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Ah, yes, I just meant that it would be nice if WD documented / published the partition scheme for the MyBooks so that linux users-developers could figure out how to pull the data off. Design...

Yes, I'm afraid you might be right Holger. Copying the data is feasible though, so I'll do that. Based on the rumours I've found on the internet, these drives are GPT with 4096 sized blocks. It's a...

I'm continuing to do research. This output might help:

$ dmesg | grep "[sh]db"
[ 1.879912] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[ 1.880995] sd 7:0:0:0:...

It seems like this might be an unsolved problem with how WD formats the drives inside MyBook.

This post: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/133019.html reveals a possibly similar...

"you could just take it out of the usb case and put it inside the computer and connect it like any other OEM HDD "

That is exactly what I have done. The problem is that the drive looks completely...

Hi! Thank's for your reply! The drives are formatted ext4 and can be mounted / accessed via linux from their USB enclosures, but not when I hook them up to the internal SATA bus.

I'm trying to move a 3TB EXT4 formatted drive from a WesternDigital USB enclosure to become an internal SATA drive.

The drive contains data so reformatting is to be avoided -- although I can take...

Ok, so here is the update. It may well be that the version of busybox built for ubuntu simply isn't set up for making repairs -- because most people are expected to use the liveCD? Anyway I went out...

Hi all,

I had a drive mounted from fstab that failed. It's not an important drive, but the system drops into busybox anyway when it notices that it's missing. I can mount the root drive, but...

As far as I can tell, all of the hits in the first three pages of the google search you linked concern problems that are different from the problem I describe. The key bindings are stable, and...

Thank you for your reply, i think this is a good thing to check.

Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be dirt in the keyboard, because the keyboard works without errors on other machines, any and all...

Update:

I had another drive in the machine with a working Ubuntu installation. I used this to re-create the mountpoints I had deleted and everything seems to work fine now. It is unclear how the...

Hi,

Sometimes when I boot my machine, the keyboard does not work. It misses keystrokes, and sometimes seems to get stuck in a key-down state, where a single key will just be repeated. Usually, I...

Hi,

Overview: My system stopped booting and prints a lot of "usb 2-6: device not accepting address [[some number]], error -71" errors while it fails to boot. I don't understand what this means.
...

Well, thanks for trying everyone. I am going to assume that this problem is unsolvable and not waste any more time on it.

I don't really see anything telling in those error logs, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Since startx appears to work I take it we're looking at a configuration problem with how the login...

Hi all, haven't forgotten, just had to get some work done. The machine is processing so will be tied up for a couple days.

"sudo apt-get install -f && sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a" didn't seem to do...

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There are no files in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing 'nvidia' or 'nouveau'



$ ls /etc/modprobe.d/
alsa-base.conf
blacklist.conf
blacklist-framebuffer.conf

"blacklist nouveau" is commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

After checking and stopping all processes related to X, and running these commands the situation is the same:


sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-generic linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms...

After performing those steps, but before reboot. Update: output identical after reboot, still stuck in low graphics.


$ sudo lshw -C display
PCI (sysfs)
*-display UNCLAIMED
...

Seems to install without error



$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done...

Ok! current status : we have low graphics mode back, sorta. I deleted ~/.Xauthority and now calling startx from the TTY brings up a basic login screen and I can get to a desktop. There is no menu bar...

Curiously, sudo startx does almost kinda work -- a blank desktop and I can bring up root terminals. I.. don't know what this means.

if I call startx from a tty it... well, it almost loads, although it does print "timeout in locking authority file /home/name/.Xauthority" first. Then, eventually, it gets stuck in a loop printing...