Last week my Ubuntu server stopped booting up, leaving me with a message "Ubuntu is in low-graphics mode" message, which only let me access the console. With some help from members of the Ubuntu forum, I managed to get it up and running again, although the cause and the fallout remain.
I found the reason my system would reboot was that my top level media folder had swelled, taking up the remaining capacity of my HDD. This seemed odd for 2 reasons: 1- My music collection takes up no where near the full capacity of the drive and 2) My Music folder sits in the "home" folder, not the "media" folder. Here are screenshots of what I found: Firstly, a single folder lies just below the media folder, which has a title that's a string of numbers: http://i54.tinypic.com/15mek94.jpg Within the media folder, are further folders, which appear to be created automatically on a periodic basis (as they're dated). I think the dates might coincide with when periodic system updates were made: http://i51.tinypic.com/2nauptw.jpg Many but not all of the sub folders contain tarballs. One of the people on the Ubuntu forum remarked this is odd - that the top level media folder shouldn't actually contain large folders, just links. So I'm not sure what's happening here. Here's an example: http://i51.tinypic.com/or04ya.jpg Each of the folders is quite different. Some have tarballs. Others don't. Some tarballs are large (132gb). Others are small (2gb). I can't see any sort of pattern to them. So I I try to open the tarballs, but I finally get an error message: > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file. > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > Removing one of the tarballs to free up space allowed me to update the system and it now boots fine. But my Squeezebox media server interface is totally up the spout. When I use the web interface (using localhost on port 9000)I get a message "Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:9000. When I use the remotes, the displays have all changed to another format and cannot access the Music folder (although my Favourites, which contained only internet radio stations still appear). I've no idea why/how this would have changed all the settings! Very weird. I wish there was some way I could wind back the clock to an earlier set of settings! Is there? And can anyone explain why this has happened and a solution to avoid having this recur. -- Gus Gus ------------------------- 4 x SB3 Firmware: -127 running SC 7.4- OS: -Ubuntu 10.04- Motherboard: -Asus P5G41-M LX- Router: -WRT54G- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82338 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
