Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Re: Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-17 Thread Byte Soup
On Apr 17, 2012 11:12 AM, "David King"  wrote:
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> On 03/04/12 12:34, Alan Pope wrote:
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>> On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote:
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>>> I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was
>>> actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but the message gives me no clue
>>> as to whether it is an error or a notification, or what it is
>>> trying to tell me.
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>> Can you take a screenshot of it next time it appears? Just press the
>> "Print Screen" or "PrtSc" key on your keyboard and save the picture.
>> Then we can take a look and maybe get a clue what's generating it.
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> The message had not appeared for some time, but today it made an
appearance again.
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> Here is what it looks like:
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> And of course it says "Semantic Data Storage" rather than what I wrote
before, having not remembered it correctly.
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> I looked at the syslog and this is what was there from booting to getting
into the desktop (just the last few entries):
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> (Someone mentioned Ubuntu One, and there is a warning about that near the
end, with the client not being found, although I have had no problems
uploading files to Ubuntu One lately)
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gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not launch application
'alarm-clock.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child
process "alarm-clock" (No such file or directory)
> Apr 16 09:41:38 avourastudio gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not
launch application 'ubuntuone-client-applet.desktop': Unable to start
application: Failed to execute child process "ubuntuone-client-applet" (No
such file or directory)

Looks like somethings gone wrong with the panel applets. I remember
something about deleting the .gnome2 and/or .gconf directories under your
home directory can reset the panels to default. It's just an idea,
obviously backup first :)

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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Re: Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-17 Thread David King


  
  





On 03/04/12 12:34, Alan Pope wrote:

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Hash: SHA1

On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote:

  
I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was 
actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but the message gives me no clue
as to whether it is an error or a notification, or what it is
trying to tell me.

  
  Can you take a screenshot of it next time it appears? Just press the
"Print Screen" or "PrtSc" key on your keyboard and save the picture.
Then we can take a look and maybe get a clue what's generating it.


  

The message had not appeared for some time, but today it made an
appearance again.

Here is what it looks like:



And of course it says "Semantic Data Storage" rather than what I
wrote before, having not remembered it correctly.



I looked at the syslog and this is what was there from booting to
getting into the desktop (just the last few entries):

(Someone mentioned Ubuntu One, and there is a warning about that
near the end, with the client not being found, although I have had
no problems uploading files to Ubuntu One lately)




Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.519639] EXT4-fs (sdh1):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.666919] EXT4-fs (sdj9):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.737145] EXT4-fs (sdj10):
re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.741772] EXT4-fs (sda1):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  132.746239] EXT4-fs (sdb5):
re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:15 avourastudio kernel: [  133.002874] EXT4-fs (sdj14):
re-mounted. Opts: user_xattr,commit=0
Apr 16 09:35:18 avourastudio init: plymouth-stop pre-start process
(2706) terminated with status 1
Apr 16 09:36:14 avourastudio kernel: [  191.520028] Clocksource tsc
unstable (delta = -27580 ns)
Apr 16 09:38:14 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: synchronized to
130.88.202.49, stratum 2
Apr 16 09:38:14 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: kernel time sync status
change 2001
Apr 16 09:39:26 avourastudio ntpd[1512]: synchronized to
134.226.81.3, stratum 1
Apr 16 09:40:01 avourastudio CRON[2894]: (root) CMD
(/usr/share/prey/prey.sh > /var/log/prey.log)
Apr 16 09:40:02 avourastudio CRON[2893]: (CRON) error (grandchild
#2894 failed with exit status 1)
Apr 16 09:40:08 avourastudio anacron[1727]: Job `cron.daily' started
Apr 16 09:40:08 avourastudio anacron[2921]: Updated timestamp for
job `cron.daily' to 2012-04-16
Apr 16 09:41:29 avourastudio gdm-session-worker[2057]:
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion
`G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Apr 16 09:41:37 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Successfully made
thread 3164 of process 3164 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at
nice level -11.
Apr 16 09:41:37 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Supervising 4
threads of 2 processes of 2 users.
Apr 16 09:41:38 avourastudio gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not
launch application 'alarm-clock.desktop': Unable to start
application: Failed to execute child process "alarm-clock" (No such
file or directory)
Apr 16 09:41:38 avourastudio gnome-session[3061]: WARNING: Could not
launch application 'ubuntuone-client-applet.desktop': Unable to
start application: Failed to execute child process
"ubuntuone-client-applet" (No such file or directory)
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Successfully made
thread 3194 of process 3194 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at
nice level -11.
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio rtkit-daemon[2064]: Supervising 5
threads of 3 processes of 2 users.
Apr 16 09:41:41 avourastudio pulseaudio[3194]: pid.c: Daemon already
running.
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio kernel: [  569.283878] UDF-fs:
Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio kernel: [  569.314022] UDF-fs INFO UDF:
Mounting volume 'DEEP_POLITICS', timestamp 2010/12/04 00:29 (103c)
Apr 16 09:42:32 avourastudio init: ureadahead-other main process
(3645) terminated with status 4
Apr 16 09:42:44 avourastudio acpid: client connected from
3754[106:113]
Apr 16 09:42:44 avourastudio acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 16 09:44:59 avourastudio kernel: [  716.201726] usb 1-7: reset
high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
  

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders

2012-04-17 Thread Laura Czajkowski

On 17/04/12 07:49, Gareth France wrote:

On 17/04/12 07:40, alan c wrote:



In a technical forum, or other environment where discussions are very
likely to have a logical sequence, and often a discussion thread with
many comments, then in line comments and bottom posting have a strong
benefit. If a convention in a forum is maintained, it is easy to know
what to expect, so conventions are defended and promoted.

Makes sense. Bottom posting has always seemed counter intuitive to me.

It may seem counter intuitive, but it has been pointed out on this list 
at few times already this year.  The same way snipping the top of a long 
reply before posting is also nice to do.


wonder how many times this year we're going to have a Top v Bottom 
thread discussion on here :-)



Laura

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders

2012-04-17 Thread mac
On 17 Apr 2012, at 07:40, alan c  wrote:
> ...In a technical forum, or other environment where discussions are very
> likely to have a logical sequence, and often a discussion thread with
> many comments, then in line comments and bottom posting have a strong
> benefit.

A lot of good sense in your comments, Alan. 

One thing I'd want to add: it's really helpful to edit what you quote, so 
there's just enough - and only enough - to provide the context to let readers 
understand what you're replying too.

Plonking a comment - whether at the bottom or the top - of 100 lines of 'House 
that Jack Built' exchanges is just lazy and inconsiderate.

mac
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