Re: [SLUG] Disabling HDMI sound
As a first step, Does it work using something like Knoppix? If so then this will prove not a hardware fault. Also check its not turned off in the BIOS Ben On 15/11/15 22:28, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi All, My new machine has an ASUS motherboard: H170M-E D3 and an AMD Radeon R7 360 video card. I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 I am getting no sound through the motherboard's onboard sound card. I get sound over HDMI and fortunately my monitor has an HDMI port AND built in speakers. However these are no-where near as good as my desktop speakers. The only option in the BIOS is HD Audio Controller (enable/disable). However nothing I change here has any effect. In the GUI the onboard sound is greyed out. Alsamixer shows HDMI sound only. The desktop GUI shows only HDMI. aplay -l shows only the HDMI sound. I have tried a number of things including /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I have added snd_hda_intel and adding a line in GRUB radeon.audio=1 and using 0 as well. I have found another possible solution here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ Which suggests, under Linux kernel parameters Option: radeon.audio Value:: 0,1 Default Value: 0 Explanation: Disable/enable HDMI audio My question is: what *do* I do with this? I'm assuming I need to add/remove something *somwhere* but...where/what? Any help would be most appreciated. Without the onboard sound card I'm stuck with the crappy monitor speakers and cannot use headphones nor use a microphone for video conferencing etc. Regards, Patrick -- 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] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
Hi Dazza, I've had some weird problems with rolling out many boxes in the past. I would have first set all the bios to factory default so that they are all the same. (After checking firmware versions are the same etc...) I've had in the past two really weird things happen. First was a keyboard. On one workstation I kept getting Hard disk errors. Wouldn't boot up. Yes that's HDD errors. Couldn't figure it out. Moved the computer to another area minus the screen, keyboard, mouse and it worked perfectly. Moved back again and problems again. Elimination of plug in bits showed that one keyboard was causing the error. However this keyboard worked perfectly fine on all other computers in the area. So I swapped this keyboard with another from another floor in the building (just in case by some bizarre coincidence they meet up again) and the problem went away. Same thing with a monitor. Blow me down this monitor and this computer just don't want to work together. Swap monitor with somewhere else and all ok. Same manufacturer, same model, same batch of computers and monitors. So, if you've tried everything else, try swapping the things that plug into the computer. Ben On 12/11/2014 3:13 PM, DaZZa wrote: Long time no post. So I got my hands on two Intel Nuc's for work (nice toys - small and quiet), and that other OS everyone seems to love didn't want to install on the USB disk which was stuck in them, the decision was made to go to Linux. A bit of research showed me that Ubuntu was about the only install which would painlessly go onto these things (after a BIOS upgrade), so despite my habitual distaste for Ubuntu, I downloaded a copy and installed it on the first one - all cool, boots up, able to customise it to do what I want, cool bananas. This is where is gets weird. I then proceeded to copy the USB key being used a disk using DD (to save having to customise the second one all over again). All apparently worked, both keys booted the box no worries - so I took one of them and stuck it into the second Nuc. And it flat out refused to boot. Nada. Get nicked. I thought I must have stuffed up the image - but both disks booted the first device fine. After scratching my head for a few hours and trying every BIOS option I could find, I decided to try a fresh install from the CD onto the new device - and stuff me if it didn't work. Now I'm at the point where one disk will boot on one device but not on the other. Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to Ubuntu, or is it the stupid SecureBoot crap (which was turned off, by the way) they put into the BIOS for these things doing *something* to the disk to make the second device not recognise it? Not really an issue, because I've fixed them so they both boot now - but I'm intensely curious as to *why* this happened. DaZZa -- 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] Weird nslookup problem - Apologies
Thanks Ken and David. Firewalled client IP at the hosting provider was indeed the problem. Something kicked off the intrusion prevention. I've made them whitelist the IP. Also didn't know about the google groups either so thanks Michael. Do we still post to SLUG or just go to google groups now? Ben On 30/10/2014 7:41 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: Your mail provider might be locking on ip address. One 'client' i have if they mistype a password 3 times it locks the ip address. Easy to do when a phone polls every 5 minutes. Contact your mail provider and ask if your ip address is blocked On 30 October 2014 7:15:12 AM AEDT, Ben donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, To anyone who responded, I'm really sorry if you replied to my last email about a nslookup problem and it was not delivered due to my mailbox running out of space. To anyone who took the time to respond with any solutions to try, could you please resend. Thanks, Ben -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] programmer wanted
Hi all, anyone in Sydney that can do some web/db programming. Also an app on iphone/android would be required. Does not have to be done in a screaming hurry... I'm in the inner west near Ashfield. Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Programmer with obsessive security practice wanted
Hi all, Not sure this is the correct list but anyway here goes... I have a new project that I'm needing help on. It will involve, web application, backend db servers. very strong encryption everywhere, possibly programming a client for CMSs, anything else that is needed to put the puzzle together. You will have to sign an NDA. I'm in Sydney so you will need to be in Sydney also. Please get back to me off list if interested. Thanks, Ben Donohue 0417 018 600 -- 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] Light Linux Permissions help for constantly running processes and Samba Share access
Hi David, if you have a share set up on another machine, then from your linux box you would do the following... First create a folder called... /foldersomewhere/Share Then put into fstab (probably /etc/fstab) //IPaddress/Share /foldersomewhere/Share cifs guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 the su root mount -a possibly do mount -a several times to make sure you get the share or just reboot. If cannot edit fstab, go into terminal and chmod 777 fstab. Then edit and save. then chmod 644 fstab. These permissions may not be the tightest but at least using the above, you may get things to work. Then from there you can tighten it up a bit. Hope that helps. Ben On 27/05/14 13:17, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I'm struggling getting some production programs to run on a new Linux system. These programs have been working for so many years and it seems that I've forgotten how to set them up. Maybe it's different on this server-distro. Not sure. It's Zentyal - ubuntu based. village@server-ivm:~$ uname -a Linux server-ivm 3.8.0-39-generic #58~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 21:33:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux There are some python programs that auto-run and always run: village@server-ivm:~$ ls -la servertasks total 100 drwxrwxr-x 2 village village 4096 May 23 12:00 . drwxr-xr-x 28 village village 4096 May 23 12:05 .. -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 6207 May 23 12:00 directory_scantxttopdf.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 569 May 23 11:28 runforever_pdfconvertor.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 2826 May 23 11:26 scannerfilecleaner.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 39822 May 23 11:28 spooler.py The programs that need to be accessed are in /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase: village@server-ivm:~$ ls /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase ls: cannot access /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase: Permission denied Yes, I can sudo ls and that will work. But I don't want to. That just makes all the files root and no other users can read/write them. I really want the programs to access the data in the samba shares. village@server-ivm:~$ sudo ls -la /home/samba/shares total 16 drwxrwx---+ 3 root __USERS__ 4096 Apr 23 13:53 . drwxrwx---+ 4 root __USERS__ 4096 Apr 23 13:47 .. drwxrws---+ 21 dlyon __USERS__ 4096 May 23 15:20 ivm_dbase What's a good way to set this up? Regards David -- 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] WiFi problem.
Hi Will, +1 again on below. Just what I was going to say. However it may not just be a hard switch. I've had switches that are not a button as such. They detect your finger swiping over them. Such that is there somewhere on your laptop that has lights that you run your finger over and it will turn on/off whatever soft switch is under the plastic. The surface is smooth. You just move your finger over it to turn off/on anything under it. Run your finger around all the smooth plastic bits of the laptop. (while switched on of course ;-) Ben On 22/05/14 14:39, David wrote: +1 I've made this mistake several times On my lapdog the hardware switch is small and obscure and easy to not even realise it's there. On 22/05/14 14:37, David Lyon wrote: First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Weird missing files.
Hi Jeff, yes I've seen it too. Hitting F5 multiple times made the files reappear for me... Only thing I noticed was that the missing files were all files that I had just used/opened. Don't know why. Ben On 10/02/14 13:45, Jeff Allison wrote: Content preview: Hi all I've got a strange samba issue. I've a Centos 6.5 box with a 3.6 raid ext4 data drive on it, shared with samba. Now when I browse these folders on the console I can see the files. when I sftp on the command line from another box I can see these files. [...] Content analysis details: (-1.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.8 SPF_NEUTRALSPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] X-Spam-Flag: NO Hi all I've got a strange samba issue. I've a Centos 6.5 box with a 3.6 raid ext4 data drive on it, shared with samba. Now when I browse these folders on the console I can see the files. when I sftp on the command line from another box I can see these files. But when I browse via samba or using a gui sftp client quite a lot of these files are missing... Any ideas? -- 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] Issues with Ubuntu 12.04 LTR
Hi Johannes, Try booting with a CD only distro like Knoppix. This will soon tell you whether it is software or hardware. If you still get problems then it is definitely a hardware problem. If not then something wrong with your current software install. A place to start at least. Knoppix has stuff for hardware testing as well I believe. Ben On 07/02/14 21:06, Johannes Nielsen wrote: Content preview: Hi all I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz with a GM 45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there appears to be memory issues, I am not able to open as many tabs as I was in the previous release 11.04 [...] Content analysis details: (-1.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (bammebaby[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED 0.8 SPF_NEUTRALSPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0038] 0.1 DKIM_SIGNEDMessage has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid 0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid X-Spam-Flag: NO Hi all I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz with a GM 45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there appears to be memory issues, I am not able to open as many tabs as I was in the previous release 11.04 Facebook jams up and I am unable to use Google DOCS, could someone please suggest a way forward, and some diagnostic tests that I could run to pin point the issue. I have been considering getting an SSD drive and a new main board as one of the USB ports is non functional. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I have a mountain of research and assessments to do. Yours in Wellness Johannes Nielsen CEO BAMedia Wellness Marketing and Event Management ABN 32 071 013 220 bammeb...@gmail.com + 61 (0) 451 326 960 (Optus Cell Phone) ICQ 70972773 Skype fuzzy8561 Excellence in Service Provision http://bikedaddybike.blogspot.com/ On 3 February 2014 13:07, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: Computers and mobile devices become obsolete much quicker than other consumer products, such as refrigerators and cars. Electronic equipment can contain toxic and valuable materials which should not be simply put into landfill. Before you buy a new computer, tablet or phone, look at the options of what to do with the old one. Tom Worthington is author of the free ebook ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future: http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/introduction.shtml Tom just for fun (well not really, but for a consider this) Your old computer uses much more energy than a new one. Powering the beast creates much more CO2 than the new ones and save the environment (sic) causes much more harm than binning it (hopefully decently) James PS my own pet hate, and I bet many have heard polies utter the oxymoron, sustainable growth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] messed up yum update
I always first run... yum update yum Just in case there are fixes to yum that are needed. Otherwise I would completely uninstall and possibly reboot. (years of windows training... ;-) Ben On 15/12/13 09:49, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: Content preview: I have a centos system, getting this[1]: what the best way forward ? remove clam/amavis and install again, or ? # amavisd -V amavisd-new-2.8.0 (20120630) # clamd --version ClamAV 0.98/18238/Sat Dec 14 22:44:32 2013 [...] Content analysis details: (-1.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.8 SPF_NEUTRALSPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] X-Spam-Flag: NO I have a centos system, getting this[1]: what the best way forward ? remove clam/amavis and install again, or ? # amavisd -V amavisd-new-2.8.0 (20120630) # clamd --version ClamAV 0.98/18238/Sat Dec 14 22:44:32 2013 [1]# yum update .. Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package clamav.x86_64 0:0.98-1.el6 will be updated --- Package clamav.x86_64 0:0.98-2.el6.rf will be an update --- Package clamav-db.x86_64 0:0.98-1.el6 will be updated --- Package clamav-db.x86_64 0:0.98-2.el6.rf will be an update --- Package clamd.x86_64 0:0.98-1.el6 will be updated --- Package clamd.x86_64 0:0.98-2.el6.rf will be an update -- Processing Dependency: /etc/clamd.d for package: amavisd-new-2.8.0-4.el6.noarch -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: amavisd-new-2.8.0-4.el6.noarch (@epel) Requires: /etc/clamd.d Removing: clamd-0.98-1.el6.x86_64 (@epel) Not found Updated By: clamd-0.98-2.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.98-2.el6.x86_64 (epel) Not found Available: clamd-0.96.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.96.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.1-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.5-2.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.6-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found Available: clamd-0.97.7-1.el6.rf.i686 (iRedMail) Not found Available: clamd-0.98-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest -- 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] ownCloud alternatives
Hi all, been watching this thread with interest. I have a client that needs something exactly like this. What does it run on? Linux I suppose? Anyone have experience with backing up/restoring this in the event of a hardware meltdown? I would put it in if there is a bullet proof way of ensuring a restore in case of a failure. Thoughts anyone? Thanks, Ben On 10/12/13 20:58, Jared Webb wrote: Content preview: Good for you mate. Can anyone else suggest an alternative link that might be easier for me to follow? Cheers, Jared [...] Content analysis details: (-1.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (jaredwebb0[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED 0.8 SPF_NEUTRALSPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] 0.1 DKIM_SIGNEDMessage has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid 0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid X-Spam-Flag: NO Good for you mate. Can anyone else suggest an alternative link that might be easier for me to follow? Cheers, Jared On 12/9/13, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: So I've been wanting to switch to ownCloud (or similar) from Dropbox to save a few bucks (and the fact my computer is on all the time anyway). I tried using this guide - http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/build-your-own-cloud I couldn't get the repository added via the instructions at - http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=isv:ownCloud:communitypackage=owncloud So I downloaded version 5.0.4 from Ubuntu Software Centre and tried to use that. I got a bit confused with Step 02 as I assume its for a tarball rather than the apt so moved on to Step 03. At Step 04, it indicates I need to go to : http://localhost/ludcloud to complete the installation. However, I get 404'd when I try that link. Have I skipped something crucial or is it a typo? Cheers, Jared On 12/8/13, David Bomba turbo...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't get much easier than ownCloud I've deployed a lot of these instances. What troubles exactly are you having? On 8 Dec 2013, at 10:25, Jared Webb jaredwe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been trying to set up ownCloud on my desktop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit but have ran into a few problems. Before I ask for help trouble shooting, is there any newbie-friendly alternatives? Jared being intrigued by the above I just followed instructions and implemented. I browse from a mac finder, from my xfce file manager and from my android. It was easy and just worked. (I use suse) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] assessing vps performance issues
Hi,
I would like to recommend Micron21 in Melbourne as a great hosting provider.
I am one of their clients.
Ben
On 01/11/13 21:56, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
Content preview: Thanks for the link, thanks for all the tips and advice,
it's
what kept me going through: 'we can ping it, why do you think there is a
problem?' 'reboot it' 'you need more memory' 'don't you have a cron job
every
5 minutes? that's the cause' [...]
Content analysis details: (-1.1 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
-- --
0.8 SPF_NEUTRALSPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)
-1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.]
X-Spam-Flag: NO
Thanks for the link, thanks for all the tips and advice, it's what kept me
going through:
'we can ping it, why do you think there is a problem?'
'reboot it'
'you need more memory'
'don't you have a cron job every 5 minutes? that's the cause'
I now received this
--
Our System Administrators have reviewed Sar logs on his system and can see
that increase IOwait can be seen at times that are in line with storage
upgrade operation we have been conducting over the last few days.
It was expected that storage vmotion of VM's during these upgrades would
increase IO on the storage cluster however it was unanticipated that there
would be any noticeable affect to our clients.
We apologies for the interruption will process an SLA rebate for you as
per our terms and would like to advise that this storage upgrade activity
was completed Monday night.
If you notice any further issues, please create a new ticket with details
including output from Sar Logs indicating the time and date as well as the
load experienced.
--
It only took them one week of on/off outages to arrive at that, I guess
they must've been very thorough in reviewing it.
and, about an hour AFTER I got that email, senior idiot phoned me to tell
me I've loaded vps in excess of it,s capacity.
Thanks for both technical and mental support, guys.
{And, they still havent fixed it, last night vps again overloaded}
Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote:
In addition to Michael's good advise, see
http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worriedabout
steal time.
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Re: [SLUG] A couple of electronics projects
Hi all, Thanks to all those that responded, I'm just getting a few things together and I'll respond off list. Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] A couple of electronics projects
Hi all, I've got some ideas on a couple of projects but I need the help of someone who knows how to design electronics circuits. Also could involve an Arduino or Raspberry Pi as the brains behind it... don't know as yet... early stages. Anyway, anybody out there in Sydney able to help / point me in the right direction / recommended sites / whatever? I'm in Ashbury, Inner West. Thanks, Ben -- 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] python in linux mint
Thanks one and all... looks like I have somewhere to start. Right now they are using scratch via a browser... and I did thing of the raspberry pi... I'll start getting some stuff together and give some feedback when I can. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] python in linux mint
Hi all, I'm trying to get my kids into programming... (I'm not a programmer by the way)... anyway Linux Mint has Python installed. If I type python at the shell prompt I get a python However I'd like something that they can type the program in and another window opens and displays their program running... or something like that. (Yes I'm a complete noob at this.) Is there such a beast or what is something that I can get the kids started on... python-wise...? Thanks, Ben -- 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] Auskey from ATO help anyone?
Hi Marghanita, yes on the ATO webiste, it lists the Auskey software download for windows, mac and linux. just a script that runs as root (sudo) for the current user. that worked ok. just clicking on the ATO website to login gives the error. Correct Java version installed as well. Thanks, Ben On 21/05/13 16:11, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Content preview: Was there any suggestion that it would work on Linux? Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, just installed Auskey on Linux Mint 14. followed installation instructions but no go. Upon clicking Login for the ATO I get An error has occurred wiht a result code of 4000. Code source security was null. Anyone had this before? Thanks, Ben [...] Content analysis details: (-1.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [123.200.191.51 listed in list.dnswl.org] -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] X-Spam-Flag: NO Was there any suggestion that it would work on Linux? Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, just installed Auskey on Linux Mint 14. followed installation instructions but no go. Upon clicking Login for the ATO I get An error has occurred wiht a result code of 4000. Code source security was null. Anyone had this before? Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Auskey from ATO help anyone?
Hi all, just installed Auskey on Linux Mint 14. followed installation instructions but no go. Upon clicking Login for the ATO I get An error has occurred wiht a result code of 4000. Code source security was null. Anyone had this before? Thanks, Ben -- 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] Linux midi interface
Hi thanks, Thanks to one slugger I've ordered a 4 port midi off deals extreme... now waiting as they don't have it in stock MidiBox 4-in/4-out USB 2.0 64-MIDI Interface Thru/Merge Box Ben On 18/02/13 16:19, Martin Visser wrote: I have a Tascam US-122 that works great in Linux (it does MIDI as well as audio). I think this is discontinued now - I imagine the newer version have probably gained support in Linux as well. (Google is your friend) Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com mailto:martinvisse...@gmail.com On 8 February 2013 21:12, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au mailto:donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, I'm after a USB to MIDI interface that works with Linux. I'd prefer Linux Mint as I'm getting used to this distro but in any case I'm after buying one that works with Linux... as in has drivers etc. End goal is to have the keyboard connected to a laptop running a flavour of Linux and run music learning / composing / sequencing / etc software on it. Anyone care to add some thoughts / experience on what works. Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux midi interface
Hi all, I'm after a USB to MIDI interface that works with Linux. I'd prefer Linux Mint as I'm getting used to this distro but in any case I'm after buying one that works with Linux... as in has drivers etc. End goal is to have the keyboard connected to a laptop running a flavour of Linux and run music learning / composing / sequencing / etc software on it. Anyone care to add some thoughts / experience on what works. Thanks, Ben -- 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] Linux midi interface
Thanks Rachel, and all for your help. I'm looking to get something from an overseas website as I went to various electronics places today and no one had anything or not in stock. Now I know what to look for. I think I'll try for a four way as I suppose these things tend to grow once you start to play with them. Pity midi keyboards don't just have a USB port at the back and do away with the round midi plug. That would be so much easier! Ben On 09/02/13 14:15, Rachel Polanskis wrote: Hi Ben, this list here describes a good selection of quality interfaces that work with Linux http://alsa.opensrc.org/USBMidiDevices The question is, how intensive are your requirements? Do you need mulitport MIDI control, filtering or MIDI beat clock for example? If you do, you may need a specific driver and MIDI hardware interface combination, that is supported on your flavour of Linux. You may only require simple 2 way 16 channel MIDI, which would be supported by most driver/hardware configurations. It may be wiser to purchase a more advanced interface that has the smarts to do routing and filtering and receive and transmit MIDI clock. Otherwise, you will end up progressing so far only to find you can't sync your sampler to your sequencer, for example. rachel -- rachel polanskis r.polans...@uws.edu.au mailto:r.polans...@uws.edu.au gr...@zeta.org.au mailto:gr...@zeta.org.au -- 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] Restore laptop screen after use in Google Sydney seminar room?
I had the same on an old laptop... I closed the lid, pressed a few times on the lid, gently but firmly, then opened the lid again. Sometimes this worked and I got a screen up. Otherwise I plugged in an external screen and used it that way. I needed it going a little more before I put it out to pasture. However giving it a push and a shove, closing/opening etc got it going again. Depends if you are going to throw it... may as well get physical with it a bit. It might just work. After losing the screen the same as you have.. no screen but back-lit... after giving it a hit or three it has been working ever since! Ben On 12/09/2012 10:25 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: On 06/12/12 13:34, Norman Gaywood wrote: Do you get the BIOS messages on the screen if you restart it? No. The back-light lights up, but with no text. -- 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] Restore laptop screen after use in Google Sydney seminarroom?
There is also a possibility that somehow the screen resolution has been set to something that is way outside of its capabilities. If you can get any picture on any monitor, then set everything back to 640x480 256 colours. Then work your way up from there. I've also had a faulty laptop screen. Closing the lid and opening it again a few times restored the screen. Not a long term solution but at least you may can get it going again for a short time if you need to do anything. Ben On 12/06/2012 12:19 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: ps: Is there a small screen (about 11.6 inch display) low cost (under $500) laptop replacement anyone could recommend? I just bought a chromebook for $249 plus about $70 in reshipping. The battery lasts over 6 hours, you can hack it or install ubuntu. It boots in seconds. The only thing that annoys me is I haven't worked out the key combo to switch tabs. It's ctrl pg up and pg dn normally, but it has no pg up or pg dn keys, that's alt arrow. -- 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] Restore laptop screen after use in Google Sydney seminar room?
This is not a problem with the laptop. It is a normal function. There is a function key and one of the F keys on the keyboard. You press the function and the F key (like F1 or F2 etc) and it cycles around. First cycle = laptop only Second cycle = external monitor only Third cycle = both laptop and external Then back to first cycle. Just look for a function key and one of the F keys. also it can take a second or two for the thing to work so wait a bit before trying another cycle. Ben On 12/05/2012 10:35 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: I plugged the video cable into my laptop to give a presentation at the Slug meeting in the Google Sydney seminar room last Friday. As soon as I plugged the cable in, my laptop screen went blank and has not worked since. The laptop works fine with an external monitor connected. Also the backlight on the laptop lights but nothing is displayed. I have tried changing the display settings and booting from a different Ubuntu on a flash drive. These work fine, with an external monitor, just not the laptop screen. This is the same Kogan Agora laptop I used at Slug in the same room at Google Sydney last year, when it worked fine: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/06/kogan-agora-laptop-at-sydney-linux.html Any suggestions? -- 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] dns issues
Have you checked basic things like... the firewall on the mailserver is allowing port 53 tcp/udp the time on the mailserver is correct Ben On 08/10/2012 11:25 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: have a mail server on netregistry network using ns1/ns2/ns3.netregistry,net nameservers, all's well, EXCEPT: some remote servers won't accept our mail with Domain not found reject: any thoughts on how to trouble shoot this further ? changing to non-netregistry nameservers allowed queued up outbound mails as well as inbound mails to be accepted - Aug 10 16:52:04 smtp: to=a...@tga.gov.au, relay=anztpa-in-176.sge.net[152.91.3.176]:25, delay=178791, delays=178766/0.03/0.29/25, dsn=4.1.8, status=deferred (host anztpa-in-176.sge.net[152.91.3.176] said: 450 4.1.8 b...@dom.com.au: Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to RCPT TO command)) - when I test nameservers, I can't fail them, get response OK remote network is run by Verizon who tells me all three nameservers give consistent/continual SERVFAIL from their network: - verizon said: The issue that is being experienced and causing the mail delivery failures is that when our dns servers in the 152.91.0.0/16 network query records for the dom.com.au domain we are receiving serv fail responses rather than a record being returned. We have no upstream cache and receive the failures when diging at the servers directly. I have attached the output below. ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 1692 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available -- thanks for any pointers, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] nouveau Nvidia woes
Hi all, Running Fedora 17 and it's been going well for the past few months... with Inno3D GF GTX 570 video card. after updates... getting the following error... [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon. [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: Failed to idle channel 1. [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: PFIFO - Playlist update failed. Just keeps doing this down the screen and never gets to desktop. This is after the last two updates... There are three kernels listed and grub defaults to the latest kernel on bootup. But after the previous updates, the above error happens. So I manually tried the kernel second on the list of three. That booted but had updates. Reboot and error as above. Now down to my last working kernel and too scared to run updates... Various forums on the net say to try the following... edit /etc/default/grub and add nouveau.noaccel=1.Didn't work. or edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add nomodeset vesa Didn't work. I don't really care for the moment about what fix I use... just so that I don't have to do rebuilding etc... Anyone else have a suggestion on what I can do to just get past this error for now with the latest kernel? Thanks, Ben -- 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] Cannot receive email
What with all these options of Thunderbird or any email setup, I would recommend taking a screenshot into a document of each screen in a logical and step by step manner. Then in a year or two from now when you have to rebuild or fix your computer, you can redo thunderbird with the correct settings from screenshots. Obviously save the password somewhere also as it usually is in ***s Ben On 08/15/2012 09:16 PM, chris a wrote: This issue is FINALLY resolved. Normally Thunderbird has 2 panels. A small panel to port listing names of accounts folders A large panel to starboard showing the e-mail messages. If you don't select a folder, this panel gives some maintenance options that include settings for this account and create a new account I used create a new account yesterday It is clumsy because parameters for incoming out going messages are on different screens and it did not work. Today I used settings for this account This option has a drop down box at the bottom for Account Actions options include Add a Mail Account This is what I should have used A *single* screen that shows all options at once. You can also test the connection before you save it. And, ... it WORKS This message comes to you from a WORKING Thunderbird mail account On 15/08/12 13:16, ch.al...@ozemail.com.au wrote: In Thunderbird, server settings for this account Connection Security:None Authentication Method:Password, transmitted insecurely I'm not sure what you mean be ISP lines All this is done from home on my own Desktop via my own Naked DSL account with IInet and their BOB2 Modem. - Original Message - From: kfos...@tpg.com.au To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:45:48 +1000 Subject:Re: [SLUG] Cannot receive email I defined my email account on the new version of Thunderbird but cannot receive any mail. I spent a long time on the phone with iinet support trying to sort this out. No success. Each time I try to get mail I get an error message to the effect that iinet has received and rejected the password. I can SEND mail from Thunderbird (via iinet). I just can't receive mail. look at the encryption settings for the password. You might need to send it using a different option than what you are using. Generally send is unprotected except when you send via your ISP when not using the ISP's lines, eg you send via 'mail.tpg.com.au' at home and then when at work it fails. 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 -- 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] Freedom loving Motherboard
Hi Tuxta, Recently bought the following but with an Intel chip rather than AMD. ASUS P9X79 Deluxe mothboard. Intel Six-Core i7-3930K, OC up to 4.4GHz, X79 Chipset, 32GB DDR3 RAM, NVidia GTX560Ti SLI 2 x Samsung monitors Tried Centos 6.2 to start with and it ran well but now running Fedora 17 out of the box so to speak. No proprietary drivers at all. Dual screens run perfectly The rest screams along. I'm happy. Ben On 07/17/2012 09:46 AM, Steven Tucker wrote: Hi all, I am in search of a beast which I am not sure even exists. I am after a motherboard with AM3+ socket, coreboot and no components that require proprietary drivers. The main thing is that I want to run only Free Software, with no compromise (I don't care if my graphics aren't as good, I want freedom), and will be running an AMD card. It's not that I haven't been googleing or trying to get the info myself, but I seem to suck at it. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux apps and mapped network drives
Hi all, Just loaded Fedora 17. In the file manager Dolphin, I have mapped a SMB share (to a NAS box) and it works correctly. When saving a file in LibreOffice or saving an attachment in Thunderbird, or some other app, they don't list the network share that has been mapped in Dolphin. Even after a reboot in case it needs it. Seems really weird to me. If I map a drive or network share, you would think it would become available to all applications, like MS Windows does. However I sure as hope not that all applications have to map the drive. So, how does one map a drive in Fedora and make it available to ALL applications when saving files? (and without a reboot) Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Android phones
Hi all, I'm thinking of getting a few Android devices... Two phones and two tablets. (I'm looking at getting a samsung galaxy II and samsung Note. Also two samsung tablets (for the kids) I would like to be able to sync contacts with the Linux desktop rather than the cloud. Googling suggests cloud only or syncing with Windows. Anyone out there with Android able to sync with a Linux desktop? Also I'd like to be able to ghost or image the phone in case of malware infection... something I do all the time with desktops. Anyone done this or any pointers/experiences? How to get a phone back to factory or original installation software? Thanks, Ben -- 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] updated kernel causing problems
Hi Thanks all. Much appreciated. For future reference in the archives I did the following... rpm -qa | grep kernel yum erase kernel-2.6.XX then rebooted. All clean and nice. People always ask me why do I run Linux instead of Windows as there is no support. I always say there huge support for Linux. And I don't have to pay for a support call when things break. This timely help is proof again of the great support that the Linux community gives. Thanks again Ben On 05/21/2012 05:47 PM, James Linder wrote: On 21/05/2012, at 10:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: /boot/grub/grub.cfg, from memory. On May 21, 2012 8:04 AM, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, Running centos 6.x After an update and reboot, the system hangs during startup mid way loading services... If I reboot again and get to grub I can select the previous kernel and then it all boots correctly. What do I edit to make the previous kernel the default kernel upon bootup? Actually that is ubuntu/grub 2 Either set default number (0..1..2..) or edit and make the desired entry the first in the list. File is /boot/grub.lst James-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Inverting network interfaces
Hi Edwin, 1. try a different PCI card like an Intel card. 2. Possibly the motherboard nic is turning off or faulty for some reason and the PCI card assuming eth0. Try turning off the Via motherboard nic and install two PCI cards... like two Intel cards. Ben On 05/22/2012 10:03 AM, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day, I have a rather weird problem. We've installed a router device at one of our customers; it is a Via motherboard and has therefore a Via Rhine network interface on the motherboard (eth0) and a Realtek 8139 network interface on a PCI card. For some reason, the drivers for the two network interfaces seem to spontaneously invert, with the Realtek driver applying itself to the Via port (and usually working OK!) and the Rhine driver to the Realtek port (and sometimes not working - but sometimes working as well). This does not follow any outside action, although the customer has learned that rebooting the system (cleanly) solves any non-working interface issue. Can anyone shed any light on this? NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries View Edwin Humphries's profile on LinkedIn http://au.linkedin.com/in/edwinhumphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au Find us on Facebook Facebook http://www.facebook.com/netsensecomputers Like us on LinkedIn LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/1500222?trk=NUS_CMPY_FOL-pdctd -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] updated kernel causing problems
Hi all, Running centos 6.x After an update and reboot, the system hangs during startup mid way loading services... If I reboot again and get to grub I can select the previous kernel and then it all boots correctly. What do I edit to make the previous kernel the default kernel upon bootup? Thanks, Ben -- 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] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS
Thanks all, working now. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS
Hi all, I have a NAS box and it is visible in Gnome file browser. I can save files to it fine. When I open Thunderbird and have an attachment to save, I'm only able to save to local folders, rather than the NAS drive. In thunderbird it has Documents, Music, Videos, etc but no network drive. Is there a way in Thunderbird to mount a drive or is there somewhere else in Gnome to have a default network location that apps like thunderbird use for their places to save? (Using Centos) Thanks, Ben -- 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] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS
Thanks all, When I go File/ save as/ file/ it does not list the NAS box even though File Browser has it listed. Haven't tried NFS as yet... trying .gvfs... gvfs-mount //10.10.1.200/data gets the following error... (haven't had luck with a googled answer as yet) Error mounting location: volume doesn't implement mount So I've done the following... created a Data folder in my home folder and then as root typed... mount -t cifs //10.1.1.200/data/ Data which works in that Thunderbird sees it in the save as dialog box, but not after a reboot. How do I make this permanent? Thanks all for your help so far... Ben Original Message Subject:Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:53:10 +1100 From: David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com To: Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au Well, it depends how it is mounted. If the drive doesn't appear in the places list, then its not a .gvfs share. I don't know a better way to described it. The NAS folder neededs to be in a .gvfs (hidden) directory. After that, things work better. Somebody else would know more. On 3/19/12, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have a NAS box and it is visible in Gnome file browser. I can save files to it fine. When I open Thunderbird and have an attachment to save, I'm only able to save to local folders, rather than the NAS drive. In thunderbird it has Documents, Music, Videos, etc but no network drive. Is there a way in Thunderbird to mount a drive or is there somewhere else in Gnome to have a default network location that apps like thunderbird use for their places to save? (Using Centos) Thanks, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570
Hi all, working now and looks terrific! The screens are two Samsung monitors with dual link DVI-D connectors. A small howto below for anyone who may search the archives in future... To get an Inno3D GF GTX 570 working in Centos 6.2 64 Bit with two monitors... switch to runlevel 3 login as root install gcc - yum install gcc install the kernel source tree or kernel devel - yum install kernel-devel Go to http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-41 download the following Nvidia file - NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.33.run chmod and run it - ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.33.run login as root to setup the dual screens with the Nvidia control panel. (Naturally, as time goes by, later versions of the software will be needed) Its working with Gnome, as in there is a Nvidia control panel, but no control panel with KDE. Anyway, thanks all really appreciate the help. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570
Hi all, got a new computer with a Inno3D GF GTX 570 VaporFreeze... It comes with windows drivers but I am currently loading CentOS on the box... or any Linux distro that could work with it. (I also want it to be able to do virtualisation of other OS's... so it has 32GB RAM which is nice.) Just having trouble finding drivers or how to go about getting this card recognised. It seems to only do generic card and 1024x768 whereas it should do 1920x1080 Anyway any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- 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] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570
Thanks Dion, ok now where is download drivers? I've searched everywhere... looks like a Gnome desktop so perhaps I don't have the download drivers package installed? I've gone through all the menu's. Is there a command line instruction or a yum package for this? Anyway still working on it. Thanks. Ben On 12/03/2012 9:53 PM, Dion wrote: On 12/03/12 6:42 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, got a new computer with a Inno3D GF GTX 570 VaporFreeze... I'm envious. It comes with windows drivers but I am currently loading CentOS on the box... or any Linux distro that could work with it. (I also want it to be able to do virtualisation of other OS's... so it has 32GB RAM which is nice.) Just having trouble finding drivers or how to go about getting this card recognised. If Centos doesn't offer packaged nvidia drivers, go to download drivers. Choose something like Geforce 9 series, Linux 32 bit (or 64 bit if that is what your distro is) and click download. After its down you might have to change its properties and then execute the binary. After that it should be all self explanatory. Note: its way better to use drivers that are managed by the OS. So a Centos package that bundles the Nvidia driver is likely to upgrade better in the future. Well thats how it seems on my distro. It seems to only do generic card and 1024x768 whereas it should do 1920x1080 Anyway any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- 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] Help with a weird problem, please
Hi all, This may be very obvious but you need to set the bios to boot off the cd or usb. Also some hard disks have to be set in the bios to compatible mode or whatever... been a while now. Just have a look for options in the BIOS for HDDs. Also pull the drive out and put it back in again. Could be a loose cable? Ben On 17/02/2012 10:12 PM, Eason Mai wrote: Hi Edwin, Does your client's computer support booting from USB? If yes, you can make a live Linux on USB, then try boot from it, good luck. Eason Mai --- :)@ RHCE/CCNA Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:30:28 +1100 From: edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please Hi, I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...) So I tried loading a Ubuntu live CD, then a Knoppix LiveCD. then plugging in a USB DVD drive and trying Ubuntu again as well as Puppy - and all had variants of the same error message, which can be summarised as being unable to mount the CD image and therefore unable to proceed. Most of the information on the web indicated that this often relates to a corrupt ISO image or one that's burned at too high a speed for the drive to read properly, but having tried three different distros (all of which I've used multiple times in other PCs) and two different drives, that seems pretty unlikely. On the assumption that RAM problems may also prevent the mounting of a drive on a live CD, I also checked the RAM, with no errors resulting. Can anyone suggest what's going on? NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury -- 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] That time of the year
Thanks, and to you too. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 24/12/2011 12:43 PM, Gerald wrote: A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all Sluggers Gerald -- 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] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?
Hi Rod, the usual small wireless card that you get with laptops which measures about 40mm x 30mm and is usually an Altheros chipset, does NOT support master mode. You need master mode in order to switch the card into AP mode or access point mode. (same thing really). Also most cheap PCI based cards (Anatel chipset) don't go into AP or master mode. I would like to pull apart a cheap wireless ADSL router to see whether they have such a beast inside them that I could use... however don't have one to look at. Good luck finding a card that can go into AP mode... if you find one then please post it back to the list. you could try www.minibox.com.au (think that's right). Not sure what they have now... Thanks, Ben Donohue On 13/10/2011 11:55 PM, Rod Butcher wrote: What I found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessAccessPoint and http://www.su-root.eu/computing/turn-your-linux-computer-in-a-wireless-access-point-using-hostapd (but not at http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com) is what seems to be the clincher : the chipset of the PCI or USB wireless NIC needs to support Master mode. Now my task appears to be to chaseup chip specs for the cheap NICS available to me ! I will report back when I have it all working. cheers Rod On 10/13/11 23:28, Kevin Shackleton wrote: Rod, Seems to me that pages like: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking make it fairly plain that with the right card you will get a PC-based AP working hang the extra bits like iptables off it. Which is an achievement in itself - I've never done it. Others have commented that you might be better off focusing on specific other solutions like Cisco, but a) many on-ground examples you might come across would not be Cisco-based so you'll have to manage somehow else and b) if you go to e.g. Cisco, you will only learn that skill-set. So I'm all for starting out as you are suggesting. Then maybe look at an AP modified with Tomato. Then see if you can find a secondhand Cisco e.g. 1xxx or 2xxx series if you come into the funding - I would not bother with the basic 800 series devices because they are made in hardware-specific models rather than having plug-in hardware bits. hth Kevin On 13 October 2011 19:14, Rod Butcher rbutc...@hyenainternet.com mailto:rbutc...@hyenainternet.com wrote: My budget for this is tiny, $100 max for the whole setup, as it's only for training, and I don't want to acquire hardware I will have no use for afterward... So I'm trying to get specific info on whether it is possible to configure a Linux PC with a cheap 80211g/n PCI card to provide a reasonably full-featured WAP - user/computer credential validation, data encryption, network and Internet access. It's fairly simple to configure multiple Ethernet network cards on a Linux box to provide routing and Internet access (iptables NAT)... I had assumed a similar software solution should be possible for wifi-based LAN. ?? thanks Rod On 10/13/11 10:48, Ken Wilson wrote: I have seen them at Reverse Garbage in Addison Rd Marrickville, where whole computing setups have been discarded including routers, their price is always not much. Ken On 12/10/11 22:17, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/11 21:29, Rod Butcher wrote: Sounds like my best option is just to use a cheap PCI wireless card as a WAP - can I do that ? - and use the PC as the router. Does this sound right ? My question then is, if serious businesses use expensive standalone programmable devices to provide WAPs, rather than the $100 routers at my local PC shop, how realistic is the setup I will be training on ? I will be configuring the PC as the router, along with security, encryption, iptables etc... how closely do the skills involved relate to those involved in a realword business setup ? thanks Rod Depends upon the situation. It could be a worthwhile exercise to get a cheap second hand CISCO router, as one of my students did, and learn with that. A relatively new one should be quite cheap and will give you skills in their scripting. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6Vdy4ACgkQybPcBA__s9CE8PygCgqp0TLrxxBJYuBROmhj5C__P2DO HKYAnRznIS5Gdym34KCNO8X+__Qd6SUwLW =h/SR
Re: [SLUG] Reputable notebook repairer?
Hi Meryl, If you suspect the problem, they why not load something like Knoppix and see if that connects? If it does then you know it is software, if not then it's a hardware fault. May save you $$$ if you find it is just a software fix. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 12/10/2011 1:56 PM, meryl wrote: Hi all, I suspect either my ethernet port has failed or perhaps it's the networking chipset on my motherboard. I contacted HP who were useless because 1. my notebook is just out of waranty and 2. I'm a 'naughty' Linux user (tisk, tisk!). So can anyone recommend a reputable notebook repairer in Sydney / / Northern Beaches / Nth Shore area that could troubleshoot and fix my problem. I'd rather not patch it up with a PCMCIA ethernet card if I can avoid it. cheers, Meryl -- 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] PC won't recognise boot disk
Hi Kyle, You know, it might be that you have a problem with primary and secondary disks. IDE disks have a primary and secondary setup. This is the jumpers on the back of the disk next to the IDE connector. There is also a 1st IDE and 2ndIDE connector on the MB. I suggest that you remove all the disks and CDs. Then locate the 1st IDE cable. Make sure that pin 1 on the cable (usually has a coloured stripe on the cable) is plugged into pin 1 on the MB. Reseat it if you have to. Then connect this to the hard disk. From memory pin 1 on the IDE disk is closest to the power pins. Set the jumper to MASTER on the disk. Boot and go into the BIOS and check that it sees the disk and nothing else. Partition the disk and make sure that the first partition is active. I'd make one partition for the whole disk for an initial test. Then format and install something. Power off and on, and I don't mean soft reboot, Power down. Then on again and see if it boots to the HDD. If ok here then add one device at a time. If on the same cable as the HDD then make sure that the second device on the cable is set to SLAVE. See how you go. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 8/06/2011 9:54 PM, Kyle wrote: 2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your average every day bog standard pc with an 80GB IDE HDD. Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine from live CD, albeit a bit slow. Even installs fine, albeit slow. Used to dual-boot XP / Ubuntu till me dear sweet mother asked me to add in an old disk of hers formatted in FAT32. Suddenly, it popped up with; Boot disk priority has changed. Please enter setup to check bla blah blah. Never booted since. FAT32 disk since removed. Original disk wiped, partition table wiped, reinstalled Ubuntu only. MBR zeroed out and full OS re-install. And the bloody thing STILL won't find the OS on boot. Does POST, finds HDD + 2 CD's, tries to boot from CD, then comes; DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Boot from live cd again; run fdisk, far as fdisk concerned all partitions there with sda1 marked as boot. MEMTest all good. Everything seems right. Only peculiarity I can see is despite wiping partition table and writing empty table to re-boot again from disc, is when creating partitions it gives me sda1, sda5 (swap) and sda6 (/). What happened to sda's 2, 3 4? BIOS shows this disc as first in HDD boot order after CD's. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this thing simply refuses to locate the boot partition please? -- 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] webhost needed with ssh access
Micron21.com aussie site in Melbourne Thanks, Ben Donohue On 10/06/2011 7:28 AM, Jim Donovan wrote: Can someone recommend a host that allows ssh access (and perl and email), please? It's for a small website. I've been using Smartyhost but their ssh server is being retired and not replaced. Jim Donovan -- 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] PC won't recognise boot disk
Hi Kyle, The primary or boot partition is not set to active. Use a tool like a boot disk or anything that can set the boot partition to active partition. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 8/06/2011 9:54 PM, Kyle wrote: 2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your average every day bog standard pc with an 80GB IDE HDD. Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine from live CD, albeit a bit slow. Even installs fine, albeit slow. Used to dual-boot XP / Ubuntu till me dear sweet mother asked me to add in an old disk of hers formatted in FAT32. Suddenly, it popped up with; Boot disk priority has changed. Please enter setup to check bla blah blah. Never booted since. FAT32 disk since removed. Original disk wiped, partition table wiped, reinstalled Ubuntu only. MBR zeroed out and full OS re-install. And the bloody thing STILL won't find the OS on boot. Does POST, finds HDD + 2 CD's, tries to boot from CD, then comes; DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Boot from live cd again; run fdisk, far as fdisk concerned all partitions there with sda1 marked as boot. MEMTest all good. Everything seems right. Only peculiarity I can see is despite wiping partition table and writing empty table to re-boot again from disc, is when creating partitions it gives me sda1, sda5 (swap) and sda6 (/). What happened to sda's 2, 3 4? BIOS shows this disc as first in HDD boot order after CD's. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this thing simply refuses to locate the boot partition please? -- 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] PC won't recognise boot disk
Hi again Kyle, partitions on x86 hardware go like the following... partition1 = primary = sda1 partition2 = primary = sda2 partition3 = primary = sda3 partition4 = primary = sda4 partition5 = extended = sda5 (living inside of one of the primary partitions) partition6 = extended = sda6 (living inside of one of the primary partitions) etc. So you have a sda1 and possibly a sda4 with nothing else in it except sda5 and sda6. So you only see sda1 (primary) and sda5 and sda5 as (extended) partitions. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 8/06/2011 9:54 PM, Kyle wrote: 2 or 3 yr old pc running SiS-661 chipset, celeron and 1GB. So your average every day bog standard pc with an 80GB IDE HDD. Ubuntu 10.10 runs fine from live CD, albeit a bit slow. Even installs fine, albeit slow. Used to dual-boot XP / Ubuntu till me dear sweet mother asked me to add in an old disk of hers formatted in FAT32. Suddenly, it popped up with; Boot disk priority has changed. Please enter setup to check bla blah blah. Never booted since. FAT32 disk since removed. Original disk wiped, partition table wiped, reinstalled Ubuntu only. MBR zeroed out and full OS re-install. And the bloody thing STILL won't find the OS on boot. Does POST, finds HDD + 2 CD's, tries to boot from CD, then comes; DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Boot from live cd again; run fdisk, far as fdisk concerned all partitions there with sda1 marked as boot. MEMTest all good. Everything seems right. Only peculiarity I can see is despite wiping partition table and writing empty table to re-boot again from disc, is when creating partitions it gives me sda1, sda5 (swap) and sda6 (/). What happened to sda's 2, 3 4? BIOS shows this disc as first in HDD boot order after CD's. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why this thing simply refuses to locate the boot partition please? -- 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] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error
sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory defaults? also is there a second video card in there by any chance? Pull it out. Sometimes the old proliants had a video on the MB and another on an accessory card. either that or there is the old hidden EISA partition looking for an AGP card that is not there any more... (is it that old?) can you boot with the compaq eisa disk and reset it... I'm actually sure I've got one of those 51/4 inch (or 31/2 inch) floppies around here somewhere... if eisa card, pull it out and put it back in again. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 7/06/2011 8:37 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have a an old Compaq Proliant 2GB RAM DL380 server running Centos 4.x, just decommissioned, trying to start it it hangs with errors below and doesn't boot Linux agpgart interface v0.1 max main memory to use for agp 2170M unable to det aperture size agp backend initialize fail apgart serverworks probe failed with error -22 detected serverworks CNB20HE chipset no AGP present then it appears to hang (or stops for very long time) googleing so far hasn't shown anything useful -- 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] New Laptop Problems
Hi Bill,
have you tried booting with knoppix live cd?
(yes I know you've tried others)
Also there are winders live cd's like hirens that may boot and help
diagnostics.
On the touchpad, sometimes there is a small button next to the touchpad
that turns it off and on. I know... pretty obvious... but it happened to
me once. I just wasnt' expecting a button there.
Also is there a volume wheel near the audio... yeah I know pretty
obvious too but sometimes you see it. Also touch sensitive buttons above
the keyboard are sometimes used to turn hardware off and on.
When the hardware is off they are sometimes not lit up. You have to know
they are there.
Thanks,
Ben Donohue
On 2/06/2011 11:59 AM, gonzo01 wrote:
3 weeks ago I bought an MSI Cx640 laptop - 2nd Gen Sandy Bridge cpu,
USB 3 etc.
I'm running LinuxMint 11 (latest)
Problems:-
1) cant turn off touchpad - when using mouse, pointer/entered text
jumps all over the screen.
2) no audio from headphone/audio out port.
Excuse the long post, but here is info re system from both Mint and
Windows 7-
MSIlaptop
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor
Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor
Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset
Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB
Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB
Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC
Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 6
port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus
Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ded
(rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285
Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host
Controller (rev 04)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0)
-
Mint touchpad info
linux mint 11 (HardInfo)
FSPPS/2 Sentelic FingerSensngPad
bus0x11
vendor2
product0xf
version0x0
connected toisa0060/serio2/input0
--
System Info Win7
NameConexant SmartAudio HD
ManufacturerConexant
StatusOK
PNP Device ID
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_14F1DEV_5069SUBSYS_1462109CREV_1003\42B51D37D1
Driverc:\windows\system32\drivers\chdrt64.sys (8.54.0.0, 1.51 MB
(1,581,184 bytes), 12/02/2011 12:23 AM)
NameBluetooth Audio Device
ManufacturerAtheros Communications
StatusOK
PNP Device ID
BTHENUM\{61118058-486C-4BB0-B4B8-ACE4DCADEC44}_LOCALMFG\8232D02A90_
Driverc:\windows\system32\drivers\btath_a2dp.sys (1.0.0.0, 294.61
KB (301,680 bytes), 28/09/2010 5:13 AM)
NameIntel(R) Display Audio
ManufacturerIntel(R) Corporation
StatusOK
PNP Device ID
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01VEN_8086DEV_2805SUBSYS_1462109CREV_1000\42B51D37D00301
Driverc:\windows\system32\drivers\intcdaud.sys (6.14.0.3074,
310.00 KB (317,440 bytes), 11/02/2011 4:11 PM)
---
Win7-Ss Info
mouse/touchpad
Hardware TypeUSB Input Device
Number of Buttons0
StatusOK
PNP Device IDUSB\VID_046DPID_C05A\617E3CC5501
Power Management SupportedNo
Double Click ThresholdNot Available
HandednessNot Available
Driverc:\windows\system32\drivers\hidusb.sys (6.1.7600.16385,
29.50 KB (30,208 bytes), 14/07/2009 10:06 AM)
Hardware TypeFinger Sensing Pad
Number of Buttons0
StatusOK
PNP Device IDACPI\STLC060\41A1D06D80
Power Management SupportedNo
Double Click ThresholdNot Available
HandednessNot Available
IRQ ChannelIRQ 12
Driverc:\windows\system32\drivers\i8042prt.sys (6.1.7600.16385,
103.00 KB (105,472 bytes), 14/07/2009
---
I've googled for 3 weeks with no working results.
Even the touchpad-indicator applet installs but doesnt work.
Re sound output - headphones work with Fuduntu 14-10-RC2-64 but at
same time as laptop spkrs - no option to turn either off
Re: [SLUG] Marvell PHY plus forcedeth: no gigabit?
dont know... not being rude, whats the part number? Its not a fast ethernet is it? also BIOS on the computer set to 100mbs? yes clutching at straws I know... Thanks, Ben Donohue On 28/02/2011 7:05 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Ben == Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au writes: Ben Try not auto neg. Try manual assignment. also check switch port Ben has not been set to 100mbs by accident. Try another cable? When I use ethtool to set to gigabit, the link light goes out on the switch. I've checked that the switch ports autonegotiate to gigabit correctly. Unfortunately, the switch firmware won't let me turn autoneg off. I've tried three different cables -- and I've tried using them on a different link, and they all work at gigabit. (Cat 5-E is OK for gigabit. But I did try a cat-6 cable too (was getting desperate) Any other ideas? Peter c - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3472 - Release Date: 02/27/11 -- 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] Marvell PHY plus forcedeth: no gigabit?
got any others of the same model? do they work? do they have a switch on them or software configurable? Thanks, Ben Donohue On 28/02/2011 7:05 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Ben == Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au writes: Ben Try not auto neg. Try manual assignment. also check switch port Ben has not been set to 100mbs by accident. Try another cable? When I use ethtool to set to gigabit, the link light goes out on the switch. I've checked that the switch ports autonegotiate to gigabit correctly. Unfortunately, the switch firmware won't let me turn autoneg off. I've tried three different cables -- and I've tried using them on a different link, and they all work at gigabit. (Cat 5-E is OK for gigabit. But I did try a cat-6 cable too (was getting desperate) Any other ideas? Peter c - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3472 - Release Date: 02/27/11 -- 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] Marvell PHY plus forcedeth: no gigabit?
Try not auto neg. Try manual assignment. also check switch port has not been set to 100mbs by accident. Try another cable? Thanks, Ben Donohue On 28/02/2011 5:23 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Hi folks, I have a GigaByte GA-M51GM-S2G motherboard with an MCP51 gigabit NIC, with a MARVELL PHY. It's plugged using CAT 5-E cable into a gigabit switch. But it insists on connection at 100Mb/s. There are other gigabit connections that are workking at 1000Mb into the switch. Any ideas on how to fix this? Or is the PHY cactus? # dmesg | grep eth0 forcedeth :00:14.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 1, addr 00:0f:ea:53:3c:7f device eth0 entered promiscuous mode forcedeth :00:14.0: eth0: no link during initialization ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready forcedeth :00:14.0: eth0: link up ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes -- 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] DHCP - DDNS not updating
(Hi I'll reply to this thread as there seems to be a couple of threads going on the same subject) I've had a very similar setup to you in the past. I never had this much trouble. I had only centos 5.x servers. You've got split DNS. Internally, DNS resolves to your internal DNS server from your clients and you can see what you have allowed from internal as it's all internal. Externally, the world goes to dnsmadeeasy.com as your domains are delegated to this (i'm presuming). So if for example you are hosting a webserver, then dnsmadeeasy would point that domain to your MODEM external ip address. On your modem you would have a virtual server setup with port 80 forwarded to your internal webserver ip address. So from internal you get to the clients webserver from your internal DNS. From external you get to your clients webserver from being redirected through dnsmadeeasy to your external IP of your modem and then from your modem forwarded to your webserver. You could even have your internal clients all point to the modem for DNS. The modem would ask dnsmadeeasy where that domain was, it would point to your modem and then the modem would port forward them all back into your internal webserver. I never had any issues with dns key files or dnssec or whatever as I never needed to use it/them. I would recommend removing all these until the basics are working solidly. Have you tried using webmin to setup dns on your internal dns server? Thanks, Ben Donohue On 17/02/2011 3:16 PM, Kyle wrote: Peter, exactly!! THAT IS MY ISSUE I believe. But I have not yet found a log to give me sufficient info to nut out WHY. All my config files are presently up for the world to see at; https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30159 And from what I've read (LOTS in the last couple of days), they're picture perfect. Kind Regards Kyle On 17/02/11 3:02 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I strongly suspect that the key setup is incorrect. .it will fail because of an authorisation problem. Peter C -- 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] Reading TCP Dump
Hi Kyle, just a general question on your setup there... what sort of setup do you have regarding your internet connection? Is it a fairly typical home ADSL2+ modem with an account with an ISP? If so which one? O are you a corporate with a Telstra or Optus router? Or something like that? Thanks, Ben Donohue On 17/02/2011 1:07 PM, Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, I'd be grateful if someone could show me how to interpret this tcp dump pls. It is a sample from an attempt to renew a dhcp lease and update the dns journals. But the dns jounrals are not being updated, apparently due to the error not authorized. I just don't understand why not. If I'm reading correctly, it is saying that the dhcp server IS attempting to update dns, but is failing for whatever reason? Is this correct? Or.. 2011-02-17 12:36:08.873160 IP 192.168.1.6.ssh 192.168.1.100.52913: P 3763443825:3763444017(192) ack 1990205104 win 15048 2011-02-17 12:36:08.873441 IP 192.168.1.100.52913 192.168.1.6.ssh: . ack 3763444017 win 65535 2011-02-17 12:36:08.873688 IP 192.168.1.6.53310 192.168.1.6.domain: 65000+ PTR? 100.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa. (45) 2011-02-17 12:36:08.873854 IP 192.168.1.6.domain 192.168.1.6.53310: 65000 NXDomain 0/1/0 (122) 2011-02-17 12:36:08.873990 IP 192.168.1.6.49224 192.168.1.6.domain: 4103+ PTR? 6.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa. (43) 2011-02-17 12:36:08.874086 IP 192.168.1.6.domain 192.168.1.6.49224: 4103 NXDomain 0/1/0 (120) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852268 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:1f:5b:f5:ec:e2 (oui Unknown), length: 300 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852471 arp who-has 192.168.1.100 tell 192.168.1.100 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852506 IP 192.168.1.6.18142 192.168.1.6.domain: 46943+ PTR? 255.255.255.255.in-addr.arpa. (46) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852513 IP server3.domain1.com.37265 server3.domain1.com.domain: 46789 update [1a] [2n] [1au] SOA? domain1.com. (192) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852733 IP 192.168.1.6.domain 192.168.1.6.18142: 46943 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (97) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852858 IP server3.domain1.com.domain server3.domain1.com.37265: 46789 update NotAuth [0q] 0/0/1 (93) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.852905 IP 192.168.1.6.40827 192.168.1.6.domain: 65149+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.853056 IP 192.168.1.6.domain 192.168.1.6.40827: 65149 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (89) 2011-02-17 12:36:10.853093 Out XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (oui Unknown) ethertype Unknown (0x0003), length 344: removed hex table 2011-02-17 12:36:11.720982 arp who-has server1.domain1.com tell 192.168.1.100 2011-02-17 12:36:11.854661 arp who-has server1.domain1.com tell 192.168.1.100 2011-02-17 12:36:16.032102 arp who-has 192.168.1.6 tell 192.168.1.100 2011-02-17 12:36:16.032116 arp reply 192.168.1.6 is-at XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (oui Unknown) 2011-02-17 12:36:16.032329 IP 192.168.1.100.52913 192.168.1.6.ssh: P 1990205104:1990205152(48) ack 3763444017 win 65535 -- 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] Reading TCP Dump
Hi Kyle, Do you have a static IP? Have you set your modem up to forward DNS queries to internode DNS primary and secondary? Are you hosting your own domains? If so, is your internal server setup as the primary name server for your own domains or are you using a third party DNS service or internode DNS services (I'm presuming they have these services) If not, are you pointing your internal server to your modem IP as the forwarder for DNS queries? Thanks, Ben Donohue On 17/02/2011 1:30 PM, Kyle wrote: Ben, std internode ADSL2+ I get about 15.8MB (or Mb ??) down. Why ?? Kind Regards Kyle On 17/02/11 1:26 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Kyle, just a general question on your setup there... what sort of setup do you have regarding your internet connection? Is it a fairly typical home ADSL2+ modem with an account with an ISP? If so which one? O are you a corporate with a Telstra or Optus router? Or something like that? Thanks, Ben Donohue -- 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] Reading TCP Dump
Ok, since it is not working how it is now... then perhaps you'll try the following... setup your modem to point to internode DNS servers for DNS queries. Point your internal DNS server to point to the MODEM for upstream DNS queries. Don't set it up as DDNS. Just forwarding DNS to the next upstream DNS server in the chain if you know what I mean to get external DNS resolution. Also have port 53 TCP and UDP on your modem (coming in) to port forward to your internal DNS server. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 17/02/2011 1:44 PM, Kyle wrote: Ben, answers inline. Kind Regards Kyle On 17/02/11 1:38 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Kyle, Do you have a static IP? ## Yes. Have you set your modem up to forward DNS queries to internode DNS primary and secondary? ## No. There shouldn't be any need. I run an internal DNS on CentOS 5.5. (Ok, at this point, I'm trying to run an internal dns :-( ) Are you hosting your own domains? ## From an internal client dns perspective, yes. If so, is your internal server setup as the primary name server for your own domains or are you using a third party DNS service or internode DNS services (I'm presuming they have these services) If not, are you pointing your internal server to your modem IP as the forwarder for DNS queries? ## Yes. I run an internal authoritative dns (from my 192.168 subnet's clients' perspective) It is set up to go out to the www and root servers if it can't find what it's looking for. At least, I believe it is. I'm beginning to doubt myself. -- 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] DHCP - DDNS not updating
Hi, I'd check that you are port forwarding or virtual server from the modem port 53 tcp and udp to the internal dns server reboot everything starting from the modem and working your way inwards try to simplify the problem. Run up a new box if you can and stick it temporarily on the inside of the modem and see if it is getting dns correctly... go to websites etc if working then place it on the other side of the svr1 and test from there... Thanks, Ben Donohue On 15/02/2011 11:59 AM, Kyle wrote: Hi SLUG, I have an issue that is becoming more annoying the more I try to track it down. Can I ask those of you interested to take a look at the following thread please: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30080forum=40 I realise this might be a little brave ... to ask you to go outside the list, but it is a fairly detailed thread (i.e. lengthy read) with all the necessary info on the box's config and all the testing I have done. In short; --- mixed clients XP, 7, OSX, Ubuntu 10 to a CentOS 5.5 svr all in an MS WORKGROUP type setup. DHCP licences handed out, some reserved. DNS zones supposedly set up to provide name-based network browsing within the WORKGROUP domain and for internal clients to find inbound mail servers for 5 other domains. --- But try as I might, I can't seem to get the DNS updated anymore and I swear it USED TO WORK. The only thing I have since done is update the packages as they came out. I am as far as the error: Unable to add forward map from client1.domain1.com to 192.168.1.104: not authorized and that's where it stops. No amount of googlage has so far shone a torch on the issue. The disheartening thing is the bloody redmond boxes CAN find other hosts by name, but not the linux or OSX boxes. If you have the time and incl. to have a read and point out where the hell I'm going wrong pls, I'd be grateful. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] wlanconfig for debian lenny
Hi all, I'm new to debian so please be patient with me. I'm trying to install wlanconfig so I can get a wireless card to work in Master mode. I can't seem to figure out how to get it installed. I've tried the following... aptitude update aptitude install linux-wlan-ng linux-wlan-ng-doc module-assistant I thought wlanconfig came with madwifi-ng... Anyway a bit lost here... Any explicit instructions on how to get and install wlanconfig? -- Thanks, Ben Donohue -- 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] wlanconfig for debian lenny
Ok now worked it out. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 12/02/2011 12:51 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm new to debian so please be patient with me. I'm trying to install wlanconfig so I can get a wireless card to work in Master mode. I can't seem to figure out how to get it installed. I've tried the following... aptitude update aptitude install linux-wlan-ng linux-wlan-ng-doc module-assistant I thought wlanconfig came with madwifi-ng... Anyway a bit lost here... Any explicit instructions on how to get and install wlanconfig? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Getting Atheros drivers into Debian Lenny (untangle 8 box)
Hi all, I'm trying to add a wireless card to an Untangle 8 (firewall) box. I want to turn this box into a Wireless Access Point. This is not supported in the Untangle distro but hey I want to try it. This is a WN5301a wireless b/g PCI adapter. It uses the Atheros AR2416 chipset. With a standard build, Untangle finds the wireless card and sets it up as wlan0 and wmaster0 in the Untangle interface along with eth0 and eth1. However a windows box does not see the wireless network. It's like it is not broadcasting itself. Lots of Googling says I should load hostapd. I've tried to install hostapd following the directions from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd but am getting errors during the make like the following... warning: net/if_media.h: No such file or directory (a few of these... as well as many of these... /src/drivers/driver_bsd.c:102: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type and other errors... this, I believe, is to do with missing FreeBSD 80211 layer drivers (Atheros drivers) So... I'm not a debian expert as I mainly use RedHat distro's... any cluesticks or better ways to get Debian Lenny into being a WAP? or how do I get the current drivers into Debian? -- Thanks, Ben Donohue -- 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] Upgrading OS RAID
Hi, I don't know enough about your hardware but a sort of longer way to do this without worrying about expanding arrays and crossing your fingers is... replace the 500GB disks with the 1TB disks one by one so that the raid array has time to rebuild on each disk. then you end up with your raid volume on the new 1TB disks and you have a bunch of 500GB disks free. create a new raid set with the 500GB disks and copy everything from the 1TB raid to the 500GB disks. delete the raid set on the 1TB disks. create a raid set on the 1TB disks using all the space now available. copy the data from the 500GB raid set to the 1TB disks delete the 500 GB raid set. A bit longer and involved however you can use your data while rebuilding the raid set Thanks, Ben Donohue On 10/01/2011 9:21 AM, Kyle wrote: Hi Folks, it appears one of the disks in my s'ware RAID is failing. So I've come to SLUG for some consensus and confirmation. 1. How do I go about rebuilding the RAID with ALL brand new disks (obviously no longer the same disks, but now newer spec larger disks) such that I don't lose not only the data but don't have to rebuild the whole machine again? 2. I'm better sticking with linux s'ware RAID rather than setting up a m'board BIOS supported RAID aren't I? 3. It's been a while since I delved into h'ware etc. So SATA II disks will simply plug into, and function correctly, SATA plugs, yes or no? Or are we now at a stage where I also have to worry about whether or not the m'board will actually support the disks I want to put in? -- 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] HP MSA20 and CentOS Issues
Hi Nigel, You can get HP to do it for the cost of a techo to come out and do it. Will not cost much but you can get them to upgrade the firmware on everything. Make sure the drives individual firmware is upgraded and that they are all the same. I've had weird issues before where nothing worked properly until the firmware on all the drives was upgraded. Also the controller cards, main board, etc. Thanks, Ben Donohue On 15/12/2010 1:45 PM, Nigel Allen wrote: Hi Does anyone here speak HP fluently? We have an HP MSA20 with 8 x 160GB SATA drives attached to a DL360G4 which is running CentOS Linux 4.8 (effectively RedHat Enterprise 4). We have been suffering timeouts for some years where the MSA will stop responding (or get VERY slow) - this can only be fixed by powering the array off and on again. Can anyone please advise me as to how I should upgrade the MSA20 to the latest firmware and/or drivers? This is something we have never attempted before. Thanks and Regards Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] virtualbox
Hi all, just a scratch my head question on Virtualbox and GPL. Virtualbox.org states that virtualbox is free under gpl licence. However when you load it, the licence blurb from Oracle says that it can only be used for testing for a couple of weeks and only for personal use. I don't understand. Ben -- 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] virtualbox
Thanks guys, didn't notice this. Ben. On 3/12/2010 11:53 AM, Steve Lindsay wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Virtualbox.org states that virtualbox is free under gpl licence. However when you load it, the licence blurb from Oracle says that it can only be used for testing for a couple of weeks and only for personal use. I don't understand. There are two versions, an open source version and another for personal evaluation. They're largely the same product except the open source one is missing some features. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ - Steve -- 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] detecting hard drive failure ?
Hi, I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And this is on a different raid controller. So... if you have a backup of the data, have you tried to just take out the disks and put them back in the same NAS box in different places? Perhaps the connector is faulty. See whether the problem follows the disk or the problem follows the slot where the disk is. Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 14/11/2010 12:57 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Sat, November 13, 2010 5:52 pm, David Balnaves wrote: I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive. I've used smart on a lot of hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart reports they are FAILING NOW'. I've also seen some drives enter a state where they wont allow further smart tests (on/offline) to be run or aborted. This has lead me to believe that smart as an indicator needs to be considered on a per model basis and run carefully within the capabilities of the drive. The whole process has given me more questions than answers. I try to detect a failure by monitoring huge changes in the smart attributes. I've configured munin to monitor the smart attributes; It wouldn't be too hard to change the plugin to monitor these values on your NAS (I imagine you can ssh/telnet to it). You will notice some variance in things like temperature and ECC, but unless they start behaving erratically then I wouldn't worry. Hope this helps in 'detecting and notifying' potential failures. David, thanks yes, I can ssh to it I'm not very familiar with the raid utilities (beyond knowing what the acronym stand for...) but I get: # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010 Raid Level : raid0 Array Size : 3900774400 (3720.07 GiB 3994.39 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 79e23cd2:b3f9618d:58a8936b:5e0d814b Events : 0.1 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 830 active sync /dev/sda3 1 8 191 active sync /dev/sdb3 2 8 352 active sync /dev/sdc3 3 8 513 active sync /dev/sdd3 # mount /proc on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=32M) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sda4 on /mnt/ext type ext3 (rw) /dev/md9 on /mnt/HDA_ROOT type ext3 (rw) /dev/md0 on /share/MD0_DATA type ext4 (rw,usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0,user_xattr,data=ordered,nodelalloc) # ls /share/MD0_DATA ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Web: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Network Recycle Bin: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/lost+found: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Download: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/aquota.user: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Multimedia: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Usb: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Recordings: Input/output error ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Public: Input/output error cameras/ -- 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] detecting hard drive failure ?
Hi, sometimes you can get a loose connection. If it is in a raid set you should be able to pull it out and put it back in again and it will automatically rebuild into the raid set. (depending on the raid controller...) It just might need the connectors reseated. First thing I'd try... Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 11/11/2010 8:21 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have a brand new QNAP NAS with 4 SATA HD as 'Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4', installed couple of month ago when 1st installed, using QNAP web i/f, I've run SMART tests, all were 100%, etc yesterday, it seems HD3 suffered total failure, if says: - Summary HD3 Hard disk does not exist. - (though, LCD panel says disk 4: HD4 ejected) I can ssh to the NAS: - what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit down ? - what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should such failure occurs again ? # uname -a Linux NAS01 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Tue Sep 28 00:54:34 CST 2010 i686 unknown # df -h FilesystemSize Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram124.0M109.7M 14.3M 88% / tmpfs32.0M 92.0k 31.9M 0% /tmp /dev/sda4 310.0M160.5M149.5M 52% /mnt/ext /dev/md9509.5M 41.3M468.2M 8% /mnt/HDA_ROOT /dev/md0 3.6T 2.5T 1.1T 69% /share/MD0_DATA -- 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] Fax to Email server
Hi Kev, Another option would be to just subscribe to a fax to email (and email to fax) service. Save on the PSTN line rental, calls, and another box to administer. There are many of these services. Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 3/11/2010 10:47 AM, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote: Hi all I have a customer who wants a fax server, to take in 3 PSTN fax lines (Currently going to Original Fax hardware) and send the recieved faxes to an email and to a local printer. A quick look suggests to me that Hylafax would fit the bill but I've never worked on Hylafax before so my questions are 1) can Hylafax take in Multiple modems and recieve faxes on all of them and send them all to an email address 2) Is there a dumb as dirt, preconfigured distro with a browser admin screen I can use Thanks all. looking forward to the replies Kev -- 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] On buying a laptop.
Are you sure it's not a L500? What's the exact part number. Anyway Toshiba has a good name in laptops but they are horrible to return if there is a problem. It can take ages. Also watch out for the bad screen pixels clauses in the return policies (of any brand) Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 14/10/2010 2:25 PM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: So, I wish to buy a laptop. Choice suggests the Toshiba Satellite LP500. I recall some time ago a discussion on whether the AMD processors were better at Linux than those of Intel. As I also recall, majority opinion was that there was 0 in it. Is this still the case? Has anyone had experience (+ or -} with the Toshiba that's worth airing? Thanks, William Bennett. -- 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: Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site
Thanks all, really appreciated. I'll have a shot at the suggestions and see how I go. Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site
Hi all, I'm running an ecommerce site and currently I only deal with Australian shoppers. However there are many hacking attempts from non Aussie IP addresses. I'm looking at blocking everything that is non-Australian. Has anyone done this? Any issues/ gotcha's/ tips/ etc? Should I do it at the ISP or iptables? (would need a hand with IP tables) I've found geoip, still looking into it. -- Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@goodlets.com Goodlets PTY Limited www.goodlets.com -- 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] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site
Thanks all, I'm seeing mostly brute force password attacks on ssh. I've also found configserver firewall... Anyway still looking at what is around. Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 11/10/2010 2:41 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 11/10/2010, at 1:29 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: I'm running an ecommerce site and currently I only deal with Australian shoppers. However there are many hacking attempts from non Aussie IP addresses. I'm looking at blocking everything that is non-Australian. Has anyone done this? Any issues/ gotcha's/ tips/ etc? Should I do it at the ISP or iptables? (would need a hand with IP tables) I've found geoip, still looking into it. I've thought about doing the same, but it's only a bandaid. It might stop the zombie probes, but won't stop a targeted attack, which will use a compromised host in australia to relay through and probably break in through the web server. What sort of attacks are you seeing? A lot of the attacks I see are harmless zombie probes looking for old and well know exploits on unpatched systems, or brute force password attacks on ssh. ie if you keep your system up to date, and use good passwords, or better, keys, you shouldn't be bothered by the probes. The biggest risk as I see it is the web software, sql injection, xss, etc. As far as iptables is concerned, it's legitimate traffic, you need to look inside the web requests coming in, ie deep packet inspection. Also do penetration testing. If you're running apache, look at mod_security. -- 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] www krap
Hi James, after searching around a lot I finally found Micron21. They are brilliant. They are in Melbourne. They answer the phone. They speak English. They are techo's that know their stuff. They will help you on the spot. They know Linux etc. Their prices are good. I have no affiliation with them other than being a customer. http://www.micron21.com Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 21/09/2010 12:24 PM, james wrote: Guys can anybody suggest a www host service that works. I tested and signed up with http://crazydomains.com.au Their sys-admin then decided to limit access to /usr/bin Gallery needs a graphics toolkit, they provide imagemagick but imagemagick needs the binaries. Their sys-admin are somewhat dense and definitely lord- high-sys-admins. So they broke a working site and don't seem willing/able to fix. I looked at http://godaddy.com but they seem to be oh so FOS. ie 10G space but only 1024 files max. So can anybody suggest a no-frills cheap www hosting service. I need to have a working gallery2 so php, mysql and 1000s files. Thanks James -- 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] Accounting and business software
Hi, do you have a URL for LSMB? -- strange --- I type it in google and I keep getting did you mean LAMB instead of LSMB accounting? Anyway I can't find it in the first page. Clicking on the second page google switches to searching for LAMB accounting in the search field. Huh? Bug in google? Same thing happens in google chrome. Is there a bug bounty for this? (I saw it first!) Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 20/09/2010 10:17 AM, david wrote: Jon Jermey wrote: Hi Patrick, For general accounting I use WXBanker. I've also used KMyMoney and Grisbi, which are both OK, but WXBanker is a bit simpler. You will also probably need an invoicing package, and as far as I can tell there are no good simple user-friendly invoicing packages for Linux yet. (If anyone knows of one please tell me.) I have trialled several packages including one with an SQL database and a PHP interface via a web page, but it was very cumbersome and non-portable. I've been using LSMB for several years which is Postres/Perl/Web based and is GPL. It isn't perfect but it's certainly served me much better than MYOB did previously. I can give my accountant access and she does her magic as required. It has quite granular access rights, which is often handy. I'm not sure what you mean by client management - if you mean invoice control, then LSMB is fine. It's got a lot of functionality that I don't need or use such as inventory control and POS. It's in steady development and the mailing list is very responsive - especially the authors addressing issues. A couple of years ago I had some self inflicted database corruption, and the lead author logged in from Seattle using skype and ssh and de-bugged the database for me for $150 on 24 hours notice. Can't complain. I now use an old shareware package from Windows called Instant Invoice. Unfortunately it is no longer available in that form, but you can buy their combined invoice and cashbook package from http://www.instantinvoice.net/ A free 30-day trial is available. I had some troubles with Instant Invoice in earlier versions but under Wine with Ubuntu 10.4/Mint 9 it's been bulletproof. Regards, Jon. On 19/09/10 23:59, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some recommendations in relation to accounts and client management software. My wife is a Clin Psych. She'd like to keep track of her money (obviously :)) and to be able to work out who has paid and who owes money, as well as the monies she has paid to others, print out accounts to be paid (by others to her) and so on. The sort of small business stuff people usually have to do. Can anyone recommend software they think would fit the bill. We're presently running Kubuntu 9.10 (and better :)) Regards, Patrick -- 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] Accounting and business software
Blast! That would be right. Now I have to re-install the internet! Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au On 20/09/2010 2:01 PM, Nick Andrew wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:31:35AM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: -- strange --- I type it in google and I keep getting did you mean LAMB instead of LSMB accounting? Anyway I can't find it in the first page. Clicking on the second page google switches to searching for LAMB accounting in the search field. Huh? Bug in google? Same thing happens in google chrome. I think your google must be buggy. My google does the right thing. Nick. -- 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] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
They are really common... all the same size. I have about 20 from old motherboards lying around. They are a CR2032 Have a look at your motherboard. You can get them in most supermarkets. Ben On 30/08/2010 7:00 PM, Jonathan wrote: Now that you mention it, the computer did recently loose its clock once. Caused me to really panic as the linux boot reported all my partitions to be corrupted! (turned out that was from an apparant incorrect date). So, where do I get a CMOS battery from? Thanks Jon On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:33:02 am Martin Visser wrote: Ah, yes. The checksum might be on the CMOS NVRAM settings rather than the BIOS executable code. If the BIOS considers the settings invalid (by comparing to some stored checksum - also stored in the CMOS NVRAM) then it might failing back to what you are seeing. This can be confirmed by defaulting the BIOS settings (making sure you have recorded any system specific settings that are important, such as drive geometry) and rebooting. If you keep system power on between reboots and the problem does not reoccur, yet does have problems when your system gets powered down (and the CMOS NVRAM needs to rely on the battery) then it could well be your battery is at the end of its useful life. (Usually the first sign is the system clock no longer operates when powered down). Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Jake Andersonya...@vapourforge.comwrote: On 29/08/10 18:48, Jonathan wrote: BTW, just realised I typed the motherboard code wrong, its actually: GA-7VT600 1394 cheers Jon Just checking, its not the CMOS battery gone flat causing your problems is it? It sounds similar in symptoms. -- Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au -- 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] flashing motherboard with no floppy drive
Tried a USB connected floppy or a USB thumbdrive? or Boot from a CD with the flash stuff on it? Ben On 28/08/2010 9:55 AM, Jonathan wrote: Hi All, I have an old gigabyte motherboard GA-7VT300 1394 whose BIOS has become a bit corrupted. I need to reflash the bios, but the floppy drive doesn't work. I've trued pluging in other floppy drives all to no avail. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Currently using version F4 f the bios. Thanks Jon -- Thanks, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au -- 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] beginners home networking question
Hi, if you set it to ping continuously, does the connection drop anyway? Ben On 20/08/2010 1:06 PM, mark adrian bell wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with the wired Ethernet connection that I've set up between my laptop and my desktop. I like to ssh into my desktop from my old laptop when I need resource heavy program like OpenOffice.org. The problem is, that if I stop working for a few minutes, the ethernet connection times out. It seems that the only way I can get my connection back is to unplug and replug the cross-over cable. Here are some details, I hope you can point me in the right direction. I'm using Ubuntu Lucid. My desktop Hostname: Antec NetworkManager: removed Firewall: Firestarter. Allows ssh connections from my laptop. Dhcp server (Because that's the only way I could get NetworkManager on my laptop to accept a connection from it) I've changed these two lines in /etc/dhpc3/dhpcd.conf: My laptop Hostname: Thinkpad NetworkManager: Yes Firewall: Firestarter. Internet connection sharing enabled. Internet connection: Mobile broadband Here is output from /var/log/syslog on my desktop: Aug 20 11:18:27 antec kernel: [183640.534931] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both Aug 20 11:19:32 antec kernel: [183706.130901] sky2 eth0: Link is down. Aug 20 11:19:35 antec kernel: [183709.018081] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both Aug 20 11:45:57 antec sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: Called Aug 20 11:45:57 antec sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [mark] Aug 20 11:45:57 antec sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: /home/mark is already mounted Aug 20 12:01:26 antec kernel: [186219.845433] type=1503 audit(1282269686.525:25): operation=exec pid=18462 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:26 antec kernel: [186219.846489] type=1503 audit(1282269686.525:26): operation=exec pid=18463 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:26 antec kernel: [186219.847493] type=1503 audit(1282269686.525:27): operation=exec pid=18464 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.522972] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:28): operation=exec pid=18468 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.524540] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:29): operation=exec pid=18469 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.525892] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:30): operation=exec pid=18470 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.527132] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:31): operation=exec pid=18471 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.528364] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:32): operation=exec pid=18472 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:01:27 antec kernel: [186220.529592] type=1503 audit(1282269687.205:33): operation=exec pid=18473 parent=18461 profile=/usr/bin/evince requested_mask=::x denied_mask=::x fsuid=1000 ouid=0 name=/usr/bin/dbus-launch Aug 20 12:17:01 antec CRON[19509]: (root) CMD ( cd / run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Aug 20 12:18:58 antec kernel: [187271.580496] sky2 eth0: Link is down. Aug 20 12:21:17 antec kernel: [187410.945074] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both Aug 20 12:21:19 antec kernel: [187412.99] sky2 eth0: Link is down. Aug 20 12:21:23 antec kernel: [187417.158814] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both Aug 20 12:21:25 antec dhcpd: Wrote 1 leases to leases file. Aug 20 12:21:25 antec dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.3.2 from 00:0d:60:8a:f0:09 (thinkpad) via eth0 Aug 20 12:21:25 antec dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.3.2 to 00:0d:60:8a:f0:09 (thinkpad) via eth0 Aug 20 12:22:58 antec kernel: [187511.429208] sky2 eth0: Link is down. Aug 20 12:23:32 antec kernel: [187546.306589] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both Aug 20 12:23:34 antec dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.3.2 from 00:0d:60:8a:f0:09 (thinkpad) via eth0 Aug 20 12:23:34 antec dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.3.2 to 00:0d:60:8a:f0:09 (thinkpad) via eth0 Write failed: Broken pipe Here is output from /var/log/syslog on my laptop: Aug 20 12:05:40 thinkpad wpa_supplicant[1022]: WPS-AP-AVAILABLE Aug 20 12:06:18 thinkpad kernel: [48094.236158] Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=
Re: [SLUG] Backups
Hi James, In my experience, the most often restore of a file from backup is from yesterday's tape. Then it reduces from there. It is also a simple question of what the business wants. Some places I've worked for wanted a backup of everything and were prepared to pay for it. Others were only interested in restoring from the previous month and then a monthly tape from before that. So, check with the owner what they want. Give them options of cost/backup options. Let them decide what they want. Then it's not your problem on how long backups are retained. You then only have to make sure you live up to what is wanted. Ben On 22/08/2010 4:54 PM, james wrote: G'day guys I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular days files the only way that I can see is to have a daily backup for n days. Tower of Hanoi (for eg) says you can backup 2^^n-1 days with n tapes but i can break that. Simple EG starting with day 4 sequence ie backup: C A B A C A B A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme) On day 2 you create a file, which you remove on day 3. On day 6 you try to restore day 2 On day 6 you have: A from day 5 B from day 2 (or worse from day 6) C from day 4 So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mysql restore
Hi all, I'm doing a mysql restore to a new server that has a mysql database on it. As in just installed mysql. show databases shows two databases mysql and information_schema. My backups from a previous server has many db's including two called mysql and information_schema. Do I have to drop the new server's mysql and information_schema databases and reload my own or are these not used or needed by mysql or what are they for? Any clues appreciated. Ben -- 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] mysql restore
Thanks Rick, did exactly that and working well now. Thanks for you help. Ben On 19/08/2010 6:06 AM, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi Ben, I'm doing a mysql restore to a new server that has a mysql database on it. As in just installed mysql. show databases shows two databases mysql and information_schema. My backups from a previous server has many db's including two called mysql and information_schema. Do I have to drop the new server's mysql and information_schema databases and reload my own or are these not used or needed by mysql or what are they for? I have successfully transferred from old to new servers many times and have never touched the new mysql and information schema so my suggestion is to leave them. Everything has always just worked. The best way to transfer data from one server to another is to use mysqldump on the old server DBs and re-import the data on the new. Rick -- 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] mysql restore
I replaced all except those two and it seemed to work ok. Not sure that they are needed or connected to the other db's. I was going to restore them if needed but it looks like they are not. Thanks for your reply. On 19/08/2010 12:16 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Wed, August 18, 2010 4:54 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: I'm doing a mysql restore to a new server that has a mysql database on it. As in just installed mysql. show databases shows two databases mysql and information_schema. My backups from a previous server has many db's including two called mysql and information_schema. Do I have to drop the new server's mysql and information_schema databases and reload my own or are these not used or needed by mysql or what are they for? Any clues appreciated. Ben, as a semi literate or perhaps semi illiterate* guess, I'd dump/drop them, and use the 'mysql' and 'information_schema' from old server. *I just browsed both db, most contents in there relates to user's databases -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
Hi Amos, Actually I was typing the command incorrectly... I'll admit it... So I didn't need to find an alternate superblock, however I did have to run e2fsck. e2fsck is still running... I wonder if anyone else has had e2fsck running for a few days fixing errors and after that the system came up ok? Is it a given that if it takes a few days to repair a filesystem, it must be smashed beyond repair?... I'll know when this thing finishes! Yes I have a backup of the data... just interested in whether e2fsck will fix it. Last time I remove all snapshots at once from a ESX server! One at a time now... Anyway to find the other superblocks I found the answer on... http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/recover-bad-superblock-from-corrupted-partition/ |dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock| ...gives the locations of alternate superblocks. Ben On 12/08/2010 10:30 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Can you give a hint which method did you use? On 12/08/2010 10:10 AM, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au mailto:donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Ok, cancel that... found how to find an alternative superblock... running a fix now. On 12/08/2010 9:57 AM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm running a virtual machine on vmware... -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
Removed using the tools. I did know that one snapshot in a string of snapshots was corrupt. However the snapshots before and after were ok. Indeed I had reverted to them at times to check things. The final snapshot was fine as well as two or three snapshots after the corrupt snapshot. So I didn't need all the other snapshots. I could have removed them one by one but chose to remove all snapshots... an option in the tools. The server booted into linux after the removal of all snapshots but the filesystem was readonly. I rebooted again and kernel panic! Rebooted with linux rescue and started e2fsck to repair the filesystem. Still waiting for it to finish... Ben On 13/08/2010 10:38 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: On 13/08/10 09:43, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Amos, Actually I was typing the command incorrectly... I'll admit it... So I didn't need to find an alternate superblock, however I did have to run e2fsck. e2fsck is still running... I wonder if anyone else has had e2fsck running for a few days fixing errors and after that the system came up ok? Is it a given that if it takes a few days to repair a filesystem, it must be smashed beyond repair?... I'll know when this thing finishes! Yes I have a backup of the data... just interested in whether e2fsck will fix it. Last time I remove all snapshots at once from a ESX server! One at a time now... Anyway to find the other superblocks I found the answer on... http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/recover-bad-superblock-from-corrupted-partition/ |dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock| ...gives the locations of alternate superblocks. Ben Are you removing them using the vmware tools or just deleting the files it makes? -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
Removed using the VMware Infracture Client GUI front end. Using ESXi but this should be no difference. No didn't just delete snapshot files. Haven't had a problem removing snapshots before using the GUI frontend. However probably only removed one at a time before. Don't see what the difference would be using the command line however I'll try the command line next time. Also probably remove snapshots one by one. If using the command line, does the guest need rebooting? I've always found it a necessity rebooting the guest after a snapshot removal with the GUI. Stops weird things happening. Ben On 13/08/2010 11:31 AM, Chris Donovan wrote: A bit off topic but... Removed using the tools. As in: vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/guest/guest.vmx removesnapshots or the guest tools? If you use the vmware-cmd on an esx server you shouldn't see any corruption of the underlying system, or at least I've never seen any problems using that command. Chris- -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
with ESXi you can get to the command line. on the ESXi server you can get to a command window by a key sequence and edit a config file and turn on ssh. Then use putty to get a command line remotely. Everyone does it. Just can't find my notes on where to do it... I'll keep searching... gogle it. I use the cli to clone vms etc. Just didn't think to do remove snapshots when the GUI had a point and click! Ben On 13/08/2010 12:19 PM, Chris Donovan wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Removed using the VMware Infracture Client GUI front end. Using ESXi but this should be no difference. ESXi doesn't include the vmware CLI tools, but you can install them on the unsupported COS. Don't see what the difference would be using the command line however I'll try the command line next time. Also probably remove snapshots one by one. Not sure if there is a difference either, and to my knowledge with vmware-cmd ... removesnapshots, it removes _all_ snapshots, and not just a single one. If using the command line, does the guest need rebooting? I've never had to reboot, but that doesn't mean much I suppose. Chris- -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
Ok here it is to get the cli on esxi # console and press Alt-F1 # then type UNSUPPORTED and press enter # login with your root login and password # and you can do your thing ... or enable SSH in the next steps # Edit the inetd.conf file by typing vi /etc/inetd.conf # remove the # in front of the SSH line # reboot your ESXi server (or kill the inetd process and start it again) Ben On 13/08/2010 12:35 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: with ESXi you can get to the command line. on the ESXi server you can get to a command window by a key sequence and edit a config file and turn on ssh. Then use putty to get a command line remotely. Everyone does it. Just can't find my notes on where to do it... I'll keep searching... gogle it. I use the cli to clone vms etc. Just didn't think to do remove snapshots when the GUI had a point and click! Ben On 13/08/2010 12:19 PM, Chris Donovan wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Removed using the VMware Infracture Client GUI front end. Using ESXi but this should be no difference. ESXi doesn't include the vmware CLI tools, but you can install them on the unsupported COS. Don't see what the difference would be using the command line however I'll try the command line next time. Also probably remove snapshots one by one. Not sure if there is a difference either, and to my knowledge with vmware-cmd ... removesnapshots, it removes _all_ snapshots, and not just a single one. If using the command line, does the guest need rebooting? I've never had to reboot, but that doesn't mean much I suppose. Chris- -- 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] [OT] vmware snapshots WAS: how to find an alternative superblock
Hi Chris, Ahh, yes ok you are correct there. I thought you were talking about the ESXi command line in general. Looks like I have to use the GUI for snapshot deletion after all. Thanks, Ben On 13/08/2010 12:45 PM, Chris Donovan wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: with ESXi you can get to the command line. on the ESXi server you can get to a command window by a key sequence and edit a config file and turn on ssh. Then use putty to get a command line remotely. Everyone does it. Just can't find my notes on where to do it... I'll keep searching... gogle it. I use the cli to clone vms etc. Just didn't think to do remove snapshots when the GUI had a point and click! I suppose I wasn't clear (: I meant that the command _vmware-cmd_ isn't available normally (without admin installation) on the COS, at least it's not on my ESXi servers. ESX: [r...@blah ~]# which vmware-cmd /usr/bin/vmware-cmd [r...@blah ~]# echo $PATH /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin [r...@blah ~]# ESXi: ~ # which vmware-cmd ~ # echo $PATH /bin:/sbin ~ # ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-cmd ls: /usr/bin/vmware-cmd: No such file or directory ~ # Sorry for the confusion... Chris- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] how to find an alternative superblock
Hi all, I'm running a virtual machine on vmware esx. vm = Centos 5.x (redhat) I'm running ext2 with no LVM. After removing some vmware snapshots the system rebooted into a readonly file system. Another reboot and errors and kernel panic etc. I've rebooted with linux rescue via the cdrom image. I've mounted the file system in /mnt/sysimage e2fsck -p -f /mnt/sysimage gives the error about superblock cannot be read etc. e2fsck -b 8193 /mnt/sysimage gives the same error message. So, am I using the correct command? How do I find the location of a copy of the superblock? Still Ggling but any help appreciated. Ben -- 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] how to find an alternative superblock
Ok, cancel that... found how to find an alternative superblock... running a fix now. On 12/08/2010 9:57 AM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I'm running a virtual machine on vmware esx. vm = Centos 5.x (redhat) I'm running ext2 with no LVM. After removing some vmware snapshots the system rebooted into a readonly file system. Another reboot and errors and kernel panic etc. I've rebooted with linux rescue via the cdrom image. I've mounted the file system in /mnt/sysimage e2fsck -p -f /mnt/sysimage gives the error about superblock cannot be read etc. e2fsck -b 8193 /mnt/sysimage gives the same error message. So, am I using the correct command? How do I find the location of a copy of the superblock? Still Ggling but any help appreciated. Ben -- 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] making ip adress stick rather than DHCP
Hi Voytek, edit /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 Get it to look something like the following... # Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.1.2.255 IPADDR=10.1.2.250 IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.1.2.0 ONBOOT=yes GATEWAY=10.1.2.253 TYPE=Ethernet PEERDNS=yes USERCTL=no if there is a line in there with HW= or HWARE= with a mac address like 2B:3C:F2:... you can remove it without any dramas. Ben On 30/07/2010 12:26 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have am old clunker with Centos 5.x, it appears it developed NIC probs, couldn't reach it, when screen plugged in, screen blank on power up, it gave some eth0 messages; I removed the 3COM PCI NIC, starred at it for a while whilst nodding my head, then, put it back in machine booted OK, BUT, is now on DHCP address, not what it was, fixed IP I've 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5' ; 'route add -net...' that returned it desired IP OK, but, on reboot, it reverts to DHCP what do I need to make it stick ? (tried editing some /etc/sysconfig files, but, it was telling something about hardlinks, so I didn't) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Multiple server roles on one box
Hi all, just a question... I'm looking at the possibility of consolidating some servers for a client. If an internal box with DNS and squid were combined, would this be a security risk... as in risky way above normal? How about a DNS, squid and web server with multiple name based virtual domains on the same box? Is doing the above really dangerous on a fully patched and up to date system? Any advice please? Thanks Ben -- 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] Multiple server roles on one box
Sorry should also have said that they are seen by the outside world. On 27/07/2010 4:04 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, just a question... I'm looking at the possibility of consolidating some servers for a client. If an internal box with DNS and squid were combined, would this be a security risk... as in risky way above normal? How about a DNS, squid and web server with multiple name based virtual domains on the same box? Is doing the above really dangerous on a fully patched and up to date system? Any advice please? Thanks Ben -- 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] Accessing the web with Ubuntu
check your network card is turned on or activated. Sometimes on install it is disabled. Make it enabled. Get the settings that you should have from Telstra of anything that you have to configure on your computer. Usually it will be DHCP from the modem and you should not have to worry. You should be able to ring up Telstra and get someone to guide you through the setup... (just pretend you have windows...) Ben On 26/07/2010 2:12 PM, Jose De Almada wrote: Hello Having installed Linux, I am unable to access the web. I've Telstra broadband. Please, help!? Thanks, José De Almada -- 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] Adaptec RAID problems
Hi Robert, I don't know about that the HBA driver loads the firmware onto the drives? I've updated HP drives firmware and fixed strange problems. Didn't know they were Hitachi drives. I've tried the harddrive vendor (Hitachi), but they don't release firmware updates. I reduced the size of the array to 4x2Tb RAID10 (4Tb redundant). Perhaps I'll try a smaller size to see if I have the same problem. The easiest way to replicate the problem is to run hdparm -t /dev/sda I get about 400kB/s on the problem RAID. Suggest doing a small raid 5 array (10gb) with 3 drives. Does this work? Could be a faulty drive or the large size has a bug. If it does not work as a small array it won't work as a large one. Ben -- 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] Adaptec RAID problems
Hi, is it able to make a small array across all disks? Like a 10GB array? Then progressively make larger arrays? What about making a small array using only three disks? Then add some disks? It might help in diagnosing the problem. Ben On 13/07/2010 1:18 PM, Robert Barnett wrote: Hi, I am attempting to run Fedora 13 on a SunFire X4140 with an external Sun StorageTek enclosure with 7x2Tb disks. Fedora 13 boots of a single internal SAS drive. The HBA is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09). I have successfully created a RAID array using the adaptec BIOS. I have also successfully created a logical volume which is 7.99Tb. I attempted to create a filsystem on the the 7x2Tb RAID array from Fedora 13 but it didn't work. The computer hangs periodically and generates kernel warnings. I suspected that it is an issue related to the Adaptec RAID driver, so I downloaded the supported drivers from Sun. http://www.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm The most recent drivers for the external HBA adapter as supplied by Sun are at the level aacraid_1.1.5_2463. I compiled these into the Fedora kernel today and recreated the filesystem, however, I had the same problem. I have installed RedHat EL5 on another partition to help with diagnosing the problem. I've rebooted into Redhat and created the filesystem using the same command. This seemed to run perfectly fine (however I stopped it early because it would take several hours to complete). The baseline version of the Adaptec driver installed by Redhat EL5 is Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2437]-mh4 It appears that there are no hardware issues with the 7x2Tb array. I would prefer not to upgrade the firmware because it seemed to cause problems with RedHat EL5. Is there anyone in Sydney who had experience with running Fedora on Sun/Oracle Hardware? Thanks Robbie. Here are the Fedora 13 errors below. Code: [r...@petfire]# mkfs.ext3 -L mars /dev/mapper/vg_mars-lv_mars mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009) Filesystem label=mars OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 536207360 inodes, 2144799744 blocks 107239987 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 65455 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 2048, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 10240, 214990848, 51200, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Writing inode tables: 811/65455 Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Stack: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:IRQ Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:EOI Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Code: e8 91 ed ff ff 85 c0 74 17 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 89 58 44 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 44 89 68 2c 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 8b 58 4483 fb ff 75 cb b8 01 00 00 00 5b 5b 41 5c 41 5d c9 c3 55 48 89 817/65455 -- 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] Adaptec RAID problems
Hi again, another thought... I've problems in the past with disks that had various firmware versions in an array. You can update disk firmware also. Are all disks updated to the latest firmware release? Ben On 13/07/2010 1:18 PM, Robert Barnett wrote: Hi, I am attempting to run Fedora 13 on a SunFire X4140 with an external Sun StorageTek enclosure with 7x2Tb disks. Fedora 13 boots of a single internal SAS drive. The HBA is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09). I have successfully created a RAID array using the adaptec BIOS. I have also successfully created a logical volume which is 7.99Tb. I attempted to create a filsystem on the the 7x2Tb RAID array from Fedora 13 but it didn't work. The computer hangs periodically and generates kernel warnings. I suspected that it is an issue related to the Adaptec RAID driver, so I downloaded the supported drivers from Sun. http://www.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm The most recent drivers for the external HBA adapter as supplied by Sun are at the level aacraid_1.1.5_2463. I compiled these into the Fedora kernel today and recreated the filesystem, however, I had the same problem. I have installed RedHat EL5 on another partition to help with diagnosing the problem. I've rebooted into Redhat and created the filesystem using the same command. This seemed to run perfectly fine (however I stopped it early because it would take several hours to complete). The baseline version of the Adaptec driver installed by Redhat EL5 is Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2437]-mh4 It appears that there are no hardware issues with the 7x2Tb array. I would prefer not to upgrade the firmware because it seemed to cause problems with RedHat EL5. Is there anyone in Sydney who had experience with running Fedora on Sun/Oracle Hardware? Thanks Robbie. Here are the Fedora 13 errors below. Code: [r...@petfire]# mkfs.ext3 -L mars /dev/mapper/vg_mars-lv_mars mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009) Filesystem label=mars OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 536207360 inodes, 2144799744 blocks 107239987 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 65455 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 2048, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 10240, 214990848, 51200, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Writing inode tables: 811/65455 Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Stack: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:IRQ Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:EOI Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Code: e8 91 ed ff ff 85 c0 74 17 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 89 58 44 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 44 89 68 2c 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 8b 58 4483 fb ff 75 cb b8 01 00 00 00 5b 5b 41 5c 41 5d c9 c3 55 48 89 817/65455 -- 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] linked folders show different files
Thanks Daniel, I'm embarassed to say that I don't know whether the files/folders are hard or soft linked! How to tell? I'm using a bit of software that does all that structure setup for me and I have not delved in to see how it sets these folders up. I'm remote desktop (VNC) to the linux box and viewing the images via konqueror. So there should not be any http caching happening. I've turned off caching in Konqueror also. I'm trying to simplify what I'm doing to try to find out why this is happening. But it seems that Joomla is picking up the cached copy when an image is uploaded rather than the changed file. If I start in a different area with a new file it works correctly. It's only when an existing image is overwritten with the same name that the old image shows up in Joomla but ALSO in Konqueror. Which makes me think it's not Joomla but something in Linux underneath somewhere. Really bizarre! Anyway still trying to home in on where things are going nuts. Ben On 1/07/2010 4:04 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Ben Donohuedonoh...@icafe.com.au writes: I really don't understand what is going on here... I have a folder structure that is replicated several times by linking the base folder A hard-link, or a soft-link? I am guessing the later, since you can't hard-link a directory, but it isn't entirely clear. If you mean cloned by hard-linking all the files then the answer is rather different to what I am about to give you.[1] Some folders down within the master folder I have two files called 1.jpg (a picture of a computer mouse), and 2.jpg (a picture of a computer) When I look at the linked folders via konqueror and with thumbnails on, I see the files correctly. When I delete 1.jpg and then rename 2.jpg to 1.jpg, some folders show a picture of the mouse, others show the picture of the computer. What's going on here? It could be that you are seeing a cache effect, where the system has a copy of the file in either an HTTP cache (if you are accessing this via the web) or a local icon cache. Everything should be a picture of a computer. Why are the linked folders/files not updating with the changes of the file name? Assuming they are soft-linked directories, so the change actually happens to the one single real directory, cache effects. (browsing to the linux box via a windows computer show the correct computer image in all the linked structure) I've turned off caching in konqueror. Maybe it needs more of a kick to do the right thing? The reason I'm asking is that I'm importing the images into a joomla site and the images are now incorrect. I've traced it so far to the linking I think... Given your description, it sounds suspiciously like HTTP caching, but it is hard to be sure. Does the access log for Joomla show that the image in being downloaded by the client, not just a not modified response? Does Joomla maintain an internal cache of, say, rescaled images that might need to be flushed? Daniel Footnotes: [1] Specifically, when you delete a file with hard links, you only remove that one name associated with it. The other links are unaffected. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] linked folders show different files
Hi all, I really don't understand what is going on here... I have a folder structure that is replicated several times by linking the base folder Some folders down within the master folder I have two files called 1.jpg (a picture of a computer mouse), and 2.jpg (a picture of a computer) When I look at the linked folders via konqueror and with thumbnails on, I see the files correctly. When I delete 1.jpg and then rename 2.jpg to 1.jpg, some folders show a picture of the mouse, others show the picture of the computer. What's going on here? Everything should be a picture of a computer. Why are the linked folders/files not updating with the changes of the file name? (browsing to the linux box via a windows computer show the correct computer image in all the linked structure) I've turned off caching in konqueror. The reason I'm asking is that I'm importing the images into a joomla site and the images are now incorrect. I've traced it so far to the linking I think... Thanks, Ben -- 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] Hardware recommendations
Hi Erik, I'm a computer dealer and a reseller for Altech and various other suppliers. I can get most anything. Have a look at kits at the address below... http://www.altech.com.au/kit.aspx Ignore the windows components as I can get everything without the windows tax. You can also mix and match parts to suit yourself if you want some other specs like more disks etc... I'm keeping this off-list for now but I can also do very good pricing for fellow SLUG members ;-) Shop around and, if you want, let me know if I can get a better price for you. Ben On 30/06/2010 11:10 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a number of years and that machine has just died. Anybody have any recommendations for a small form-factor machine (shuttle sized or even mac-mini style) that can be bought without paying the windows tax? Sydney local preferred but open to other options. Cheers, Erik -- 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] Hardware recommendations
Oops sorry, I really did mean to keep it off list... Ben On 30/06/2010 11:25 AM, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Erik, I'm a computer dealer and a reseller for Altech and various other suppliers. I can get most anything. Have a look at kits at the address below... http://www.altech.com.au/kit.aspx Ignore the windows components as I can get everything without the windows tax. You can also mix and match parts to suit yourself if you want some other specs like more disks etc... I'm keeping this off-list for now but I can also do very good pricing for fellow SLUG members ;-) Shop around and, if you want, let me know if I can get a better price for you. Ben On 30/06/2010 11:10 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for a number of years and that machine has just died. Anybody have any recommendations for a small form-factor machine (shuttle sized or even mac-mini style) that can be bought without paying the windows tax? Sydney local preferred but open to other options. Cheers, Erik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
