Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, change user to your username, and mountpoint to the directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was actually sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM. What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that syntax before... Hi Sean, I got the syntax wrong - it should be chown neil\: files - d'oh! So it's just quoting the colon from the shell. Paraphrased from the chown man page: If only a user is given, that user is made owner of the file(s), and the group remains unchanged. If a user is followed by a colon and a group (with no spaces between them), the group ownership of the file(s) is changed as well. If a user is followed by a colon but no group, the group ownership is changed to that user's login group. If a colon and group is given, only the group ownership of the file(s) is changed. Almost makes you wonder why the chgrp command exists... :-) Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
Neil, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, change user to your username, and mountpoint to the directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was actually sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM. What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that syntax before... Hi Sean, I got the syntax wrong - it should be chown neil\: files - d'oh! So it's just quoting the colon from the shell. There is no need to quote the colon. chown tony: files works just fine! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:43 +, Rob Beard wrote: ... snip Great thanks, I'll have a look. I dare say the one server which we're going to use (Core2Quad 2.4GHz with 4GB memory) will be over kill for the 6 clients we're going to have attached, but the geek in me would also like to play with clustering. We have 3 * HP Proliant DL140 G2 (Dual, dual core Zeons with 8Gb Ram) running 150~ clients. The interesting thing for performance is a really fast disk read, we use 2 * 18Gb SCSI ultra320 with RAID 1. How would you deal with users home directories? We have a dedicated server with NFS+NIS that allows the 3 LTSP Servers to mount home over NFS and authenticate from NIS. So as far as management or users go its a doddle, as you have all the users home directories etc in one place (for the paranoid, you could also load balance/failover these services too). Kind regards -- Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness Lincs PE252QS Tel: 0175461 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unresponsive 'windows' and icons
Hi Michael Thanks for your response, and I think you got it. I turned off compiz and lo and behold the light shone down on me! The notification area started working, todiscgui worked and so did amsn. So then I turned compiz back on with all the plugins disabled, and then gradually turned them on one at a time while starting and stopping the two programs. I discovered that enabling Freely Transformable Windows was the cause of the problem with todiscgui. amsn is proving a little more difficult as sometimes it works properly and then it will sulk, so I'll have to keep working on that one. Is this something I should report to someone somewhere? Many thanks, Jen Hi Jen I suspect this is probably a (somewhat) known issue, but your input is always welcomed, so pop down to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu and report your findings there. You might also find it helpful to run nvidia-settings, and compiz-config on your end, and see if there are any options you can change to find the neutral ground between nvidia and compiz. I had a nvidia card on my old machine running beryl ( a compiz spin-off ) and there was an option somewhere that fixed a lot of issues. I cant remember what the option was called, but i remember choosing copy as the answer! Maybe someone on the list can elaborate on that :) Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unresponsive 'windows' and icons
Hi Michael I'm so embarrassed now, as I posted your 'fix' in a thread I had contributed to in Ubuntu Forums, and this morning I'm being thanked by all sorts of people even though I had said it was not my solution. So on behalf of all those grateful people, I'd like to say thank you again. best wishes, Jen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Could not Calculate the Upgrade -- help needed please
Hi Louis, On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:20:07AM +, Louis Gidney wrote: Anyway, I then click on Partial Upgrade. Enter my administration password. Then after a few moments up comes the message: // \\ *C**ould not Calculate the Upgrade* [ X Close ] \\ // Can you please try this:- Applications -- Accessories -- Terminal. In the box type this commmand:- sudo apt-get update Then this one:- sudo apt-get dist-upgrade And paste the results of those commands in your reply to this mail? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Could not Calculate the Upgrade -- help needed please
Hello All, I would be most grateful if anyone would tell me whether there is a way out of the following: ( I have v.7.10 ) I click on the there are some upgrades icon. The update manager starts up, does some preliminary things, then comes up with the following message: // \\ * Not all updates can be installed* Run a partial upgrade, to install as many updates as possible. This may be cause by: * A previous upgrade which didn't complete * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ununtu * Normal changes of a pre-release version of Ubuntu [Partial Upgrade] [ X Close ] \\ // I can't think it can be any of those reasons (except possibly the last). I have not done anything unusual or adventurous. Anyway, I then click on Partial Upgrade. Enter my administration password. Then after a few moments up comes the message: // \\ *C**ould not Calculate the Upgrade* [ X Close ] \\ // Regards, Louis Gidney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
Quoting Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:43 +, Rob Beard wrote: ... snip Great thanks, I'll have a look. I dare say the one server which we're going to use (Core2Quad 2.4GHz with 4GB memory) will be over kill for the 6 clients we're going to have attached, but the geek in me would also like to play with clustering. We have 3 * HP Proliant DL140 G2 (Dual, dual core Zeons with 8Gb Ram) running 150~ clients. The interesting thing for performance is a really fast disk read, we use 2 * 18Gb SCSI ultra320 with RAID 1. How would you deal with users home directories? We have a dedicated server with NFS+NIS that allows the 3 LTSP Servers to mount home over NFS and authenticate from NIS. So as far as management or users go its a doddle, as you have all the users home directories etc in one place (for the paranoid, you could also load balance/failover these services too). Well at the moment with one server I'm guessing the home directories will be on the main server, in fact I'm not sure if we're going to give the users any permanent storage space, but I guess in a clustered environment we'd have a dedicated server (possibly lower spec) for the home directories. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
Hi Tony, On 30/01/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Greenwood wrote: I got the syntax wrong - it should be chown neil\: files - d'oh! So it's just quoting the colon from the shell. There is no need to quote the colon. chown tony: files works just fine! Thanks for that Tony. The only reason I wrote it like that is that that's how the tab completion finishes it off. Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck
On 29/01/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote: Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run fsck /dev/device_name as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of course) fsck will complain if the device is mounted. It will continue if you let it but it warns that it may cause severe file system damage. I suggest you boot from a live CD and then run fsck from there. Regards, Tony. Oh.I put in fsck and it all came to life and it took several hours. Everything fine now. How will I know if damage has been done? Caroline -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- --- London School of Puppetry www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Bash smart completion (was: External drive is stuck at read-only.)
Neil, Neil Greenwood wrote: There is no need to quote the colon. chown tony: files works just fine! Thanks for that Tony. The only reason I wrote it like that is that that's how the tab completion finishes it off. Interesting! I just turned on bash smart completion and got the \:. I guess it's just being ultra safe! Think I'll leave this smart completion turned on from now on. It looks really useful. Thanks for the tip! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck
London School of Puppetry wrote: On 29/01/2008, *Tony Arnold* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote: Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run fsck /dev/device_name as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of course) fsck will complain if the device is mounted. It will continue if you let it but it warns that it may cause severe file system damage. I suggest you boot from a live CD and then run fsck from there. Regards, Tony. Oh.I put in fsck and it all came to life and it took several hours. Everything fine now. How will I know if damage has been done? Did you get some messages from fsck on the problems it found and fixed? Was the file system mounted at the time? You could try running fsck again, ensuring the file system is not mounted and see if it produces further errors, if it reports it clean. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Could not Calculate the Upgrade -- help needed please
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:18:27PM +, Louis Gidney wrote: Hello Alan, Thank you kindly for your prompt reply. I have not replied earlier because I have been out most of the day. No problem. PS. Now I've just clicked the update icon, and I get the same result as I described earlier with message: Could not Calculate the Upgrade. You will until you fix the following issue... Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release Err http://ftp.debian.org etch Release ^^^ this I believe is the issue. You have a reference to a debian repository on an Ubuntu system. This cannot be good. Remove is like this:- Applications -- Accessories -- terminal sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list comment out (or remove) the lines referencing debian.org by either deleting them completely or putting a # character at the start of those line(s). Then save the file, exit the editor and run the following command again:- sudo apt-get update Then try to do the update via the graphical tool. A word of warning, it's possible that packages have in the past come into your system from that debian repository. It is _possible_ this may cause conflicts with other installed, or yet to be installed, ubuntu packages. Lets see what happens after we do the above though eh before we panic :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
