Hi guys. 2 hours ago I installed Ubuntu-Linux OS on my ThinkPad X31. My laptop
has a very limited hard-drive of 32 GB. With the 2 Operation systems I have got
left only with about 5 GB. Therefore, I would like to know how to remove my
Windows XP operation system. If someone can guide me through the steps I would
appreciate it. Thanks. Yaniv.

On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:25:32 nadavyaniv wrote:
> Hi guys. 2 hours ago I installed Ubuntu-Linux OS on my ThinkPad X31. My
> laptop has a very limited hard-drive of 32 GB. With the 2 Operation systems
> I have got left only with about 5 GB. Therefore, I would like to know how
> to remove my Windows XP operation system. If someone can guide me through
> the steps I would appreciate it. Thanks. Yaniv.

Hi!

Well, here are the steps:

1. First of all backup all the partitions on your computer. This can be done
either with a remote computer on the same Ethernet/Wifi connection, or with an
external hard-disk.

You can use the tar command - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format) to do the backup.

This step is important because repartitioning may leave your hard-disk in an
inconsistent state.

2. Next, if you just want to re-use the Windows partitions as Linux ones
(mounted somewhere under /) you can just reformat them as Linux Ext3
partitions which is safer. If not, you'll need to do a more thorough re-
partitioning of your hard-disk. Good tools for repartitioning are:

* http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

* http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/mandriva/official/iso/2009.0/ - the Mandriva
installer has an excellent repartitioning tool and can be used to repartition
your hard-drive.

You'll need to burn these live CDs and boot from them.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
I'm using Firefox as my browser.

It works mostly fine.
Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can only hear
the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a gray rectangle.
Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing problems in other movie sites
(Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).

How can this be fixed?

I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)

David

On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:15:25 baum_j wrote:
> Hi all, I'm new to Linux.

Hi, welcome to Linux!

> I'm using Firefox as my browser.
>
> It works mostly fine.
> Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can only
> hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a gray
> rectangle. Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing problems in
> other movie sites (Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).
>
> How can this be fixed?
>
> I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)

Have you tried upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash player?

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

I'm not familiar with Linux Mint, but I will try to install it on a virtual
machine here to see if I can reproduce this problem (and find a solution).

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:56:38 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:15:25 baum_j wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
>
> Hi, welcome to Linux!
>
> > I'm using Firefox as my browser.
> >
> > It works mostly fine.
> > Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can
> > only hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a
> > gray rectangle. Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing
> > problems in other movie sites (Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).
> >
> > How can this be fixed?
> >
> > I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)
>
> Have you tried upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash player?
>
> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
>
> I'm not familiar with Linux Mint, but I will try to install it on a virtual
> machine here to see if I can reproduce this problem (and find a solution).
>

OK, I was able to install Linux Mint on a VirtualBox VM, but I was unable to
get the "-vboxvideo" display driver to work properly. I'll try doing the same
with a vanilla Ubuntu VM, and report it.

Someone told me that Ubuntu and Linux Mint cause some problems with Flash, but
I did not verify it yet.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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On Sunday 19 April 2009 14:09:41 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:56:38 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:15:25 baum_j wrote:
> > > Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
> >
> > Hi, welcome to Linux!
> >
> > > I'm using Firefox as my browser.
> > >
> > > It works mostly fine.
> > > Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can
> > > only hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a
> > > gray rectangle. Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing
> > > problems in other movie sites (Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).
> > >
> > > How can this be fixed?
> > >
> > > I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)
> >
> > Have you tried upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash player?
> >
> > http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
> >
> > I'm not familiar with Linux Mint, but I will try to install it on a
> > virtual machine here to see if I can reproduce this problem (and find a
> > solution).
>
> OK, I was able to install Linux Mint on a VirtualBox VM, but I was unable
> to get the "-vboxvideo" display driver to work properly. I'll try doing the
> same with a vanilla Ubuntu VM, and report it.

The Ubuntu 9.04 RC VM I installed ran the -vboxvideo display driver perfectly.
So I reported a bug with Linux Mint:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/363733

Linux Mint seems buggier than Ubuntu.

In any case, David (baum_j) - is there a good reason why you're using Linux
Mint instead of Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Fedora? If not, you may consider
switching to a different distribution.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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Hagai, thanks for the reply!
about:plugins says:

Shockwave Flash

     File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
     Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22

MIME Type  Description  Suffixes  Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash  Shockwave Flash  swf  Yes
application/futuresplash  FutureSplash Player  spl  Yes

What's yours say?
David


--- In gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com, Hagai Hadad <kopolov@...> wrote:
>
> I am not familiar with Mint as well.
>
> Do you know which plugins version do you use in firefox?
>
> just type "about:plugins" in the firefox URL bar (where you write the web
> addresses like "www.google.com")
> This should open an internal web page with all the plugins used by firefox
>
> Check which plugin is used for flash
>
> I use Ubuntu 8.10 with FF 3 and the flash plugin is "Shockwave Flash" from
> adobe.
>
> Hagai
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM, baum_j <baum_j@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
> > I'm using Firefox as my browser.
> >
> > It works mostly fine.
> > Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can only
> > hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a gray
> > rectangle.
> > Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing problems in other movie
> > sites (Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).
> >
> > How can this be fixed?
> >
> > I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Hagai Hadad
>

Shlomi, thanks a lot for ALL your replies.
To be honest, I did not expect to find such serious people out there - willing
to install a virtual copy, just to test MY bug.
It really warms my heart.

Why am I using Linux Mint....?
Because it works.
It took me a few really bad experiences with Linux (including Ubuntu) to get
this thing going.

"Historically" :) I tried Ubuntu which did not support my Network card, and then
Kubuntu with the same problem.
I then waited for the next version of them, which again - did not support my
card. And I'm talking crazy forums search and correspondance and NDISWrapper and
all and all.
One of them did not support my sound card as well - or maybe both...

Then came Mint. It is supposed to be popular with American college boys. So I
figured it'll have all the laptop support in the world.
It does.
I'm not saying it didn't take forums' search and all - but the answers came! And
it works great. I actually thinks it's on top of Ubuntu, with added "out of the
box" support for all those things.

I'm really affraid moving to Ubuntu.
It was a nightmare struggling with it. I installed some 6 different Linux
flavours for about 20 times. (Also Mandriva if I recall...).
No fun.

Sorry for the long post,
David

--- In gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 19 April 2009 14:09:41 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:56:38 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:15:25 baum_j wrote:
> > > > Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
> > >
> > > Hi, welcome to Linux!
> > >
> > > > I'm using Firefox as my browser.
> > > >
> > > > It works mostly fine.
> > > > Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I can
> > > > only hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be, appears a
> > > > gray rectangle. Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin describing
> > > > problems in other movie sites (Metacafe, GoogleVideos...).
> > > >
> > > > How can this be fixed?
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)
> > >
> > > Have you tried upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash player?
> > >
> > > http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with Linux Mint, but I will try to install it on a
> > > virtual machine here to see if I can reproduce this problem (and find a
> > > solution).
> >
> > OK, I was able to install Linux Mint on a VirtualBox VM, but I was unable
> > to get the "-vboxvideo" display driver to work properly. I'll try doing the
> > same with a vanilla Ubuntu VM, and report it.
>
> The Ubuntu 9.04 RC VM I installed ran the -vboxvideo display driver perfectly.
> So I reported a bug with Linux Mint:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/363733
>
> Linux Mint seems buggier than Ubuntu.
>
> In any case, David (baum_j) - is there a good reason why you're using Linux
> Mint instead of Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Fedora? If not, you may consider
> switching to a different distribution.
>
> Regards,
>
>  Shlomi Fish
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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> Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/
>
> God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we
> read.
>

On Saturday 25 April 2009 01:14:31 baum_j wrote:
> Shlomi, thanks a lot for ALL your replies.
> To be honest, I did not expect to find such serious people out there -
> willing to install a virtual copy, just to test MY bug. It really warms my
> heart.

I'm glad you're glad.

BTW, it's not a virtual copy - it's an installation of the OS inside a virtual
machine.

>
> Why am I using Linux Mint....?
> Because it works.
> It took me a few really bad experiences with Linux (including Ubuntu) to
> get this thing going.
>
> "Historically" :) I tried Ubuntu which did not support my Network card, and
> then Kubuntu with the same problem. I then waited for the next version of
> them, which again - did not support my card. And I'm talking crazy forums
> search and correspondance and NDISWrapper and all and all. One of them did
> not support my sound card as well - or maybe both...
>
> Then came Mint. It is supposed to be popular with American college boys. So
> I figured it'll have all the laptop support in the world. It does.
> I'm not saying it didn't take forums' search and all - but the answers
> came! And it works great. I actually thinks it's on top of Ubuntu, with
> added "out of the box" support for all those things.
>
> I'm really affraid moving to Ubuntu.
> It was a nightmare struggling with it. I installed some 6 different Linux
> flavours for about 20 times. (Also Mandriva if I recall...). No fun.

I see. That's reasonable, I suppose.

Well, I'll try upgrading to the new version of Linux Mint, and see if it
solves the -vboxvideo problem.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish


>
> Sorry for the long post,
> David
>
> --- In gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...> wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 April 2009 14:09:41 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:56:38 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:15:25 baum_j wrote:
> > > > > Hi all, I'm new to Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Hi, welcome to Linux!
> > > >
> > > > > I'm using Firefox as my browser.
> > > > >
> > > > > It works mostly fine.
> > > > > Only problem I got is, that sometimes when I open a YouTube tab, I
> > > > > can only hear the soundtrack and the where the movie should be,
> > > > > appears a gray rectangle. Now this is YouTube! I won't even begin
> > > > > describing problems in other movie sites (Metacafe,
> > > > > GoogleVideos...).
> > > > >
> > > > > How can this be fixed?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using the latest FF 3.0.8 on Linux Mint (Felicia)
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash player?
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
> > > >
> > > > I'm not familiar with Linux Mint, but I will try to install it on a
> > > > virtual machine here to see if I can reproduce this problem (and find
> > > > a solution).
> > >
> > > OK, I was able to install Linux Mint on a VirtualBox VM, but I was
> > > unable to get the "-vboxvideo" display driver to work properly. I'll
> > > try doing the same with a vanilla Ubuntu VM, and report it.
> >
> > The Ubuntu 9.04 RC VM I installed ran the -vboxvideo display driver
> > perfectly. So I reported a bug with Linux Mint:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/363733
> >
> > Linux Mint seems buggier than Ubuntu.
> >
> > In any case, David (baum_j) - is there a good reason why you're using
> > Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Fedora? If not, you may
> > consider switching to a different distribution.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >  Shlomi Fish
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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>
>
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Group hello,

I have a one line batch file, with its mode set to executable.
The file runs fine when typing its name through the shell - in its proper
directory.
So, if for example the file is:
/home/david/dir/runme
then:
~/dir $ runme
Will successfully run the file.

However:
~/otherDir $ /home/david/dir/runme
Won't work.

Why is that?
How can this be fixed.
I do not wish to copy the batch file to the /usr/bin directory. It is a stupid
shortcut command, that on the long run has no business on wither  /usr/bin, or
/bin directories.

David

On Friday 15 May 2009 04:46:13 baum_j wrote:
> Group hello,
>
> I have a one line batch file, with its mode set to executable.

They are not called "batch files" in UNIX. They are called shell scripts. And
shell scripts need to have the sha-bang at the beginning ("#!/bin/sh" ,
"#!/bin/bash", etc.) to be properly executable. Although sometimes it may work
without it.

> The file runs fine when typing its name through the shell - in its proper
> directory. So, if for example the file is:
> /home/david/dir/runme
> then:
> ~/dir $ runme
> Will successfully run the file.

Generally, putting "." (= the current working directory) in the PATH or
otherwise allowing one to run executables from there is dangerous, because
someone may hijack it to put malicious executables in your current location.
The PATH should only have fully-qualified paths.

What does "echo $PATH" in the shell is telling you?

>
> However:
> ~/otherDir $ /home/david/dir/runme
> Won't work.
>

What error does the shell emit?

> Why is that?

What does "ls -l /home/david/dir/runme" and then "cat /home/david/dir/runme"
tell you?

> How can this be fixed.
> I do not wish to copy the batch file to the /usr/bin directory. It is a
> stupid shortcut command, that on the long run has no business on wither
> /usr/bin, or /bin directories.

Indeed.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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Dear gnubsilers, hello again.
I need some advice, regarding a  mount problem.

I am using a 2 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop - and it mostly functions
greatly.
I run an Ubuntu 8.10 (the latest as far as I know) with a 2.6.27-14-generic
Kernel version (again, latest).

The reason I mentioned having a laptop is the space issue. Having a laptop with
only(?) 80 Gigs mean that storage is a critical issue.
"Historically" this computer came with MS Shitsta installed on it.
When I installed Ubuntu, I initially reserved a 10G partition not be touched by
GParted. Can't remember why...

Now I want this precious HD real-estate, accounting for some 15% of my total
storage.

So I went to GParted, and chose the "ext3" option on this partition /dev/sda2.
I then updated my 'fstab' file accordingly adding the following line:
/dev/sda2    /mnt/data    ext3    defaults    0    2

Following boots, it seems to work well. The problem I have is about a storage
"black hole" regarding this partition.
When the partition is mounted as ext3 (like now) df says it has 155M of occupied
space.
When I 'ls -l' the mount-point, there's nothing there.
In the meanwhile, GParted says that the partition is over 320M occupied.
Now I'm not petty - but 300M is some room for storage, and so are 150M; But most
of all I'm buffeled.
I'm uncertain as to what's going on.
Further more, if I use GParted to format the partition to 'fat32', both df and
GParted agree - that nothing is taken up - or so I understand.

What's going on. What should I do?
P.S. I ran fsck on this partition - it is OK.

(I attached screen outputs showing this blackhole issue)
דוד David

Hagai,

A. Thanks for the info.

B. It seems as if you're right on the spot.
From the moment I set the fs to be vfat,
I get the following fsck message, on each boot:

===FSCK LOG BEGIN===
sck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

fsck died with exit status 8
===FSCK LOG END===

What should I do then: I generally wish for it to be an ext3 fs.
How can I format it to the correct type?





--- In gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com, Hagai Hadad <kopolov@...> wrote:
>
> I have 2 comments:
> 1. The current most up to date Ubuntu version is 9.04 (for the past 2
> months) - code name "Jaunty Jackalope".
> You can also use "ext4" as a file system.
>
> 2. When you mounted those 10G partition, did you specifically marked them to
> be deleted (formatted) before?
> My guess is that the partition table is "not clean" somehow (residues in
> those 10G).
>
> Hagai
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM, David <baum_j@...> wrote:
>
> >   [Attachment(s) <#12222a3318d89931_TopText> from David included below]
> >
> > Dear gnubsilers, hello again.
> > I need some advice, regarding a mount problem.
> >
> > I am using a 2 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop - and it mostly functions
> > greatly.
> > I run an Ubuntu 8.10 (the latest as far as I know) with a 2.6.27-14-generic
> > Kernel version (again, latest).
> >
> > The reason I mentioned having a laptop is the space issue. Having a laptop
> > with only(?) 80 Gigs mean that storage is a critical issue.
> > "Historically" this computer came with MS Shitsta installed on it.
> > When I installed Ubuntu, I initially reserved a 10G partition not be
> > touched by GParted. Can't remember why...
> >
> > Now I want this precious HD real-estate, accounting for some 15% of my
> > total storage.
> >
> > So I went to GParted, and chose the "ext3" option on this partition
> > /dev/sda2.
> > I then updated my 'fstab' file accordingly adding the following line:
> > /dev/sda2 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 0 2
> >
> > Following boots, it seems to work well. The problem I have is about a
> > storage "black hole" regarding this partition.
> > When the partition is mounted as ext3 (like now) df says it has 155M of
> > occupied space.
> > When I 'ls -l' the mount-point, there's nothing there.
> > In the meanwhile, GParted says that the partition is over 320M occupied.
> > Now I'm not petty - but 300M is some room for storage, and so are 150M; But
> > most of all I'm buffeled.
> > I'm uncertain as to what's going on.
> > Further more, if I use GParted to format the partition to 'fat32', both df
> > and GParted agree - that nothing is taken up - or so I understand.
> >
> > What's going on. What should I do?
> > P.S. I ran fsck on this partition - it is OK.
> >
> > (I attached screen outputs showing this blackhole issue)
> > ×"ו×" David
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Hagai Hadad
>

In accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and
Open Source Software will hold the August Penguin conference
( http://august.penguin.org.il/ ) under the auspices of the Hamakor
non-profit organisation  ( http://www.hamakor.org.il/ ).

This year the conference will take place on Friday, 7 August 2009,
starting from 08:30 in teh morning, in the Avner building of the
Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth, Israel. Entrance to the conference costs
30 New Israeli Sheqels (ILS), while members and friends of
Hamakor and the Israeli Internet Society (ISOC) are not required to pay.

So what is going to take place in the conference?

* http://august.penguin.org.il/schedule - talks.

* Giving the "Hamakor Prize".

* http://www.bookcrossing.com/ - Book Crossing stands.

* http://august.penguin.org.il/keysign - a key-signing party.

* Installation Party for owners of OpenMoko/FreeRunner.

* Photo shoot-out.

* Nice atmosphere and friendly geeks.

---

Everyone is welcome to attend the conference, and no pre-registration is
required.


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read.

Hi all!

This is a reminder that in accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli
Free and Open Source Software community will hold the August Penguin
conference ( http://august.penguin.org.il/ ) under the auspices of the Hamakor
non-profit organisation  ( http://www.hamakor.org.il/ ).

This year the conference will take place on Friday, 7 August 2009,
starting from 08:30 in the morning, in the Avner building of the
Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth, Israel. Entrance to the conference costs
30 New Israeli Sheqels (ILS), while members and friends of
Hamakor and the Israeli Internet Society (ISOC) are not required to pay.

So what is going to take place in the conference?

* http://august.penguin.org.il/schedule - talks.

* Giving the "Hamakor Prize".

* http://www.bookcrossing.com/ - Book Crossing stands.

* http://august.penguin.org.il/keysign - a key-signing party.

* Installation Party for owners of OpenMoko/FreeRunner.

* Photo shoot-out.

* Nice atmosphere and friendly geeks.

---

Everyone is welcome to attend the conference. You are encouraged to pay for it
in advance in the Litrom site to save on hassle in the entrance.

Regards,

	 Shlomi Fish

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read.

I try to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and get this message:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
W: GPG error: http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5

Thanks again Hagai - I followed your advice and left the upgrade for a new full
installation - simpler and faster!


--- In gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com, Hagai Hadad <kopolov@...> wrote:
>
> I'd go for full new installation
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, <aviadbarhaim@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks Hagai for the fast reply - I tried to upgrade from the Update
> > Manager and the Synaptic Package Manager - both did not work for me.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Hagai Hadad <kopolov@...>
> > *To:* gnubies-il@yahoogroups.com
> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:47:56 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: [gnubies-il] Cannot upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 -
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > How did you try to upgrade?
> > Disc? Update Manager?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, aviadbarhaim <aviadbarhaim@
yahoo.com<aviadbarhaim@...>
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I try to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and get this message:
> >>
> >> W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpa d.net <http://ppa.launchpad.net>intrepid
Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the
> >> public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
> >> W: GPG error: http://security. ubuntu.com
<http://security.ubuntu.com>intrepid-security Release: The following signatures
couldn't be verified
> >> because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
> >> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.
ubuntu.com<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com>intrepid Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the
> >> public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
> >> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.
ubuntu.com<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com>intrepid-updates Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified
> >> because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
> >> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.
ubuntu.com<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com>intrepid-backports Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified
> >> because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
> >> W: GPG error: http://us.archive.
ubuntu.com<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com>intrepid-proposed Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified
> >> because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Hagai Hadad
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Hagai Hadad
>

OK,
So I had an electricity breakdown, and my secondary hard-disk (/dev/sdb1, ext3),
with all my files, crashed.
What I am getting is (from /var/log/fsck/checkfs ):

Log of fsck -C3 -R -A -a
Sat Aug  8 07:17:53 2009

fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

fsck died with exit status 8

Sat Aug  8 07:17:53 2009
----------------

Any ideas how to proceed?

Well Tomer, I am speaking out of my arse, but why not just do what fsck
suggests?
Why not run
e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdb1
?

Data on drive, is stored in units called blocks - usually very small ones,
usually the size 0.5-4KB each.
So a regular mp3 file, spans thousands of blocks on the drive.
The superblock, is a special block, containing the drive's Metadata - that is,
it contains the drive's ID. If this is lost, you'll have a hard time restoring
your data, though it's possible.
Generally if any block of data is lost, then... Well the data on that block is
obviously lost - and generally speaking so is the file that stores part of its
data on that block.
However, the ext2/3 creators made redundant copies of the superblock. This
copies are stored in known blocks across you hard-drive. As it seems, one of
those is block # 8193.
Running the above suggested command, will tell e2fsck to assume the superblock
is located at block #8193. The first thing it will do, is to go to that block,
and fetch its internal data. If that block seems like a superblock - then e2fsck
will treat it as such, and will copy its contents back to the normal location of
the superblock (usually block 1 or 0). On the next boot (or mount), you'll see
your files back, hopefully.