April 07 2011

?no Such File or Directory? Error in Linux

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Sometimes when you try to install device drivers on your Linux system, you might fail to do it. It could be due to incompatibility of the operating system Kernel with your device driver or device.

To work around this issue, you need to install the latest version of Linux kernel. It may include ‘forcedeth’ patch, which is capable of resolving most of the incompatibility issues.

In some cases, after installing the latest version of Kernel, when you reboot the Linux system, you might face the following error message:

“fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda8. The super block could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 file system. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 file system (and not swap or ufs or something else) then the super block is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate super block: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> fsck failed.”

After this error message, neither the system boots nor any file can be accessed.

Grounds of the issue

As stated in the error message, this problem generally occurs due to super block corruption or file system corruption.

è Super block and file system are two most important data structure of Linux system. Proper functioning of both these is required for ensuring effective working of the system.

After corruption, the operating system could not locate the file and thus can not retrieve it.

Resolution

To work around this problem, you need to install a fresh copy of super block and file system. It is possible through formatting of the hard drive and reinstallation of operating system.

Though, it will remove the errors but will also erase all the data stored on your hard drive. It is the worst scenario of data loss and needs Linux data recovery to get it fixed.

Linux data recovery is feasible with the application of third party Linux recovery software known as Linux data recovery software. Linux recovery software is easy to use and thus allow you to have simple and fast data recovery Linux.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most advanced Linux recovery software offered by the data recovery giant- Stellar. This data recovery Linux software works well in all data loss cases and allows Linux data recovery for all sorts of files.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software is powerful enough to carry out efficient scanning of entire hard drive and extract all lost data from it. The user interface of this software is very interactive and thus does not require any sound technical knowledge from users’ side.

April 06 2011

Linux and the Pesent Day

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There are but few who have not been sucked into the constantly spinning vortex of new technology. One can slow down any process, but the cyber-crazy world shows no hint of even pausing. It is the time when every 3 in 5 people own a notebook, laptop, or a PC at the very least. The endless rush for cheaper, better, and safer Operating Systems, software, and hardware is pushing those involved in the area of technical development to constantly better their best! Techies find it an ongoing challenge to come up with something new. This means there is a whole myriad of information that is unknown to the rest of the IT-frenzied populace, boiling over to be made known. The usage of Linux is one such example. It has been found to be one of the most dependable and stable OS of current times. A large number of the masses are drawn towards it. But the handicap lies in installing it, and the technical know-how of usage and operation . This is where Linux experts and operators come into play.

The recent recession has caused most companies and businesses to resort to cost-cutting on wares and processes. The newer start-ups, on a broad scale, seem to opt for the less expensive, open source Linux as their ideal OS. This in turn means there is a growing need for Linux experts to operate the systems, as the general public slowly shift from the so-far used Windows. Linux has a few advantages. Being an open source, it is freely available and there are no costs to be incurred. Secondly, over the years, Linux has proven to be relatively immune to the limitless number of viruses being generated in current times. This makes it an obvious choice, from the corporate point of view, as there is not an imminent necessity for virus-protection software. Linux also has the added feature of being compatible on any kind of PC, be it an old or a new model.

The current scenario is such that many IT companies are looking for professionals with Linux basics. Spectrum Softech Solutions offers intensive on-the-job training in Linux Server Administration. Not only are the candidates coached theoretically, they will also be exposed to a live work-environment. This will provide the necessary experience that will make them proficient in the course and prepare them for real-time situations. An added bonus is that Spectrum will absorb the candidate at the successful completion of the programme, thus ensuring a job and an indisputably attractive remuneration.

Spectrum gives the best in terms of experience and technology, being in the IT sector for a long time. It is imperative to keep up with the changing times and the needs of the world. Spectrum provides the very opportunity to get an in-depth know-how and experience in Linux, thus making one ready to grab any profitable opportunity that should knock upon one’s door. As it is a private IT firm, Spectrum is equipped to provide exposure to the latest in technology and give the candidate the vital practical experience that is a requisite in obtaining a bright and successful career.

January 24 2011

Mistaken Formatting in a Dual Boot System and Linux Recovery

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A dual boot or multi boot is a system in which two operating systems are installed on a single hard drive, letting you boot from either of the operating system. The boot loader is a program which allows you to have dual booting.

General combination of operating systems exercised in dual booting includes Linux and Windows. The dual booting allows you to use features and functions of both of the operating systems on a single computer. Dual boot systems are mostly useful for programmers and testers.

Although, dual boot systems are very useful but sometimes they can also cause several problems. A minor mistake made by the user while making a dual boot system can lead to the several catastrophic problems.

A common mistake made by the users, while making a dual boot system, is selecting “prepare hard drive” option. This option appears you when you install Windows operating system on a Linux system, in order to make it multi boot.

When you use this option, all of the hard drive partitions and stored data gets deleted. After that new partitions are created and the operating system is installed. When the installation will complete, you will have a blank hard drive without any operating system and data. Everything, which was previously stored on the hard drive, will be deleted.

Data loss and hard drive partition loss is the worst case scenario which a computer user, either general or professional, could face. It can cause several nightmares and can possibly put you out of the business.

In such circumstances, it becomes really important to recover your precious data from the formatted hard drive to save you and your business. The data recovery in these cases needs to be performed for the Linux data.

The data recovery Linux is possible through the use of Linux data recovery software. Linux recovery software is the applications, offered by the several data recovery companies, to handle all the data loss situations.

A powerful data recovery Linux software does a thorough scan of the hard drive and extracts data up to the maximum level of possibility. To ensure the absolute Linux data recovery, selecting powerful Linux recovery software of trusted brand is worth.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software is the most influential hard drive recovery software provided by the most trusted name of the data recovery industry- Stellar. This software is able to attend all the data loss scenarios and recover data in a quick and easy way.

This Linux Recovery software is extremely powerful and easy to use so that you can carry out Linux data recovery without having any sound technical knowledge. This software supports all the Linux file systems such as Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS.

 

January 14 2011

Linux Operating System Errors and Resolution

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Linux is the most popular operating system so far as security and performance is concerned .It is a Unix-like operating system and is the best example of open source development and free software; generally all underlying Linux source code can be modified, redistributed and used freely by anyone. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 is the latest version of Linux operating system.

As we all know every operating system has its demerits or failures and can give errors at any time with out any prior information. There are some common error messages faced by Linux users while using this operating system. Some of the most common ones are the following:

• Unknown terminal type Linux.

• Unrecognized option ‘-m486′.

• bdflush not running

• cannot read table of mounted file systems

• Unknown terminal type Linux.

• Cannot initialize drive XYZ?

• EPERM Operation not permitted.

• Unrecognized option ‘-m486′.

• Modprobe can’t locate module, “XXX,” and similar messages.

• Mounting unchecked file system.

• EINTR Interrupted system call.

In most the situations given above a user faces any of the mentioned problems, it becomes difficult for him/her to access or manage his data. He/she won’t be able to do normal tasks which can otherwise be performed effortlessly. If the data which has been rendered inaccessible is important then it becomes essential to recover that data as soon as possible. In this case, he/she would need the help of Linux data recovery software.

Linux Data Recovery Software is an ultimate way out for all Linux related data recovery problems. It also recovers data from formatted hard drives also where file systems have been changed. It recovers lost logical drives and data from physical disk or any removable media.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Recovery software provides data recovery from Ext2, Ext2 and Reiser FS file systems of Linux operating system.

Allen a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com


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August 31 2010

?Cannot open root device? Linux Boot Error

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Root device refers to the device from which a Linux system boots from. While booting if you are getting errors that system cannot access or open the root device, you might need to install a fresh copy of operating system. Thus, you are always suggested to maintain a good data backup of all valuable information you have stored. In such situations, you probably loose data and if backup fails to restore, you will need to use Linux Data Recovery software to scan and restore the data.

You might receive the similar error message while attempting to boot your system:

“Cannot open root device “nnn” or unknown-block(maj,min)

Please append a correct “root=” boot option”

Where, ‘nnn’ represents the name of device and ‘maj,min’ is the address value of block. You cannot boot your system after you receive this error message.

Cause

Some of the possible reasons for this error message to occur are:

• Incorrect entry in grub.conf file

• Incorrectly configured kernel

• SCSI controller or IDE chipset support is either not compiled or is compiled as a module instead of initrd

• File system support is either not compiled or is compiled as a module instead of initrd

• If you have recently installed the system, then the odds are that you haven’t edited /etc/fstab file while installing. fstab is the file referenced by Linux to determine available disks and disk partitions and is most commonly used by mount command.

Solution

To solve such issues, you need to boot your affected system using Linux Live CD and check and reset the faulty parameters that are preventing your Linux system from booting. If this doesn’t help, you should reformat and reinstall the system as the last resort. You can then restore your lost data from the most recent data backup you have. But backup availability is not must in each case. In such situations, you are recommended to use Linux Recovery software.

Linux Data Recovery applications are advanced applications that are specifically designed to scan a logically crashed drive. After a thorough scan, they restore lost data at a safe location, without harming actual data.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is a powerful Data Recovery Linux software that supports Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file systems. It is a non-destructive tool with rich user interface and advanced recovery abilities. It natively supports all Linux distributions like Red Hat, Turbo Linux, SlackWare, Caldera, Sorcerer, SUSE etc.

Allen a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery and software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

August 31 2010

?Cannot open root device? Linux Boot Error

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Root device refers to the device from which a Linux system boots from. While booting if you are getting errors that system cannot access or open the root device, you might need to install a fresh copy of operating system. Thus, you are always suggested to maintain a good data backup of all valuable information you have stored. In such situations, you probably loose data and if backup fails to restore, you will need to use Linux Data Recovery software to scan and restore the data.

You might receive the similar error message while attempting to boot your system:

“Cannot open root device “nnn” or unknown-block(maj,min)

Please append a correct “root=” boot option”

Where, ‘nnn’ represents the name of device and ‘maj,min’ is the address value of block. You cannot boot your system after you receive this error message.

Cause

Some of the possible reasons for this error message to occur are:

• Incorrect entry in grub.conf file

• Incorrectly configured kernel

• SCSI controller or IDE chipset support is either not compiled or is compiled as a module instead of initrd

• File system support is either not compiled or is compiled as a module instead of initrd

• If you have recently installed the system, then the odds are that you haven’t edited /etc/fstab file while installing. fstab is the file referenced by Linux to determine available disks and disk partitions and is most commonly used by mount command.

Solution

To solve such issues, you need to boot your affected system using Linux Live CD and check and reset the faulty parameters that are preventing your Linux system from booting. If this doesn’t help, you should reformat and reinstall the system as the last resort. You can then restore your lost data from the most recent data backup you have. But backup availability is not must in each case. In such situations, you are recommended to use Linux Recovery software.

Linux Data Recovery applications are advanced applications that are specifically designed to scan a logically crashed drive. After a thorough scan, they restore lost data at a safe location, without harming actual data.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is a powerful Data Recovery Linux software that supports Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file systems. It is a non-destructive tool with rich user interface and advanced recovery abilities. It natively supports all Linux distributions like Red Hat, Turbo Linux, SlackWare, Caldera, Sorcerer, SUSE etc.

Allen a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery and software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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August 27 2010

Various Problems With Reiser Fs File System Cause Data Loss in Linux

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When the Reiser FS kernel detects an error on the hard drive, it prints some error messages on the screen. It might be a bug. In the Super Block of Reiser FS file system, there is an Error pasture. It is set when file system kernel notices something bad.

So, what happens in this case? May be the Linux user could not read Syslog and could not see the error message or the error is simple an overture of memory corruption, which could lead system to crash.

In such situations, when you reboot the system, this goes in the merry way, mounting Reiser FS file system with known errors on the same, using badly allocated memory locations, B-trees and directories etc. Double allocation of memory blocks and overwriting of blocks may also take place, making the files corrupt.

The final result of this whole problem would be the severe file system corruption. At this point of time, it becomes completely impossible to fix the file system errors for the user. No disk repair utility can detect the errors.

In even the worse scenario, the Reiser FS read Super Block code overwrites the Super Block at mount time. It makes the situations worse and the file system totally useless. After crash, you might come across the following error messages:

“S->u.reiserfs_sb.s_mount_state = SB_REISERFS_STATE(s);

s->u.reiserfs_sb.s_mount_state = REISERFS_VALID_FS”

In these grave situations, if you continue using system, the problems may become more terrible. The ultimate results of this whole mishap would be the loss of your critical business as well as personal data stored on your Linux hard drive.

At this point of time, the only thing which can save you from going out of business is data recovery Linux. It is the way out to retrieve all of your lost, missing and inaccessible data from logically failed Linux hard drive.

Data recovery Linux can be easily effectively and completely performed with the help of Linux data recovery software. Linux recovery software are easy to use tools, which systematically scan your affected Linux hard drive and extract as much data as possible.

To ensure trouble-free, safe and quick Linux data recovery, it is extensively important to purchase a highly developed and influential data recovery Linux tool. A Linux recovery software of trusted brand will give you the best data recovery Linux results.

Stellar Phoenix  Linux Data Recovery software is the most comprehensive Linux recovery software, offered by the data recovery industry leader- Stellar Information Systems Ltd. With commanding scanning algorithms and methodical scan, it extracts all of your lost data.

Interactive user interface, read only and non destructive nature, live update, and systematic scan are some of the main features which make this Linux data recovery software world class. Phoenix  Linux Recovery is usable with all flavors of Linux operating system.

Shally Spears is a freelancer for Stellar which offers file recovery software and file recovery programs for different OS and file system.

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