[Solved]Replaced my /var partition (with dd) and am having boot issues

I recently got a new hard drive and have split /var and root across the two drives. However now I am having issues booting the computer. Each boot it mounts the /var and /home partition (both of which are on the new drive) and hangs for a large period of time before booting. (it does eventually boot fine)
The reliant section of journalctl is:
an 05 04:54:33 ArchPC systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.
Jan 05 04:54:34 ArchPC systemd[1]: Started Load Random Seed.
Jan 05 04:54:34 ArchPC systemd[1]: Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e6fa1ae1\x2d5579\x2d439d\x2d94cc\x2d11b2c0e67070.device/start timed out.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e6fa1ae1\x2d5579\x2d439d\x2d94cc\x2d11b2c0e67070.device.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid/e6fa1ae1-5579-439d-94cc-11b2c0e67070.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e6fa1ae1\x2d5579\x2d439d\x2d94cc\x2d11b2c0e67070.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e6fa1ae1\x2d5579\x2d439d\x2d94cc\x2d11b2c0e67070.device/start failed with result 'timeout'.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
Jan 05 04:55:58 ArchPC systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
However I am not sure where this could be, unless it is attempting to mount my windows partition?
As a side note, during this I also moved my windows install to the same drive as my root and it will no longer boot from ether its new or original drive.
Thanks.
Last edited by jarrah-95 (2013-01-04 09:24:59)

Jarrah-95,
Thanks for your 'solution' post. I had a problem on boot with the boot process 'stalling' with a "recreate volatile files and directory" message that would after about a 30 second delay eventually finish the boot process. Based on your post I ran 'blkid' and discovered my 'swap' partition in my /etc/fstab file had the wrong UUID for the 'swap' entry.
After entering the 'correct' 'swap 'UUID', the boot cycle is restored and fast as ever. Back to the basics wins again.
Next task is to find out how I created the mistake.
best regards,
marvinudy

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3) If the connection drops, make them fix it.
Reason being, I've tried and checked log after log and have never seen a connection drop inside an Apple Store.
My gut reaction would be interference but the easiest move may be to check it in an Apple Store if at all possible.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2142725&start=225&tstart=0
If you connect to the Internet or a network in several different ways (using AirPort or Ethernet, for example), you can change the order of the network port configurations your computer tries when connecting to the Internet or a network.
To change the priority of a network port configuration:
1) Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Network.
2) Choose Set Service Order from the Actions pop-up menu.
3) Drag a service, such as Ethernet, to the top of the list. When you try to connect, Mac OS X will try the port configuration at the top of the list.©
Tip: Any Network Device listed here that you'll never use for a Network Connection should be set to 'Inactive'.

ATI display driver lost with Linux and XP dual boot os

I brought ThinkPad W500 with windows vista. I want to get rid of the hidden boot system reserved partition and downgrade to windows xp and install OpenSuse os. Following some sourses found on the web, I first set the bios sata ahci mode to compatable mode. Then install windows xp and update the sata driver. Restart and reset the bios sata back to ahci mode. It works fine with windows xp and I install back all driver. Finally I install OpenSuse and create dual boot with Grub.
But a serious problem come up with me. Everytime after restart from the linux os and back to windows xp, xp doesn't regonize the ATI display divice and tell me no driver installed with low screen resolution. And I have to restart the machine and boot direct into xp for the second time and the problem gone. But it is so annoying of doing this everytime. Anyone can help? Many thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi stanleyimko,
I don't have an answer, just a couple of questions:
Does your W500 have switchable graphics? If so, you may have to turn off "let the OS detect" or permanently select one or the other in BIOS. XP isn't switchable aware, so I don't know why that would make a difference.
Do you see the problem on cold (re) boot to XP, or only on warm reboot from Linux to XP?
Seems like something is leaving your BIOS in an odd state (I guess that's obvious) and maybe a cold reboot would sort it.
Z.
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AIR with JavaScript and AJAX (noob design issues)

Okay, so as the subject states, I'm a noob when it comes to designing an AIR app. My question is kind of two fold:
First, as a matter of design, I've got a main window that has several drop-down type menus "File", "Preferences", "Help" that kind of thing. My plan was to keep reusing the main window for each of my different screens (unless a pop-up/dialog type screen was called for)
Anyway, the application I'm writing will, in part, handle a database of patrons. So under one of the menus (File in this case) I've got a "Patron" option. Clicking on "Patron" fires a function called newPatron() which in turn calls my function ebo.displayScreen('patron.htm'). This latter function takes the filename passed in and reads that file then dumps it's contents out to the main screen.
So, my main window consists (in part) of the following html:
<body onload="ebo.doLoad();">
     <div id="content"></div>
</body>
then my displayScreen function looks like this:
function displayScreen(filename){
     var my = {};
     // get a handle on the file...
     my.file = air.File.applicationDirectory(resolvePath(filename);
     // get a handle on the stream...
     my.stream = new air.FileStream();
     //open the stream for read...
     my.stream.open(my.file, air.FileMode.READ);
     // read the data...
     my.data = my.stream.readUTFBytes(my.stream.bytesAvailable);
     // close the stream...
     my.stream.close();
     // update the screen (I'm using jQuery here)
     $("#content").empty().append(my.data);
So anyway, this works like a champ. I click on "Patron" from my file menu and the screen changes to display the contents of patron.htm.
Currently, patron.htm just contains the following:
<div style="text-align:left;">
     <input type="button" value="add" onclick="ebo.add(1,2);" />
</div>
<div id="result"><div>
ebo.add looks like this:
function add(a,b){
     var my = {};
     my.result = a + b;
     $("#result").empty().append(my.result + "<br />");
So, if anyone hasn't guessed by now, the code contained in the ebo namespace gets included on the main screen when the application loads, and my problem is that despite the fact that once the patron.htm file is loaded in the content div by clicking on the menu option, my button on that screen refuses to work. I've even tried just having the button do an alert directly,
<input type="button" value="add" onclick="alert('AIRRocks!');" />
but even that fails!
So, I added some code to the main page to test a button from there...
<body onload="ebo.doLoad();">
     <input type="button" value="add" onclick="ebo.add(1,10);" />
     <div id="result"></div>
     <div id="content"></div>
</body>
So, now when the main screen loads, I get an "add" button and when I click it the number 11 appears in the "result" div. When I click on the Patron menu option, the new html and javascript are loaded into the "content" div, but the add button in that area refuses to work!
What gives? I'm sure I'm missing something. So I guess the two questions are: is my scheme of loading new content into the main window by reading the contents of a file, flawed in some way? Or am I just missing something about making calls from this dynamically loaded content? It *looks* like it should work fine, but if I can't make javascript calls from the resultant content, then the concept is no good.
I realize this has been a somewhat long winded post, but hopefully it describes in enough detail the problem I'm having. I should maybe add that I've looked at what's in the DOM using the AIR HTML/JS Application Inspector and it looks like everything should work perfectly.
I hope someone out there can help me and might have the patience to explain where I've gone wrong. I might also mention that the only book I've read (or am reading) on AIR with JavaScript and AJAX is "Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) with Ajax: Visual QuickPro Guide"... it really hasn't covered aspects of what makes good design (like what's the best way to reuse the main application window to hold interactive content)... but anyway, there you have it.
Again, I hope someone can help me out.
Thanks!
Chris

Thanks for responding, Andy. I don't think I'm losing my namespace. That
thought had crossed my mind, which is why (and I thought I put this in my
original post) I tried putting a somple alert in the onclick event of the
button in my "patron.htm" file... but that simple alert doesn't even work.
:o(
Do you still think it's an issue with the namespace?

FCC with ASCII and UTF-8 encoding issue

Hi,
I have File to IDoc scenario and I am doing FCC which has Japanese chars. (PO with HEADER,1,ITEMS,*)
I have specified UTF-8 encoding in file adapter to processed the file.
Earlier, my source file was in ASCII format which had junk chars; my file was picked and Idoc posted had junk chars.
Then I used UTF-8 encoding for my source file to correct this issue. XI showed proper Japanese chars but this time Header part is missing.
Do I have to specify encoding in "module" for File adapter?
Regards,

Thanks for your replies Chirag/Gabriel,
ISO encoding didn't work.
My source file will be in UTF-8 format.
There is one correction. It is ANSI encoding, not ASCII as in the subject.
I still have this issue when my document offset is 0.
I tried to play around with FCC and found this odd thing.
When first line of my input file is blank....and I omit reading the first line with offset 1, then file is read in its entirety.
Again, when I remove this blank line and the file starts with Header and with offset 0 in File adapter, then again my Header part is missing.
What to do?
Regards,
AV

HT1976 i have iphone 4s and have upgrade to ios 6.1.1 and still having network issues. dropping of signal and 3g.

i have an iphone 4s and have upgrade to ios 6.1.1 and still have issues with network and 3g. please help

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Restart... Reset... Restore from Backup... Restore as New...
Restart / Reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Backing up, Updating and Restoring
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
If you try all these steps and you still have issues... Then a Visit to an Apple Store or AASP (Authorized Apple Service Provider) is the Next Step...
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