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I upgraded the drivers to the latest available Nvidia and this problem was solved.

Hi all,

My Ubuntu 14.04 machine with a fresh install (two days) just froze up on me, then the screen turned off and came back on, but now it's all white. I suspect a video driver issue, but can...

Ok, Ill just use rsync again to copy the files over. Im using the same username on the new install and the same password as well, so I don't think Ill have to change ownerwhip, but in case I do, Ill...

Alright, I did he install and my files are there, but in a different home folder. The name of the old home folder is really long and made up of random characters and numbers. Im not sure if it was...

Thanks. But if I change the permissions, wouldn't I have problems later on? Or would the old permissions still be implemented in the new copies? It's gonna be a new install and I really don't want to...

]ls -l /media/mythbuntu/2dfd438b-957d-403c-99c7-95fd6b44726c:


drwxr-xr-x 45 1000 1000 4096 Dec 23 04:20 htpc1
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 16384 Dec 5 2009 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4...

Hi all,

I am trying to migrate a home folder from a non gpt hard drive to a new, larger gpt drive. My plan is to do a fresh install, but keep my home folder with all settings and permissions.
...

Guys, I had some problems with this installer and finally got it sorted. I installed it and did not get any errors. The only problem was that I could not find the launcher icon anywhere. Not under...

Sorry I havent replied. Just havent had much time to work on this.

Ok, Igot the permissions and ownership done. Yes, I was able to mount. Removed the comment (#) and all is working properly....

Ok, I got the permissions. But, will the mythtv service still be able to access the /media/mythfiles with me as the owner?

Thanks.

Ok, I did as you said and commented out the two lines in my fstab. I then manually mounted them using the command you gave me.

Here's mount:


/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)...

Tfrue,

What I meant is that the drive (and the other paritition I am trying to mount) both have data on them, so I am just talking about accessing that data.

Here are the outputs:

dmesg |...

Thanks for your reply..

I tried with your settings and did not get errors at startup. So that is good.

Im not sure how to create the shares, so I opened up a file browser (thunar) with sudo...

Hi all,

I have a mythbuntu install in which I am trying to get two JFS partitions mounted. Im sure the problem lies in the fstab file, but I have tried multiple options, but cannot get them...

Oldfred,

I ended up doing a fresh install. That allowed things to work fine again. Then I copied my home folder files over. The problem was something that I was bringing over. It caused me to not...

Oldfred,

Ok, I copied my home folder over to a backup drive by using rsync, partitioned as you sugested, installed 14.04, but now I am having a new issue.

I am now getting a login loop at the...

Does the partition structure that I posted above look Ok?

I think the most simple way to do this will be to:
Format the drive, partition it, copy over the files from the backup of my home...

I see you replied right before I re edited my last reply.. Can you check and see if what I wrote about the partition creation is correct? Thanks.

Oldfred,

Thanks a lot. Thre's a lot I didnt remember about Windows installs since Ive been using Ubuntu for so long. I didn't have the drive with the windows partition set as the primary hard...

Yes, I have tried that to no avail.

Here is the output of "sudo update-grub":


Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-60-generic-pae
Found initrd image:...

Hi all,

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a machine that had Windows 8 installed first. But now Windows 8 is not on the Grub list of Operating Systems.

I know for a fact that Winidows 8 is located...

Im currently running Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. I have also tried burning with k3b.

Yes, there was a DVD disk in the drive when I tried all commands.

So after trying /dev/sr0:


dd: opening `/dev/sr0': No medium found


Then,


robert@robert-System-Product-Name:~$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=example.iso

Thanks for your reply.. but it did not work. Here is the output:


robert@robert-System-Product-Name:~$ dd if=/dev/dvd of=example.iso bs=2048
dd: reading `/dev/dvd': Input/output error
0+0...