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 On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 had originally put the Word > .docx and .odp files and that directory was still "empty". > > I rebooted. > > then .. checked to see that the "new" directory of files I had copied to > my HD... it was. > > I checked the ~/Desktop/family folder again... now instead of it being > empty... all of the original .docx and .odp files are back... and time > stamped yesterday ..??? > > I again ran fsck and again it reports no errors. > > I understand I am still using Beta code so ... just delete the Bug > 1306237. You can delete the bug I filed as I am not sure I know how to > figure out what is going on with my file system. > Hopefully whatever is going on goes away/disappears with future updates to > 14.04 as I know alot is going on prior the 17th. > > Thanks > > Brian > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:22 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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. Then edited each of them with libre-writer, >> saved each to that same directory as a .ODT file then printed each file. >> >> In both cases, I did a normal shutdown of my Ubuntu and the next day >> powered the system up and found the files gone. >> >> The first time with the .mpg file I blew it off as I could always get the >> movie again and figured I must have somehow deleted it. >> >> However, the 2nd time those Word Docs were for my youngest Son's college >> admissions documents we need to send to the 8 Universities that accepted >> him.... I know I would not have deleted those, especially after all the >> edits I'd done. But the next day after the system booted I couldn't >> find them. The directory was there but neither the original 15 .docx >> files nor 15 modified .ODT files were there ... the directory was empty. >> >> That's when I rebooted to a live CD and did the fsck... but that showed >> no disk errors or lost data. >> >> Sorry I can't be more specific or point to anything in particular. The >> best I can do is try to recreate it. >> >> I only filed the bug because if this is "a bug" and other's were seeing >> something like this they may be like me and just be thinking they were >> imagining things. But if someone else is seeing this then it was a way >> to know it was just yourself. >> >> I am going to do both steps again and then tonite shutdown and boot >> tomorrow and and see if anything goes missing. However, I have also been >> trying to keep up with the Beta code drops by doing a >> apt-get update, apt-get upgrade each day... so unless it happens again it >> could be a problem come & gone. >> >> Brian >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> >>> What folder did you put the files in? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug >>> report. >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306237 >>> >>> Title: >>> Ubuntu 14.04 final beta - files disappearing >>> >>> To manage notifications about this bug go to: >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1306237/+subscriptions >>> >> >> > -- 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://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1306237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
