[vox-tech] Re: please help

[Jonathan Stickel]

Thanks a bunch Pete.  I'll email him off list and encourage him to come 
to our installfest next Saturday.

Jonathan


Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Mike called me.  His home directory was essentially empty [1].  I had him
> read to me the contents of "mount".  Nothing was mounted on /home, as I
> suspected.
> 
> I had him cat out /etc/fstab to learn the partition that /home resides on.
> It was /dev/hda6.  I had him mount /dev/hda6 onto /home, and that seemed to
> work.  He went into KDE and was able to access his homework.
> 
> The laptop has no floppy, but does have a flash card, so he has the means to
> copy his homework to another computer and print it out.  So that takes care
> of the immediate problem.
> 
> I told him to email me a copy of /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages, so
> I'm waiting for that to try to figure out why this problem happened in the
> first place.  I'll report back when I receive these files.
> 
> He also told me that his wireless network card doesn't work on the laptop.
> He was under the impression that he needed to recompile the kernel to get it
> working.  I told him that I seriously doubt a kernel recompile is necessary.
> Turns out he hasn't been to a LUGOD meeting.  I told him that if he took his
> laptop to the next LUGOD meeting, there would be 30 people falling over
> themselves to help get his network card working.
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] He actually created a temporary user while trying to figure out what was
> happening.  Since /home wasn't mounted, the temp user's home directory is
> located in /home (but is not in the /home partition, if you get my drift).
> I didn't tell him to delete the directory because /home was already mounted
> at that point, and I didn't want him to change anything until his homework
> is safe and sound on another machine.
> 
> 
> On Fri 11 Mar 05,  9:13 AM, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal.net> said:
> 
>>I just called Mike to see if I could help him quickly by phone.  It 
>>seems like his home directory has disappeared, and he says a file system 
>>check did not fix things.  This is probably outside the scope of my 
>>expertise.  Is someone able to help him?
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
>>
>>Michael Siminitus wrote:
>>
>>>1- Michael Siminitus, [address, phone removed] – call anytime -ASAP 
>>>please
>>>
>>>2- see full specs at: 
>>>http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/200ARC/3501609sp83.shtml
>>>
>>>2- Mandrake 10.
>>>
>>>3- I cannot log on, except as root or the new user I created. The error 
>>>I keep getting is:
>>>* There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. 
>>>The message returned by the system was:
>>>Could not read network connection list.
>>>//.DCOPserver_localhost_0
>>>Please check that the “dcopserver” program is running
>>>
>>>4- sorry, it's on my laptop and I can't retype that whole thing.
>>>
>>>5- I have a paper trapped in the machine I need to turn in tomorrow. I 
>>>don't know if it is possible, but it would be GREAT if I could bring the 
>>>laptop to someone tomorrow morning who could help out.
> 
>