Re: [vox-tech] Re: please help
Thanks a bunch Pete. I'll email him off list and encourage him to come to our installfest next Saturday. Jonathan Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Mike called me. His home directory was essentially empty [1]. I had him read to me the contents of mount. Nothing was mounted on /home, as I suspected. I had him cat out /etc/fstab to learn the partition that /home resides on. It was /dev/hda6. I had him mount /dev/hda6 onto /home, and that seemed to work. He went into KDE and was able to access his homework. The laptop has no floppy, but does have a flash card, so he has the means to copy his homework to another computer and print it out. So that takes care of the immediate problem. I told him to email me a copy of /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages, so I'm waiting for that to try to figure out why this problem happened in the first place. I'll report back when I receive these files. He also told me that his wireless network card doesn't work on the laptop. He was under the impression that he needed to recompile the kernel to get it working. I told him that I seriously doubt a kernel recompile is necessary. Turns out he hasn't been to a LUGOD meeting. I told him that if he took his laptop to the next LUGOD meeting, there would be 30 people falling over themselves to help get his network card working. Peter [1] He actually created a temporary user while trying to figure out what was happening. Since /home wasn't mounted, the temp user's home directory is located in /home (but is not in the /home partition, if you get my drift). I didn't tell him to delete the directory because /home was already mounted at that point, and I didn't want him to change anything until his homework is safe and sound on another machine. On Fri 11 Mar 05, 9:13 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my expertise. Is someone able to help him? Jonathan Michael Siminitus wrote: 1- Michael Siminitus, [address, phone removed] call anytime -ASAP please 2- see full specs at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/200ARC/3501609sp83.shtml 2- Mandrake 10. 3- I cannot log on, except as root or the new user I created. The error I keep getting is: * There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPserver_localhost_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running 4- sorry, it's on my laptop and I can't retype that whole thing. 5- I have a paper trapped in the machine I need to turn in tomorrow. I don't know if it is possible, but it would be GREAT if I could bring the laptop to someone tomorrow morning who could help out. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] Re: please help
I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my expertise. Is someone able to help him? Jonathan Michael Siminitus wrote: 1- Michael Siminitus, [address, phone removed] call anytime -ASAP please 2- see full specs at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/200ARC/3501609sp83.shtml 2- Mandrake 10. 3- I cannot log on, except as root or the new user I created. The error I keep getting is: * There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPserver_localhost_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running 4- sorry, it's on my laptop and I can't retype that whole thing. 5- I have a paper trapped in the machine I need to turn in tomorrow. I don't know if it is possible, but it would be GREAT if I could bring the laptop to someone tomorrow morning who could help out. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Re: please help
Short on details. Did someone tell him that his home directory is almost certainly safe and sound? He may be freaking out. I know that I would. Is /home on its own partition? Do we have output of mount? Maybe it's as simple as a KDE thing. Has he tried to log in on the console? Do we have dmesg output? What happens when he tries to manually mount /home? Pete On Fri 11 Mar 05, 9:13 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my expertise. Is someone able to help him? Jonathan Michael Siminitus wrote: 1- Michael Siminitus, [address, phone removed] call anytime -ASAP please 2- see full specs at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/200ARC/3501609sp83.shtml 2- Mandrake 10. 3- I cannot log on, except as root or the new user I created. The error I keep getting is: * There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPserver_localhost_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running 4- sorry, it's on my laptop and I can't retype that whole thing. 5- I have a paper trapped in the machine I need to turn in tomorrow. I don't know if it is possible, but it would be GREAT if I could bring the laptop to someone tomorrow morning who could help out. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Save Star Trek Enterprise from extinction: http://www.saveenterprise.com GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Re: please help
If it is just a matter of getting a file off ASAP, why not boot with Knoppix as a rescue cd and copy it off? Bruce Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Short on details. Did someone tell him that his home directory is almost certainly safe and sound? He may be freaking out. I know that I would. Is /home on its own partition? Do we have output of mount? Maybe it's as simple as a KDE thing. Has he tried to log in on the console? Do we have dmesg output? What happens when he tries to manually mount /home? Pete On Fri 11 Mar 05, 9:13 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my expertise. Is someone able to help him? Jonathan Michael Siminitus wrote: 1- Michael Siminitus, [address, phone removed] call anytime -ASAP please 2- see full specs at: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/200ARC/3501609sp83.shtml 2- Mandrake 10. 3- I cannot log on, except as root or the new user I created. The error I keep getting is: * There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. //.DCOPserver_localhost_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running 4- sorry, it's on my laptop and I can't retype that whole thing. 5- I have a paper trapped in the machine I need to turn in tomorrow. I don't know if it is possible, but it would be GREAT if I could bring the laptop to someone tomorrow morning who could help out. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Re: please help
On Friday 11 March 2005 09:13, Jonathan Stickel wrote: I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone. It seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system check did not fix things. This is probably outside the scope of my expertise. Is someone able to help him? I just noticed that you cc'd LERT. I was thinking maybe Mike could call LERT. As far as Mike's paper goes, could he boot KNOPPIX and copy the paper to a floppy? Maybe KNOPPIX can find the home directory even if Mandrake can't. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
