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I've been running a mythbuntu machine for the best part of 10 years now. I don't use the MythTV stuff any more but it runs a bit of a quasi home server. Over the years I've set up and...

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I'm trying to set up strongSwan VPN server on my home "server". Basically, I want to be able to securely access all the bits & pieces on my home network whilst away from it.

I'm running my...

Yes! That's exactly the info I needed. All working again.
Thanks munelear!

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I have a very long standing Mythbuntu system that I upgraded to 18.04 a few months ago. Since then, the vnc server crashes after approx one minute of a client being connected. After the...

I'm not home for the next 24 hours or so, so I can't do much until then, but I can add the following in the meantime.


Definitely a proper reboot.

It's hard to say for sure, but to me it...

Sorry for the confusion here. I had removed the other disks when trying to de-bug in an effort to keep things simple last time round. I hadn't bothered with that this time.

My 'fix' last time was...

Thanks. Yes!
This is my hardware:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900-ITX/?cat=Specifications

Although, it doesn't 'feel' like this is my issue here as apparently the issue involves X freezes?...

Same result with other kerenels and recovery.

Boot repair log here:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15594325/

I can't believe its happened again! Although, slightly different this time. It's been running fine the last couple of weeks, then I ran the updates, rebooted, now I'm stuck in a reboot loop.

I get...

Firstly thank you oldfred & QLee for you wonderful assistance. It really is appreciated.

In the end, despite everyones best efforts I decided the effort required to get it up and running again was...

I have now done this on all partitions in the system. Didn't seem to come up with any errors and doesn't seem t have made any difference.

Not that it matters too much at this stage, but my theory...

From what I remember, the boot repair errors were much the same as previously.
The grub repair does seem to be complete including update-grub, so there does appear to be a reasonably coherent...

Some progress! Still a way to go but I feel we are getting there.

Here is what I have done:
There was no /etc/shadow. I went ahead and restored the /etc/passwd- to /etc/passwd.
Re-ran boot...

Hmm, there is no /etc/passwd. There is a /etc/passwd-. It's contents are:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin...

No, my username in this system is 'phil'. I do generally try to avoid spaces for as much as I can under linux. Just simplifies things.

The references to those usernames I thought was something to...

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Yes this is the option I had used and errros out. I get to the part where it says:
"Please open a terminal andtype the following commands:"

sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda1" dpkg...

Thanks for the responses. Sorry I haven't had much of a chance to put time into this yet, but I have done a little. I can only give quick update now but will add some more detail later.

It does...

Thanks for the reply.



I generally don't do hard resets if I can avoid it, but was totally unaware of this method. Will definitely keep that one for future reference!



I have done this....

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This morning I ran the available updates on my mythbuntu backend/server as I do on a monthly basis. When I attempted to reboot at the end of this, the machine locked up and required a hard...

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I've been asked by a relative to put together a desktop pc with the main consideration being low power usage. It will be used for basic business purposes, email, internet, word processing etc....

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I have an XP/Mythbuntu desktop dual boot system. Additionally there is an NTFS partition that I used to store media & documents available to both installations.

Today I purchased and...

Time to bolster my backup regime I think. I agree that 3years plus is probably about par for a HDD, but 2 of them are barely 2 years old. If one or even 2 were showing signs of being on the way out...

I don't quite understand this. Surely at some point you have to read(or attempt to) the entire entire original disk to create the clone or image? This is what I'm trying to do with ddrescue.


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Ok Thanks. I think I'll persavere a bit and maybe try it down the track.

Hmm. interesting. So you attempt your recovery while it's still cold I assume. Throw it back in the freezer once it warms up?