John, I think you are right. I would have prefered to stay with Gentoo but now with a baby, I can't afford to spend too much time fiddling and tweaking my workstation. I am using Xubuntu on a 9 years-old laptop at work and it is rock-solid that's why I switched to Xubuntu for my main machine at home. Maybe a 3.5 years old workstation isn't old enough to be stable running Xubuntu. Thanks! Charles On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Prof. John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>wrote: > In watching this thread, I'm reminded of the discussion at the Nov. meeting > about some > glitches in recent distros, particularly Ubuntu. I've been finding Mint > Debian a > friendlier choice since an attempt to put Ubuntu (I think 10.10, but may > have been 10.04) > on an Asus Eee 900 caused a lockup that required removing battery to clear. > Seems that > some hardware does not find recent Ubuntu's very friendly. > > JN > > > On 01/19/2011 06:03 AM, Charles Nadeau wrote: > > Jeffrey, > > > > The 750GB disks are all SATA 3Gb/s connected to the motherboard, a > Gigabyte > > N680SLI-DQ6 ( > http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2553#sp). > > I never had this kind of problem when I was running Gentoo. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Charles > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jeffrey Monncrieff < > > jeffrey [ dot ] moncrieff [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > > >> What kind of interface are the discs connected to? Is it some kind of > >> hardware raid card? > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb [ at ] linuxbutler [ dot ] ca> > >> To: "Charles Nadeau" <charles [ dot ] nadeau [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > >> Cc: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:00:59 PM > >> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with the changing order of drives > >> > >> > >> Strange that the udev rules aren't working ... > >> > >> One approach is to debug that. Make sure no statements are causing > >> the udev rules you show below to be skipped, and/or move them earlier in > >> the sequence of udev rules (to help with finding what's causing them > >> to be skipped - if that is what's happening). > >> > >> Another approach is to use volume names. I don't know offhand how > >> to do that or I'd give some pointers right here. My guess is > >> you give volume names to the disks (they get written on the disks), > >> then use the volume names to mount the drives rather than the > >> device names. > >> > >> bjb > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:50:58PM -0500, Charles Nadeau wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I had to reinstall linux over the week-end and made the switch from > >> Gentoo > >>> to Xubuntu 10.10. > >>> Since then, everytime the computer reboot,s the order of the drives > >> changes > >>> making the use of my RAID array very difficult. > >>> I tried writing udev rules but they are not followed on boot. > >>> > >>> charles@ottawa:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 80-local.rules > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0ZEL6", NAME="sda" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750330AS_3QK0A55K", NAME="sdb" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_3QD1BKH4", NAME="sdc" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750330AS_3QK08ZAR", NAME="sdd" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST31000528AS_6VP053RH", > NAME="sde" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3320620AS_6QF1A82N", NAME="sdf" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD10GFJ", NAME="sdg" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0ZMT2", NAME="sdh" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_5QD0VDLG", NAME="sdi" > >>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{ID_SERIAL}=="ST3750640AS_3QD0AF55", NAME="sdj" > >>> > >>> What else can I try? > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> Charles > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Charles Nadeau Ph.D. > >>> http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/ > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Linux mailing list > >>> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >>> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >> ---end quoted text--- > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux mailing list > >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/