caps on jessie breaks kodi from backports, works with wheezy package

2016-04-05 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, recently upgraded my media center/file server from wheezy to jessie, went quite well apart from one thing: I installed kodi 15.2 from jessie-backports and that (as well as other programs depending on caps) throw an error "Unable to find label "Eq" in plugin library file

recompile 3rd party modules before reboot?

2014-03-06 Thread Dexter Filmore
I use deb7 as a media center base (DVB-S2-PVR with TVheadend and xbmc), but the DVB-S2 module (Technotrend TT-connect S2-3600) needs the tvlinux modules in order to not have the kernel scream and die when talked to. Now, each time the kernel gets an upgrade I: -disable tvheadend -reboot

custom HDD powermangement not working anymore

2013-08-20 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi, I wasn't too happy with the HDD power mangement so I wrote the script below tailored to my needs. Basically, it looks for activity on the device and if there was none over the past 10 minutes it sends the disks to sleep. Now - this worked a charm ever since I wrote it, now recently I

Re: custom HDD powermangement not working anymore - addendum

2013-08-20 Thread Dexter Filmore
Forgot: the pwrwatch script is called from cron every 15 minutes. Am Tuesday 20 August 2013 22:29:38 schrieb Dexter Filmore: Hi, I wasn't too happy with the HDD power mangement so I wrote the script below tailored to my needs. Basically, it looks for activity on the device

suddenly: shutdown!

2013-06-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
So today I when looking at the logs for something else I noticed this: (PWRWATCH is my own disk array power management, only sends disks to standby) Jun 25 06:51:13 xerxes kernel: [359176.119126] Jun 25 06:51:33 xerxes kernel: [359196.088136] pctv452e: pctv452e_power_ctrl: 1 Jun 25 06:51:33

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-15 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even with 15krpm SAS drives. the RAID1 will never be faster

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 17:21:35 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: exactly, i am using RAID 1 with mdadm and not more then 230 or 300MB throughput. and the people are harnessing 4GB so this is the point where i am confused You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even with 15krpm SAS drives. the RAID1 will never be faster than a single disk. How would it. It can read faster than a single disk by combining reads from

who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, so I detected lots of activity on my raid array. Looking into the logs I find this in messages: Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check of RAID array md0 Well - who triggered it? there's no cron job that inits a check, I did not re-add any disks... does the md

hard reset sata link when scrubbing array

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi, when scrubbing an md array yesterday (do not know who triggered that yet but that's something I hope to cover in another thread...) I got lots of these: Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.241510] ata6: hard resetting link Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.731991] ata6: SATA link

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Yes, indeed, that's what triggered it. I checked as root on crontab -l and that did not show anything. Am Sunday 02 December 2012 16:09:24 schrieb Claudius Hubig: Hello Dexter, Dexter Filmore dexter.film...@gmx.de wrote: Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sunday 02 December 2012 17:29:06 schrieb Claudius Hubig: Hello Dexter, please don’t CC me as I am subscribed to the list (unless you want your mails to end up in /dev/null). It’d also be helpful if you refrained from top-posting and learnt how to quote properly. To prevent further damage

Etron EJ168 USB3 controller: wheezy?

2011-12-28 Thread Dexter Filmore
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3, H67 (B3) lists: 03:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b6f:7023 (rev 01) Current 2.6.39 on wheezy: no go, attached devices are not recognized. Cannot find info if more recent kernel improve situation. Where can I read up if support has been incorporated? Read on

java6update15 - how, where,..?

2009-09-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no later in backports. ideas? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+++ L+++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++)

Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny

2009-08-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Just upgraded my server from etch to lenny, all fine so far. But: 2.6.26-2-686 bootet ok about 10 times, then all of a sudden the system stops after this point: http://www.vaultofsages.de/~dexterf/pub/boot.jpg Funny thing is: 2.6.26-1-686 still works fine. I even purges the -2 package and

Re: Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny - EDD

2009-08-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 16. August 2009 18:00:38 schrieb Thomas Hochstein: Dexter Filmore schrieb: (And what's EDD? I had to put edd=off to the lenny kernel else they borked one step later) Enhanced Disk Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Disk_Drive So.. sounds ancient. What about

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out - old matrox?

2009-02-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
From what I remember old matrox cards are supposed to work fine, plus you can even build a vga-to-scart connector, instructions floating in the web. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+++ L+++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP

flash stick health?

2009-02-26 Thread Dexter Filmore
Noticed that konq slows down writing to a flash memstick lately (memory stick pro duo, precisely). It's only a couple of weeks old and doesn't get written to a lot. So - how do I check its health? -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+++ L+++ E--

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: Dexter Filmore wrote: I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now silent is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 20:02:33 schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: Whatever is wrong with good old 'cp'? You can just add a redirect to /dev/null if the warnings bother you. What's wrong

NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now silent is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy operation is completed I get couldn't change permissions on XY I need to copy a pretty big range of files

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Dexter Filmore
snip That doesn't quite work out: mount /cdrom /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/cdrom...? Maybe give it the real device path rahther. Dex -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++

Re: Grub overkill

2008-09-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400 John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I build a Debian or Debian-derivative OS and grub detects other OS it

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Freitag, 19. September 2008 16:24:32 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Fri,19.Sep.08, 16:17:11, Dexter Filmore wrote: Extra paranoia: forward a different port than 22, lets say (inet) to 22 (lan/vm) and conf the client script to connect to that port. reduces port 22 attacks a great deal

japanese input?

2008-09-23 Thread Dexter Filmore
etch or lenny, doesn't matter, any will do. Need japanese input on both gtk2 and qt apps. Possibly mouse input, i.e. draw signs - the get instant-ocr'ed. What are my options here? Dex -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+++ L+++ E-- W++ N o? K-

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 20:03:08 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 19:50:04, Dexter Filmore wrote: I use a virtual machine for support and have my router forward ssh there. Something simple with fluxbox or even no X at all, should fit a 32MB VM and come up within a blink

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

2008-09-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 8. September 2008 23:48:21 schrieb Andrei Popescu: Hi, Recently my mother (running Lenny) switched ISPs and is now behind a NAT, which makes direct ssh access impossible. A reverse ssh tunnel can solve this, but having her type a passphrase every time is hmm... unrealistic. If I

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 24. August 2008 20:26:39 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Sun,24.Aug.08, 18:17:09, Dexter Filmore wrote: And: why doesn't xerxes appear in the leases list? Am I missing something? wrong config option in.. well, where? Compare /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf ('send host-name' might be what

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - part of the mytery solved

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Ok, partly cleared: m0n0wall doesn't list machines in leases that have fixed IPs assigned. The other box recently got a new NIC and the MAC filter didn't match it hence it got an ordinary dhcp lease and appeared in the list. Why m0n0wall does this is beyond me. Anyway - still haven't figured

Re: Copied debian etch system assigns eth2 to only Ethernet adapter - thanks

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
just delete all ethx lines and then on reboot eth0 should be eth0 again... HTH PS. I had a similar issue recently also with VMWare and this solved it ;) Had this here, too, boggling my mind - thanks :) -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+++

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - part of the mytery solved

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 25. August 2008 18:45:04 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Mon,25.Aug.08, 18:06:20, Dexter Filmore wrote: Ok, partly cleared: m0n0wall doesn't list machines in leases that have fixed IPs assigned. The other box recently got a new NIC and the MAC filter didn't match it hence it got

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues - etc

2008-08-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Montag, 25. August 2008 20:28:54 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Mon,25.Aug.08, 19:40:39, Dexter Filmore wrote: [...] You have to check it's docs. Nope, only has a DNS forward service so you can point it at a DNS of your choice. It's not unusual for a DNS forwarder to provide name

machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
Got a etch r4 box (xerxes) and a m0n0wall firewall/router. Another box (shodan) used to run etch r4, too, now is on Kubuntu/etch dual boot. From Kubuntu I can't ping xerxes by name, unknown host. I can ping shodan from xerxes tho. In m0n0walls interface in dhcp leases xerxes doesn't appear.

nvidia 173 or 177 for etch?

2008-08-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Does anyone know of precompiled debs of nvidia-glx 173 or 177beta for etch? The installer just won't work, and I have the impression that 1.0-wxyz is terribly old. Pointers for running the installer appreciated as well. exported IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=true, ran it, threw errors like

gtk themes not applied when launching gtk apps from kmenu or kicker

2008-06-28 Thread Dexter Filmore
Funny issue here: when I launch gtk apps like Gimp, Sonata, gThumb from KMenu, kicker quick launcher or run command the gtk theme is not applied. When I run from a terminal, all fine. Created a new user account, fired up a kde session - all fine there, too. Any idea how come? Dex -- -BEGIN

Re: getting a RealTek 8197 to work

2008-06-23 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2008 14:51:10 schrieb Florian Kulzer: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 16:24:27 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. Anyone know how to make

getting a RealTek 8197 to work

2008-06-21 Thread Dexter Filmore
Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. Anyone know how to make this one fly? If not: ExpressCard 54 slot present, can someone recommend a good wifi card for that that works out of the box?

kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3: When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1. Since this is the terminal I login to after it's booted this is highly annoying since my screen is garbled when I run scripts and the kernel messages me about... mounted disks

Re: kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:15:45 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3: When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1. They actually go to /dev/tty (your current

script makes kernel panic

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Got a laptop here (Samsung X22), WinXP Pro and data partition in /dev/sda[23]. Wrote this script to backup both partitions 1:1 to an external USB disk. Teh script itself works absolutely as intended. BUT: I added an entry to GRUB's menu.lst like that: title Windows XP Backup root

Re: script makes kernel panic - thanks

2008-06-10 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 22:42:45 schrieb Cameron Hutchison: Dexter Filmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got a laptop here (Samsung X22), WinXP Pro and data partition in /dev/sda[23]. Wrote this script to backup both partitions 1:1 to an external USB disk. Teh script itself works absolutely

smartctl: power on hours on a samsung disk

2008-05-30 Thread Dexter Filmore
Does anyone know how to read the smartctl value on a Samsung SP 1604N 160GB pATA disk? I always get 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000Old_age Always - 1325263 and I'm pretty sure the disk didn't run for 150 years yet. Tried -F samsung{,2} with smartmontools

Re: no flash in opera after upgrade - someone got an old version?

2008-05-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Yeah, it's a problem with Opera 9.27 and Adobe's latest Flash, which won't be resolved in the 9.2 versions of Opera. You'll have to do what I ended up doing, and move onto the betas of 9.5. Opera 9.5b2 is quite good and stable for me, and Flash works with it, too. snip Thanks for the info

no flash in opera after upgrade

2008-05-15 Thread Dexter Filmore
Today I preferenced etch-backports and did a huge upgrade, so far all fine but one thing: Opera 9.27 won't play flash anymore. Iceweasel does, so th eplugin seems fine. Pathes and all appear correct to me. Ran strace on Opera and searched the output for open calls on flash, but nothing. Ideas?

Re: software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-04 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 14:49:19 schrieb martin f krafft: also sprach Dexter Filmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.05.03.1723 +0100]: initrd has its own log...? No, it just prints to the console. I suggest you add break=bottom to the kernel command line (and remove the raid=noautodetect, which

Re: software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-04 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 22:47:07 schrieb Alex Samad: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:45:04PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: So here's the story: [snip] Now: what's going on here? both onboard 3114 and pci 3114 controllers are handled by the same kernel module, so either initrd sees all or none

software raid5 array degrades from initrd

2008-05-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
So here's the story: Software raid5 on debian etch with 2.6.22 kernel from backports. Hardware: Asus K8N-E Deluxe, nForce3/250Gb chipset. Has: 2 sATA ports from the nF3 (sata_nv) 4 sATA ports from an onboard Silicon Image 3114 (sata_sil) 4 sATA ports from an PCI controller, Silicon Image