| Eleanor | Could anyone please tell me how my USB drive is suddenly being automounted read-only after I updated? | 04:50 |
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| dns53 | is it ntfs formatted? | 04:51 |
| dns53 | if it was not unmounted correctly it is doing the safe thing and not allowing you to change it until it has been checked | 04:52 |
| Eleanor | It is Fat32 | 04:53 |
| Eleanor | Perhaps when I restarted. there was no automatic unmount - the system froze and I rebooted | 04:54 |
| dns53 | try running something like sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sdb1 | 04:56 |
| Eleanor | Thanks - I hope this is alright - I had to mount it befor fsck could find it and I an unaccustomed to checking mounted drives | 05:00 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: You should only fsck on unmounted drives | 05:02 |
| blahdeblah | That especially applies to vfat devices | 05:03 |
| Eleanor | Yes, that is what I thought - I have stopped it. Fsck couldn't find it when it was unmounted - the /dev entry is missing unless the drive is mounted. | 05:05 |
| Eleanor | Something screwy is going on. | 05:06 |
| Eleanor | When the drive is mounted, I can create and delete files, but not read or write to them, according to Nautilus. | 05:09 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah: where is the fun in that? ;) | 05:15 |
| blahdeblah | skwashd: :-) | 05:16 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: When you say "mounted", do you mean "plugged into your PC"? | 05:16 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: Regardless, try this: | 05:17 |
| blahdeblah | 1. eject the drive, unplug it, and reinsert it | 05:17 |
| blahdeblah | 2. open a terminal window and type "sudo mount" | 05:17 |
| blahdeblah | 3. pastebin the results: http://ubuntu-au.pastebin.com/ | 05:18 |
| blahdeblah | skwashd: BTW, do you still have any of those stickers left? I've got a new laptop and the only stickers i had left were a bit small. | 05:19 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah: the ubuntu ones i posted on list? nah ... sent them all out quite some time ago | 05:20 |
| blahdeblah | So no spares? | 05:20 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah: sorry ... you might want to see if there is interest on the list for another order | 05:27 |
| blahdeblah | skwashd: no worries | 05:29 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah: if you find 5 people you will save a lot | 05:29 |
| Eleanor | blahdeblah: Shouldn't there be a "Paste" button on the pastebin page? I don't see one ... | 05:30 |
| blahdeblah | skwashd: How so? Cheaper postage? | 05:30 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: "Submit" | 05:30 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: you might have to scroll down | 05:30 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah: yeah ... it is like 10AUD for the first one inc postage and <1AUD per sticker sheet inc postage after that | 05:31 |
| blahdeblah | skwashd: OK, i might post on the list and see what interest there is | 05:31 |
| skwashd | so for 5 you're looking at 3AUD per sheet instead of 10 ... and i ordered 12 sheets iirc ... and it cost me ~2AUD per sheet | 05:32 |
| Eleanor | This Gnome Browser is weird - I wish I could change distros - no Submit button either. However, the drive seems to be working after the re-plugging thing, thanks. Wonder how it'll go after the next, inevitable, restart. | 05:33 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: do you use noscript or something like that? You might need javascript turned on to get the submit button. I would recommend Firefox or Opera if you want to be sure it works well. | 05:35 |
| Eleanor | blahdeblah: It has java turned on, default set-up, it just doen't work properly. Opera is not in the repositories, apparently, because it uses non-free components. Ditto Firefox, which I don't care for anyway. | 05:37 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: javaSCRIPT, not JAVA | 05:38 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: Firefox is most certainly in the repositories | 05:38 |
| Eleanor | Sorry - javaSCRIPT | 05:38 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: you can add opera using this repository: "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" | 05:39 |
| Eleanor | blahdebalh: I was under the impression that adding non-free softare will irreparably break my system. I waa told that installing Opera was what made gNewSense inoperable before my last re-install. | 05:42 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: this is #ubuntu-au, not #gnewsense-au... ;-) | 05:48 |
| darkrose | someone's been feeding you <expletive deleted> | 05:48 |
| Eleanor | I suspected as much! | 05:49 |
| Eleanor | Right - Opera here I come ... | 05:49 |
| blahdeblah | Eleanor: I have to agree with darkrose - the idea that installing a proprietary package can break your system is at best nonsense, and at worst, a reason for switching to vanilla Ubuntu. | 05:49 |
| Eleanor | Since the initial Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy) install, my DVD-RAM has been able to read cds and dvds fine, but will not write to anything, thus the iso files of other distros are now sitting in a folder and I can't produce the cds | 05:51 |
| blahdeblah | Double-check that you have permission to do that in System > Administration > Users and Groups | 05:53 |
| blahdeblah | There's a permission called "Use CD-ROM drives" in the Advanced settings for each user. | 05:55 |
| Eleanor | Permission I have, but Brasero says "the medium is not writeable with the current set of plugins" and apparently this means I do not have the correct hardware driver for my drive. | 05:56 |
| blahdeblah | what does ls -l /dev/cdrom (or whatever the name of your drive is) say? | 06:05 |
| blahdeblah | and what is the output of id? | 06:05 |
| blahdeblah | I'll be offline for a while - converting my physical server to a virtual machine. | 06:10 |
| blahdeblah | Good luck Eleanor | 06:10 |
| Eleanor | /dev/cdrom = lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-11-21 15:42 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 | 06:12 |
| Eleanor | user@server:~$ id | 06:12 |
| Eleanor | uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(fuse),112(lpadmin),123(admin),1000(user) | 06:12 |
| Eleanor | Never met id before - always happy to learn about something new, thank you. | 06:13 |
| dns53 | it tells you what groups you are in, you are in the group cdrom group so that should be fine | 06:17 |
| Eleanor | dns53: I'm pretty sure the cdrom issue is about kernel modules and not permissions. I am going to try to get the hang of modules.dep ... I think it may be where much of my trouble lies. | 06:25 |
| skwashd | blahdeblah if you don't know what the proprietary binaries will do they can trash your box | 10:30 |
| skwashd | but then i've had FOSS kill boxes too | 10:30 |
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| head_victim | blahdeblah: I might have a spare sticker sheet if you don't get enough for an order. I'd have to double check but I'm almost certain of it. | 20:12 |
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