On 13/05/12 01:42, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 5/13/12, Indulekha<indulekha@theunworthy.com> wrote:On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:04AM +0000, Marc Shapiro wrote:On 5/12/12, Indulekha<indulekha@theunworthy.com> wrote:On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +0000, Marc Shapiro wrote:I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see "System no longer boots" and "How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?" Now my problem is different, and stranger.
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The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'xxxxx.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing.
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So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help.?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ??Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls.Something to do with gnome or nautilus then, I'd think... Sorry I'm not more helpful, I don't use those. You could try creating a new user account and see if it happens there too -- then if it doesn't you know there's probably an error of some sort in a config file. If this was caused by an update, apt-get -f install might work...As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a previous install.
My first thoughts, before doing *anything* else, would be BACK UP THOSE FILES!
Then start investigating.I'd next do a fsck -n to see if any file system damage shows, but not trying to repeair it until I see what there is.
It's odd that the files/directories don't show in gnome/nautilus. Perhaps a permissions/attributes thing?
I'm guessing Open Office creates a lock/work file while working on a document and it has found one of those.
-- Dom