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Re: [luv-main] ubuntu hang after upgrade natty to oniric
by Brian May 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

On Oct 27, 2011 7:28 PM, "Jason White" <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> wrote: > Watch the boot messages, modifying your boot loader's configuration to ensure > that they are displayed if this is not the case by default. With quiet and splash removed, these tell me that local-premount, local-bottom, and init-bottom executed and completed from /scripts directory. Then nothing. > If you have the openvt command then > openvt -c 2 bash > should work too, and obviously you can substitue any virtual console number > for 2 in the above example. That works. Trouble is everything looks good to me... Apart from the fact nothing is happening. There are some non-kernel processes: init sh -e /proc/self/fd/9 \_ initctl emit startup plymouthd --mode=boot --attach-to-session mountall --daemon The last one seems strange, is this really meant to be a daemon? Seems to be in a select, according to strace. Everything else is either kernel stuff or from console tty2, ie. My debugging console. top says only one process is running, presumably top itself. Any more ideas? Thanks.

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ubuntu hang after upgrade natty to oniric
by Brian May 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, When I reboot my computer it hangs with a flashing cursor on a black screen. For ever. However the system hasn't crashed, it just appears to be hanging, e.g. numlock light will toggle. Ctrl+Alt+Delete also works fine. So I reboot it into safe mode, and selected mount filesystems read/write. It does this and then hangs in exactly the same way. So I reboot and enter a command line. I can remount / rewrite and mount everything else fine. I then run "dhclient eth0" and after about 60 seconds I see these messages: [ 88.014507] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) [ 88.021533] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down [ 88.021586] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down [ 88.021894] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 90.310097] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up [ 90.310433] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready The firmware exists in the required location: brian@aquitard:~$ ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 2011-08-23 23:23 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw It is possible when mounting filesystems I missed an important step that is required to load the firmware properly (maybe the step that causes the hangs?). However at this point, with the network up, I can continue booting fine. Any ideas? How can I find out what is causing the hang? Is there anyway of creating another virtual console within recovery mode? Thanks -- Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>

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Analogue video capture device
by Lindsay Sprinter 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Anybody know of a currently availible analogue video capture device currently avaible that works with linux. Video Audio in being preffered. There appear to be a signifcant number of USB devices around any of these work with linux. Mind you since it is only for conversion of some tapes to digital probably does not matter if it only works in Windows XP as long as the software does not cost the earth. Lindsay

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Procedure for leaving the luv lists
by Lindsay Sprinter 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

What is the correct procedure to leave the lists these days. Have No idea what the login for the web site is or does? Linux now for 18 years, (kernel 0.96d) and for ever, Lindsay

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deleting files on NFS
by Russell Coker 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

I have a Debian/Squeeze NFS server running kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 and a Debian/Unstable NFS client. I just did "rm -rf" on a directory containing 4.2G of files that was mounted via NFS. It was a directory with three large files which were MP4 files captured from digital TV, I had watched them all recently with mplayer. df didn't report any more free space. To get the space back I ended up commenting out the line from /etc/exports, running "exportfs -r", then umounting and mounting it. I didn't check whether the space was free after running "exportfs -r", it probably was. It seems that I was caught by the issue of open file handles. NFS is stateless so it doesn't necessarily process deletion for some time to handle the case of a NFS client that is running processes with open file handles. How long is this supposed to go for? Can I force NFS to give up such caching when I need the space sooner than NFS will free it? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [luv-main] Some decent speakers for PC's
by Tony Langdon 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

At 09:30 AM 10/26/2011, Lindsay Sprinter wrote: >Six or seven years ago I did a great deal of research on music,sound, >systems, speakers, computors and compressed music formats. this was over a >period of 4 months. A __GREAT__ deal of comparison testing was done. all >this was in order to find out the best way and limitations of comressed >music on computors in order to do the best in digitising my record >collection. This was very enightening and showed a lot of people did not >understand what was happening. Sounds like there's a lot of good technical information in here. In my case, I have additional constraints for any serious speaker system - RF immunity. Most PC speaker systems make excellent broadband radio receivers. Not the thing you need then you have 100W of SSB floating around! :D >I would like to respond to some of the points brought up by Craig and >others but I feel I definitely now I am no longer allowed to do this. >If/when this whole mess is cleared up........................ sigh :-(. Well, until the moderator speaks, continue on. :) 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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Re: [luv-main] Cdrom upgrade
by Bob 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Thanks Steve, On 26/10/11 13:50, Steve Roylance wrote: > On 10/26/2011 11:12 AM, Bob wrote: >> That is a question I am now asking myself. >> I have upgraded another machine running an i5 processor and HD 5700 >> series card. and now have no sound - and no solution at this stage. It >> seems there are a few bugs in the latest version. Perhaps I'll wait a >> while before any further upgrades. >> >> Bob > hi > > some upgrades mute/disable the sound card so it should be a simple > unmute to fix it. got caught by this recently I don't think this is the case - or at least I am unable to find any muting. The card appear to be enabled OK. I have reported it as a bug to launchpad and their tests also indicated that there is a problem. Bob

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Cdrom upgrade
by Bob 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hello all, I have a laptop running Kubuntu 11.04. In attempting to upgrade to 11.10 via the internet the upgrade fails citing unable to get Kubuntu -wallpaper, so I downloaded the alternate cd, disconnected from the internet and attempted to upgrade from the cd using 'sh cdromupgrade'. Normally I would use my own logon but in a last desperate attempt I changed to root. Results are shown below: root@Toshiba:/media/cdrom0# sh cdromupgrade No protocol specified /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk (No module named vte) can't load DistUpgradeViewGtk3 (Namespace Gtk not available for version 3.0) No protocol specified update-manager: cannot connect to X server :0 Is there something wrong with the command I have used? Thanks Bob

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Re: [luv-main] [luv-talk] Some decent speakers for PC's
by Tim Connors 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Craig Sanders wrote: > i'm cc-ing this back to luv-talk (mostly because i hope someone knows of > a decent - i.e. low tosser ratio - audio web site / forum). hopefully > anyone replying will remember to cc their response to you. And back to luv-main. Could we do something about finding the setting in the new mailing list software to remove the nasty "[luv-main] [luv-talk] [luv-main]" subject line cruft that will no doubt appear once this ends up back on the luv-main list? I fear that it's been a month now, and might almost become accepted behaviour to keep munging the subject line like that. And then it's only a short path down the track to LUV-main become a web-forum <shudder>. -- Tim Connors

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Booting Ubuntu on EFI PC
by dan062 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

HI guys, Having problems booting with Ubuntu 11.10 The PC works perfectly on live CD, detecting and configuring video correctly. Ubuntu install with no errors using default options. However when booting off newly installed OS, it just shows a blank white screen after showing a few bios stuff - I am not even sure if it has booted and it is just a video issue or a complete crash - but it does not seem to respond to keyboard. This is a new ASUS built box with a P8P67 LE Mobo. This has a EFI bios. So Is there a different installation procedure that needs to be done for EFI ? (its my first experience with EFI) Most EFI stuff from google seem to relate to Mac booting! Cheers Daniel

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