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		<title>ls : short and slightly odd (bit like me)&#8230; .</title>
		<link>http://da.mned.co.uk/2011/01/ls-short-and-slightly-odd-bit-like-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collegue pings me this morning to say he is having a bit of an odd time with a script erroring out, no problem I think. This is the simplified version as in the setup we saw this we had &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2011/01/ls-short-and-slightly-odd-bit-like-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A collegue pings me this morning to say he is having a bit of an odd time with a script erroring out,  no problem I think.  This is the simplified version as in the setup we saw this we had long paths and remote filesystems to lure us down blind alleys of permissions etc.   We look at the log and it says (rebuilt a dummy setup of a layout that will show the issue so ignore the 0 file sizes) :</p>
<p><code>FATAL: No such file or directory opening: < /home/tig/test/1043_states.txt<br />
</code><br />
Bit obvious I thought,  and then it gets odd,  he then runs :</p>
<p><code>ls /home/tig/test/1043_states.txt<br />
ls: cannot access /home/tig/test/1043_states.txt: No such file or directory<br />
</code><br />
Makes sense</p>
<p><code>tig@ubuntu:~/test$ ls -la<br />
total 0<br />
drwxr-xr-x 6 tig tig 592 2011-01-27 10:08 .<br />
drwxr-xr-x 6 tig tig 856 2011-01-27 10:07 ..<br />
drwxr-xr-x 2 tig tig 160 2011-01-27 10:07 1031_001<br />
drwxr-xr-x 2 tig tig 160 2011-01-27 10:07 1033_001<br />
drwxr-xr-x 2 tig tig 232 2011-01-27 10:09 1043_001<br />
-rw-r--r-- 1 tig tig   0 2011-01-27 10:08 1043.bar<br />
-rw-r--r-- 1 tig tig   0 2011-01-27 10:08 1043.foo<br />
drwxr-xr-x 2 tig tig 160 2011-01-27 10:08 2057_002<br />
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<p>All looks fine, the file is just not there, but he then says, "if I do" :</p>
<p><code>tig@ubuntu:~/test$ ls -la  /home/tig/test/1043_*<br />
total 0<br />
drwxr-xr-x 2 tig tig 232 2011-01-27 10:09 .<br />
drwxr-xr-x 6 tig tig 592 2011-01-27 10:08 ..<br />
-rw-r--r-- 1 tig tig   0 2011-01-27 10:09 1043_state.txt</code></p>
<p>Pardon? wtf did that come from? He then did  :</p>
<p><code>tig@ubuntu:~/test$ ls /home/tig/test/*.txt<br />
ls: cannot access /home/tig/test/*.txt: No such file or directory<br />
</code></p>
<p>ls,  bless it's little cotton socks has been helpful... it was only when I did  (note I removed the underscore) :<br />
<code>tig@ubuntu:~/test$ ls /home/tig/test/1043*<br />
/home/tig/test/1043.bar  /home/tig/test/1043.foo</p>
<p>/home/tig/test/1043_001:<br />
1043_state.txt</code></p>
<p>Do we see what is going on,  ls matched the 1043_  with the 1043_001 directory and then hides it and shows you the matching result from within it,  if only seems to be if there is a match in the current directory (or more than one matching directory) does it actually tell you the directory it is in...   </p>
<p>All this before I had chance to put the kettle on... </p>
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		<title>ADW.Launcher Crash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADW.Launcher is a wonderful application that replaces the home screen on Android and for us poor G1 owners, adds loads of features found in later versions of Android This morning I turned my phone on and nothing, black blank screen, &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2010/06/adw-launcher-crash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ADW.Launcher is a wonderful application that replaces the home screen on Android and for us poor G1 owners, adds loads of features found in later versions of Android <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>This morning I turned my phone on and nothing,  black blank screen, there is the status bar but nothing else <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  Could not load any apps or anything!  HELP!</p>
<p>At this point I thought I was going to have to do a hard reset to get it back.  Fortunately I decided to put it down and have a think before doing anything rash.    What I needed to do was get into the Settings menu, but how?   </p>
<p>The keyboard shortcuts was the key (if you forgive the pun) sadly there is no shortcut to the settings but it can be done.</p>
<p>Slide the keyboard out and press the Menu key and the B key.  This brings up the browser,  then press the search key (magnifying glass) button twice,  this brings up the Search dialog box then type in Settings.  Then a drop down search results box will appear and then you can select &#8220;Settings (Application)&#8221;.  Then go into Applications -> ADW.Launcher and then in the Defaults part,  click the Clear Defaults option.  Then when you press the home button you can select Home instead of ADW.Launcher <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Hurrah!  </p>
<p>I then re-installed ADW.Launcher and everything is back to normal,  lost the ADW.Launcher settings but I would rather have that that a hard reset.</p>
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		<title>BackupExec RALUS Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This had me tearing my hair out&#8230;. Jobs on some OpenSuSE machines were failing with : Job ended: 14 June 2010 at 14:31:02 Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe00084af &#8211; The directory or file was not found, or could not &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2010/06/backupexec-ralus-woes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This had me tearing my hair out&#8230;.   Jobs on some OpenSuSE machines were failing with :</p>
<blockquote><p>Job ended: 14 June 2010 at 14:31:02<br />
Completed status: Failed<br />
Final error: 0xe00084af &#8211; The directory or file was not found, or could not be accessed.<br />
Final error category: Job Errors</p>
<p>For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-33967
</p></blockquote>
<p>and on a diff server :</p>
<blockquote><p>
Job ended: 14 June 2010 at 00:51:39<br />
Completed status: Failed<br />
Final error: 0xe0008488 &#8211; Access is denied.<br />
Final error category: Security Errors</p>
<p>For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-33928</p>
<p>Errors<br />
Click an error below to locate it in the job log<br />
Backup- \\192.168.199.200\[ROOT] V-79-57344-33928 &#8211; Access is denied.<br />
Access denied to directory /.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Security errors?  Access is denied?    After a bit of digging I then went to the Backup Sources selection and tried to check credentials.   This oddly connected to the machine but then on the next line failed to connect to the selection (v.odd especially as it uses the same connection for both).   Anyhoo,  after much hair pulling I discover that an NFS share,  <strong>that is not part of any backup selection</strong>,  was unmounted (it was non-production and I had taken it offline to do some work on it).    This makes the RALUS agent fail.   Interestingly it is not quite as clean cut as this as on one server it got about half way through before failing and on another it fails immediately with a &#8220;security error&#8221;! </p>
<p>So if you have any of the above messages,   check for missing mounted disks or drives and make sure they are properly unmounted and also comment them out of /etc/fstab just incase.   </p>
<p>I know I should have done that anyway before doing the maintainance but I in hindsight,  if anything is going to bite you it will be RALUS/BackupExec <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Grepping Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well that was a tad embarrassing I thought I had lost the ability to grep. All I wanted to do was find any instances of jt1.name in files in the current directory, simple I thought : grep jt1.name * Nope &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2010/03/grepping-hell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that was a tad embarrassing I thought I had lost the ability to grep.  All I wanted to do was find any instances of jt1.name in files in the current directory,   simple I thought :<br />
<code>grep jt1.name *</code></p>
<p>Nope<br />
That returned loads of hits that didn&#8217;t match at all eg : </p>
<p><code><br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/commit.php:$from_dir = clean_path(remove_file_extension($install_file) . "-restore");<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store the meta data for the original file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store the meta data for the new file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store the meta data for the custom file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store an associative array contianing all the fields that are used in the original meta data file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store an associative array contianing all the fields that are used in the new meta data file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store an associative array contianing all the fields that are used in the custom meta data file<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * this will store an associative array contianing all the merged fields<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/SugarMerge/EditViewMerge.php:	 * Merges the fields together and stores them in $this->mergedFields<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/preflight.php:	//Check the current and target versions and store them in session variables<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/silentUpgrade.php://look for session vars there and restore them<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_ajax.php:		$desc .= $persistence['uw_restore_dir']."\n\n";<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php: * Backs-up files that are targeted for patch/upgrade to a restore directory<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:	// create restore file directory<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:		$_SESSION['uw_restore_dir'] = clean_path($rest_dir);<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:			// get name of current file to place in restore directory<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:			// only copy restore files for replacements - ignore new files from patch<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:		$desc .= $_SESSION['uw_restore_dir'] . "\n\n";<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:	if(isset($_SESSION['uw_restore_dir']))<br />
modules/UpgradeWizard/uw_utils.php:		unset($_SESSION['uw_restore_dir']);<br />
modules/Meetings/Meeting.php:// Meeting is used to store customer information.<br />
</code></p>
<p>Pages of this came up.   When I found the culprit I nearly fell off my chair,  some fluffy-kittening person at SugarCRM decided that when doing an upgrade they would make a backup unfortunately they made an interesting choice of names&#8230; </p>
<p><code><br />
drwxrws---  3 www-data www-data     4096 Jan 12 10:42 -restore<br />
drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data     4096 Mar  9 16:43 .<br />
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root         4096 Jan 23  2009 ..<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data      342 Mar  9 16:43 .htaccess<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data     2535 Mar  9 16:43 HandleAjaxCall.php<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data      155 Dec 17  2008 INSTALLATION.txt<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data    35147 Dec 17  2008 LICENSE.txt<br />
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data www-data     4096 Oct 22 14:52 ModuleInstall<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data     5075 Dec 17  2008 SugarSecurity.php<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data     5590 Dec 17  2008 TreeData.php<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data     2488 Mar  9 16:43 WebToLeadCapture.php<br />
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data     4096 Dec 17  2008 XTemplate<br />
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data     2490 Dec 17  2008 acceptDecline.php<br />
drwxr-xr-x 17 www-data www-data     4096 Mar  9 16:44 cache<br />
</code></p>
<p>That explains why it recursed too&#8230;.   I didn&#8217;t think you could add flags after the search string&#8230;  </p>
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		<title>Openfire Increasing Java Memory Limits Debian/Ubuntu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Openfire ships with a 64Meg  JVM limit which is fine for testing purposes but you may find that you are using it all up.    I went round the forums a few times and found conflicting advice. Anyhoo the instructions were &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2010/01/openfire-increasing-java-memory-limits-debianubuntu/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Openfire ships with a 64Meg  JVM limit which is fine for testing purposes but you may find that you are using it all up.    I went round the forums a few times and found conflicting advice.</p>
<p>Anyhoo the instructions were close but seemed to give one massive red-herring which was they kept talking about OPENFIRE_OPTS in /etc/defaults/openfire which did not exist,   add it your self and Openfire will ignore it.    Where the data needs to go is in DEAMON_OPTS.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short you need to make /etc/defaults/openfire look like :</p>
<blockquote><p># Defaults for openfire initscript<br />
# sourced by /etc/init.d/openfire<br />
# installed at /etc/default/openfire by the maintainer scripts</p>
<p>#<br />
# This is a POSIX shell fragment<br />
#</p>
<p># Additional options that are passed to the Daemon.<br />
DAEMON_OPTS=&#8221;-Xms256m -Xmx512m&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This will tell the JRE to use a minimum of 256Meg RAM and limit it to 512Meg.</p>
<p>Hope this helps <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3>A quick note on RedHat x64 from Mike (Hi Mike <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  )<br />
(slightly edited from an Openfire conversation for clarity and so it makes sense without the other bits!)</h3>
<blockquote><p>you said that on Ubuntu the default OPENFIRE_OPTS didn&#8217;t work and you had to change it to DAEMON_OPTS, OPENFIRE_OPTS works fine on CentOS 6.0 x64</p></blockquote>
<p>also</p>
<blockquote><p>I had to add libldb.i686 for openfire to work on CentOS-64 bit. 32-bit was fine, just the 64-bit version required it</p></blockquote>
<p>Cheers Mike,  so just leave it alone for CentOS but install libldb.i686 if you are running the 64 bit version.</p>
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		<title>OpenFire XMPP Server on Debian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked today to set up an IM server for internal use,   originally they were specifying Windows messanger but I was able to suggest we try a proper standards based system instead So I need a server,  a few &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2009/07/openfire-xmpp-server-on-debian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was asked today to set up an IM server for internal use,   originally they were specifying Windows messanger but I was able to suggest we try a proper standards based system instead <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So I need a server,  a few clicks in the Proxmox interface ( a rather nice way of handling OpenVZ virtualisation) and I have a new blank Debian lenny box already to play with.</p>
<p>Added the non-free option to the apt repository (as we will need the Sun JRE) and off we go <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />    Apt decided to moan about :</p>
<pre>W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public
key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B</pre>
<p>Which was solved by this post <a href="http://linux.com/community/blogs/Debian-Upgrading-to-Lenny-ERROR-no-public-key-available-for-the-following....html">here</a> <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>A quick :</p>
<pre>apt-get install debian-archive-keyring</pre>
<p>and off we go again <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Next stop is the Java monster,  mercifully simple to install nowadays:</p>
<pre>apt-get install sun-java6-jre</pre>
<p>Next we grab the latest openfire deb,   then install:</p>
<pre>dpkg -i openfire_3.6.4_all.deb</pre>
<p>Which seemed to be too painless&#8230;</p>
<p>Fire up the Wizard on port 9090 from a browser and you are done <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>LRL2009 PIMP IT!</title>
		<link>http://da.mned.co.uk/2009/06/lrl2009-pimp-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes ladies, gentlemen and chinny racoons,  LRL 2009 is scheduled for : To put this countdown on your site is simple,  just copy and paste the following code : &#60;a href="http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/" target="_blank"&#62;&#60;img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://da.mned.co.uk/stuff/lrl/lrl_countdown.png" alt="Lugradio Live 2009, &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2009/06/lrl2009-pimp-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes ladies, gentlemen and chinny racoons,  LRL 2009 is scheduled for :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://da.mned.co.uk/stuff/lrl/lrl_countdown.png" alt="Lugradio Live 2009, 24th October 2009,  Newhampton Arts Centre Wolvehampton" width="237" height="251" /></a></p>
<p>To put this countdown on your site is simple,  just copy and paste the following code :</p>
<pre>&lt;a href="http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 0pt none ;"
src="http://da.mned.co.uk/stuff/lrl/lrl_countdown.png"
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		<title>Ubuntu on the Eeee battery life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the battery monitor app either needs housetraining or something as it bounces up and down more than I do 10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again Currently &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2008/11/ubuntu-on-the-eeee-battery-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well the battery monitor app either needs housetraining or something as it bounces up and down more than I do <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Currently :</p>
<blockquote><p>tigger@eee:~$ uptime<br />
12:13:00 up  2:39,  2 users,  load average: 0.66, 0.50, 0.47</p></blockquote>
<p>This is sitting in the pub (tea and orange juice sadly) waiting for my car to be fixed.  So well over two and a half hours of wibbling and wifi on a low backlight and it has not run out yet.  Battery monitor still says 10% remaining but now thinks that will only last 5 mins!</p>
<p>Something is amiss here <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>edit : right in the end it lasted about 3 hours or so but then died with no warning just a sudden power off.   It had warned me I was low on power earlier but not right at the end.  It might be that it has not had time to profile the power use yet but although it is a bit flakey it seems to be slightly more useful than the Xandros one which I never did trust.</p>
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		<title>Silly Ibex wont start X</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meh my Eeee had just decided that it did not want to start X due to an internal error. A most odd occurrence and after a bit of digging I found the culprit, a read only file system. It seems &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2008/11/silly-ibex-wont-start-x/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meh my Eeee had just decided that it did not want to start X due to an internal error.   A most odd occurrence and after a bit of digging I found the culprit,  a read only file system.  </p>
<p>It seems my disk had a couple of errors on it and thus had been mounted read only.    A quick sudo up to root privs and brisk fsck later,  reboot and done <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>One of those things I suppose&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Intrepid Ibex on the Eee701</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being quite happy with the default install of Xandros on my Eee701 that I have been using for nearly a year now I have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu on it, partly to standardise (all my other desktop &#8230; <a href="http://da.mned.co.uk/2008/11/intrepid-ibex-on-the-eee701/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite being quite happy with the default install of Xandros on my Eee701 that I have been using for nearly a year now I have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu on it, partly to standardise (all my other desktop role machines are running Ubuntu) and also because there were a few features I missed from Ubuntu/Gnome when using Xandros,  mainly network manager and decent battery status reporting <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Ubuntu on the Eee has been around for ages but there seemed to be a whole raft of little spin off projects dedicated to it.   After much consideration I decided to go with the stock image and the patches from http://eee.ricey.co.uk  <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Followed the install notes and it all worked flawlessly which was a relief as earlier versions of Ubuntu needed a bit of tweaking to get running,  but I am pleased to report it is all running fine <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Boot up time is not quite as fast as the stunning boot up time of xandros but it seems ok and I might have a go at tweaking it a bit to shave a few seconds off the boot time <img src='http://da.mned.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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