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The following assumes that you have installed smartmontools.

Your first step should be to evaluate the SMART report of each drive using smartctl. "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" assuming a standard SATA...

I took a peek a your SMART results and this is my take on the situation: the overall mechanical health of your drive is good. However, two parameters point at a cabling or controller issue and the...

dmesg show that you have a lot of communication errors with your Samsung HD502IJ drive. This could be due to bad cabling, a controller issue or the drive going bad.

Please install smartmontools...

I checked, the line "lock: false" is there, but still xscreensaver locks on resume from standby.

I assume that is what he did: 10.04 -> 10.10 -> 11.04

Two distro upgrades in a row. This may or may not work, but never is a good idea. That is why I suggested to restore 10.04 from backup.

Additional tip: don't use FUSE-ZFS. It is outdated, very slow and extremely unreliable.

For example: in my tests FUSE-ZFS decided to use a device just inserted into an eSATA dock as its new...

I would suggest that you restore a backup of your 10.04 installation and wait for the next LTS release later this month (and then some time for the initial bugs to be weeded out). If you need to be...

I would not use a release that does not get security patches. So as to the question "is it safe to use?" - Not in the long run and nobody knows if "long" means days, weeks or months.

I would...

Three possibilities:

1.) Faulty USB hub/connector/cable. Try to connect to a different computer with a different cable. If the problem stays, try the next solution. If the problem goes away, you...

Having a wild mix of RAM like this is never a good idea, even less so with different vendors mixed. At current RAM prices, I would just throw away the smaller modules and either find a 2GB module...

According to the SMART status, everything is NOT in order. You have a high UDMA error count and ATA command errors, but the self tests complete just fine. This would point, most likely, towards...

Detailed instructions on how to install Sun/Oracle Java can be found here:

http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java#TOC-HOW-TO-FOR-64-BIT-UBUNTU

In spite of the URL, this contains...

Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately, that does not work either.

As to wiper.sh: sure, that works. But with a newer kernel, you can just add "DISCARD" to your fstab mount entries for ext3 or ext4 and file deletes release the disk space immediately and without the...

I guess I am officially out of ideas now. You might try Debian with the FreeBSD kernel, but that is far away from what you wanted. I also assume that there is no BIOS update available for your...

I am starting to run out of ideas here. As this is a video / chipset address collision, do you have "Optimus" style graphics, that is graphics that are switchable between an on-CPU graphics processor...

1.) You can run GParted from a Live CD without installing Ubuntu.

2.) Yes, you can connect an "internal" drive through an eSATA port and it will be treated just like any other SATA drive. Best is...

You may have more than one problem.

1.) Ubuntu 10.04 with the "stock" kernel does not support TRIM, even if you have it enabled in fstab. So your drive (at only 16% free space) will be out of...

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Anybody?

If it is related to UEFI-boot, do you need to use UEFI? If not, does your BIOS Setup allow you to disable UEFI and use a plain BIOS boot? I write this from a Dell Precision M4500 (which has UEFI),...

Good question. Does the 3.0.0-17 kernel boot(also in the proposed repository)? Did you test with both 32bit and 64bit versions of Ubuntu?

You could file a bug on launchpad (not that I have high...

Since upgrading XUbuntu on my HTPC to 11.10, it seems to be completely impossible to defeat the password lock of XScreensaver 5.14.

This is the scenario:

- "Lock after X min" disabled in...

Hmm. Not too many things come to my mind. You could try to isolate a possible kernel issue. To do this (from Lucid), install a newer kernel (eg 2.6.38-13) from the lucid-proposed/main repository. Try...

Did you try the "alternate install" CD?

You could use Clonezilla to clone your USB installation to your laptop's harddrive.