Yesterday I wrote that my swap partition suddenly vanished, only to find out that suddenly my swap partition was mounted twice. “top” showed twice the amount of swap space available and “cat /proc/swaps” listed two entries to the same swap partition (/dev/sda6 and /dev/mapper/sda6). This seems to be a bug in Ubuntu Feisty and the [...]
When checking ‘top’ after I was told that I have no memory anymore I found out that I had no swap drive anymore. Must have gone lost when I switched to Ubuntu Feisty. Anyway, I found a description to re-initiate the swap drive: First find out which partition your swap drive is, e.g. with ‘sudo [...]
I kept getting these error message during the boot process and also after issuing the command ‘sudo update-initramfs -u’: W: mdadm: unchecked configuration file: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf W: mdadm: please read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz . W: mdadm: no arrays defined in configuration file. W: mdadm: falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs. The mdadm-package is needed for software raid [...]
Though you can usually install most programs in Linux comfortably with the package manager of you Linux distribution (rpm, deb, etc.), sometimes you need to compile something from source. For example gnuplot in Debian/Ubuntu has the readline functionality not compiled in, which makes it rather hard to use. But I’m somewhat reluctant to install these [...]
I installed today Ubuntu Server Edition 7.04 on one of my machines and here practically nothing is installed. Therefore for example X11 forwarding doesn’t work if you remotely log in with “ssh -X” (after you installed openssh-server . So, if you start a X11 program you get e.g.: xterm Xt error: Can’t open display: xterm: [...]
The new album of Clara Luzia “The long memory” was the Album of the week in FM4 in the first week of May. The song “Morning light” is a very good song, well arranged and produced – it’s just a wonderful song. There is also a video of this song which was published at youtube: [...]
