Latest updates broke my E

[Karl Larsen]

On 08/06/2010 03:19 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:45 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
>    
>> On 08/06/2010 01:10 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>      
>>> 2010/8/6 Billie Walsh<bilwalsh at swbell.net>:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 08/06/2010 12:50 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On 08/06/2010 11:32 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> On 08/06/2010 11:56 AM, Martin Webster wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:34 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>> I tried to boot my EeePC and it did a disk check and reported that
>>>>>>>> "/temp is not ready or not present". Tried to boot different kernels
>>>>>>>> with the same result. There was an option to manually attempt to fix
>>>>>>>> or skip. Skip didn't work so I tried manual fix figuring that maybe
>>>>>>>> just creating /temp might fix it. Returns that /temp cannot be
>>>>>>>> created.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>> First, do you mean /temp or /tmp? If it's the later it could be that
>>>>>>> your /tmp partition is full and is preventing things from working
>>>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IIRC you should be able to skip the disk check and boot into Ubuntu. Do
>>>>>>> this and then check /tmp for space.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> If I recall it was "temp" but then again I may have read "temp" when it
>>>>>> said tmp.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Either way "Skip" just drops into a little flashing "_" and nothing
>>>>>> else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>>           I have no idea what EeePC is but I can say that the new kernel
>>>>> did nothing bad to my Ubuntu 10.04 computer. Must be a problem with
>>>>> your added stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> An EeePC is an Asus Netbook computer. Atom Processor, 64 gig SSHD and 2
>>>> gigs memory.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Then you don't have the same as I. Mine is an Eee PC 900, and it
>>> doesn't have the Atom processor. The SSHD is 16 GB and RAM is 1 GiB.
>>>
>>>        
>> Mine is a 900A. I upgraded the SSHD and memory. It was originally 16 gig
>> SSHD and 1 gig memory.
>>
>>      
> and my 701 has a Celeron processor, 4GB SSD and 512MB memory - and still
> runs Karmic OK! (with no swap even).
>
>    
>>>
>>>        
>>>> The updates didn't do anything to my Desktop and full size laptop either.
>>>>
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>    
         I just did my laptop with 2GB RAM and 160GB HD and the updates 
caused no problems You may have a hardware problem. Those are hard to 
fix :-)


73 Karl


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