strange behaviour

[witblits1970]

recently i have noticed that when i want to access my home directory or music or docs for that matter, i noticed that movie player automatically opens and plays a playlist created by something. not sure how this has happened since some ODT docs are included din the playlist??

[pclinuxguru]

Sounds like a malicious script to me.

Install any custom software or scripts as of late ?

[witblits1970]

Install any custom software or scripts as of late ?[/quote]
no in a word.

[pclinuxguru]

Well, all searches on my part have turned up nothing.

Sounds odd to me, I clearly have not seen this as of yet.

Only way to infect Linux is to install via root or root password

So, in truth. Not sure what to tell ya at this point.

I will keep my eyes out, should anyone else report this.

[witblits1970]

Well, all searches on my part have turned up nothing.

Sounds odd to me, I clearly have not seen this as of yet.

Only way to infect Linux is to install via root or root password

So, in truth. Not sure what to tell ya at this point.

I will keep my eyes out, should anyone else report this.

thanks for help so far, once 2.9 comes available then i'll reinstall .

[witblits1970]

have just done a complete re-install on my desktop and there i notice that when i open places, and any directory from there that sound converter opens??? is there a bug or am i missing something here
must say this is the 1st time i have seen this kind of behaviour form the best OS there is, strange but true.

[tittiger]

My strange behaviour may or may not be related.
When I last rebooted a lot of Firefox configuration was lost or changed.
Certain files on an NTFS partition can not be moved/renamed or deleted though
permissions should allow this. Even from windows I could not move one of the folders
on this partition.

From the root of this NTFS partition I can not see most of the major subdirectories.
The only way I know they are still there is by direct mappings in Nautilus.

This a a worse case nightmare for me. An OS seemingly trying to destroy years and years worth
of data. I do have back ups but can I even trust the OS not to corrupt the external drive data once it mounts?

I think these files can be viewed from windows 7 so I may exaggerate about losing the files but then again I am flustered to say the least.

And I thought only windows dished out nightmares like this.
The only thing I have installed except updates lately has been " PDF editor"

Help much appreciated.

Joe

[Hawks-SOAD]

My strange behaviour may or may not be related.
When I last rebooted a lot of Firefox configuration was lost or changed.
Certain files on an NTFS partition can not be moved/renamed or deleted though
permissions should allow this. Even from windows I could not move one of the folders
on this partition.

From the root of this NTFS partition I can not see most of the major subdirectories.
The only way I know they are still there is by direct mappings in Nautilus.

This a a worse case nightmare for me. An OS seemingly trying to destroy years and years worth
of data. I do have back ups but can I even trust the OS not to corrupt the external drive data once it mounts?

I think these files can be viewed from windows 7 so I may exaggerate about losing the files but then again I am flustered to say the least.

And I thought only windows dished out nightmares like this.
The only thing I have installed except updates lately has been " PDF editor"

Help much appreciated.

Joe

i would suggest scanning it.
also in Ultimate Edition open up ntfs-config should be in System>Admin or preferences see if read/write support is enabled on the internal HDD ( can also enable R/w for external drives there too) good luck

[81golfcaddy]

when i was using ubuntu 10.10 and installed banshee it would try to open the same way. you could open pictures or my documents and banshee would open. I un- installed it and re installed it and still the same thing. so i used a different player. never figured out why it was doing this.

[tittiger]

"i would suggest scanning it.
also in Ultimate Edition open up ntfs-config should be in System>Admin or preferences see if read/write support is enabled on the internal HDD ( can also enable R/w for external drives there too) good luck"

Thanks Hawks.

I can write to some files so r/w is enabled. Right?
Sorry I am slow I found this and made sure that it is set to RW.

I Googled scanning a Ubuntu drive and came up with multiple meanings...
GSmartControl
Smartmontools
fsck
or an antivirus scan?

Which do you suggest?
I am also going to boot a live version and take a look from there.

Thanks
Joe