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Richard C. Steffens | 18 May 2013 23:40
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"Gave up waiting for root device."

I installed 12.04 on a Dell Dimension 2400 that has a PCI card driving a 
SATA hard drive. When I boot I get the following error message:

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/82df63b6-8b97-4287-ae1b-db29565f5370 does not 
exist.
Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4.1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

I'm assuming that the problem is GRUB is not finding the SATA device 
(although that is just a guess on my part). What do I have to do to get 
this box to boot?

Thanks.

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John Jason Jordan | 18 May 2013 05:25
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Strangely frozen desktop

I have a desktop computer that streams internet radio all day for me
(Xubuntu 12.04 x86_64, freshly installed several months ago).
Just now I decided to shut off the radio and watch a movie with VLC.
However, while the mouse moves around, it will not click. And I notice
that the clock says 2:47 PM, when it is really 7:57 pm. The keyboard is
also not operational. But the weird thing is that the radio continues to
play. I assume that means that it is just X that has locked up. 

This is about the third time that this has happened. As I recall, last
time there were no messages in /var/log/messages or in Xorg messages.
However, this time I know it happened at 2:47 pm, not that that
information is much help.

Without a keyboard or a mouse I'm going to have to reboot. This is
annoying. The video is just GeForce 6150, pretty vanilla, and I'm using
just the default nouveau driver; never installed anything else. I'm
wondering if it's time to bid Ubuntu goodbye and go to something else
that has an xfce flavor. I'm tired of constant updates and breakages
that I can't diagnose. Any suggestions?
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Darren Heiber | 17 May 2013 22:02

Free Geek hiring Production Supervisor

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Rich Shepard | 17 May 2013 19:33
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Clinic Sunday?

   The subject is the message.

   If there is a Sunday clinic I'll bring my BanQ projector.

Rich

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Marvin Kosmal | 15 May 2013 05:41
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fstab question

Hi

My home partition is running out of room..

I am a home2 and that seems work and mount on boot..

I change home2 and home.   Computer wouldn't boot..

What did I do wrong

Here is my fstab.

proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ba7d065f-acbe-45d8-9e20-31a968791acb /               ext4
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c2fde081-f707-49b8-945a-74385579e34e /boot           ext4
defaults        0       2
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=cc988f90-e695-4e20-9838-83e93fd5ecff /home           ext4
defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=168dd5fa-5a3a-47bc-af49-506dcdccc311 none            swap
sw              0       0
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=c671c15f-a227-4060-91fd-1b1c5eda48d1 none            swap
sw              0       0
#  added uuid for /home2
UUID=25e823d6-8b55-4c61-ad28-2e58afc46d44 /home2      ext4      defaults
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Benjamin Kerensa | 15 May 2013 01:05
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Clackamas Library Xubuntu Troubleshooting Talk

There is a free Xubuntu Troubleshooting Talk at the Clackamas County
Library tonight starting at 6:30pm to 7:30pm that I will be giving if
you want to come and learn some ways to troubleshoot Xubuntu common
problems and get help.

Where: 13793 SE Sieben Park Way  Clackamas, OR 97015

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Smith, Cathy | 14 May 2013 00:48

need help with Apache HTTP_REFERER

Hi

I need to configure my Apache web server to redirect an incoming request if it¹s not from a specific web
site.  I¹ve been trying unsuccessfully to use the HTTP_REFERER to do this.   Most of the discussion I¹ve
found about this involves the prevention of hotlinking.  My webserver a RHEL5 box running RHEL5 Apache 2.2.3.

This is what I want to do:
        Request from www.foo.com<http://www.foo.com> goes to the web site.
        Request from anyone else gets an html page that essentially says you have to be registered to access the web site.

Here is the original VirtualHost definition:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule   ^/$  /training/who/cgi-bin/login [R]

    ServerName example.org

    DocumentRoot /apps/example/training/www/Root/who

    ScriptAlias /training/who/cgi-bin/ "/apps/example/training/www/Root/who/cgi-bin/"
    ScriptAlias /training/cgi-bin/     "/apps/example/training/www/Root/who/cgi-bin/"
    Alias       /training              "/apps/example/training/www/Root"
    <Directory "/apps/example/training/www/">
       AllowOverride All
       Options +FollowSymlinks +Indexes
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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David Fleck | 11 May 2013 16:42

LibreOffice spreadsheet question...

I don't use spreadsheets very often, so my cell-formula-fu is quite 
limited.  I'm trying to come up with a way of having a cell (let's call it 
'A1') contain the value of another cell.  That other cell will be the last 
occupied column of row 1, and it will vary over time.  So sometimes I want 
A1 to contain the value of E1, because that's the last occupied column; 
but other times it should contain the value of W1, because that is the 
last occupied column.  I rummaged through the Help, but didn't see 
anything that obviously solved my problem.

Can this be done?

If so, can someone explain how?

Thanks in advance.

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Jenny Mahmoudi | 10 May 2013 18:32
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Sysadmin feedback needed on managing software updates: earn $50 on Amazon.com

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Michael Dexter | 9 May 2013 02:32

Announcement: May PLUG Advanced Topics: flashrd+nsh OpenBSD Network Appliances

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: Jacob Riddle
What: The KURB Kernel/UseRspace Bridge for Linux
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Jacob Riddle will discuss the KURB (Kernel/UseRspace Bridge) project.
The goal of KURB is a kernel independent driver subsystem for Linux. The
talk will include the architecture of KURB, the reasons for KURB, and
how to get involved.

Jacob Riddle is in the Game Development program at Lane Community
College. Prior to that he was a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy. He
as a passion for all things Computer Science with a particular focus on
Artificial Intelligence and kernel operations.

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250463770

PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux

See you there!

Michael Dexter
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Michael Rasmussen | 4 May 2013 17:23
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Apache virtual hosts not working for ServerAlias names

Cluestick?

Given this configuration:

    NameVirtualHost *:80
    Listen 80

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName default.example.com
    </VirtualHost>
    <VirtualHost *:80>
            ServerName    www.example.net
            ServerAlias   testy.example.net
    </VirtualHost>
    <VirtualHost *:80>
            ServerName    www.example.org
            ServerAlias   new.example.org
    </VirtualHost>

Requests for www.* are served as I expect, the page(s) for the .net and .org sites are delivered.

However requests for the ServerAliases, new.example.org and testy.example.net, are fufilled from default.example.com

This is on Apache 2.2.22 A similar config is working as expected on an Apache 2.2.8 installation.

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