Re: mdadm increasing the partition size.

2015-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/15 06:30 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear All, I have 4 partitions in my /dev/sdb total size of a whole drive is 2 TB in where main partition is of 1TB in size. however i want to increase this 1TB partition. therefore i added new 3TB /dev/sda and replicated the partition tables

Re: Samba issue after RAID1 recovery

2015-07-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/07/15 08:11 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: I had a RAID 1 array for our (fileserver)samba setup which is integrated with AD . last weekone drive died along with motherboard.i attached the drive to another one everything seems working fine till today. now i am seeing error on windows c

Re: external (USB) disk errors causing hangs and 100% cpu core usage

2015-07-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/07/15 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new external USB disk that frequently throws errors. When these occur, the disk becomes partially or totally inaccessible. Even worse, when I try to umount it, the umount hangs indefinitely, using 100% of one of my cpu cores. I haven't yet

Re: Help - 13-year Debian veteran can't install Jessie

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 10:46 PM, David Bruce wrote: I've installed Debian dozens of times since 2002 and I have never run into anything approaching the headaches I am experiencing trying to get the current stable Debian onto a newly rebuilt machine. The box is a straightforward amd64 setup built from a bund

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale writes: I haven't had any significant problems with systemd but then I waited several months before upgrading my servers to jessie and before upgrading my workstation to stretch. Maybe it's because of MS-DO but I've lear

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 12:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Paul E Condon wrote on 07/26/2015 10:14 AM: On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 10:45 AM, John Hasler wrote: It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was "ntp". That is *an* answer. The full answer is that the Chrony and Ntp packages provide time daemons. Systemd-timesyncd provides an SNTP client which is probably adequa

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 08:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:17:02 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: But that is for wheezy and earlier. systemd is, of course, different. Maybe the list should implement a rule, that people asking a question tel

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/07/15 02:52 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: I am wondering if my Jessie system is updating its clock regularly. It gives a different time than my Windows box. What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site? Thanks, John ntp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Boot Error on new PowerPC Mac Mini Installation

2015-07-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/15 12:24 PM, Nathaniel Nelson wrote: Hello! I hope this is the proper way to seek Debian support, and that I'm not making a mistake/emailing the wrong list/whatever. I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old Mac Mini with a PowerPC G4 processor. I downloade

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

2015-07-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/15 03:21 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/15 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit : On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying tr

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

2015-07-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/15 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit : On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the n

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

2015-07-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to Detect and mount CD-Rom it keeps saying no common cdrom how

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 01:04 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else confi

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 16:37:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this be done in Synaptic? Lisi Yes. You mark the package for complete removal instead of

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 19/07/15 04:14 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Gary Dale writes: Run the update-initramfs first then run update-grub. OK: $ sudo update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays. W: mdadm: no

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 07:52 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Gary Dale writes: run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your arrays running. Then do: update-initramfs -u update-grub It says, weirdly, "Invalid argument for option -k." That's because you'

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 04:08 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/07/15 04:01 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: When I boot, it says: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically What does that mean and how do I fix it? run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your

Re: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/15 04:01 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: When I boot, it says: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically What does that mean and how do I fix it? run mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf after you have your arrays running. Then do: update-initramfs -u upd

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/15 08:00 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start of the disk, not at the end. Any way I can remove this error and

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/07/15 09:20 PM, gautam chekuri wrote: My machine has following USB controller (I got this from lspci) : 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) So, I guess, issues is not limited just to one chipset. That would s

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/07/15 01:05 AM, gautam chekuri wrote: => I had problems with a large USB 3.0 (3TB and over) external hard-drive. => I have ext3 file system on a drive and I had a single partition for the entire drive. Initially, when the data on the drive was less it would mount (and read/write) fine.

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/15 08:45 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 04:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 04:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 11:14 AM, Jonathan Levine wrote: On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be gentle and use words without too many syllables. I've just completed the "small cd" internet i

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp command to

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 12:10 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I am running Sid on a Thinkpad x250, and decided to create a rescue USB key by using grub-rescue-pc package. On a 1 Gb unmounted Ex3 key, which is /dev/sdb, I do # cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb this takes a while. When I

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 07:50 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Don't forget to try another cable. Not easy to do from 50k away. I'm hoping to avoid a site visit. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems but when I issue the cmp command to compare the copy to the original, I get

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/07/15 02:33 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Debian/Jessie server whose main purposes are AD DC, file & print and backups. I have just switched to using USB3 WD My Passport Ultra 1T external USB3 drives for offsite backups. The motherboard is an AS Rock 970 Extreme 2. I&#

writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-10 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running a Debian/Jessie server whose main purposes are AD DC, file & print and backups. I have just switched to using USB3 WD My Passport Ultra 1T external USB3 drives for offsite backups. The motherboard is an AS Rock 970 Extreme 2. I'm using an onboard rear-panel USB3 port to plug in the

Re: any Samba users?

2015-07-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/07/15 03:48 PM, Roger Howard wrote: I am beginning to suspect that I may be the only Samba user that subscribes to this list. I have had a problem with printing that started when I did the upgrade to Jessie. I would appreciate hearing from other users, and finding whether they have si

Re: Issue with udev in wheezy -> jessie upgrade

2015-07-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/07/15 05:28 PM, Wessel Nieboer wrote: Hey all, Today I tried to do a dist-upgrade of wheezy to jessie, however I am very stuck on getting the udev package to install. The wheezy-backports version of udev, 204, was installed. When trying to install the newest 215 from jessie it fails on

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 10:12 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: You missed the point that this would require different partition tables on the two drives. I saw and rejected the point because you do not need different partition tables, as is illustrated below from my original

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 07:01 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 18:41:35 -0400 From: garyd...@torfree.net On 01/07/15 03:24 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: The size of the RAID array is set by the smallest partition so if you want to be able to boot from

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 03:24 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: The size of the RAID array is set by the smallest partition so if you want to be able to boot from either drive, then putting the ef02 partition in the free space on the new drive means that you will either not be

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 05:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : On 30/06/15 02:17 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: What I would do is shrink partition 5 by 100M then create a new ef02 partition in the freed space. Why on earth would you want to do such a dangerous and useless thing ? As I wrote in

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 10:39 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Gary Dale wrote: On 30/06/15 07:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:30:46 Sven Hartge wrote: Wow. 100MB for a bios_grub partition wastes about 99.8MB. Which used to matter. But out of 2T??? Agreed. I remember having a 100M /boot

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/07/15 02:43 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Partition is created and grub is installed as instructed in the thread. Also Grub is installed now. should i make any config changes ( or not )in the /boot/grub/ directory? Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 1

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 07:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:30:46 Sven Hartge wrote: Wow. 100MB for a bios_grub partition wastes about 99.8MB. Which used to matter. But out of 2T??? Lisi Agreed. I remember having a 100M /boot partition which was always running out of space if I didn

Re: clock losing time after a reboot with HP ZBook G2

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 05:52 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I've noticed that with my new HP ZBook G2, the clock loses time after a reboot. Below is the openntpd log without the "peer" messages ("ntp engine ready" means that this is just after a reboot). What is the cause? Which part of the software is responsi

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 03:05 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Ramadan Kareem Yousuf. What I would do is shrink partition 5 by 100M then create a new ef02 partition in the freed space. This should be completely safe since it is just a swap partition and contains no permanent data. D

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 02:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Sorry Arno my last message was mistakenly sent to you only and not the list. Thanks all for you comments. Pascal thanks for the tip about extending one of the partition and using the free space i will do so but for now my primary problem is t

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 02:56 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gene Heskett a écrit : On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:55:20 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Actually GPT does not use *all* that space and GRUB could still find out the available unused space. But the GPT partition table could grow and overwrite the beginning of

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 02:17 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 7813119 3.7 GiB FD00 Linux RAID 327344896 1980469247 931.3 GiB FD00 Linux RAID 4 1980469248

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/06/15 09:58 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks Arno, Pascal and Gary with your input i manage to copy the partition to new drive in GPT format and my all drives (mdadm devices) are synced now. I have 4 RAID1 Partitions for all for different purpose. md1 : active raid1 sdb5[2] sda5[

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/06/15 05:52 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear All, i have 2 drives installed way back in 2013 /dev/sda and /dev/sdb I have been using RAID1 b/w two 1.5 TB drives which worked great with fdisk. now one of the drive is failed and there is no more 1.5 TB available in the market. the l

[Samba] can't authenticate from Windows 7/Pro machines [RESOLVED]

2015-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
Forgot to install ntp. The clocks were out of sync so things failed. - I'm running Debian/Jessie in a fresh install after some severe system problems. The install went smoothly except for an issue with grub-pc acting up. Installing the version from sid cured that. I was sti

can't authenticate from Windows 7/Pro machines

2015-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Jessie in a fresh install after some severe system problems. The install went smoothly except for an issue with grub-pc acting up. Installing the version from sid cured that. I was still having a hardware issue so I swapped out the motherboard and put in a more modern one tha

Re: CUPS is just killing me

2015-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/06/15 09:15 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 22:16:54 +0100 Brian wrote: On Sat 27 Jun 2015 at 14:03:00 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: People upgrading from a *working* Wheezy cups have generally not noticed any change in their printing experience. the upgrade went

Re: aptitude full-upgrade bug?

2015-06-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/06/15 01:12 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 27 June 2015 17:38:36 Gary Dale wrote: I've upgraded two machines from wheezy to jessie over the last month or so and noticed the same behaviour on both. In both cases they failed to upgrade the kernel. In both cases this left the mac

aptitude full-upgrade bug?

2015-06-27 Thread Gary Dale
I've upgraded two machines from wheezy to jessie over the last month or so and noticed the same behaviour on both. In both cases they failed to upgrade the kernel. In both cases this left the machines unable to complete a boot and I had to use the systemV init option to get to a command line.

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/06/15 09:51 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Jun 2015 at 03:46:48 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:devi

Re: CUPS error message, device already exists

2015-06-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/06/15 01:37 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is meaningful, but it would be nice to fix it. failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-DCP8110DN' already exists Googling turns up lots of hits, not a one of which has been

Re: Flash update

2015-06-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/15 08:28 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/24/2015 at 07:56 AM, Sheepherd wrote: Hi Rob On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Sven Arvidsson wrote: Or consider making do without it. :) Any alternatives? I hate flash! The only alternative is GNASH af

Re: KDE in Stretch unusable [RESOLVED]

2015-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/15 12:31 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Gary Dale wrote: root@transponder:/home/garydale# aptitude full-upgrade The following NEW packages will be installed: liblz4-1{a} libopenconnect5{a} The following packages will be REMOVED: libppl12{u} The following packages

Re: KDE in Stretch unusable

2015-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/15 08:45 AM, Weaver wrote: On 2015-06-24 21:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2015 10:23:41 Gary Dale wrote: I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong. The first thing I noticed was that

Re: KDE in Stretch unusable

2015-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/15 07:04 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:23:41AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong. Note that Stretch is still in early testing. This is a good

KDE in Stretch unusable

2015-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong. The first thing I noticed was that it complained when trying to start up KDE. It said the kde-plasma-desktop was invalid (or similar) and switched me into the def

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/15 12:48 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:01:14 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: On 21/06/15 08:08 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:33:50 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: I'm not actually grasping some fundamental questions here. 1) where is your print

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/06/15 08:08 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:33:50 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: I'm not actually grasping some fundamental questions here. 1) where is your printer? I get the impression that it is attached to a computer on the network and not your local machine. 2)

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/15 03:16 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: using the Debian how-to. Now you can add a printer by going to http://localhost:631/ no i can't. however... i did find that for some bizarre reason my localhost interface was not set to auto, so i had to add it. i'm relatively sure t

Re: RAID growing and --backup-file

2015-06-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/06/15 04:24 PM, PaulNM wrote: On 06/20/2015 06:50 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I don't think this helps, but a RAID6 array with one failed drive is the same as RAID5 for all practical purposes. With 8 drives, I'd be very leery of converting from RAID6 to RAID5. The risk of a second dri

Re: RAID growing and --backup-file

2015-06-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/06/15 05:47 AM, PaulNM wrote: Hey Folks, I'm attempting to convert a degraded RAID 6 array to a RAID 5 array. Doing that requires either spare devices or a --backup-file that isn't on the active array. In this situation, everything is on the array except /boot, which is on a u

Re: Systemd takes more that 1m 30sec to start firewall at boot

2015-06-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/06/15 04:27 PM, Johann Spies wrote: I use shorewall. The shorewall-init.log shows that Shorewall took less than 2 seconds to compile and start up. Why does systemd wait that long on boot? This is on Jessie. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life its

Re: Safety of upgrading packages while running KVM

2015-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/15 09:42 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: My host system is running Debian wheezy and qemu-kvm; a number of VM's are running on it. I'm running kvm via libvirt. An update to qemu-kvm and related packages is available for my host system. Is it safe to update the package on the host while the VM's

Re: System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/15 02:42 PM, Peter Reid wrote: Hello, I recently rebooted my Debian 8 (Jessie) system, which I upgraded from Wheezy upon the release of Debian 8. I shutdown my system and restarted it, and the system does not appear to be 'booting'. *_Description:_* The system boots and responds to

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/06/15 07:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Martin Read wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: In the old days computers would use ECC ram throughout. ECC (in the strict sense) has never been ubiquitous. At one time every computer I interfaced with had ECC. It was very popular with me and everyone else I knew

Re: Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 10:29 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot pro

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage e2fsck 1.42.12 (2

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 12:40 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocks

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 08:26 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boo

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext3 962184

Re: Debian From Scratch ISO

2015-06-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/06/15 04:37 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso. When I boot the ISO in

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/06/15 10:01 AM, Robert S wrote: Hi. I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I've managed to boo

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 11:03 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 04:57 PM, Gary Dale wrote: In fact the entire process is really just a bash script to take the picture, crop and rotate it, then send it to the print queue. A piece of cake compared to trying to do it in Windows. Hi Gary, With of

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 05:24 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 07:05 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had simila

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT [RESOLVED]

2015-06-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/06/15 11:51 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/06/15 02:24 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple&#x

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/06/15 02:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 19:21 +0200, notoneofmy wrote: On 15-06-09 4:05 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Is there anything in the cups logs? I think you can configure cups to make verbose logs. What's the make and model of the printer? Is lpd the only option

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/06/15 01:19 PM, notoneofmy wrote: On 15-06-09 4:29 PM, Gary Dale wrote: Purge the CUPS install (aptitude purge cups or apt-get purge cups) then do a fresh install and let it do its job. I will give this option a try, though I can't figure out how very different it is from what I&#x

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/06/15 09:53 AM, notoneofmy wrote: Hallo, I have spent hours on this, including the debian website. I have installed CUPS and have done "apt-cache policy printer-driver all." I used localhost/631 to add the printer and I'm on Jessie with xfce. and so the uri for the wired canon printer i

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/06/15 02:24 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple's implementation can > read apple's proprietary filesystem.

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/06/15 04:11 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: (sending again through hotmail's web interface -- apologies for anything my MUA may do to the content) Seems to have worked this time. Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:23:40 -0500 From: deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk Quoting Gary Dale: Arno Schuring

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 07:14 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : The problem is that the grub boot loader doesn't appear to be executing. The grub menu looks fine on the HD, but grub itself doesn't even get to the point of failing. How could "the grub menu look fine" if &

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 06:23 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition table and wanted to convert it to GPT. May I ask why ? Yes you may. GPT is the superior partition table, especially when dual-booting, as it allows more

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 01:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 16:21:38 Gary Dale wrote: On 06/06/15 05:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 04:51:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 05/06/15 03:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 From: garyd

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 05:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 04:51:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 05/06/15 03:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 From: garyd...@torfree.net > I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partit

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/06/15 03:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 From: garyd...@torfree.net > > I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition > table and wanted to convert it to GPT. Since the first partition started > at 2048, I fi

changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-05 Thread Gary Dale
I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition table and wanted to convert it to GPT. Since the first partition started at 2048, I figured this wouldn't be a problem. Just use gdisk to write a new partition table after stealing some space from swap for an EFI boot partition

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/06/15 12:33 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 15:57:30 Gary Dale wrote: On 05/06/15 09:55 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello I am a Linux enthusiast and have started using Debian a few days back after using Ubuntu for 2 years. Debian is really awesome and doesn't crash.

Re: 32to64 decision

2015-06-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/06/15 11:35 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 05 Jun 2015, Mailing Lists wrote: i have an old small office server providing dhcp/dns/squid/custom cyrus debs/postfix/samba services which at the time of lenny did not have enough ram to choose the 64bit version. now that i've managed to get

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/06/15 09:55 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello I am a Linux enthusiast and have started using Debian a few days back after using Ubuntu for 2 years. Debian is really awesome and doesn't crash. Well, right now I have two major issues : 1. Debian cannot display languages as Hindi, not even

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-06-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/05/15 02:17 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:18:17 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: Jochen Spieker wrote: Petter Adsen: I'm starting to suspect that it is. Either that, or the controller on the motherboard, which would be even worse. Or just the cable (if we are not talking about

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/06/15 12:49 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2015 17:37:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :) I thought of DSL. But it needs an i486. :-( http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Re: Old Computers

2015-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/06/15 10:10 PM, Martin Read wrote: On 02/06/15 01:56, Jose Martinez wrote: The question is, will jessie install and run on these old systems? If not, can I still get a debian distro that will? I expect that the processors on at least one of them will be at least i386 or better, so I also

Re: where to get testing version of jessie installer?

2015-05-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/05/15 11:29 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote: I'm back at trying to install Jessie on Acer C720 without going the long route via Wheezy. Just to recall, the problem is that current Jessie installer debian-8.0.0-i386-netinst.iso from April 24, does not boot on Acer C720. Testing installer boots, bu

Re: RAID question

2015-05-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/05/15 07:35 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:29:06 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm. Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ? No. :) Petter To elaborate, declaring them RAID

Re: Boot stops at fsck

2015-05-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/05/15 01:53 PM, Victor Munoz wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:08:31PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: Hi, everyone. Last night I updated a lot of files in my sid system, and today morning I cannot boot. Actually, it hangs after announcing it will run fsck. I know that the partition was schedul

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