Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-15 Thread JD Austin
Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704 What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still get about 10 errors like the

Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-15 Thread Michael Butash
Things like that have always been hardware or acpi/bios errors for me, basically power management is broken. You can remove whatever hardware you can (or disable it at a bios level), and try looking for a bios upgrade. Maybe force APM mode and/or disable ACPI as JD said via kernel or bios.

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-15 Thread Dazed_75
Thanks Matt, Sorry for the delay, yesterday was nuts. I was able to dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success and the with Archive Manager which gave me an error that it

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-15 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com I was able to dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success It's definitely a data DVD of some type, then. Lastly I used hd [to write]