[mythtv-users] OT: Linux problem

[Damian]

On 03/09/2015 17:15, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Damian,
>
> Thursday, September 3, 2015, 3:46:51 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I have tried to get to the bottom of this problem on a more general
>> Linux forum (ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2289024) but no one seems
>> to be able to help.
>> I realise that this is off topic, so feel free to ignore, but you are
>> the most knowledgeable group of Linux people I know, so ...
>> The short story:
>> One of my drives on my ubuntu server is behaving oddly as a mapped
>> network drive. Whenever I try to connect to it (from either a windows or
>> linux machine) I get an error message about memory. From windows, it
>> says "Cannot connect all network drives", then if I click on it says,
>> "An error has occurred while reconnecting S: to [path] Microsoft Windows
>> Network: Not enough storage is available to process this command. This
>> connection has not been restored." I can't remember the error from a
>> Linux box, but its similar and mentions memory.
>> However, if I then click onto a different drive, and then back to the
>> network drive, everything is fine! And it continues to be fine until the
>> connected machine reboots.
>> This problem happens, without fail, every time a reboot one of the
>> machines that connects to the mythbuntu server (actually a desktop install).
>> It all worked fine before. There's plenty of space on the drive.
>> Any idea what's going on?
>> The long story:
>> If more info is needed ...
>> I have an Ubuntu machine in the garage (actually Mythbubtu) which acts
>> as a server for the house.
>> I have other Mythbuntu computers and Windows machines that connect to
>> this machine.
>> A couple of weeks ago, I tried to update Mythbuntu on the server (first
>> to 14.10, then to 15.04). Unfortunately, the update from 14.10 to 15.04
>> didn't work (some problem with MySQL that I need to come back to).
>> Luckily, I had made a ClonZilla back up of the OS at each stage, so it
>> was easy to roll back to the last fully working system.
>> Everything seems to be working perfectly in the current 14.10 system,
>> except for mapped drives from my windows machines.
>> I have drives S: and T: mapped to the Ubuntu server on all of my windows
>> machines.
>> The T: drive is still working fine on all of them.
>> The S: drive is acting the way that I described in the 'short story'
>> description above.
>> This is exactly the same on all of the windows machines, so I'm sure
>> it's something on the server that's not as it was.
>> Any ideas what can be going on?
>> It all works eventually. It's just annoying to have to click past error
>> messages on every reboot.
>> Thanks,
>> Damian
>> PS I'm pretty inexperienced with the terminal, so if you need to see any
>> logs or output from commands, please tell me what I need to be typing or
>> where I need to be looking.
>> How can I get to the bottom of this?
>> _______________________________________________
> Check your logs on the Linux box. They probably will give you more
> info. Also check free space and run a checkdisk on the problematic
> volume.

Hi Hika,

Sorry for taking so long to respond. This month has been nuts. I've not 
been using Myth at all, let alone trying to fix it! :-)

OK, logs. Where should I check and what should I be looking for? I'm 
sure there will be a whole lot of info in there that will mean 
absolutely nothing to me! Probably too much to post to ask you guys to 
help too. What can I do that would be most useful to debug this?

Regarding checkdisk, I have not run that yet as the server is a headless 
system in a different room. I assume I'll have to move the sever to a 
monitor and use a LiveUSB distro to enable me to run checkdisk (is that 
right?). What I have done is installed and run Disks 
(gnome-disk-utility). That seems to think that everything is fine!?

I guess that means that I've done neither of the things that you've 
asked me to do! :-)

I will move the server to a monitor, run a live USB distro and run 
checkdisk as soon as I can.

If logs will help, please let me know where I should look and what I 
should look for.

Thanks,
Damian