Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 31 January 2016 18:07:39 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Then the kernel panicked again. > > Any clue in the message? Not really, just a read error on a block number. I don't think it's the same block each time. > I'd make installation as simple as possible, and self-contained, i.e. no >

Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

2016-01-31 Thread Peter Merchant
On 31/01/16 19:08, Victor Churchill wrote: Hi Peter, It sounds a bit odd that your dolphin utility is sayingthe file already exists. Perhaps from the command line you could say ...$ cd ~/WhereItShouldBe ...$ ls -al \*XXX\* or ...$ find . -name \*XXX\* where XXX is a string you expect to see in

Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

2016-01-31 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi Peter, It sounds a bit odd that your dolphin utility is sayingthe file already exists. Perhaps from the command line you could say ...$ cd ~/WhereItShouldBe ...$ ls -al \*XXX\* or ...$ find . -name \*XXX\* where XXX is a string you expect to see in the file name. Following on from Andrew's

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Then the kernel panicked again. Any clue in the message? > have now found the entry in lsusb Excellent. > So my Pi isn't dead (which makes more sense, but cannot reliably read > from the SD Card. I'd make installation as simple as possible, and self-contained, i.e. no networking

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > It's still worth reading that trouble-shooting thread, the one that > > says that, at the time of writing, none of the Zeroes returned as > > faulty have been faulty, and they all go through factory testing. > > :-) Includes booting without an SD card to observe USB activity on > >

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:25:13 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Does sound a bit dead then. Has it been connected to any test circuitry > yet? :-) Yes. It has also been seen to work controlling the PWM and other light, but then it failed to read the SD Card again. As already mentioned, this

[Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

2016-01-31 Thread Peter Merchant
This morning I ran freefilesync as a backup program, but didn't have it configured correctly. It has deleted some files and now my system is totally not as I intended it. I can get into dolphin and see all the files in the wastebasket, but every time I try to restore a file it tells me that

Re: [Dorset] Help please with deleted files.

2016-01-31 Thread Andrew
If it's of any help, on my system the 'Rubbish Bin' is located here: ~/.local/share/Trash/ -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-02-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Yes. It has also been seen to work controlling the PWM and other > light, but then it failed to read the SD Card again. As already > mentioned, this device will *sometimes* work with a newly written SD > Card, but rarely after the first boot. As if the act of running corrupts the

Re: [Dorset] Anyone got a Raspberry Pi Zero that they could lend me?

2016-01-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:57:01 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > As if the act of running corrupts the card? Exactly. The very first time I ran it, I had a read error while the installation was ongoing (about one third of the way through copying from the installation partition to the root