[solved] Fail safe backup of my Arch setup

I've configured my Arch setup to its best in terms of both performance and usability. I am really liking it and want to keep a back up of this installation. From backup I mean to keep track of all the tools I have installed and the confugurations like my console fonts, workspaces settings etc...
One option is to make a custom shell script. This will be very hectic and unmanagable. I might forget some configuration etc. to save. I believe there must be some tool to backup whole installation.
PS: There is something as Ghost backup. But I am not looking onto that, because It will backup current disk as it is. Which won't be useful if am restoring after say 1 yr. When lot of packages would have been updated or outdated. Instead I am looking something like a script, which will turn a fresh Arch installation into a full configured system pulling latest packages.
Last edited by mangatmodi (2013-04-29 10:30:32)

I don't know of any tool that does this automatically, but I myself just keep backups of all the files that isn't vanilla i.e. which i've made changes to, like dot-files and other configs in /etc and such. I backup them onto my free dropbox account, so that I can get to the files from anywhere with it's public links afterwards.
Then I have made a script that makes a clean install and then also downloads and places back all the custom files of my system, so everything will be back to where it used to be before...
It takes maybe alittle time to make such a script, but imho it's very nice to have, so that you know that if something completelly breaks, then you can easilly recover without much effort other than booting from the Arch LiveCD, wget'ing your custom install/setup script from dropbox and then fire it up with 'bash ./setup' and then you're all god.
Just use a VM to test the script out so as to narrow down on possible issues and troubleshoot them...
Btw, if using dropbox to store config-files and such, then there's a nice bash-script named dropbox-uploader.sh, which lets you upload/download files to/from dropbox from a terminal and without the need of having to install/use the dropbox daemon...
You can e.g. also make another script which backs up your changed configs to e.g. dropbox, and then add the script as a cron-job so as to automate the backup operation...

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There are all sorts of alternative backup strategies you can use. Which one you use depends on how important your data really is, how much money you want to invest in a solution, and what would take to satisfy your own personal measure of "safety".
A good start would be to do a second backup to another media - like .Mac or an external hard drive cabled to your Mac. If you use an external hard drive, store it off site at a different location from where your Mac is location. If you want to improve redundancy even further, do a complete backup of your hard drive to two different external drives, and use each drive on alternating days or weeks.
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[SOLVED] Luks with /arch/setup installation , fails at boot

Hi all,
So I tried to install arch on virtualbox with encrypted partitions (root /, /home/ and swap), but it fails at boot.
/dev/sda1 is /boot
/dev/sda2 is swap
/dev/sda3 is /
/dev/sda4 is /home
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chome /dev/sda4 none luks
cswap /dev/sda2 none luks
/etc/fstab (I didn't change anything, /arch/setup configured it that way) :
/dev/mapper/chome /home ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/croot / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/cswap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
And grub :
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/croot cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:croot ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
What I wanted to do was to have swap,root and home encrypted partitions mounted at boot, but maybe it is not possible?
I tried a lot of configurations for /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab according to what I could find on the net but nothing worked. I read the whole tutorial https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _with_LUKS but there is no config for fstab or crypttab or grub when installing with /arch/setup
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Last edited by John0000 (2012-04-12 12:50:18)

Indeed you have a point, putting password in plaintext isn't very safe.
There is a good alternative though: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _a_Keyfile
the reason why you don't have a passphrase for root in a file somewhere is that you provide this passphrase during boot-time.
Somewhere during boot you get the option to unlock you root device by typing in a passphrase... right?
ro means that the volume is mounted read only http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

RMAN Automatic backup/recovery with oracle fail safe, windows cluster

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I have question,
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b. Shared disk ( RAID )
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Cold backup restore on fail safe environment.

Hi,
The setup:
Windows 2008 with 2 node MSCS cluster in active/passive configuration.
Oracle Database 11.1.0.6 .
Oracle Failsafe 3.4.2
Database :test database; 2 in no. ,both Single instance. Both database are created with cold backup from production.
The Requirement:
To refresh both the test database with cold backup from the same production database as before. And then with the same cold backup create a physical standby database of the newly recreated testing database.
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3.startup mount.
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8.start with failsafe.
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2. with the backup taken at step1 and standby ctl file created at step 5 can i create a physical standby database of the testing db?
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Please guys help me for clearing the said doubts.
regards.
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The doubt:
1. is this plan ok for refresh of the test databases?
2. with the backup taken at step1 and standby ctl file created at step 5 can i create a physical standby database of the testing db?
Please note, the production database is only in picture while taking backup. You are taking cold backup, So the mentioned procedure you can follow. But ensure all the services/background processes related to database are not running.
Once you prepare Primary database, even from that database you can create standby control file, so that it will be used for standby database.
But i'm not aware of how fail safe it works, As per the core database part whatever the steps you mentioned, it looks fine.
Thank You.

[SOLVED] Steam crash after start on fresh new arch setup

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http://pastebin.com/MKEqfH4B
Last edited by blackdev1l (2014-07-14 14:37:35)

Pse wrote:
Hmm, might the Steam runtime be messing with the video drivers? Try running Steam without it:
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Fail Safe Cluster Verify Error

Hi There,
I have installed Fail Safe (version 3.4.2 64 bit) on a windows 2008 server 64bit cluster. The software installs ok; when I try to launch Fail Safe Manager we get the following:
Failed to update the system registry.
Please try using REGEDIT.
We can pass through that by clicking ok.. We add the cluster Alias, we enter all the required details and then we get to the Cluster Verify screen which is causing the issue here, when we click on cluster verify button we get the following error:
Versions: client = 3.4.1    server = 3.4.2    OS =
Operation:   Verifying cluster "OracleClust"
Starting Time:   Jul 22, 2010   16:35:11
Elapsed Time:   0 minutes, 0 seconds
1   16:35:11 Starting clusterwide operation
2   16:35:11    ** ERROR : 0x800706BA: The RPC server is unavailable.
3   16:35:11    ** ERROR : FS-10751: Node ClusterNode1 failed to create a class factory on remote node ClusterNode2
4   16:35:11    ** ERROR : FS-10755: Error creating the OracleFsWorker COM object
5   16:35:11    ** WARNING : FS-11081: Node ClusterNode2 is not available for the specified operation. Operation continuing...
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Registering ServicePrincipalNames for CN=Oracle Account,CN=Users,DC=test,DC=com
        OracleMSCSServices/clusternode1
Updated object
C:\Users\oracle>Any idea what could be causing this please. We can't carry on with the setup until we find a solution for this.
Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks

We managed to solve this and now the cluster verification completes successfully.
The solution is to turn off windows firewall. Once that was turned off for both clustered nodes, the verification completes with no issues.
Some side notes for people installing this (not new for most of you, but certainly was for me and it's helpfull to know):
1. Turn off windows firewall (and/or any firewall) on both nodes.
2. Windows hosts file should have the DNS and IPs entries for all nodes as well as the cluster (this will eliminate warning messages when running the verify cluster).
3. FailSafe SHOULD BE installed under a domain user account that have admin prives. Even though the oracle database software (or any other oracle software) might be installed under a local oracle user with admin prives on teh server, however this does not work for failsafe and you won't be able to proceed with the failsafe installation. Make sure the actual FailSafe installation is done under a domain user that have domain admin prives.

Time Machine fails to backup home space.

Summary:
I've been having problems with Time Machine since I enabled it. For some reason it refuses to backup any file in my account (/Users/ritchiem/). I have spoken with the an Apple 'Genius' and they were dumb founded. So I ask here in the hope that someone has had this issue occur and know what the cause is and how to fix it. I'm not really looking for work-arounds, though I will cover that later.
*Problem Description:*
A new 500GB external drive was erased and formatted HFS+ Journaled.
TimeMachine was then opened and enabled on this drive.
Back Up Now was selected and left to run assuming it would take a while on the 500Gb internal drive that had a around 200Gi-250Gi of used.
It ran successfully.
When entering TimeMachine, history shows the top level drive and navigating down the Users folder shows only my 'test' user account. My user account 'ritchiem' is not listed.
There was no error presented from Time Machine an the System Preferences panel reported it was successful.
Console.logs shows that backup was performed successfully.
Steps already taken to address issue:
I have verified/repaired permissions on my boot drive, a few files were changed but none in /Users/ritchiem
I have deleted the Time Machine preferences: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
I have tried a second external hard drive, in this case it was more interesting:
It was reported as being to small to perform the backup. So I added some exclusions such as my large iTunes library.
This allowed the Time Machine to proceed but again there was no backup performed of any file in home space.
This is where I thought I must be doing something wrong and went to the Apple Store the genius tried all the usual suspects, permissions, preferences. But no success.
It was only then that one of his colleagues picked up on discussion that it was only my user that was being skipped and suggested the risky move of renaming my user. He showed me the 'Advanced' panel in the Account System Preferences. (I never realised you could use a nice gui to do the renaming of a user in all the right Apple places.)
So I swapped users and renamed my account, and moved my home space to a new user name. mv /Users/ritchiem /Users/martin
I then logged back in to my account to verify the rename all worked and it had.
_*Time Machine now worked!*_
HOWEVER, that is a total hack. I use the username 'ritchiem' all across my local network and it was not recommended to have a user ritchiem but a home space in /Users/martin.
I renamed my account back to 'ritchiem' and Time Machine again is blocking backups of /Users/ritchiem
Somewhere on my drive there MUST be an exclusion that is preventing the first user that I created on my 2008 MacBook from being backed up. So far my grep-ing of the filesystem for 'ritchiem' has not shown any likely suspects. If anyone here knows where the mystic plist/file is that I need to zap then that would be great.
If of course you have another work-around that does not require me to rename either my account or my home space then that would be great.
Oh and I also tried to trick TimeMachine by creating a symbolic link in /Users to my home space (ln -s /Users/ritchiem /Users/martin). It resolves the link and refuses to backup the contents of my home space just as before.
Please remember here that in all backups that Time Machine performed there was no error, console.log and the UI all report success.
Now if I had a new blank machine and some time I could test out the theory that it is always the first user of a freshly installed machine. However, if other people have it working then it is perhaps not that simple.
TIA
Martin

Thank you for all your advice and suggestions. Apologies for the delay I had difficulty locating my original install DVDs.
Summary
I have performed all the steps and checked items as requested however backups are still not including my home space (/Users/ritchiem)
What I do find interesting is the output of the TimeMachine backup log (at the very end of this VERY long post) which states that 84.8 GB should be backed up but only 24.3 GB is actually backed up.
Would love to know why TM decided 60.5GB of data should not be backed up but not explained in any of the log files and a successful backup reported.
Before I go on to the details of what i've done, I should also mention in case it is important that I have of course been logged in with my user (ritchiem) whilst performing all of these backups. I assume that is normal and that you shouldn't have to log out for TM to actually backup your data. To verify this previously I have logged out user ritchiem and logged in as a test account. The path /Users/ritchiem still failed to backup. I have not tried this recently, however, I would be really surprised if you had to log out of your user account for the data to be backed up.
Detail
So to answer V.K. first: My drive did indeed have some items that it said I should repair. Hence the search for the install DVDs. I ran the Disk Utility from the Leopard installer and it repaired the drive. The verify now runs green.
As I had just rebooted the machine and it was all fresh I repeated Pondini's previous steps as well.
* Disabled TM
* Exited System Preferences
* Deleted /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
I then also deleted the Backups.backupdb from my external drive so everything was fresh and new. I would have just formatted it (which would have been waaay faster, but I have some copies as backups on there for now.)
I started the TM prefs panel and added a few items to the disabled list to a) speed up the backup but also b) I have a 320g internal drive and only a 250g external. My total disk usage is 288 which won't fit, especially with the breathing space TM likes to have.
Here is the data from console.log from the first two backup runs:
*The first automated run that occured whilst I was still disabling items*
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting standard backup
Jul 9 00:05:28 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb
Jul 9 00:05:52 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: ramaII
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup content size: 288.2 GB excluded items size: 0 bytes for volume ramaII
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting pre-backup thinning: 347.15 GB requested (including padding), 134.18 GB available
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Jul 9 00:05:53 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup Failed: unable to free 347.15 GB needed space
Jul 9 00:05:59 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
*The second much smaller backup run*
Jul 9 00:06:29 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup requested by user
Jul 9 00:06:29 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting standard backup
Jul 9 00:06:31 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb
Jul 9 00:06:32 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: ramaII
Jul 9 00:15:57 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup content size: 288.2 GB excluded items size: 203.4 GB for volume ramaII
Jul 9 00:15:57 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 103.06 GB requested (including padding), 134.18 GB available
Jul 9 01:10:18 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Copied 191916 files (24.3 GB) from volume ramaII.
Jul 9 01:10:19 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.75 GB requested (including padding), 108.05 GB available
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Copied 114 files (93 bytes) from volume ramaII.
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 9 01:10:25 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 9 01:10:26 ramaII /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[371]: Backup completed successfully.
What I find interesting is that only it only copied '191916 files (24.3 GB)' It said it was going to backup '103.06 GB requested (including padding)'.
As requested here is the hidden .exclude.plist file, I printed the contents using the Terminal rather than TinkerTool.
.exclude.plist
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ sudo cat /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-011025/.exclusions.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>sourcePaths</key>
<array>
<string>/</string>
</array>
<key>standardExclusionPaths</key>
<array/>
<key>systemFilesExcluded</key>
<false/>
<key>userExclusionPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Music</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/dev</string>
<string>/Applications</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Desktop</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Downloads</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Movies</string>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
This content mirrors what is in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist I resaved this to my desktop as a xml plist so I could print it for copying:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ cat Desktop/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>AlwaysShowDeletedBackupsWarning</key>
<true/>
<key>AutoBackup</key>
<true/>
<key>BackupAlias</key>
<data>-snipped-</data>
<key>ExcludeByPath</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/ritchiem/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache</string>
<string>/Users/cristina/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache</string>
</array>
<key>MaxSize</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>RequiresACPower</key>
<false/>
<key>SkipPaths</key>
<array>
<string>~ritchiem/Music</string>
<string>~ritchiem/dev</string>
<string>/Applications</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Desktop</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Downloads</string>
<string>~ritchiem/Movies</string>
<string>~ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage</string>
</array>
<key>SkipSystemFiles</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</plist>
*Other Steps*
Whilst running TM I also setup dtrace to log every file open: (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071031121823710)
Looking for any files in my home space that it might have opened returned none:
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ grep "/Users/ritchiem" tm.dtrace |grep "entry backupd" |wc -l
0
Yet looking for all the files backed up from the /Users directory there were 458!
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ grep "/Users/" tm.dtrace |grep "entry backupd" |wc -l
458
Dtrace also highlights the files that backupd uses unfortuately the only files it opened before it started its backup were:
0 17720 open:entry backupd /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
0 17720 open:entry backupd /var/db/.TimeMachine.Cookie
0 18506 open_nocancel:entry backupd /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Res
ources/StdExclusions.plist
The only file on that list I haven't seen mentioned before is the StdExclusions but I'm sure that is the same on everyone's machines... just incase though:
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.pl ist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>

<key>PathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/.Spotlight-V100</string>
<string>/.Trashes</string>
<string>/.fseventsd</string>
<string>/.hotfiles.btree</string>
<string>/Backups.backupdb</string>
<string>/Desktop DB</string>
<string>/Desktop DF</string>
<string>/Network/Servers</string>
<string>/Previous Systems</string>
<string>/Users/Shared/SC Info</string>
<string>/Users/Guest</string>
<string>/dev</string>
<string>/home</string>
<string>/net</string>
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight</string> 
<string>/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100</string> 
</array>

<key>ContentsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>/Volumes</string>
<string>/Network</string>
<string>/automount</string>
<string>/.vol</string>
<string>/tmp</string>
<string>/cores</string>
<string>/private/tmp</string>
<string>/private/Network</string>
<string>/private/tftpboot</string>
<string>/private/var/automount</string>
<string>/private/var/log</string>
<string>/private/var/folders</string>
<string>/private/var/log/apache2</string>
<string>/private/var/log/cups</string>
<string>/private/var/log/fax</string>
<string>/private/var/log/ppp</string>
<string>/private/var/log/sa</string>
<string>/private/var/log/samba</string>
<string>/private/var/log/uucp</string>
<string>/private/var/run</string>
<string>/private/var/spool</string>
<string>/private/var/tmp</string>
<string>/private/var/vm</string>
<string>/private/var/db/dhcpclient</string>
<string>/private/var/db/fseventsd</string>
<string>/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/Library/Logs</string>
<string>/System/Library/Caches</string>
<string>/System/Library/Extensions/Caches</string>
</array>

<key>UserPathsExcluded</key>
<array>
<string>Library/Application Support/SyncServices</string>
<string>Library/Caches</string>
<string>Library/Logs</string>
<string>Library/Mail/Envelope Index</string>
<string>Library/Mail/AvailableFeeds</string>
<string>Library/Mirrors</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Database</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Downloads</string>
<string>Library/PubSub/Feeds</string>
<string>Library/Safari/Icons.db</string>
<string>Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Finally here is the backup log that was generated incase you spot something I haven't
Backup.log
ramaII:~ ritchiem$ sudo cat /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-011025/.Backup.log
2009-07-09-00:06:32 - Starting backup
Previous snapshot:
None
Will traverse "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
=== Starting backup loop #1 ===
Will use FirstBackupCopier
Running preflight for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Music: 36.1 GB (6083 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/dev: 20.8 GB (488641 items)
Excluding /Applications: 9.6 GB (15070 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Desktop: 26.3 GB (2444 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Downloads: 3.8 GB (1127 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/Movies: 79.6 GB (167 items)
Excluding /Users/ritchiem/ritchiem.sparseimage: 27.2 GB (1 items)
Should copy 2853633 items (84.8 GB) representing 22223169 blocks of size 4096. 35174679 blocks available.
Preflight complete for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 9 minutes, 25.000 seconds
Processing preflight info
Space needed for this backup: 103.1 GB (27016262 blocks of size 4096)
Finished processing preflight info
Copying items from "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Finished copying items for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 54 minutes, 20.000 seconds
Copied 191916 items (24.3 GB)
Gathering events since 390504228.
Needs new backup due to change in /Library/Preferences
=== Starting backup loop #2 ===
Will use IncrementalBackupCopier
Running preflight for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Calculating size of changes
Should copy 4 items (0 bytes) representing 0 blocks of size 4096. 28325806 blocks available.
Preflight complete for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 1.243 seconds
Processing preflight info
Space needed for this backup: 1.8 GB (459904 blocks of size 4096)
Preserving last snapshot /Volumes/Red-5/Backups.backupdb/ramaII/2009-07-09-000552.inProgress/79ECBD8C-12 BE-4067-A202-B7033190FD82
Finished processing preflight info
Copying items from "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Finished copying items for "ramaII" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 3E4CD731-945C-3BA3-85D5-67B401082442 eventDBUUID: FDD41B79-8CEF-4F57-810C-B1C56476640B)
Time elapsed: 6.147 seconds
Copied 114 items (93 bytes)
Gathering events since 406201626.
Finalizing completed snapshot
Finished finalizing completed snapshot
Backup complete.
Total time elapsed: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54.000 seconds
*Next Steps*
I've been thinking about what i could try next and not having many ideas. So I'm really hoping someone here will have a flash of inspiration.
If I find some time at the weekend then I will try renaming my account again and verifying that it does backup under a new name.
Just incase there is something odd about the first user account created, i.e. UID:501 I will make a new 'ritchiem' account (which will have the next UID, UID:504) and see if that gets backed up, I can try this while my current account has been renamed. If that does work then I can copy my files back in to that account and verify it isn't something in my home directory that is upsetting TM. Although I doubt this is the case as it never read any files from home space during the backup process.
Here's hoping there is something in the above logs etc, that give a clue to what might be going wrong.
Cheers
Martin

Database control in a two node oracle fail safe cluster

os windows server 2003 r2
db 10.2.0.4
ofs 3.4.1
i've configured db control in the following
D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\BIN>emca -config dbcontrol db -repos recreate -cluster_name name_of_the_cluster
is this right?
next question
the -cluster flag and the -EM_NODE / -EM_SID_LIST parameters in the emca are only for rac?
with my configuration i can't login to my database over dbcontrol
Listener refused the connection with the following error: ORA-12514, TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor The Connection descriptor used by the client was: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=node1.blah)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=ABBA)))

How to Configure the 10.2 DB Control in a Failsafe Environment
ID: 452305.1
HOWTO: PUBLISHED 17-OCT-2008
In this Document
   Goal
   Solution
   References
Applies to:
Enterprise Manager Grid Control - Version: 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Goal
The goal of the document is to provide the steps to configure the DB Console in an Oracle Failsafe environment.
Please note that the solution offered in this document is not certified by Oracle. It's only provided as a workaround for customers who wish to use this setup for the Database Control Console in a failsafe environment. Support for the procedure outlined in this document will be provided on a 'best efforts' approach.
As an alternative to this approach you can use Grid Control Agents to monitor a database in a failsafe environment. For more details please see:
Note 396659.1 How To Setup Grid Control Central Agent Manually in Oracle Failsafe Environment
We assume the following:
- the database binaries are installed on each node on the local disk
- you already have a failsafe group with the database, the listener, disk resource, and virtual
ip/hostname
Note: This is specific for Windows environments using Oracle Failsafe. For setting up the DB Console in Active/Passive clusters on UNIX please use the following note instead:
Note 362524.1 Configure DB Control 10.2 for use in Active/Passive High Availability Environments
Solution
1. Drop the DB Control repository and configuration files on the active node:
<ORACLE_HOME>/bin/emca -deconfig dbcontrol db -repos drop
2. Recreate the DB Control using the virtual hostname:
- in a command window do the following:
set oracle_sid=<your_sid>
set oracle_home=<your_oracle_home>
set oracle_hostname=<virtual_hostname>
cd %oracle_home%\bin
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos create
-- make sure that the virtual host name was picked up by emca (it will display a summary screen
before continuing)
3. Verify that the DB Console works fine and can be accessed using the virtual host name in the URL
4. Stop the DB Console
5. Create a directory path on the group disk resource similar to your oracle home path on the local disk.
For example:
If the oracle home on the local disk is C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1 and the shared disk is D:
then create the following path: D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
Copy C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\<hostname_sid> and
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oc4j\j2ee\OC4J_DBConsole_<hostname_sid>
to D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\<hostname_sid> and respectively
D:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oc4j\j2ee\OC4J_DBConsole_<hostname_sid>
Remember to change the values enclosed in <> with those in your environment.
6. Delete the following directories from the local disk
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\<hostname_sid>
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oc4j\j2ee\OC4J_DBConsole_<hostname_sid>
7. Create NTFS junction points from the local disk to the shared disk (these work like symbolic
links on UNIX) . It is your responsibility to create these.
You can find a brief guide as well as some tools that will help you create them at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
http://www.microsoft.com/technet ... dDisk/Junction.mspx
Important: Please note that this functionality is not certified nor supported by Oracle. Make sure you understand the
implications. Especially don't delete the junction points from Windows Explorer !!
In the end you should have the junction points on the local disk (with the same names as the
original directories) that would point to the directories you copied on the shared disk.
8. Start the DB Console service and verify that everything is still working fine.
9. Stop the DB Console service.
10. Move the Fail Safe group to the 2nd node.
11. Once the database is started, create the DB Console configuration files on the 2nd node:
<ORACLE_HOME>/bin/emca -config dbcontrol db
12. Stop the DB Console
13. Delete the created configuration files from the local disk:
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\<hostname_sid>
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\oc4j\j2ee\OC4J_DBConsole_<hostname_sid>
14. Create junction points from the local disk to the directories already located on the shared
disk.
15. Start the DB Console service and verify that is working fine.
16. Add the DB Console service as a resource to the fail safe group and put dependencies on the
database and listener services.
17. Perform a fail over and see if everything works fine.
References
Note 298238.1 - Oracle10g Grid Control with Oracle Fail Safe
Note 362524.1 - Configure DB Control 10.2, 11g for use in Active/Passive High Availability Environments
Note 396659.1 - How To Setup Grid Control Central Agent Manually in Oracle Failsafe Environment
Keywords
EMCA ; DB~CONTROL ; FAILSAFE ; DBCONTROL ; ENTERPRISE~MANAGER ;

Setting up encryption on an already installed Arch setup?

Recently I have been thinking about setting up encryption on my already installed Arch setup. I would reinstall and encrypt it that way, however I do not have an external HDD big enough to back up everything, so I was wondering if it is possible to encrypt a hard disk on an already installed Arch setup. I have two partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, and would like to encrypt both while not having to reinstall.
Can anyone help? Thanks!
Edit:
Alternatively, could I reinstall it and use encryption in the install in such a way that it retains my file contents?
Last edited by ThatPerson (2013-07-30 12:41:13)

I use rsync rather than tar to do what Stebalien is suggesting here. I use btrfs, and my root filesystem is actually a subvolume. So I mount the entire btrfs filesystem (from subvolid=0) at /var/lib/btrfs-root. By doing this, it makes it much easier to simply rsync (or tar) from that mountpoint to the backup mountpoint. This makes it so that I can actually backup the system I am running off of without explicitly excluding all the volatile directories (like /sys, /tmp, /proc, etc.) Though I think a more sane approach, since I use btrfs, would be to snapshot each subvol and rsync those instead.
I guess what I am trying to get at, is that if you were to create something like /mnt/system and /mnt/backup. If you mounted your rootfs to /mnt/system (and then possibly your home partition to /mnt/system/home), then mount the backup destination to /mnt/backup, you could simply do something like:
# rsync -aAXv /mnt/system/* /mnt/backup
Then of course you would have to put it all back after you set up Luks/dmcrypt.
This installation I use has been through a few different drives and trying and removing Luks/dmcrypt. I have also changed filesystems, switched to LVM2, tried mdadm RAID0, mdadm RAID1, and eventually went back to btrfs. So as mentioned above, there is really no need to reinstall just to change the underlying layout of the HDD/SSD. Of course this assumes that you have a spare drive with the space to copy your entire filesystem to... but then you should have backups anyway, right?

Upgrade a database from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 in a fail safe cluster

Hi,
I need to upgrade from oracle 10.2.0.1 (base) to 10.4.0.4 in a fail-safe cluster.
Questions:
1.If I upgrade each node as a alone server, ¿fail-safe cluster can run with 2 nodes in diferent versions? (for example one week,for rollback )
2. I have read how to upgrade a fail-safe cluster metalink document. Please, can somebody tell me the best form (or logical) to upgrade from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 in this cluster?
for example:
1. Backup database
2. Upgrade node 1 to 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 (following metalink document)
3. Test database and applications
4. One week later the same in node 2 (only if it is possibly run oracle in different versions in failsafe, if not, install node 2 after node 1 works fine)
It´s my first failsafe environment, and i´m not sure how to do it.
Thanks a lot for your help!!!

Welcome to the forums !
Pl see if MOS Doc 223709.1 (How to upgrade or apply a patch to the RDBMS in an Oracle Fail Safe environment) can help. I have no personal experience with Fail Safe.
HTH
Srini

TM fails to Backup certain files - Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying

Hi,
TM fails to backup certain files and I have no idea how to fix it. This is the error log:
Oct 27 23:19:45 Mac com.apple.backupd[1899]: Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/gretch/Documents/Software/Airfoil 3.2.1/Airfoil.app/Contents/MacOS/Airfoil Video Player.app/Contents/Frameworks/Protein.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Sparkle. framework/Versions/A/Resources/en.lproj/Sparkle.strings to /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/CiMac/2009-10-27-223307.inProgress/285F31F4-3FD2-40A2- AD5E-DFBF8A42087A/Macintosh HD/Users/gretch/Documents/Software/Airfoil 3.2.1/Airfoil.app/Contents/MacOS/Airfoil Video Player.app/Contents/Frameworks/Protein.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Sparkle. framework/Versions/A/Resources/en.lproj
I am using a WD external HD with USB and have formatted it correctly according to Apples recommendation: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550?viewlocale=en_US
If I delete the file that gave an error, next time I backup TM continues to backup successfully until it reaches another file and gives the same error.
I suspect it may have something to do with permissions, but obviously I have repaired the permissions and nothing changes.
Any ideas how to fix this problem?
Thanks
OS 10.6.1

I've had similar problems and would love to know how to resolve this problem...
Previously clients were bound to AD with ADMitMac running 10.5.8 using Time Machine and everything is great for months...
Upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and uninstall ADMitMac and bind the clients to AD using built in Active Directory Plug-in. Everything works great except that Time Machine fails on all three computers which were upgraded. Here's what I've tried to solve the problem:
1) Went into TM preferences and under "Select Disk..." set it to "None" and told TM to "Stop Backing Up" to turn TM off.
2) Went into /Library/Preferences and deleted the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file.
3) Launched Disk Utility and reformatted the backup drive using a different name and made sure that it was formatted "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
4) When it finished it's format it prompted me to set as Time Machine Backup Disk which I did.
At this point the backup runs backs up about half the drive and then I get the following types of errors in the Time Machine Logs...
Time Machine errors from the current System log (according to TM Error Logger):
Nov 3 10:21:02 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[4466]: Error: (-41)
SrcErr:NO Copying
/Users/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framework/Versions/A/DBEng ine to
/Volumes/Backu
Nov 3 10:21:07 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[4466]: Backup failed with
error: 11
Nov 5 12:31:37 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[437]: Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO
Copying
/private/var/root/Desktop/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framewo rk/Versions/A/DBEngine
Nov 5 12:31:42 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[437]: Backup failed with
error: 11
Nov 5 12:41:20 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[437]: Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO
Copying
/private/var/root/Desktop/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framewo rk/Versions/A/DBEngine
Nov 5 12:41:25 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[437]: Backup failed with
error: 11
No successful backups reported in the current log
I can rule out a couple of different things... This occurs on two MacBook Pros and a MacPro Tower. The MacPro has a second internal drive and the two laptops have external drives connected via FW800. The two laptops are using different models of LaCie drives. So it's not model specific or something related to the type of drives or connections being used.
I've repaired permissions on the source and target drives and run Disk Warrior 4.2 on them as well. I've tried running the time machine backup as a local administrator account in case it was a problem with their mobile user accounts with the same results. After doing the upgrade I had rebuilt the user's mobile accounts and in doing so did a recursive chown (sudo chown -R user:group "user's home folder") so there shouldn't be a permissions issue with these files anyway.
So it's something to do with the data that TM is attempting to copy, but if it's not permissions then what is it? I don't believe that this data just became corrupted all of the sudden as TM was able to backup all this same data under 10.5.8 only hours before the snow leopard upgrade.
My experience with Snow Leopard has been pretty good so far, but I'm seeing some serious inconsistencies with file permissions and I think this is what is causing this problem. I'm guessing it's something to do with ACLs going wonky, but insofar I've been unable to find and fix the problem.

[Solved] Boot process hangs for installed Arch and installation usb

Hi. I've been using Arch Linux for around 6 months now and I'm in love with it. It is now my primary OS. However, I might have done something or performed some update, and I can no longer boot into Arch. The boot process hangs right before it should show the login screen (I'm using Gnome 3.6 with GDM). I see the following messages on the screen:
Loading Linux core repo kernel ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
/dev/sda3: recovering journal
/dev/sda3: clean, 330610/1749664 files, 5585671/6996827 blocks
And then it hangs right there. I have to hard-reboot after this.
I then tried to boot using the Arch Linux Installation USB (archlinux-2012.12.01-dual.img), which also hangs at a particular point, before it should show me the prompt. I took a picture of the screen where it hangs: Screen Capture. This is an issue with just my laptop, because the USB boots just fine on another laptop I tried.
I also have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my system, and I'm able to boot into both of them.
I have 2 hard drives: /dev/sda is a 120GB SSD, and /dev/sdb is a 500GB hard disk. My partitions are as follows:
sda1 - Windows 7 100MB System Reserved Partition (boot flag enabled)
sda2 - Windows 7 OS
sda3 - ArchLinux (boot flag enabled)
sdb1 - Ubuntu 12.10 (boot flag enabled)
sdb2 - Just data
I ran bootinfoscript and below is the output:
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 99 for .
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 99 for .
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 206,848 178,466,084 178,259,237 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 * 178,466,085 234,440,703 55,974,619 83 Linux
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 20,948,759 20,948,697 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 20,964,824 976,771,071 955,806,248 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/mmcblk0p1 6665-3162 vfat
/dev/sda1 CA6A20CC6A20B75B ntfs System Reserved
/dev/sda2 1EE242D5E242B137 ntfs
/dev/sda3 65db0c59-9f04-46f1-975d-8a4c28132137 ext4
/dev/sdb1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ext4
/dev/sdb2 3C2E3A4E2E3A0206 ntfs
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/dhaval/6665-3162 vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
=========================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 13,37,73; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
function gfxmode {
set gfxpayload="${1}"
if [ "${1}" = "keep" ]; then
set vt_handoff=vt.handoff=7
else
set vt_handoff=
fi
if [ "${recordfail}" != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "${linux_gfx_mode}" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
recordfail
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
submenu 'Advanced options for Ubuntu' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-21-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-21-generic-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
recordfail
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-21-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-21-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-21-generic-recovery-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
recordfail
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-21-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro recovery nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-29-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.2.0-29-generic-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
recordfail
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.2.0-29-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-29-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.2.0-29-generic-recovery-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
recordfail
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.2.0-29-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro recovery nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
fi
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-CA6A20CC6A20B75B' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 CA6A20CC6A20B75B
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root CA6A20CC6A20B75B
fi
chainloader +1
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
=============================== sdb1/etc/fstab: ================================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
4.564525127 = 4.901121536 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
5.130507946 = 5.508840960 boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic 2
6.317649364 = 6.783524352 boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic 1
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img.old 2
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz 2
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz.old 2
I tried adding nomodeset and acpi=off to the boot parameters, but the boot process still hangs. Please let me know if I should provide any other information.
Last edited by dhavalparmar (2012-12-30 11:45:25)

Ok.. So my Arch Linux randomly decided to work. I'm sure I didn't do anything between my last "not working" state and my current "working" state. Below are a few things I tried:
I thought of trying an earlier build of ArchLinux, and downloaded archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso and made a bootable USB out of it. It still hung.
I was getting error messages during Arch boot that the last access time for the disks was at a future date. I found out that Ubuntu was using localtime instead of UTC and screwing up my hardware clock. I fixed it, and thought maybe the time issues were causing the boot problem. But fixing time didn't solve my problem.
I chrooted into Arch from my Ubuntu install, ran 'sudo pacman -Syyu' and updated my Arch install.
I thought maybe GDM isn't starting up. I re-enabled the service using 'systemctl enable gdm.service'.
I removed OpenNTPd and installed NTPd. Enabled the daemon using 'systemctl enable ntpd'
None of the above solved the problem, and rebooting to Arch still hung the system. So I stopped fiddling with it yesterday. Today, as usual, I just tried logging into Arch.. And it just worked out of the blue. The solution to me is as mysterious as the problem.
I told this to my friend who introduced me to Arch, and this is what he said:
Damn it computers, you were supposed to be deterministic!

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Hi all,
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regards
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