Solved: Firefox then updating

[btrussell]

I uninstalled picasa and it no longer wants to update wine!

Thank-you very much!

[pinoc]

good. Can you please edit your original post and prepend (Solved) in the subject line,
thanks!

[btrussell]

btrussel,

the latest picasa update requires all the wine-things, so if you had picasa installed then they will get added automatically, see here for more info on this. If you do not use picasa then uninstall it, so the updates including wine are not triggered anymore.

-p

Thanks!

I uninstalled picasa.

[btrussell]

good. Can you please edit your original post and prepend (Solved) in the subject line,
thanks!

Still don't know what happened with FF but it isn't doing it now so I will mark as solved.

Thanks all!

P.S. This pc allocates space on HDD using ktorrent very fast. Old PC took 30 minutes to allocate 30GB. This one allocates 45GB in a blink of an eye. It is done before you can get back to "torrents" window from the "search" window.

Is it possible that fsck -f did anything at all?
It only returned:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18

[kjpetrie]

If all you entered was "fsck -f" then it would only attempt to fsck the mounted partitions, which of course, you should never do. In a livecd no writeable partitions are mounted so there is nothing for it to do. The correct procedure is "fsck -f /dev/<sdxn>" where "<sdxn>" is the partition to be checked. This is well documented in this forum and the fsck man page and I assumed you would search for further instructions.

[btrussell]

I tried this:
fsck -f /dev/<sdxn>

Except I had a space between "f" and "/" as well as between "dev" and the second "/".
So I had:
fsck -f /dev /sda5
but it should be:
fsck -f/dev/sda5
or:
fsck -f/dev/<sda5>

I read the man page after it wouldn't work. I saw no "f" or "F" anywhere by the way, so I still don't know what that option does. I don't mind learning a little, I am actually addicted to it, but we don't all learn the same way either. 
I am still in serious pain after being hit by a car almost 3 months ago. The nature of the injury makes it hard for me to sit in front of PC for any length of time as well as for trying to comprehend things.
The absolute easiest way for me to solve any issue is to take 5 minutes to re-install and then update at 1300-1700 KB/s. But I have already mastered, although not re-mastered, that process. 

I guess I should have pointed out that I would really appreciate real simple instructions. Sorry.

Thanks for the help and have a great week-end! 

[AS]

I tried this:
fsck -f /dev/<sdxn>

Except I had a space between "f" and "/" as well as between "dev" and the second "/".
So I had:
fsck -f /dev /sda5
but it should be:
fsck -f/dev/sda5
or:
fsck -f/dev/<sda5>

No one of the above, this one:

fsck    -f     /dev/sda5

you can have how may spaces you like between fsck and -f  and between -f and /dev/sda5

I read the man page after it wouldn't work. I saw no "f" or "F" anywhere by the way, so I still don't know what that option does. I don't mind learning a little, I am actually addicted to it, but we don't all learn the same way either. 

The -f option will force the filesystem check, even if the filesystem a first sight appear to be clean.

man fsck.ext2   

I am still in serious pain after being hit by a car almost 3 months ago. The nature of the injury makes it hard for me to sit in front of PC for any length of time as well as for trying to comprehend things.
The absolute easiest way for me to solve any issue is to take 5 minutes to re-install and then update at 1300-1700 KB/s. But I have already mastered, although not re-mastered, that process. 

I guess I should have pointed out that I would really appreciate real simple instructions. Sorry.

Thanks for the help and have a great week-end! 

HTH, AS

[btrussell]

Thank you very much!

I'll do this later and report any output that looks strange.

"man fsck.ext2"

I forgot that it had told me to look at that after I had tried adding fs type of ext4 in my command.

Thanks everyone for all the help.

P.S. Firefox has been stable since. First and only time this has ever happened to me.

P.P.S. My tower, monitor and printer are plugged into a APC battery back-up system to prevent surges and brown outs. Plus it gives me time to do a proper shut down in case of power failure.

[btrussell]

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Pass 2: Checking Directory structure
Pass 3: Checking Directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda7: 41839/28246016 files (1.2% non-contiguous), 32398873/112955015 blocks

sda7 is my /home

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Pass 2: Checking Directory structure
Pass 3: Checking Directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda5: 131990/786864 files(0.1% non-contiguous), 1119288/3146724 blocks

sda5 is /

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sda6

sda6 is my swap

I DuckDuckGo'ed "fsck: Error 2" with no luck, so I am posting here.

Thanks!

[AS]

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Pass 2: Checking Directory structure
Pass 3: Checking Directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda7: 41839/28246016 files (1.2% non-contiguous), 32398873/112955015 blocks

sda7 is my /home

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Pass 2: Checking Directory structure
Pass 3: Checking Directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda5: 131990/786864 files(0.1% non-contiguous), 1119288/3146724 blocks

sda5 is /

both are OK.

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sda6

sda6 is my swap

I DuckDuckGo'ed "fsck: Error 2" with no luck, so I am posting here.

Thanks!

swap is OK too, fsck is a front end program that call a specialized fsck.type depending on filesystem type, as you can see from the above error, there not exists fsck.swap, in fact swap is not a filesystem.

AS

[btrussell]

Thank-you very much!