On 5/12/12, Indulekha <indule...@theunworthy.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +0000, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see "System no >> longer boots" and "How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?" >> >> Now my problem is different, and stranger. >> >> I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software >> to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare >> 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could >> boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I >> rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to >> try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which >> I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to >> leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working >> reasonably. So I powered down. >> >> The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being >> dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live >> system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. >> Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. >> The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. >> I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had >> mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing >> directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents >> directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up >> from the command line, but not from the GUI! >> >> Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to >> browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The >> directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File >> Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a >> slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods >> files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: >> >> Document file 'xxxxx.xxx' is locked for editing by: >> xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) >> Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. >> >> The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my >> login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens >> right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that >> particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always >> open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. >> >> So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI >> apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine >> from the command line? >> >> Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually >> on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command >> line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and >> directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a >> whole lot easier. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> > > ?? > Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... > Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... > ??
Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANbRw9k-dTrX48J7dokfBZd6nYDj2ckHPSh2xmbyQvs=6zb...@mail.gmail.com
