tonight Quantal stopped working and I could not shut it down. The mouse was frozen, as well as the keyboard. I eventually hit the reset button, but the system would no longer boot. The recovery modes all failed, as well as the older system recovery option...
I installed another drive I had made for Kevins machine, which has Saucy on it. This one worked, and I retrieved my home directory files from the other drive which has the broken Quantal system
I'm happy to have the ipad which is quite resilient.
June 13,
I reinstalled 13.04 on the disk that kevin's Quantal (above) was on.
chad@kubuntu13:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring
chad@kubuntu13:~$
Firefox
vlc, and keepassx
keepassx does not read the new format of the data file.
I installed keepass2 (also available in Muon) and it seems to work just fine with the new format of data file.
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I need a good way to recover !!!
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idea:
- on a small 500MB drive, create two partions.
/dev/hda1 will be the first partion where kubuntu will be installed/dev/hda2 will be used for the backup imagesthe MBR will point to grub on /dev/hda1/dev/hda1 will always be installed with a ubuntu image that uses the whole partition, thus grub will always be simple for one only system...
determine your drives and your partitions with lsblk
chad@kubuntu13:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 449.8G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 16G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 1.4T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 1.4T 0 part /media/FreeAgent Drive
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
chad@kubuntu13:~$ ^C
chad@kubuntu13:~$
my hard drive is sda, my system partition is sda1, my swap partition is sda5, a portible drive plugged into the usb is sdb
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