Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure
Wonderful, thank you. All working well now. Raspberry Pi 3 model B, Debian/Open Media Vault (OMV) 3.0.97 (Erasmus), LMS 7.9.1 - 1519287262 Squeezebox Classic Squeezebox Duet Squeezebox Radio Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108744 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure
Thanks for the answer, but I don't understand it; what is a search path? I'm guessing I drop it in a folder in one of the Helper folders?: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/armhf-linux /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /tmp/par-squeezeboxserver/cache-93fc9269f2cad1b44dfa1dd0a57132ee14664f5f Raspberry Pi 3 model B, Debian/Open Media Vault (OMV) 3.0.97 (Erasmus), LMS 7.9.1 - 1519287262 Squeezebox Classic Squeezebox Duet Squeezebox Radio Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108744 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure
I have just done a fresh installation and found I needed the -apt-get update- & -apt-get -f install-. My settings tell me I have no LAME installed - is this part of the same dependency issue? I can't establish where to put LAME - any steers? Raspberry Pi 3 model B, Debian/Open Media Vault (OMV) 3.0.97 (Erasmus), LMS 7.9.1 - 1519287262 Squeezebox Classic Squeezebox Duet Squeezebox Radio Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108744 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log'
I know nothing about Linux. Can you please tell me how to do what richardsk suggests? Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103205 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log'
I don't know what ssh is. I log-on to the server using PuTTY. If I enter df -h I get: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_hamgat-lv_root 5.0G 5.0G 0 100% / tmpfs 499M 0 499M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 485M 68M 392M 15% /boot /dev/sdc1 917G 748G 170G 82% /mnt/Boss /dev/sdd1 917G 613G 305G 67% /mnt/Slave /dev/sda1 932G 613G 320G 66% /mnt/USB How do I determine what to do now? Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103205 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log'
The system has worked fine for the past four years so I doubt that there is an issue with the size of the card. I presume I have things on the card which is irrelevant, e.g. old yum/rpm stuff and logs. Is someone able to tell me the commands to clear out the logs and anything else that I don't need (the only job the mini-ITX does is to run LMS and to host the flexshare for moving files from my PC to the HDD)? Thanks. Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103205 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log'
I have been unable to get LMS to start. I am not qualified enough even to call myself a Linux novice. Any tips welcomed. The system is a mini-ITX running ClearOS 6.4.0 on an 8Gb Compact Flash. The storage is a 1Tb HDD. In PuTTY I get: # service squeezeboxserver start Starting Squeezebox Server: Unable to read prefs from /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs/server.prefs : Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_sv) at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/YAML/XS.pm line 48. [15-02-22 16:12:11.3734] main::init (353) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.7.5, 1416570306, Thu Nov 27 08:21:23 UTC 2014) perl 5.010001 Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log': No space left on device at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 240. I ran the following: yum clean packages [9 packages removed] yum clean all; yum update WinSCP gives var/log as 357Mb du -sh /var/* gives (the flexshare points to a 1Tb disc full of music and podcasts): 30M /var/cache 39M /var/clearos 864K/var/db 8.0K/var/empty 747G/var/flexshare 12K /var/ftp 4.0K/var/games 1.6G/var/lib 4.0K/var/local 16K /var/lock 326M/var/log 0 /var/mail 4.0K/var/nis 4.0K/var/nmbd 4.0K/var/opt 4.0K/var/preserve 216K/var/run 44K /var/samba 116K/var/spool 12K /var/state 4.0K/var/tmp 1.2M/var/www 4.0K/var/yp Thanks. (NB, I tried loading ffmpeg a few days back to overcome the BBC's dropping of aac and it failed as I had insufficient space.) Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103205 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Cannot write to '/var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log'
Thanks for the answer. I know nothing of Linux so I don't know how to get rid of stuff, or how to decide what should be got rid of. From my perspective, as a start, I could ditch all logs as I wouldn't know what to do with a log. But how...? How do I decide what to delete and how do I do it? Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103205 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
I managed to get a number of things running, e.g. Squeeze Server, which is a -lot- quicker than on my PC However, I just couldn't get the root pointer correct so I thought the best things was to reinstall. I did this with setting my own partitions and this seems fine, except that on boot the machine requires the pressing of F1 to go from initiation to booting the OS. Previously, when it was pointing to the wrong root location, it went straight from machine start into OS boot. Does this suggest that I have a setting wrong in the boot directory somewhere (I set the loader as MBR (please see below), I can't remember the other option)? For the record I have the following hardware settings: Mount Type Partition /boot ext2 /dev/hda1 / ext2 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-CF_Root In the install I set the root as Mount Point / Logical Volume Name CF_Root Size5536Mb File Type ext2 Make Logical Volume (this was set for swap, I removed the swap option but did not know how to kill this LV so I presume it is dead space. Tips on how to recover it welcomed): Mount Point n/a Logical Volume Name No_Swap Size1984Mb File System TypePhysical volume (LVM) Mount Point /boot File System Typeext2 A . Drive hda Size100Mb Volume Group(no record of this) Force to be Primary PositionYes Use Grub Boot LoaderY Boot Loader Config I made no forced entries Grub Password No Boot Device /dev/VolGroup00/CF_Root ClearOS Enterprise Edition /dev/VolGroup00/CF_Root Boot Loader MBR /dev/hda1 I will fiddle on but expect I will have to reinstall when time permits next week. whilst this is a set back I feel I am learning things and some of it is being retained:-) Thanks as always. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Well, I seem to have had a degree of success. Thanks to you all for the tips and forbearance. There are some open questions. I started a new install prior to NeilTs advice and selected the manual partition option. I reckon I have made a settings error, however, since I can boot from the CF without the USB being attached -but- I have to edit the start sequence to change the root from hd1,0 to hd0,0. (The edit is in GNU GRUB, grub editroot (hd1,0).) Looking at the hardware reports I have: Mount Type Partition /boot ext3 /dev/hda1 / - ext3 - /dev/mapperVolGroup00-LogVol00 /mnt/HardDrives ext2 - /dev/sda1 /mnt/HardDrives ext2 - /dev/sdb1 So, the question is, can I safely edit and save the boot to point to hd0,0 (what phrase do I use and how do I do this)? (The grub editor doesn't save the setting, it is only good for one boot. I also wonder whether /dev/mapperVolGroup00-LogVol00 is the right place for the root, anyway.) From the above it can be seen that I managed to kill the boot from the HDD and reformat both drives epochs nuclear option was nice and quick. Other queries: I tried to load GParted after loading the OS (I did this because I did not see NeilTs message until the install was halfway through). After entering the language number the screen went blank. I left the machine for 15 mins but there were no screen changes so switched the machine off and pulled the USB. I could not see GParted from the command line. Should I have waited longer or done something else? How do I get to the graphic version (Sourceforge says Choose System Tools #8594; GParted Partition Editor - I dont know where to find System Tools, does GParted put a tool item in the OS' graphical screen)? I understand that I need to minimise the writes to the CF, as commented by Rich. I have seen the advice in http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/pages/hard_drive_options.htm that the command noatime stops access time writes to the disc. Would the forum recommend any other tweaks (please also see para below)? I also understand that I need to stop swaps to the CF. Looking at etc/fstab I have /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 set as swap. I presume that this is the same disc as the root partition (see hardware report above). Can I change this using GParted? What do I change it to? I intend for my HDDs to stop spinning when the server is idle (I dont expect to access the discs constantly and I have built the unit to be as cool and quiet as possible). I understand from the www.ulverston advice that I should therefore set the discs to ext2. NeilT recommended setting them to ext3. Does NeilTs recommendation change in the light of my spec? Lastly, I have managed to set my PC up to view the server in My Network Places. However, I cant see the HDDs. I put them both in a server sub-folder called /mnt/HardDrives (see the hardware report above). Can the forum see where I may have made an error in them not being visible in XP? (NB I am presuming that HardDrives is the name of the sub-folder and I'm not confusing XP by giving both sda1 and sdb1 the same nickname.) Thanks again for the help, I finally feel that I am making progress all I have to do is commit the exercise to memory (mine). -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
I didnt grasp the commenting out direction(*) and could not find anything helpful on the internet. Consequently I attempted to follow epochs suggestion and I think I must have made some duff entries as the machine failed to boot (the final text on the console screen at end of the boot attempt was Kernel panic (+)). I tried to run rescue mode but could not identify the FTP server so had to reload. To avoid me making the same mistakes and having to reload again, if anyone can spot my error(s) perhaps I can make the edits correctly. Thanks -0- (*) When I edit the rebuild I shall try Rich's proposal first and prefix existing statements with # and a space -0- In editing fstab and menu.lst: - Instruction: then save (ctrl-o with nano) and quit (ctrl-x). I did ctrl-o and was asked for a file - I left it as fstab and hit return, then ctrl-x - Instruction: Edit file menu.lst. I looked up the edit command and found nano w menu.lst. I edited the text items, did ctrl-o and set the file as menu.lst. I hit return and then ctrl-x - The textual options in these files were not necessarily expressed as /dev/hda3 but as root or Label. Also, I didnt have the expression defaults,errors=remount-ro just defaults so made the changes as I understood them, e.g. changing root to root=LABEL=CF-boot -0- (+) For the record, my failed reboot screen said: Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices Trying to resume from LABEL=SWAP-hda2 No supported signature on swap, not resuming Creating root device Mounting root file system Mount could not find file system dev/root Setting up new root fs Moving/dev failed: no such file or directory No fstab sys, mounting internal defaults Error mounting /proc: no such file or directory Error mounting /sys: no such file or directory Switching to new root and running init Unmounting old /dev Unmounting old /proc Unmounting old /sys Switch root: mount failed: no such file or directory Kernel panic and not syncing: Attempting to kill init! -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Thanks for the commenting out explanation - it will be a few more hours before I can try it since I have hit the buffers again. After reloading the OS from the USB the system will only boot with the USB attached. If I adjust the BIOS to boot from the CF the system just gives me the GRUB prompt. Looking at the hardware report I see: / is /dev/hda2 /boot is /dev/sda1 (where the SCSI is listed as a USB reader) this seems to confirm that the system is booting from the USB Thinking I might be able to fix things from the GRUB prompt, after digging around on the internet I tried a number of ruses, including: root (hd tab this gave no results root (hd0, tab this gave no results (I tried root (hd0,x) with x set to 1, 2, 3, 4 5 but no result) kernel/boot/ tab this gave no results find vmlinuz error 15: file not found I abandoned this route and thought that if the system boots from USB I might be able to connect my HDDs, boot from USB, format the HDD with the boot on it, then ask this forum how to back out of the USB boot with the two HDDs in a clean state. However, booting with the USB as the boot priority 1 and everything else disabled, the system booted from the HDD. In summary, I am in a worse place than yesterday as I cant even boot from the CF, even with the HDDs unattached. I shall try reloading the OS again. If you have any thoughts on where I have gone wrong, your thoughts are welcomed I loaded the OS in exactly the same way as I did the last time when it got on to the CF perfectly well. Thanks again. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Thanks again for the replies. I wonder whether you can comment on where I am going wrong in reloading the OS (or better still, how to get the boot to work from the CF without requiring the USB to be plugged in). Thinking that I may have had a corrupted ISO that caused me to get the GRUB prompt I reloaded the USB with a new copy of the OS and reinstalled from this. I still got the GRUB prompt after the reload, however, so I am stuck in terms of knowing how to get the boot to come from the CF (presuming that there is a boot capability on the CF). If it helps, without the USB the machine goes straight from the BIOS set-up to the GRUB prompt. With the USB plugged the machine goes straight from the BIOS set-up to flash a quick statement Grub Loading GRUB2 before going through the boot. I then tried some editing (please see below the following comments). Dear NeilT: I have no means of formatting the HDDs short of buying a USB-to-SATA cable hence I am going through this routine (plus, as you say, it is a learning experience). I thought I might be able to format the HDD by putting it in my lap top but my laptop uses ATA. Likewise, I thought I might be able to bodge a connection in my CD module case, but the connectors here were different, too. My distro doesnt obviously provide a way of selecting the installation drives (unless this is in the partition set-up, I took the default option rather than manual thinking that manual was beyond my nascent skill set). Thanks for the pointer to GParted Dear epoch: I didnt attach the HDDs as this is how I came to have the unit booting from the HDD the OS loaded onto the HDD and forgot the CF altogether. Since the CF is not booting the unit I cant reconnect everything and use the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXX bs=512 count=1 string to kill the HDD without leaving no means of rebooting. Hence the need to get the CF-boot back. I did go through the editing path again. I note that the first time I did this I edited the wrong part. I have copied below the screen from menu.lst (apologies but I dont know how to get screen dumps nor how to post them here so it is in text). # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Linux (2.6.18-164.6.1.v5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.6.1.v5 ro root=LABEL=/1 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.6.1.v5.img The first time around (when I got stuck) I changed the Commented line kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2rather than the first mention of root after title, i.e. kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.6.1.v5 ro root=LABEL=/1. This time I edited the root after title, saved and rebooted. Everything was marked as OK except for two lines: Mounting local file systems: mount: mount point 1 does not exist Mounting other filesystems: mount: mount point 1 does not exist I then tried editing /boot/grub/device.map (typing nano /boot/grub/device.map) and got the device map as (hda1) - /dev/hda (hda0) - /dev/sda I changed (hda0) - /dev/sda to (hda0) - /dev/hda and saved it. I then tried editing menu.lst and it still had the final comment line as #boot=/dev/sda. I went back to the device map and this still had (hda0) - /dev/hda. Looking back at the menu.lst again I saw no way of changing the boot=/dev/sda to boot=/dev/hda. I rebooted without the USB and got GRUB. I rebooted with the USB and got to the console. The hardware report reconfirmed: / - ext3 - /dev/hda2 /boot - ext3 - /dev/sda1 I briefly considered the nuclear option of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 but since I can't boot without the USB this would have left me with yet another reload. In summary, I am stuck with the USB needed to get the boot going. I cant see what to edit to get the boot starting from the CF (presuming that this is possible after my two failed reloads). As always, steers welcomed. Thank you. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Thanks for your patience. The prompt after booting is [r...@server ~]#. I did cd / and got [r...@server /]#. I.e. the sole change is the swap from ~ to / following the server name. I then tried -umount /dev/sdb1- and got the response -umount: /: device is busy-. I retried yesterdays efforts and got the same responses (-fuser m /dev/sdb1- returned over 50 items, then -fuser k /dev/sdb1- got the root prompt. -umount /dev/sdb1- got the original response -umount: /: device is busy-. I seem stuck in a cycle of being unable to stop the disc to unmount it. I feel I must be repeating the same mistake. Any further advice on what to do is appreciated. Thanks. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Thanks for the reply and explanation of disc size. Meanwhile, I keep hitting buffers. Using -umount /dev/sda1- got the response -umount: /: device is busy-. I looked around the internet and found the commands -fuser u /dev/sdb1- and then -fuser k /dev/sdb1- which each returned the root prompt. I then tried -umount /dev/sda1- again and got the same response -umount: /: device is busy-. I then tried -fuser m /dev/sdb1- which returned over 50 items. I then tried -fuser k /dev/sdb1- again and got the root prompt. I then tried -umount /dev/sda1- again and got the same -response umount: /: device is busy-. Out of desperation I tried -fuser km /- and managed to kill the whole box. I rebooted and got my original disc layout (i.e. hda1 (CF) as /boot, sda1 as /mnt/Drive1 and sdb1 as /). After more internet digging I tried -umount l /dev/sdb1- and got the response -could not stat /dev/sdb1 - - - No such file or directory. The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?- I then tried -fdisk /dev/sdb1- and got the response -Unable to open dev/sdb1-. I then logged on to the console and saw 4 mounted items, all with identical free (854Gb), used (1.29Gb) and size (902Gb) a total size of 3.6Tb which is plainly wrong given I have a 12Mb CF and two 1Tb HDDs. The mounts were: /boot - /dev/hda1 /mnt/Drive1 dev/sda1 / - dev/sdb1 /sys sysfs The console then froze. CTL-ALT-DEL did nothing, so I had to do a hard reboot. The hardware report then gave: /boot - /dev/hda1 /mnt/Drive1 - /dev/sda1 / - /dev/sdb1 I have run out of internet searches and guesses. Any hints on how to get sdb1 to unmount, please? -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
I thought I was going to report back that everything went well. However I wonder whether you can spot where I have gone wrong and advise on what to do, please? I got an 8Gb CF to use in place of the 2Gb and everything went swimmingly, things seemed to install fine until I was asked to remove the boot device and reboot. I de-powered, removed the USB with the ClearOS ISO on it, switched on and then checked the BIOS to provide for booting from CF (I left the HDDs disconnected). The system went through the intro screen, I hit F1 to resume, which brought up a screen listing the board components with a countdown at the bottom with press Esc to boot. I hit Esc and the system then went grey screen with a letter j and a flashing cursor. That was it. My router showed no extra attached devices so I could not see the mini-ITX from my PC. I de-powered and powered on with the HDDs attached and CF disabled (yesterday I loaded ClearOS and this went on the HDD, hence my original post), the mini-ITX went through the same intro and board components screen described above, to go to grey screen and a flashing cursor. Again, the router showed no extra attached devices I de-powered, put the USB back in, switched on and set the BIOS to boot from the USB. The mini-ITX went through the same intro and board components screen, then brought up ClearOS and went to the log-in screen. Thinking that I might have fixed the problem I tried the sequence again without the USB and I got the grey screen, letter j and flashing cursor. So, I put the USB back in, rebooted and hit any key as I saw GNU GRUB on the screen ad was given the option of: - Enter to boot the OS - e to edit the commands before booting - a to modify the kernel arguments - c for command line Not knowing what to do with this I hit Enter and the mini-ITX booted up. If this helps diagnose the source of my problem, I noted that in the boot-up there was a line saying hda: DMA timeout error and another saying ide: failed opcode was: unknown. The screen also gave an earlier line as hda: CF Satelite Pro CF Card 8GB, ATA disk drive Given that ClearOS appears when I have the USB inserted, I am guessing that the USB has taken some kind of role in the boot up. Any ideas on what to do here, please, to get it to fire-up from the CF alone? On a separate tack, on a number of occasions I tried to connect to the mini-ITX from my PC but I got nowhere, the router didnt even show it as connected. Using the console I changed the Gateway setting to be Standalone, no firewall and then I got two messages on my PC browser depending upon what I did: - Bad Request - Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://SERVER.DOMAIN.lan:81/. Using this https did nothing. - Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority. Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number. I presume what this means is that Firefox is confused about the safety of me connecting to the mini-ITX thinking that I tried to connect to the device yesterday with my original ClearOS load. How can I reset to get Firefox to see the mini-ITX? Thanks. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Thanks for the reply. I started again, reloading everything from scratch, and it worked. I still have a problem, however. If I boot with the HDDs unattached everything goes fine. If I boot with the HDDs attached, and the BIOS set to disable the SATAs, everything goes fine -but- it is booting from the HDD. I know this because I used a different root password for the CF and the HDD installs (the CF password works only when I boot without HDD, the HDD password works only when I boot with HDD(s) attached. Also, I used different Host Names and these switch according to the mode). I cannot fathom why this is happening and have rebooted (say) ten times in each mode and I just can't get the mini-ITX to boot from CF when the HDD is attached, -in spite of checking that the BIOS is set to every time-. Any steers, please? -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Unfortunately Im still stuck. The BIOS doesnt offer a boot priority as such, it offers boot sequence (with Enabling/Disabling per item). I managed to format SDA but I just cannot format SDB which has the boot on it. When I type the following commands I get the subsequent statements: fdisk /dev/sdb p 1 Enter Enter w The kernel still uses the old table. mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here! Thinking I might be able to get around this by dismounting the drive I tried to find how to dismount the drive. unmount doesnt work and apropos mount brings up mount: nothing appropriate. I cant find anything under mount, dismount or unmount in Clears web site, either. Looking at the Hardware Status in ClearOS Reports I get the following. A number of things seem curious: - 1) The HDA is the 8Gb CF and yet, somehow, the SDB thinks it's HDA3 - 2) both SDA SDB are 1Tb yet the size is shown as 916Gb 902 Gb respectively Ive lost nearly 100Gb per HDD Mount - Type - Partition - Free - Used - Size /boot - ext3 - /dev/hda1 - 60Mb - 11Mb - 75Mb / - ext3 - /dev/hda3 - 854Gb - 1Gb - 902GB /mnt/Drive1 - ext2 - /dev/sda1 - 916Gb - 200Mb - 916Gb Do I gather from the above that the SDB is somehow seeing itself as an HDA. I then powered down, swapped the SATA cables and rebooted. I got the following Hardware Status Report (note, SDA is now the old SDB which has the boot still on it). There was no CF (HDA) showing and no SDB: When I swapped the SATA cables around, the mounted file systems showed only: Mount - Type - Partition - Free - Used - Size / - ext3/dev/sda1 - 854Gb - 1.29Gb - 902 Gb I have rebooted well over ten times and not managed to change anything. If I had access to an old PC Id just connect the troublesome disc to it and try to format it from there, however I dont have access to an old PC. Can you see any way out of this, per chance? Thanks. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
I have built a mini-ITX using the advice in http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/index.htm and got as far as loading ClearOS. Before I can set-up the server with Squeeze and as a music/data repository, I wish to set it up to boot from Compact Flash (CF) - the case has a CF slot - so that I can reserve the two 2.5 drives as music/data stores which act as disaster recovery for each other. Per the advice in http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/index.htm I will also spin the discs down when idle to save on noise, heat and power (my mini-ITX board is fanless). I have read everything I can find on setting up the CF but, as a -complete- Linux novice I am at sea - all of the pointers I have seen presume a level of competence/familiarity which is greater than my one day of experience. Is anyone able to advise (or point to) the steps to preparing the CF, moving the kernel and other appropriate actions, per chance? Thanks. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Booting from Compact Flash
Interesting, thanks. You say you did no preparation of the CF beforehand. Does this mean you didn't even format it? What size is the CF you use? Mine is 2Gb. The ClearOS ISO is just over 700Mb. Thanks. -- Shellness Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
