Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10950] [Tip] Access your accounts(Gmail/Facebook.. etc., )as diff users on the same web browser

2010-12-24 Thread Sagar Belure
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tha.Suresh jemenisur...@gmail.com wrote: Multiple sign is possible in gmail from quite a long back. I agree. But what about other sites, like banking/social network sites.!!! Yup. That was just FYI. Also, information provided by you was nice. Appreciate it.

[ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Rakesh Kumar
Hi, One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update the ubuntu (as she told me) then shut down her laptop (ubuntu not asked to restart). When after few hours she tried to turn on her laptop it couldn't be loaded showing an error message The disk drive for / is not ready yet

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update my observation rule number one 1) never upgrade Ubuntu , always reinstall.. rule number two 2) never install Ubuntu without making a proper data

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update my observation rule number one 1) never upgrade Ubuntu

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Narendra Sisodiya said on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:39:53PM +0530,: 2) never install Ubuntu without making a proper data backup A slightly better way would be to have /home/ under a different partition; and while re-installing, tell the installer to use the specific partition, without

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread A. Mani
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update the ubuntu (as she told me) then shut down her laptop (ubuntu not asked to restart). When after few hours she tried to turn on her laptop it

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Rakesh Kumar said on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:20:01PM +0530,: As i could think that may be grub couldn't be updated due to incorrect parameters or may kernel couldn't be updated properly. I think she should delete the grub by using : dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=256 count=1 or

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread A. Mani
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Rakesh Kumar said on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:20:01PM +0530,:       As i could think that may be grub couldn't be updated due to   incorrect parameters or may kernel couldn't be updated properly.     I think she should

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-24 Thread Aman Thakur
Hi Rakesh, I agree with the Mahesh in his both the above messages. I think there should be a different /home partition. And for fixing your broken ubuntu system, you should try to go in rescue mode and reinstall the grub. If unsuccessfull then try to goto into the grub command line fix it as