[SLUG] Re: server stopped
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:13:31PM +1000, ashley maher wrote: > I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. > > Going through dmesg, syslog, and messages shows something very > concerning. > > Nothing. > > I do mean everything is fine. Cron is running logging. The last entry is > a restart of cron. > > The next entries are the system rebooting. > > The logs indicate inodes being cleaned up on the reboot (as I'd expect > with a "stop" this quick). > > Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing > stopped (Or even suggesting if I'm looking in the correct places) Power, most likely. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] server stopped
I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. Going through dmesg, syslog, and messages shows something very concerning. Nothing. I do mean everything is fine. Cron is running logging. The last entry is a restart of cron. The next entries are the system rebooting. The logs indicate inodes being cleaned up on the reboot (as I'd expect with a "stop" this quick). Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing stopped (Or even suggesting if I'm looking in the correct places) Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB TV Systems
Just been playing with the V-Gear PocketDTV made by Asiamajor. Works very nice, only needed a 8K firmware download, prompted by the the log entry in /var/log/syslog (from dmesg). Comes with a small but robust looking whip antenna (for city use only with VHF I would guess), as well as taking the standard Belling-Lee antenna connection. It has a tiny infrared remote which kaffeine seems to understand (though channel +/- seems to control the volume). I am guessing that this can be tweaked via LIRC. For what it is worth on my Compaq 2GHz notebook, kaffeine uses about 30% CPU when display SD-TV. It seems to lose a few frames playing HD-TV (but this might be cause my signal level isn't great - as I am slightly bush). On 6/10/06, Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to one and all, Can anyone suggest a good Linux compatible usb TV system??? Preferably working on both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but certainly on the 2.6 kernel. Again, preferably out of the working. I would like to purchase one in the next coup;e of weeks. So... Any help would be most welcome. Many thanks Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] USB TV Systems
Hello to one and all, Can anyone suggest a good Linux compatible usb TV system??? Preferably working on both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but certainly on the 2.6 kernel. Again, preferably out of the working. I would like to purchase one in the next coup;e of weeks. So... Any help would be most welcome. Many thanks Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [coders] [NRS] - Learn Ruby - space available
Sorry for the top post but I just wanted to be quick. I want to participate, I didn't say anything before because I was concerned about the distance but I have just seen that you guys are meeting in surry hills. I would appreciate to be able to attend :) Thanks Vini david said the following on 09/06/06 22:38: > Want to learn Ruby? Prepared to commit for at least 6 weeks on Tuesday > nights? > > One of our participants had to drop out because of work commitments, so > if someone out there is interested in taking his place that would be > cool. Contact me or Matt Palmer off-list. > > You have to be a newbie at Ruby, and probably NOT a hard core hacker > since this is mostly for beginners. > > It's all happening next Tuesday night. > > David > > [NRS] == NewbieRubySIG > > ___ > coders mailing list > coders@slug.org.au > http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:06:50PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Did you install dapper straight up or install breezy and then > dist-upgrade? > > I'm pretty sure I even installed the one before breezy, upgraded it > to breezy and then upgraded again to dapper. I'm afraid I'm one of those uncool actual Debian users; if it helps it's initscripts 2.86.ds1-14.1 and some fairly recent kernel. -i signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] movie not on output vga connector
On 6/9/06, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I slot in my DVD and it plays and shows on the screen but not on the projector that I have borrowed. All other screen image shows but the movie area just shows black. Any suggestions, I am supposed to run a movie tomorrow night :-( This is because your video card is displaying hardware overlays on only one output. I've only had experience with this on a laptop with a SiS-based video card where I used the SiSCtrl utility to select the display the video overlays would work on. I'm not sure how to do this for other cards, but I guess there would be some utility or perhaps a setting in xorg.conf. Another workaround would be to try telling your media player to not use the usual hardware-accelerated video display driver xv. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [NRS] - Learn Ruby - space available
Want to learn Ruby? Prepared to commit for at least 6 weeks on Tuesday nights? One of our participants had to drop out because of work commitments, so if someone out there is interested in taking his place that would be cool. Contact me or Matt Palmer off-list. You have to be a newbie at Ruby, and probably NOT a hard core hacker since this is mostly for beginners. It's all happening next Tuesday night. David [NRS] == NewbieRubySIG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] movie not on output vga connector
I slot in my DVD and it plays and shows on the screen but not on the projector that I have borrowed. All other screen image shows but the movie area just shows black. Any suggestions, I am supposed to run a movie tomorrow night :-( Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery
Ok, daughter now in bed, so I can hack and stuff. Robert Collins wrote: > -> which could be my misreading of what 'it' referred to. > > Anyhow, Erik - can you add: > rv = $? > log_failure_message "on_ac_power result $rv" Actually, its log_failure_msg > after the /usr/bin/on_ac_power script is run in both checkfs and > checkroot - (if you know which fs is being checked you could edit only > one).. > > My guess at this point would be that on_ac_power is returning 255 during > bootup. Confirmed. This is a stock Ubuntu kernel 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 23 14:03:07 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux installed as a binary package. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I have now spent two days debugging C# on dotnot and all I can say is OMFG The MS tools are completely fucking abysmal. Its the most developer hostile environment I've ever worked on. The fact that people are actually able to release software that sort of works using these tools completely boggles my mind. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles
> i need two active interfaces though. wireless holds default route but > wired has crossover cable to a desktop to run synergy, rsync etc.etc. > > can NM handle that? i can't tell from the threadbare doco in the man page > and on gnome.org... It's not a use case that NM (in its early days) is really concentrating on, but you can do it. On Ubuntu systems, NM will adopt an interface if it's not listed in /e/n/i, or if it's configured for auto+dhcp (see the previous mail for an example). So if your wired interface was manually configured, you'd be fine. If it is not manually configured, and you really do want it to be auto+dhcp (which is mostly the case), then you're in a bit of a pickle. NM will adopt both, so it'll be back to either/or. However, you can trick NM into ignoring an interface by adding something to its configuration stanza in /e/n/i. Something token like hostname. NM should ignore an interface configured like this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname pants There are other options you could add, but hostname is a good choice - it doesn't really impact much. When NM comes up, it should ignore eth0, and set the default route on the wireless interface. Matches up with your use case. Let me know if this doesn't work! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ What do you give a bird when it has a headache? Parakeetamol. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Automatic wireless profiles
On 6/9/06, James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I read the documentation and discovered that I need to remove the contents of my /etc/network/interfaces file for all the interfaces I want it to manage. If I do that, it scans for APs and gives me a list of them that I can configure by clicking on them. This fixed it for me just now, thanks. :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles
$quoted_author = "Jeff Waugh" ; > > > I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* > > otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the > > eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? > > NM works on interfaces that aren't listed as well as interfaces that have a > complete auto/dhcp listing, like: > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp hmm... i need two active interfaces though. wireless holds default route but wired has crossover cable to a desktop to run synergy, rsync etc.etc. can NM handle that? i can't tell from the threadbare doco in the man page and on gnome.org... cheers marty -- "Nod. Mindreading is a less useful skill than mindwriting, considering all the blank media on the hoof in every major city." - Anthony de Boer alt.sysadmin.recovery - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Changing default save locations on usb-stick mount
I need to capture usb stick mounting events and run a script that changes the default save location for Firefox and OO.o to that memory stick. Target distro is Ubuntu Breezy if that helps. If anyone has anything they could point me at, that would be great. -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://james.k-sit.com - My Blog http://k-sit.com - My IT Consultancy http://localfoss.org - LA Update Podcast, LUG Roundup and more Skype: purserj1977 SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles
> I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* > otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the > eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? NM works on interfaces that aren't listed as well as interfaces that have a complete auto/dhcp listing, like: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run." - Kenny Rogers, The Gambler -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:49 +, Mary Gardiner wrote: > The user-space program to run is nm-tool. This probably shows up > somewhere in the desktop menus, but I have no idea what it's called and > "$ find ~/.gnome2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep nm-tool" isn't helpful > on that front. Let me know if you find it. > > So far so good. Now, does anyone know anything about this problem? > > $ nm-tool > > NetworkManager Tool > > State: disconnected > > print_devices(): didn't get a reply from NetworkManager. > There are no available network devices. > > I do in fact have some network devices! > > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [elided] > inet addr:[elided] Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > [etc] > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [elided] > [etc] I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery
Ian Wienand wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:50:59AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > I even tried rebooting and booting on battery and I get the same > > result, it still thinks is on AC power. > > > > This is a Dell Latittude X1, same as Rob's. > > FWIW, this works fine (i.e. I get the expected behaviour of no fsck on > battery, even though it wants to) with my X1 and Debian. I of course > figured this out after rebooting 30 times to try and get the SD card > reader sleeping properly :) Ian, Did you install dapper straight up or install breezy and then dist-upgrade? I'm pretty sure I even installed the one before breezy, upgraded it to breezy and then upgraded again to dapper. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
