any software before this happened? Do you have all of your partitions located on one drive or did you use LVM? Can you open a terminal and do
$ cd $HOME
$ ls -al
...
apt-get install scalpel
or
sudo apt-get install foremost
I haven't used either of these but I linked to the page I found them on
It should be something like this
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_main_menu --type string "Super_L"
Though don't quote me on that it's for 9.10 and Im not in front of...
Have you run fsck on the disk yet? What were the results?
This might be what your looking for
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=537870
Just a shot in the dark here but I had similar problems to that + xorg was constantly crashing. I reseated the video card and nothing. Then I tried moving it to another PCIx slot and it seemed to...
Yeah I don't have much time for configuring like I used to. But in all honest sudo apt-get install xfce cairo-dock then auto start cairo-dock at login and remove the horrible dock that it comes...
Have you tried this?
Are you married to the idea of using the default WM? I use XFCE + cairo-dock + conky and have been very happy with it.
You could try and use dd to make an image of the whole drive. I've done something like this in the past to copy the image to my server
That command is just off the top of my head, you might...
Does it dump the core when running not from the terminal?
How did you upgrade the kernel, did you apt-get it for your system or install a generic kernel?
You could be able to do this with super-boot-manager.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install buc super-boot-manager
...
Not sure why that would cause any issues, one way you might try and work around this is to create a bash script that will start xbmc then add that to your startup applications.
You could let it remove what it wants then after it's done reinstall gome-core with apt-get. Personally I've never ran into any problems with apt removing what it wants to when removing software,...
I'm sure there is a way to do this. Maybe update all of the software with apt-get forcing it to reconfigure? I did something similar a year or so back and got most everything working but it never...
Looks like you need to use sudo
sudo chown -R harry /media/harry
I have several books on linux and I've found that as much as I read them they aren't much help until I have a specific problem that I'm trying to figure out and I go back to flip through them. There...