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After a long-winded filesystem check yesterday i could successful recover my slug. I was unsure if some important files were corrupted and moved to /lost+found. To ensure the itegrity of all packages from dpkg, I installed the tool called  «debsums» from the repositories. I execuded “debsums -sa” to see, which files dont match to the md5 sum delivered in every deb-package.  I asserted that no files (in which I didnt made consciously a change) were differing from the original md5 sum. Phew!

The other thing, my umts-modem, isnt actually working like it should. Its recognized correctly by the harware abstraction layer, but the network manager cant etablish a connection. I already found a solution by unload the driver and reload it manually (modprobe -r option && modprobe -a option). Afterwards it (somtimes) worked like it should, I try to create an automatic solution with an udev rule, but more on this later.

Hey dear followers.. My NSLU2 with Debian installed on it had a blackout some time ago and for example the /tmp directory was no more usable (Errormessage: “Stale NFS file handle”). First I tried to do a fsck on reboot, but I had no success, the check could not be done. The conclusion was that I plugged the external drive, where the corrupt filesystem is stored on, into a personal computer and made a fsck with it. I was astonished that the whole procedure took about 6 hours and many files are now located in the /lost+found directory, unfortunately i spotted some config files there aswell. I’m curious if its still working.. I will see.

The other thing I did today was reinstall my eeepc. All worked fine and I restored the most of my settings. Its alot faster now than before, all the obsolesce stuff isnt installed anymore. I couldnt test the UMTS-card yet, but I think it will work fine.

Yesterday I did the jaunty upgrade on my eeepc 900. The icon umts network card is no longer recogized by the network manager.  I suppose it has to do with my manual configuration I did on Ubuntu 8.04 when I had to configure it by hand. My solution is quite simple: I will do a clean reinstall, because the system has gotten slow anyway with the time. -> Save the Home dir and I am ready to reinstall.

There are news to the last-mentioned display bug with the radeon driver.  Alex Deucher has begun to solve the problem and has already commited a first solution. Keep yourself up to date by subscribing the official bug in the freedesktop bugtracker or keep reading this blog

Yeah, today Canonical is releasing the new version of my favourite linux distribution Ubuntu. I already upgraded my computer at home to the release candidate and everything is working fine.  I like the new notification area which gives applications a standard interface to inform the user about things going on on his computer. I didn’t try the ext4-filesystem yet, but the benchmarks proof that its a little faster than ext3.

On my computer at work I did the upgrade to the RC aswell. Because AMD (formerly ATI) stopped supporting the fglrx driver for the Radeon x1300 I had to switch to the opensource driver “radeon” or “radeonhd”. These drivers corrupt my mouse cursor in a really annoying way, on some random vertical areas of the screen the cursor shows like a square.  Unfortunately I didnt find a solution for this yet and theres already a bug (#291053) opened in the launchpad.  I’ll keep you up to date if I find a solution.

Well.. The blog is set up out of debians repository and everything seems working fine.  Now its time to publish the first blog entry. But how should I start? What about a nice flash page I recently found while browsing the web:

• http://soytuaire.labuat.com/

It requires the flash player in version 10. Imho this is the way how the flash plugin should be used. It’s a nice way to present the new album of labuat, a spanish soul singer. By the way, the song used in the video is the best from the new album…