Website Update
by Ryan French on Feb.12, 2010, under Techy Stuff
Yesterday I spent the morning updating my website. I customised a new theme for it, added some new widgets, integrated it with Twitter, and upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. I’m pretty happy with the result, now if only I could learn to start posting more again.
Problems with booting after upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala
by Ryan French on Nov.21, 2009, under Techy Stuff
So yesterday I decided to upgrade my installation of Ubuntu from 9.04 -> 9.10 on my file server at home. This system has no screen attached to it and no keyboard so I just ssh’d in and followed the how-to on the Ubuntu website for doing the distribution upgrade.
Everything went smooth until I rebooted the system, and after a while when I tried to get back into it I noticed it hadnt come back online. I plugged a monitor a keyboard into the system and rebooted it to see what the issue was and I saw this screen.
mountall: /proc: unable to mount: Device or resource busy
mountall: /proc/self/mountinfo: Not such file or directory
mountall: root filesystem isn’t mounted
init: mountall main process (2025) terminated with status 1
General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
So I hit the internet and tried to figure out wehat was going on, and found out this appears to be a problem for a lot of people, but none of the solutions I found worked for me, mostly because my fileserver has no cd drive and booting from a flash drive doesnt seem to work either.
From what I can gather the main reason this issue is happening is becase Grub is broken during the update process and is pointing at the wrong drive/kernel. Most solutions involved booting into a live cd and fixing menu.lst from there or using grub-update. Eventually I managed to fix the problem by going into grub and manually editing the boot command to point at the correct drive and the correct kernel. The easiest way to do this for your system is to use tab completion as it will tell you all the options and using a little trial and error you can get it going.
Hopefully this saves someone else from hours of torture.
www.newzealandroid.co.nz
by Ryan French on Oct.30, 2009, under Uncategorized
I’m pretty sure that there are only 2 people who read this blog carefully, and out of those 2 I would say that about 50% of them just click ‘next’ on their feed reader, however I thought I might try and get a bit of publicity for a new site I’m going to be writing for.
One thing I have been following very closely for a long time now is Android. For those of you who don’t know what Android is, it is an operating system made by Google, aimed at smart phones, but also moving into lots of other devices as well.
I have now signed up to be a contributor to a new site, www.newzealandroid.co.nz. I’m aiming to try and shed some insight from what I’ve found about Android (hopefully have more insight when I can actually BUY an Android handset). If you want, check it out. The site isnt open yet, and I’ll post again once it is.
Updated to a new server
by Ryan French on Oct.10, 2009, under Uncategorized
This site, along with a couple of other sites, have all now been moved to a nice new shiny server. Once I finally got around to setting everything up it hasnt seemed too bad, and looks to be right back to where it was a week ago before moving over.
