Re: Reporting bugs for unofficially support ports (powerpc in particular)?

2007-09-30 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Michael R. Head wrote: I've been trying to report a bug about an app on the powerpc architecture ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpar2/+bug/146606 ). It's been marked invalid because it occurs on powerpc, even after assigning it to the PowerPC team. I'd still like to try and get

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Reordering this mail to put the important topic on top. On 9/28/07, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, in sleep-to-disk mode you can even pull the power plug without enforcing booting. Yep, sleep-to-disk is the best mode if you care about your environment, but if you want to suggest

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Peeks
On 27/09/2007, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a temporary cosmetic work-around, something like forcing the output into a pseudo-window on the boot screen (so that it doesn't look like the whole thing crashed to command line) might be nice, e.g.: u b u n t u

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
On 30/09/2007, Martin Peeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/09/2007, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a temporary cosmetic work-around, something like forcing the output into a pseudo-window on the boot screen (so that it doesn't look like the whole thing crashed to command line)

recovery CD?

2007-09-30 Thread Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby
Hi, I made a fresh install on a laptop I am going to give to a dummy (on computer) person. I would like to know if there is some way to create a recovery CD of the installation. I installed some restricted drivers and that person would be unable to do so. Especially after a disaster. I would

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Tygier
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: Are there any alternatives? Here are two examples: one alternative is fsck at shut down. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck sam tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:46 +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: I once reported a bug about this, but Justin Wray suggested that I discuss this on a mailing list, first. Curious. I filed a bug about disabling periodic fscks (as most other operating system like Windows 95 and above along with OSX

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Thilo Six
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote the following on 30.09.2007 19:14 On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:46 +0200, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: I once reported a bug about this, but Justin Wray suggested that I discuss this on a mailing list, first. Curious. I filed a bug about disabling periodic fscks (as most other

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 9/30/07, Thilo Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umount the partition and *then* run: $ sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY that will reduce fsck period to once a month, regarless of bootcount. But do that on your on. Distribution wide i can´t think off any good reason to disable fsck at all.

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Waldemar Kornewald wrote: On 9/30/07, Thilo Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umount the partition and *then* run: $ sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY that will reduce fsck period to once a month, regarless of bootcount. But do that on your on.