Files reverting to earlier save dates?

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Hello, I’ve been working on a bunch of simple txt files for a while now and over the last few days I have slowly watched all of them, one by one, revert to earlier save dates essentially erasing months of work.Luckily I’ve backed most of it up but still have one file still missing.

I’ve dowloaded testdisc but am also having trouble installing it. I was wondering if there’s anything that can be done off the desktop or console that might fix this and get my work back.

Toshiba Satellite and OpenSuse12.3

Thanks

Jack

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Strange phenomenon. But please try to explain more. We are not lookng over your shoulders, thus we need more detailed information. Like:

With what do you change those files?

Is there any backup/restore software running (regularly) on your system? Or some srync?

Where are those file? Somewhere inside your home directory?

Any other things you can think of. After all itt is your system and you adapted it to your liking. I can e.g. not imagine how a simple text, changed by an editor like vi reverts to it’s status before several vi sessions monthes ago, because that status is not stored anywhere in the system without an action of either the user or the system manager to make a copy/backup of it.

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> Luckily I’ve backed most of it up

how are you doing backups, exactly? (i ask because some rsync
commands can flow data both ways)

do you have btrfs installed?

and how have you setup snapshot?

are you using RAID?

what operating system and version are you running?

see if you find help here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=486051

> I was
> wondering if there’s anything that can be done off the desktop or
> console that might fix this and get my work back.

one of the first steps of recovering lost data is to STOP mounting
as read and write the partition with the data on it …

because any writes may obliterate the wanted data…

–
dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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Hello,

I found it rather odd to find out that a few simple text files I have been working on have started reverting to earlier save dates, essentially wiping the files of all updated data. I did some work on one file the other day, saved it as usual and shut down the computer. When I opened it up later I found that about a month’s worth of work had disappeared to be replaced with the few notes I initially wrote over a month ago. Checking the preferences, it indeed agreed that the last date modified was over a month ago.

Subsequently, I check all my other files and several others have done the same thing. Luckily I have most backed up but for the one I am currently working on which has for the time being, gone missing. I have asked a few wise old Linux users I know about the problem and so far, haven’t had much luck.

I have managed to download testdisc and install it. It however doesn’t appear to work, Yast can’t find it, Konsole can’t find it and I haven’t found any forums that have any info on this particular problem so I tried a few other solutions. I tried clamav, (I know most will say that Linux is virus proof but even a noob such as myself understands this is codswallop) only to find it about as useful as tits on a bull.

More forums, more posts, more inspiring philosophy on all the hundreds of thousands of ways to not recover my lost file so I thought I would try here next. I will probably go on posting all over the net until I find a solution so if there really is someone out there that likes the challenge of either figuring out how on earth this happened or can just present me with a functional recovery method for this one file, I would be eternally grateful.

suse12.3 - KDE - Tosh laptop, Let me know what else would be useful info.

Thank you all kindly for your time and knowledge on the matter.

Jack

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Anyone’s more than welcome to look over my shoulder if I get the file back!!!

Using simple txt. files using Kwrite, the only changes I have made to the files is to add content and save, repeatedly, every time I take my finger off the keyboard. I also renamed all of the files some time ago. Otherwise, the files themselves have remained the same.

I haven’t installed any backup or restore software or srctnc.

Anything else I can think of. I can think of everything but as to what is pertinent and useful… I have a ‘writeroom’ jar file that I used some time ago to edit some of the files but if memory serves, I did not use it to edit any of the files that are displaying this weird behaviour. I encountered some doubling up of save files when switching to Kwrite and came up with an option of which version to save. I checked through my text for the one I wanted saved and carried on as normal. I haven’t had any problems such as this since I stopped using writeroom and that was at least two months ago.
One of the files had a problem recognising itself as a .txt file around the time the reverted files said they were last modified, the 13th, 14th and 15th of last month. I can’t remember what file it thought it was and I cannot be certain of exactly when the file started playing up but will check. None the less I approached the file through another program and managed to re-save it and rename it without any difficulties.
I can not think of any other problems I have encountered with these files but I’ll be sure to let you know as soon as I have remembered any though my system clock does think it’s an hour behind?
The files are indeed saved in a sub folder inside my home directory and I back them up by emailing each file to myself when it’s finished.
No btrfs (but I should get one). No snapshot. No RAID. Running on openSUSE 12.3 (i586) and dual Windows vista (which I don’t use and nobody else does either)

Hope that all makes sense!

Thanks

Jack

Strange phenomenon. But please try to explain more. We are not lookng over your shoulders, thus we need more detailed information. Like:

With what do you change those files?

Is there any backup/restore software running (regularly) on your system? Or some srync?

Where are those file? Somewhere inside your home directory?

Any other things you can think of. After all itt is your system and you adapted it to your liking. I can e.g. not imagine how a simple text, changed by an editor like vi reverts to it’s status before several vi sessions monthes ago, because that status is not stored anywhere in the system without an action of either the user or the system manager to make a copy/backup of it.> Luckily I’ve backed most of it up

how are you doing backups, exactly? (i ask because some rsync
commands can flow data both ways)

do you have btrfs installed?

and how have you setup snapshot?

are you using RAID?

what operating system and version are you running?

see if you find help here:
files in home directory being deleted or reverting to an old version

> I was
> wondering if there’s anything that can be done off the desktop or
> console that might fix this and get my work back.

one of the first steps of recovering lost data is to STOP mounting
as read and write the partition with the data on it …

because any writes may obliterate the wanted data…

–
dd

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On 05/18/2013 01:46 PM, catawampous wrote:
>
> suse12.3 - KDE - Tosh laptop, Let me know what else would be useful
> info.

answer all the question asked of Skull33 in his thread
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=486051

–
dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!

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Sorry, if it’s v12.3 i586 would it have btrfs in Kwrite? Am not too confident in trying to see, vis my good fellow’s advice…

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On 2013-05-18 15:16, catawampous wrote:
>
> Sorry, if it’s v12.3 i586 would it have btrfs in Kwrite? Am not too
> confident in trying to see, vis my good fellow’s advice…

Please post the output of “mount” command, as user, complete with prompts.

Please use code tags for printouts and commands. Advanced editor, ‘#’
button.
Posting in
Code Tags - A Guide

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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$mount
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=493480k,nr_inodes=123370,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=24,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)

help at all?

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Another thing, may be unrelated,… this is starting to pop up in my notifications;

“Failed to initialise. System management is locked by the application with pid 1899 (user/lib/Yast2/bin/2base) Close this application before trying again”

Though I’ve had Yast open for a while, as far as I know I’m not trying to get into system management. Are there any applications that would want to without my prompt or am I just paranoid?

Jack

11

This is indeed very strange. Please catawampous, check the other thread (the link provided by dd) to see if there is anything that you have in common with the OP there.

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Denver, here’s the output for all of the questions in https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/486051-files-home-directory-being-deleted-reverting-old-version.html

$df -hlT
$cat /etc/fstab
$zypper se -i snapper
$mount
$sudo /sbin/fdisk -l



$df -hlT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  482M   12K  482M   1% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M   96K  498M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M  2.8M  495M   1% /run
/dev/sda6      ext4       19G  4.8G   13G  28% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M     0  498M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M  2.8M  495M   1% /var/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     498M  2.8M  495M   1% /var/run
/dev/sda7      ext4       29G  1.2G   26G   5% /home

$cat /etc/fstab 
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1637GSX_57TET1VGT-part5 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1637GSX_57TET1VGT-part6 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1637GSX_57TET1VGT-part7 /home                ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0

$zypper se -i snapper
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No packages found.

$mount
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=493480k,nr_inodes=123370,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup  (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=24,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
gvfsd-fuse on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)

$sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xda228d45

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048     3074047     1536000   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2         3074048   152141181    74533567    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       159363072   210594355    25615642    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4   *   210595840   312580095    50992128    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       210595841   213648435     1526297+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       213649408   252798975    19574784   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       252801024   312561663    29880320   83  Linux

Jack

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…and here’s the rest because it goes over the 15k limit. Hope you can make something of it! Cheers

$ps -ef
$blkid
$ls /home
$cnf snapper


$ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 11:08 ?        00:00:01 /sbin/init showopts
root         2     0  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kthreadd]
root         3     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         5     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/0:0H]
root         7     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/u:0H]
root         8     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [migration/0]
root         9     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [rcuc/0]
root        10     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [rcub/0]
root        11     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:02 [rcu_preempt]
root        12     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [rcu_bh]
root        13     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [rcu_sched]
root        14     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [watchdog/0]
root        15     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [watchdog/1]
root        16     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [rcuc/1]
root        17     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root        18     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [migration/1]
root        20     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/1:0H]
root        21     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [cpuset]
root        22     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [khelper]
root        23     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kdevtmpfs]
root        24     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [netns]
root        25     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [bdi-default]
root        26     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kintegrityd]
root        27     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd]
root        28     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [ata_sff]
root        29     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [khubd]
root        30     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [md]
root        33     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [khungtaskd]
root        34     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:06 [kswapd0]
root        35     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [ksmd]
root        36     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [khugepaged]
root        37     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [fsnotify_mark]
root        38     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [crypto]
root        43     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kthrotld]
root        44     2  0 11:08 ?        00:00:00 [kpsmoused]
root        46     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [deferwq]
root        83     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root        84     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root        94     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [kmpath_rdacd]
root       144     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:01 [kworker/0:1H]
root       213     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [jbd2/sda6-8]
root       214     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
root       221     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [flush-8:0]
root       240     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/1:1H]
root       246     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
root       247     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [kauditd]
root       277     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root       320     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [led_workqueue]
root       324     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [cfg80211]
root       336     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [pccardd]
root       341     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [hd-audio0]
root       399     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [jbd2/sda7-8]
root       400     2  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 [ext4-dio-unwrit]
avahi      411     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [linux-u4w9.local]
root       413     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:03 /usr/sbin/haveged -w 1024 -v 0 -F
root       417     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root       424     1  0 11:09 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 38400 linux
root       428     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n
message+   429     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:59 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=syst
root       431     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:43 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
root       441     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nscd --foreground
root       469     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/kdm
polkitd    487     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
root       494     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager
root       496     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_sup
root       499     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd -n
root       507     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron -n
root       578   469  2 11:09 tty7     00:06:24 /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -
root       630     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master
postfix    639   630  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
root       699   469  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 -:0         
root       732   431  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/lib/nm-dhc
catawam+   733   699  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
catawam+   820     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-
catawam+   863     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:02 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --
catawam+   870   733  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon --write
root       973     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit +kcm
catawam+   974     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...           
catawam+   975   974  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: klauncher [kdeinit] --fd=9    
catawam+   977     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:14 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]               
catawam+   985     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kglobalaccel [kdeinit]        
catawam+   987     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kwalletd [kdeinit]            
catawam+   991     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/kactivitymanagerd
root       992     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:02 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
catawam+   995   733  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver
catawam+   996   974  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit]           
root      1035     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:05 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd --no-debug
catawam+  1047   996  0 11:09 ?        00:02:03 kwin -session 101c414317611c000136421249
catawam+  1074     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/knotify4
catawam+  1078     1  1 11:09 ?        00:03:02 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]      
catawam+  1080     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:17 /usr/bin/lancelot
catawam+  1084     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_control
catawam+  1086  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 akonadiserver
catawam+  1088  1086  0 11:09 ?        00:00:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/home/c
catawam+  1093  1078  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 ksysguardd
catawam+  1142  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_
catawam+  1143  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_archivemail_agent --ide
catawam+  1144  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_
catawam+  1145  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_
catawam+  1146  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_agent_launcher akonadi_
catawam+  1147  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent --
catawam+  1148  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_mailfilter_agent --iden
catawam+  1157  1084  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder --identi
catawam+  1174     1  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver
catawam+  1178  1174  0 11:09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstora
catawam+  1191  1178  0 11:09 ?        00:00:10 /usr/bin/virtuoso-t +foreground +configf
catawam+  1196     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/kuiserver
catawam+  1221   974  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kio_http_cache_cleaner [kdeini
catawam+  1236  1174  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilew
catawam+  1242     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:03 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit]             
catawam+  1254     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target
rtkit     1255     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon
catawam+  1274     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukcontroller -session 101c
catawam+  1276     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 101c41
catawam+  1280     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:40 /usr/bin/amarok -session 101c414317611c0
catawam+  1298     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authent
catawam+  1301     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4: klipper [kdeinit]             
root      1312     1  0 11:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f
catawam+  1353   974  9 11:11 ?        00:21:38 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
catawam+  1363     1  0 11:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
catawam+  1367     1  0 11:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfsd-fuse -f /run/user/1
catawam+  1409  1353  0 11:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/mozilla/kmozillahelper
catawam+  1420     1  0 11:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/GConf/2/gconfd-2
catawam+  1825   974  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2 s
catawam+  1828  1825  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -c /sbin/yas
catawam+  1830     1  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesud
catawam+  1840  1830  0 11:51 ?        00:00:04 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesud
root      1843  1840  0 11:51 pts/3    00:00:00 /usr/bin/su root -c /usr/lib/kde4/libexe
root      1846  1843  0 11:51 pts/3    00:00:00 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu_stub
root      1849  1846  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 sw_single
root      1866  1849  0 11:51 ?        00:00:12 /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base sw_single qt
root      1871     1  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 15adc3bf04c16a9
root      1872     1  0 11:51 ?        00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --
root      1939     2  0 12:00 ?        00:00:07 [kworker/0:2]
root      4609     2  0 13:54 ?        00:00:02 [kworker/1:0]
postfix   4829   630  0 14:29 ?        00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u
root      4895     2  0 14:39 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/u:1]
root      4898     2  0 14:39 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/1:1]
root      5152     2  0 14:54 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/0:0]
root      5155     2  0 14:55 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/u:2]
catawam+  5178     1  1 14:58 ?        00:00:05 kdeinit4: konsole [kdeinit]             
catawam+  5182  5178  0 14:58 pts/1    00:00:00 /bin/bash
root      5208     2  0 14:59 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/0:1]
root      5234     2  0 15:00 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/u:0]
catawam+  5238  5178  0 15:01 pts/4    00:00:00 /bin/bash
root      5261     2  0 15:01 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/1:2]
catawam+  5268  5238  0 15:03 pts/4    00:00:00 ps -ef

$blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="WinRE" UUID="C22815A02815950F" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Vista" UUID="0E4C18594C183DC1" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="904C1B224C1B0320" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="bfe309c5-b464-4b82-8aa4-9380fe632959" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="1f57f93b-4eaf-4684-a1ca-360325356f17" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda7: UUID="46f5d5ef-995f-49bb-a7f1-a2b60a32ecf2" TYPE="ext4"

$ls /home
lost+found
$umount /home
umount: /home: umount failed: Operation not permitted
$ls /home
lost+found
$mount /home
mount: only root can mount /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1637GSX_57TET1VGT-part7 on /home

$snapper list
If 'snapper' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf snapper
If 'snapper' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
If 'If' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf If

$cnf snapper                       
The program 'snapper' can be found in following packages:
  * snapper  path: /usr/bin/snapper, repository: zypp (openSUSE-12.3-1.7) ]
  * snapper  path: /usr/bin/snapper, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ]

Try installing with:
    sudo zypper install snapper
14

That is something commpletely different. You probably have the Apper applet active and it will now and then check for updates. During that time you can not use YaST > Software > Software Managment (or zypper equivalents). Only one of them can use the database at a time.

15

Yes and no, I’ve gone through the thread repeatedly and there are indeed several similarities. Someone recommended that I drop RAID, presumably so that it doesn’t happen in the future though there’s nothing I could find in the thread that would get my data back. :frowning:

Jack

16

I am not optimistic. But as long as we do not understand how this happened/happens, there is not much chance that we now where your up-to-date versions are.

At least you have your backups I assume.

17

On 2013-05-18 17:16, catawampous wrote:
>
> Another thing, may be unrelated,… this is starting to pop up in my
> notifications;
>
> “Failed to initialise. System management is locked by the application
> with pid 1899 (user/lib/Yast2/bin/2base) Close this application before
> trying again”

Ignore it.

You have yast open, as you want, and at the same time it happens that
apper wants to check for updates, normally once a day. If it fails, it
probably tries again some time later.

If you want them to get away, configure kde to not start apper at all or
not check for updates.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

18

On 2013-05-18 15:01, dd wrote:
> On 05/18/2013 01:46 PM, catawampous wrote:
>>
>> suse12.3 - KDE - Tosh laptop, Let me know what else would be useful
>> info.
>
> answer all the question asked of Skull33 in his thread
> http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=486051

DD, this is a double post, he asked the same in boot-loging forum.
I have reported this to the moderators, and I’ll refrain from saying any
thing more in any thread till they decide.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

19

Okay, thanks guys.

20

This is indeed a double post. To say it bluntly: we hate that. It will tear apoart the discussion.

It is CLOSED now and will be merged with the other one. May take some time.