Using proper, 64-bit intrepid packages. Originally had 2.1.0 installed. When 2.1.2 came out, I upgraded with no problems. When 2.1.4 came out, upgraded with no problems.
This morning, I upgraded the flashplayer-nonfree package, as it was mentioned as a security update. I also edited a few photos in my home folder (separate partition from root) from Vista using http://www.fs-driver.org/ to access the partition.
Ever since, I have had some really weird symptoms:
1. Upon first reboot after using Vista, it said there was an unclean shutdown and ran an fsck. didn't find anything, so I put it down to the ext2 driver being used on an ext3 fs. nothing since concerning that.
2. suspend/resume now kills my ethernet connection (used to work fine)
3. vbox is really messed up
- resuming a saved state on a 64-bit guest aborts
- starting a 64-bit guest gives a guest-kernel error that says it only found a 686 cpu
- resuming a saved state on a 32-bit guest locks up vbox, not X
- i've tried reinstalling 2.1.4, and going back to 2.1.2, but no changes
- there are no abnormal messages in the system logs or the vbox logs whatsoever
It may or may not be a vbox issue, but I couldn't think of anything else.
VBox on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit dead
Using 2.1.2, aborting all of my 32-bit saved states and restarting them seems to work. They now all save and resume states fine.
Still having same issues with 64-bit guests, and still no abnormal log messages. All the proper settings (64-bit guest and VT-x) are set. Tried creating a new vm, and hooking it up to the old vdi. No difference.
EDIT: It appears that 32-bit suspended states still Abort, sometimes. I'll try and determine a root cause. Shutting Down and Rebooting the VM still works though.
Still having same issues with 64-bit guests, and still no abnormal log messages. All the proper settings (64-bit guest and VT-x) are set. Tried creating a new vm, and hooking it up to the old vdi. No difference.
EDIT: It appears that 32-bit suspended states still Abort, sometimes. I'll try and determine a root cause. Shutting Down and Rebooting the VM still works though.
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I don't recommend using the ext2 driver on Windows to read your Linux partitions. They suck. I used them once or twice, and each time they messed up the FS really bad. If you want to share data between Windows and Linux, either use FAT32 (not recommended due to too old and file size limit of 4 GB) or NTFS (ntfs-3g is very stable).
So with that experience, I don't think you will have a proper working system unless you fix everything that Vista broke while using the ext2 driver. That usually ends up with a reinstall of the whole OS.
So with that experience, I don't think you will have a proper working system unless you fix everything that Vista broke while using the ext2 driver. That usually ends up with a reinstall of the whole OS.
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Thanks for the input, although I've never had any problems with the ext2 drivers before this. It does sound like a corruption issue of some sort though. I'll try a reinstall when I have time, although since the rest of the system is still usable that might not be for a while.Sasquatch wrote:I don't recommend using the ext2 driver on Windows to read your Linux partitions. They suck. I used them once or twice, and each time they messed up the FS really bad. If you want to share data between Windows and Linux, either use FAT32 (not recommended due to too old and file size limit of 4 GB) or NTFS (ntfs-3g is very stable).
So with that experience, I don't think you will have a proper working system unless you fix everything that Vista broke while using the ext2 driver. That usually ends up with a reinstall of the whole OS.
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Since you run Ubuntu, a reinstall would be best when going to the new Jaunty 
. For now, you might want to stop using saved states.
As for your suspend/resume issue, that is something from Ubuntu itself. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/264683 for more info. I added to that bug too, 'cause I have the same issue, without the use of Network Manager. Both my wireless and wired interfaces are affected.
. For now, you might want to stop using saved states.As for your suspend/resume issue, that is something from Ubuntu itself. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/264683 for more info. I added to that bug too, 'cause I have the same issue, without the use of Network Manager. Both my wireless and wired interfaces are affected.
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I have the Jaunty 64-bit alpha-5 iso sitting on my desktop - I was going to try it out in a Virtual Machine, but it looks like I'm going to be running it liveSasquatch wrote:Since you run Ubuntu, a reinstall would be best when going to the new Jaunty
As for your suspend/resume issue, that is something from Ubuntu itself. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/264683 for more info. I added to that bug too, 'cause I have the same issue, without the use of Network Manager. Both my wireless and wired interfaces are affected.
I don't think it's the same networking issue. I'm running a desktop with a single static wired connection, and it never happened before the fs corruption. Plus it only happens sporadically; about a third of the time it comes back up fine.
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Weird. But there is a 'fix' in that bugreport which you can try. See the replies of Red Five. I added a networking restart entry to the resume statement of the pm-utils suspend script.
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Re: VBox on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit dead
I reinstalled, and everything got fixed and went back to normal. I guess it must have been a corrupt fs. I have uninstalled the windows ext2 drivers just in case.
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for your help.