[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-09-14 Thread ISIDOROS
Brian finally i have the machine next to me (it was on a vessel... somewhere at the sea). so i can confirm that the UUIDs are the same for both disks (sda/sdb). That is because i've created the partitions to the sdb disk by using the command sfdisk -d /dev/sda|sfdisk /dev/sdb after that i have c

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-06-18 Thread brian mullan
** Description changed: In the past 2 weeks I have experienced at least 2 instances of new files either downloaded from the web or copied from an external drive to my Ubuntu 14.04 final beta system (x64 bit ubuntu desktop) disappearing from my system. The first instance was an .mpg fi

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-06-17 Thread Brian Murray
Brian - could you update the bug description, using the pencil icon to the far right of Bug Description, to modify the description with the root cause and solution? This'll help other people who encounter this same issue. Thanks! ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-06-17 Thread brian mullan
Isidoros I think your problem was the same mistake I made cloning a disk. When you reinstall the new disk you need to create a new UUID for it and then edit /etc/fstab and change the new disks UUID to that. check: $ more /etc/fstab and see if you have a duplicate UUID listed The problem occur

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-06-16 Thread ISIDOROS
i'm facing the same issue with mdadm raid mirroring disks. I have cloned my original sda disk to the new sda disk (via clonezilla). The original disk has configured to use raid mirroring but only one brick (the current one) is available. After finishing clonezilla restoration, i have added a bric

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-02-05 Thread brian mullan
This bug report can closed. Its not a bug but an unintentional side affect of using Clonezilla to clone a primary drive. Clonezilla does clone the primary drive properly but the new disk with the cloned image retains the UUID's of the original drive. This now causes confusion to grub at boot tim

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-01-28 Thread brian mullan
Roman thanks... yes I'd realized that is what had happened quite a while sgo & gixed it... forgot to update the bug report though. Anyone using clonezilla to dup their primary drive as a backup measure needs to be aware of this On Jan 28, 2016 6:35 PM, "rchyla" wrote: > run 'blkid' and check if

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2016-01-28 Thread rchyla
run 'blkid' and check if you have identical UUIDs if yes, you may be affected by the same problem as me; i've recently cloned my partititions (using dd), and I didn't realize (or even thought!) that the ubuntu will sometimes use the one, and in other times the other partition (one was on SSD, one

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2015-11-02 Thread Conor O'Callaghan
I am seeing this issue with a filesystem on a HP n40l microserver running OpenSuSE 13.2. I have an ext4 formatted partition appx. 2TB. When I reboot some files are missing and return on reboot. This can occur anywhere on the tree. Perhaps this is a kernel or filesystem issue? -- You received th

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2015-11-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306237 Title: Ubuntu 14.04

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2015-07-17 Thread Py
Hello, I am just here to report that I have the same problem too. It occured sometime between last tuesday and today, and several of the .jpg and .png files located in my home/me/pictures have dissapeared, seemingly at random. (All were downloaded from the internet. The date at which they were dow

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-12-02 Thread Ivanna
I have the same problem. I thought that only the files on /home/ivanna/Descargas dissapear. So I created a new folder /home/ivanna/DESCARGAS. And the files dessapear too!! Only the files, folders do not disappear I only reboot my pc where the updates ask me to. My Pc is on all the time. My HDD

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-21 Thread brian mullan
I "may" have found a source for my problem... ubuntu 14.04 has had several bugs with grub installation. My system has 3 - 2TB drives ... all bought at the same time and all the SAME Model, SAME Vendor, SAME size and I originally had formatted all with EXT4. I'll call them Drives A, B, C in this d

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-20 Thread brian mullan
This problem of disappearing files is still occurring. Sometimes they reappear after some number of reboots and sometimes not. I had been running the Ubuntu 14.04 final beta but last week upgraded everything to the released packages. Everything has seemed fine until today. For the past 3 days

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-14 Thread brian mullan
Ok.. today I had VirtualBox disappear from my system. Booted up and 3 of the Virtualbox files were missing: virtualbox virtualbox-qt virtualbox-dkms I am absolutely certain I did not delete those myself. Other components of virtualbox still showed as installed (guest additions etc). Brian

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread brian mullan
Ok... this is getting weird. I just sent that last email. The trying to recreate... I copied 1 directory of 30 files from a USB3 drive to my 14.04 HD to my ~/Desktop directory. Confirmed both the directory I copied and the files in it were there. Checked the ~/Desktop/family directory where I h

Re: [Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread brian mullan
The .mpg movie was just downloaded to my ~/Downloads directory The 15 Word .docx files were copied from a USB drive I use to transfer from my business Win7 laptop via a USB3 cable to my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. For those files I created a new directory in my ~/Desktop and copied the files there.

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Murray
What folder did you put the files in? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306237 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:/

[Bug 1306237] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing

2014-04-10 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people