Re: [SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

2008-12-26 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Alan, I'll have a look. It's pretty weird but may the GOS people have included something in the standard install??? Thanks. Hope Christmas has been good to you so far and the New Year is better than the last :)) Regards, Patrick Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:40:02 +1100 > ell

Re: [SLUG] Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?

2008-12-26 Thread Jonathan
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:42:56 pm Daniel Pittman wrote: > elliott-brennan writes: > > I got home (from a very good day) and found my machine with a message > > on the screen (in front of Thunderbird) saying that I had less that 4% > > of my /home space left and did I want to start Konqueror to resol

Re: [SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

2008-12-26 Thread Ken Wilson
Hi Patrick I sometimes have similar problems with a usb memory stick, and the following command fixes it. Its about one module being substituted for another, but others will have better explanations. #if usb disk doesnt work try this command in terminal. sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd cheers Ken

Re: [SLUG] Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?

2008-12-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jonathan writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:42:56 pm Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] >> Well, I can't explain why you got the warning, or if it is a genuine >> warning or a bug, but I can perhaps shed some light on a corner of Unix >> that might explain things: >> >> Under Unix, if a process opens a f

Re: [SLUG] Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?

2008-12-26 Thread ishwor
Daniel Pittman wrote: > Jonathan writes: >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:42:56 pm Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] > You can use lsof(8) or the content of /proc//fd to find deleted > files held open — though, keep in mind that things do this for > legitimate reasons, not just because something has gone wro

Re: [SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

2008-12-26 Thread Morgan Storey
I don't think it would be a module if there is no activity in dmesg. I would look towards more a hardware issue, have you tried a known-good usb port, do a sudo dmesg -c pre inserting it to get a clear picture? On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Ken Wilson wrote: > Hi Patrick > I sometimes have s

Re: Subject:,[SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

2008-12-26 Thread bill
Have a similar problem with an 8 gb thumb drive. Haven't worried too much about it as I have several others, but so far I've put the "problem" down to the mobo not fitting tight enough against the back-plate of the case, thus that particular thumb-drive doesn't quite fit in deep enough for a g

[SLUG] Re: Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?

2008-12-26 Thread elliott-brennan
Thanks everyone. I've a bit to chew on and so will get to it. I had a message underneath the '<4%' message of which I could only read a couple of words. I've just had the same message. Thunderbird would not down load new mail: 'Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system a

Re: [SLUG] Re: Merry Christmas and why did I get a message saying I had <4% of my HDD space left?

2008-12-26 Thread Martin Visser
When you had this problem did you do a "df" to check out all your filesystems. Particularly if you have a small filesystem for holding /tmp (it might be infact using tmpfs), then a reboot would fix the problem. If your mail program needs to use temporary files for moving things around, running out