This post will tell you how to repair / fix Mac HFS+ partition using Ubuntu CD (Live CD or Install CD).

What do you need to do this?
Ubuntu CD (I used Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition Install/Live CD)
Mac
Internet Connection (Wired)

Few days back I had installed Debian 5.0 lenny on my MacBook. Because, I don’t have much hard disk capacity (only 80 GB), I had to delete the Linux partition (waiting for Ubuntu 9.04).  I used BootCamp Utility (in Mac) to delete the Linux partition. It wipes off all the linux data & restores Mac partition (ex: I had 60GB Mac + 20GB Linux, After restore 80GB* Mac).
I was happy that it was restored. But, the partition had errors after restores. I was not able to copy/store the any data if it exceeds 60GB on Mac, it says the Mac startup disk is full. Then I realized that the Mac file system (i.e., HFS+) had errors. Yes, the Ubuntu CD is there to rescue me. Enough story… follow this to proceed…

1. Disable journaling on Mac parition before booting into Ubuntu CD
Use this command on your Mac terminal

• sudo diskutil disableJournal /dev/disk0s2

where disk0s2 is your Mac partition (use ‘df’ command to find out the root disk name, it should be mounted on ‘/’)

2. Boot from Ubuntu CD
Insert the Ubuntu CD, press ‘C’ on startup to boot from CD.

3. Connect to Internet & Install HFSprogs
After Boot connect to Internet, Yeah! I know the wireless won’t work now. I suggest you to connect from Wired.
I assume that you are connected to Internet now.
Then enable Universe packages using ‘Software Sources’.
Then, Install hfsprogs package

• sudo apt-get install hfsprogs

This will enable you to check & repair the HFS+ paritions.

4. Check & Repair

You need to do fsck check on your Mac partition. Use fdisk command to find the Mac device.

abhinay@ubuntu:~$ fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ‘/dev/sda’! The util fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0×00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9730 78150743+ ee GPT

using fdisk didn’t show the Main Partition of mac, It shows only one partition. The above partition sda1 is the EFI partition (boot partition).
That means, /dev/sda2 is your Mac partition.

Perform fsck on sda2

abhinay@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking Catalog hierarchy.
** Checking Extended Attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
** Checking volume information.
** Repairing volume.
** Rechecking volume.
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking Catalog hierarchy.
** Checking Extended Attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully.

Hurray! It is repaired now…!

One more last thing you ‘ll have to do.

5. Enable the journaling on Mac Partition
use this command on Mac to enable the journal back.

sudo diskutil enableJournal /dev/disk0s2

You are done!

**This worked for me!

Comment me if you have any troubles or suggestions. Thanks for reading my blog!

Openbox is lightweight window manager. I installed it on my gentoo, i really liked it. Openbox starts in blink of an eye my gentoo.Openbox just takes seconds to install in any distro. It comes around 500 Kb download size. I have been using GNOME environment in Ubuntu. I feel like GNOME is too slow in my system. I installed openbox and used with gnome session. It is really faster than complete GNOME session. You can change the session from the GDM option menu. Select, Openbox with GNOME session. You’ll get gnome panel, nautilus and other gnome apps with faster openbox window manager without losing the most of the gnome look & features. Openbox rocks !!!

I did,
sudo aptitude install openbox

and here is the screenshot for you

Openbox in Gnome Screenshot - Openbox Rox | Running Urxvt, Scrot, Gnome-panel, Conky, Nautilus, Xcompmgr and some applets

Hey folks, i have a good news for music lovers. I have just got a workaround to play songs from Raaga.com in Linux.

I tried with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 & Firefox 3.0 b 5. I followed this article http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/04/27/setting-up-raaga-com-to-work-on-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron . Credit goes to that article.

I guess, /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so plugin caused a problem for raaga player. After removing this plugin, it was working.

This plugin, (remove this plug-in)

Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-complex-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin 	RealAudio document 	rpm 	Yes

Here is how,

Download the latest Realplayer from here http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current And save it to desktop,

Select Platform: linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586 > RealPlayer (bin)

(Or you can also download from here – http://www.real.com/linux)

[ I suggest you to uninstall realplayer from your Linux if it is already installed, sudo apt-get purge realplayer ]

Install the RealPlayer,

• cd Desktop/
• chmod +x realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin

Here, change the realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin with the filename that you have downloaded.

• sudo ./realplay-10.1.0.4350-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin

Set Plugins,

• cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
• sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt
• sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so
• sudo rm /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so

Restart Firefox,

Now enjoy the music.

http://raaga.com/channels/telugu/top10.asp

If you still have any problems please let me know, i ‘ll try to help you out.

Playing Raaga.com,

This is my about:plugins page on Firefox.

Installed plugins
Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org.
Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible

    File name: nphelix.so
    Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.4005 built with gcc 3.4.3 on Feb 25 2008

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin     RealPlayer Plugin Metafile     rpm     Yes
Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash     Shockwave Flash     swf     Yes
application/futuresplash     FutureSplash Player     spl     Yes
Default Plugin

    File name: libnullplugin.so
    The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
*     All types     .*     No
Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux

    File name: libunixprintplugin.so
    The demo print plugin for unix.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-print-unix-nsplugin     Demo Print Plugin for Unix/Linux     .pnt     Yes
iTunes Application Detector

    File name: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
    This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/itunes-plugin             Yes
Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.1

    File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-ogg     -     ogg     Yes
application/ogg     Ogg multimedia     ogg     Yes
audio/ogg     Ogg Audio     oga     Yes
audio/x-ogg     Ogg Audio     ogg     Yes
video/ogg     Ogg Video     ogv     Yes
video/x-ogg     Ogg Video     ogg     Yes
application/annodex     -     anx     Yes
audio/annodex     -     axa     Yes
video/annodex     -     axv     Yes
video/mpeg     MPEG video     mpg, mpeg, mpe     Yes
audio/wav     WAV audio     wav     Yes
audio/x-wav     WAV audio     wav     Yes
audio/mpeg     MP3 audio     mp3     Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3     NullSoft video     nsv     Yes
video/flv     Flash video     flv     Yes
VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.22.1)

    File name: libtotem-cone-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-vlc-plugin     unknown         Yes
application/vlc     unknown         Yes
video/x-google-vlc-plugin     unknown         Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-mplayer2     AVI video     avi, wma, wmv     Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin     ASF video     asf, wmv     Yes
video/x-msvideo     AVI video     asf, wmv     Yes
video/x-ms-asf     ASF video     asf     Yes
video/x-ms-wmv     Windows Media video     wmv     Yes
video/x-wmv     Windows Media video     wmv     Yes
video/x-ms-wvx     Microsoft ASX playlist     wmv     Yes
video/x-ms-wm     ASF video     wmv     Yes
application/x-ms-wms     Windows Media video     wms     Yes
application/asx     Microsoft ASX playlist     asx     Yes
audio/x-ms-wma     Windows Media audio     wma     Yes
DivX® Web Player

    File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
video/divx     AVI video     divx     Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0

    File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
video/quicktime     QuickTime video     mov     Yes
video/mp4     MPEG-4 video     mp4     Yes
image/x-macpaint     MacPaint Bitmap image     pntg     Yes
image/x-quicktime     QuickTime image     pict, pict1, pict2     Yes
video/x-m4v     MPEG-4 video     m4v     Yes
GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0

    File name: gcjwebplugin.so
    The GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) executes Java applets.

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-java-vm     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_00     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_00     IcedTea     class,jar     Yes
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible

    File name: nphelix.so
    Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.633 built with gcc 4.2.3 on Apr 1 2008

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin     RealPlayer Plugin Metafile     rpm     Yes

I bought my dream laptop on Feb ‘08, i was really satisfied with the MacBook. This is my first blog after on MacBook. The MacBook came with the Mac OS X leopard. leopard was pretty awesome. That was my first play on Mac world. But, Really, i felt restricted with what mac gave me, though it gives almost what you need. Then, I installed Ubuntu on my MacBook. Now, I am feeling Free on Ubuntu. I can do whatever i want.

You can flawlessly install Ubuntu on your MacBook. Let’s take a look what you need to do to install Ubuntu on MacBook.

My MacBook Version :

Check with your MacBook Configuration before proceeding.

My MacBook is Santa Rosa v3.1 (Intel Version) release with the below configuration,

Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz | 1 GB RAM | 80 GB HDD | 13.1′ inch screen | White Color

Hardware Details,

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)

1. Make a room for Ubuntu :

Assuming you have only Mac Leopard Installed on your MacBook.

We need to resize the Mac OS X ( HFS+ File System ) single partition & create a free space to install Ubuntu.

We can do this using Ubuntu Live/Installer CD. Before resizing the Mac partition, you need to disable the journaling the Mac partition. You can do this using diskutil utility in Mac OS X, Boot into Mac and Enter the following command in terminal to do this.

sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil disableJournal /

You can enable journaling after installing ubuntu, replace disableJournal with enableJournal.

you need to Boot from the Ubuntu Hardy Heron Live/Installer CD, select start live cd option to start live session. Wait, until you see the desktop.

Open Gparted ( System > Administration > GNOME Partition ), Right click the Mac OS X partition then select resize option.

I thougt, 10 GB is enough for Ubuntu. You can use the remaining Mac OS X parition in Ubuntu with Read/Write Mode.

After you resized the partition (decrease 10 GB size atleast), Create Swap parition & Logical Ext3 Partition in Free Space.

Resizing the partition takes 30 to 40 min depending on the disk usage. So, Please be patient until it gets resized.

You can start the Ubuntu Installation right away, Double click on the Install icon from the Ubuntu Desktop.

Follow the wizard, When you come across Installation procedure go for Manual Installation. DO NOT select Automatic Installation, automatic installation deletes all paritions on your disk to install the Ubuntu.

Then select the Ext3 Partition as the root partition, then proceed to the next step. Leave everything as default. Also, let it install Grub.

Ok now, you have done Installing Ubuntu. Now let it restart the Machine. Proceed to the next step.

2. Starting Ubuntu :

I assume that everything went well while installing ubuntu. Press & Hold Alt/Option Key while starting the MacBook then select the parition named Windows to boot into Ubuntu Linux. It is recommened to install refit in your Mac. You can download the Mac Disk Image from here http://refit.sourceforge.net/#download . Install it in Mac OS X. Then restart the Machine. You’ll get the Options two select from Linux and Mac OS.

Select Linux to boot in to Ubuntu Linux. So, you have got a Ubuntu Desktop on your Machine. Wait, but lot of things doesn’t work automatically by default. Such as, No Sound, Apple Hot Keys doesn’t work, trackpad doesn’t work properly (including right-click), No Wireless, No Webcam support, No Bluetooth support. Apart from this, you need to install multimedia packages to support all audio/video formats.

3. Configure Ubuntu :

Most of the things work by Following this wiki :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook_Santa_Rosa

Lot of things, i didn’t cover up yet here. Reason, no time, lack of interest or i am lazy. I ‘ll update this post whenever i feel back.

later…

To get correct rendering of telugu in ubuntu fallow the steps :

In Ubuntu Dapper & Ubuntu Edgy :

• sudo apt-get install ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-indic-fonts language-pack-te
• wget http://abhiomkar.googlepages.com/fonts.cache-1
• sudo cp fonts.cache-1 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts
• sudo fc-cache

In Ubuntu Feisty Fawn / Gutsy / Hardy :

• sudo apt-get install ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-indic-fonts language-pack-te
• wget http://abhiomkar.googlepages.com/lohit_te.ttf
• sudo cp lohit_te.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts/
• sudo fc-cache

Restart your computer ( or restart the xsession ) to get correct telugu rendering.

To test for it try http://www.swecha.org/?q=node/23

telugu SCIM – if you want to type in telugu fallow these steps :

In Ubuntu Dapper :

• sudo apt-get install scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-m17n m17n-lib m17n-db
• wget http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/scim-m17n_0.2.0_i386.deb
• wget http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/m17n-lib-bin_1.3.3_i386.deb
• wget http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/m17n-db_1.3.3_all.deb
• wget http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/libm17n-0_1.3.3_i386.deb
• http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/libm17n-dev_1.3.3_i386.deb
  
• sudo dpkg -i *.deb
• wget http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~snk/pub/scim/te-rts.mim
• sudo cp te-rts.mim /usr/share/m17n/

In Ubuntu Edgy / Feisty / Gutsy / Hardy :

• sudo apt-get install scim-m17n
• wget http://abhiomkar.googlepages.com/te-rts.mim
• sudo cp te-rts.mim /usr/share/m17n/

open gnome-session-properties ( System > Preferences > Sessions ). goto Start up programs and click add , and enter scim , close the session properties and restart your computer or restart the xsession.

After restart, now you can type telugu everywhere (at GTK, Qt ). Just right click where you want to type telugu select input method as SCIM, and press ctrl+space to switch from telugu to english or english to telugu.

You have to select the telugu language from the scim toolbox.

Enjoy

పండగ చేసుకో ఇక…

My GNOME desktop in Telugu

Got very excited with the Telugu language (మాతృ భాష) in Linux ?

You can get complete Telugu Desktop in GNOME, Do this…

• sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-te-base language-pack-gn
• Open System > Administration > Language Support
• Check Telugu Support, Click Apply.
• Then Restart Ubuntu. You are done. మొత్తం తెలుగు వస్తది ర బై.