Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2014 4:33 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: ...may I suggest to LVM programmers to think about some software routines that would enable users to recompose (resize, shrink, whatever ...) their LVM from within a mounted system, in a way that after the next reboot, the LVM and FS automatically

Re: Large File Systems - Enough inodes?

2014-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2014 12:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 21/05/14 04:24, Sven Hartge wrote: ... I like to create filesystems relatively small, on LVM, so that any of them can be grown later, when I find out where the space is needed. But extending an ext(2|3|4) filesystem doesn't create new inodes, so

Re: Random hard freezes Wheezy

2014-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2014 2:43 AM, Mimiko wrote: On one server I intermittently encounter hard freezes. Server does not react, ping, or ctrl+alt+del. Just caps lock and num lock flashes. Only a power off from button helps to start server, after which it runs until again this happens. Flashing KB LEDs is

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2014 11:17 PM, O wrote: Hi Stan, The output from dmesg is long. From within initramfs, I cannot mount usb drives, and I cannot seem to scp or ssh. So far, I have not been able to find a way to get the output from dmesg (from within initramfs) onto another file system so that I can

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dunno if you saw this or not. Selim identifies the source of the problem below and possible fixes. Read on. On 5/12/2014 5:52 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: O, 12.05.2014: Hi Stan et al., Booting from the working kernel, I have dumped dmesg here: http://pastebin.com/MBTDfgc4 I tried to

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2014 8:44 PM, O wrote: Dear debian-users, A first-time post for me: I've never had a problem that was so serious. I've had Wheezy installed for many months now with default kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64. Following a routine apt-get upgrade, the kernel cannot detect any of the internal

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/29/2014 1:20 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and amybe another thread will bump this one). And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive starts

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/29/2014 6:13 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it. I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but then learnt their drive division was bought

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/28/2014 5:43 PM, KS wrote: I was checking one of my systems and the SMART data for /dev/sda came out as below. Should I change it to avoid loosing data? If not, which information in SMART data indicates that it is time to do it? This drive is fine. 42C is quite warm for a drive but

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/25/2014 1:02 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:52:13 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Hello Stan, You're asking specifically about an account for list mail only in this thread. None of these concerns apply. Correct me if I'm wrong (I dare you), but I

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/19/2014 3:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: What with my authentication problems with my Yahoo Mail address on this list, anyone have personal recommendations for a good, free email service ... to run my lists subcriptions through? You have Cox broadband. Why aren't you using Cox IMAP?

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/24/2014 12:03 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/19/2014 3:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: What with my authentication problems with my Yahoo Mail address on this list, anyone have personal recommendations for a good, free email service ... to run my

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: ... considering it is a catastrophe worse than the Y2K bug. This is several orders of magnitude less severe than Y2K. It seems very likely that people are using compromised apps on their smartphone and you'd think it would be advisable to warn

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/14/2014 5:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Stan Hoeppner: On 4/13/2014 10:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: Then there is also the very serious issue of embedded devices using openssl. Tablets, smartphones, routers, ... etc. etc. This problem only exists *if* these devices connect

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/14/2014 6:41 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 14/04/14 23:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: BTW, you shouldn't focus only on banks either. There are a lot of popular services that use free software a lot, some of which happen to include payment functionality. I did not focusing on banks. I replied

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/8/2014 9:47 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian User, Of late, I've observed that opening my Maildir boxes in Mutt has been a tad slow. Here is the rough structure: I have an LVM home directory (ext4), within which I have a folder called ~/Maildir. This folder has several Maildirs,

Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu

2014-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/26/2014 8:17 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:19:42PM +1100, Ike Shields wrote: I have Gigabyte mother board with AMD cpu No. GA-78LMT-S2P I need the drivers for it. I am using Debian Release 7.4 (wheezy) 64-bit Everything on that motherboard should work in Debian. The

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/26/2014 1:28 PM, Aaron Seelye wrote: I have a question regarding interrupt balancing for a NIC across CPUs. I have a Dell R710 (dual quad core) with embedded broadcom 5709 that seems to put everything on the CPU0. I even threw an Intel Pro/1000 PT in the Dell, but this is showing the

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/26/2014 5:23 PM, Aaron Seelye wrote: On 3/26/2014 2:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Please read this for educational background, especially the Note at the bottom of the page. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-cpu

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

2014-03-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
. On 3/8/2014 11:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: In fact, given he assumes everyone knows why he's punching the function keys, it's pretty certain he's a nub. And that's fine. But we need to know his knowledge level in order to best assist him. Do you notice the sentence And that's fine. directly after

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/9/2014 5:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... Nope, pretty much everyone was stabbing in the dark due to lack of information. Now, there's a good chance one of these stabs actually hits the target (my money is on firmware), but pretty much everyone RTL non-free firmware was the first thing

Re: Wifi

2014-03-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/9/2014 6:36 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 mar 14, 05:56:09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: The Intel NICs AFAIK are all free firmware, so if he has the Intel NIC it shouldn't be a firmware load issue. Unfortunately not :( $ dmesg | grep firmware [9.914262] iwl4965 :03:00.0

putting the 'wifi switch' argument to rest

2014-03-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Nobody is 'right'. We're all wrong to some degree. I based my assertion that there is no such thing as a WiFi Switch on the fact that the term/phrase has been co-opted by lay and marketing people to describe all manner of things related to Wifi--not a singular thing--including, but not limited

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote: Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian 7 on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my wifi switch. I have been pressing the F keys but no luck. please This is my first Laptop ever and I wanted to

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/8/2014 10:02 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote: Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian 7 on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my wifi

Re: Wifi

2014-03-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/8/2014 10:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 04:02 +, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote: Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian 7 on laptop Toshiba C

Re: whitel...@lists.debian.org

2014-03-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/5/2014 1:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Mails from ralf.mardorf-at-alice-dsl.net seldom come through the list. I show 623 from that address since 10/13. What you meant to say is on occasion my mails do not post to the list. For those mails that don't come through, I never got a postmaster

Re: fancontrol wheezy Dell T7610

2014-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/25/2014 3:47 AM, Dan wrote: I recently bought a workstation to do calculations. It has two Xeon processors with 16 cores and 32 threads in total. I realized that the temperature gets very high on high load typically 80C. That is way too much. Then I changed the fan speed in the bios from

Re: fancontrol wheezy Dell T7610

2014-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/25/2014 9:53 AM, Dan wrote: ... I didn't open the computer. I do not know if the fan connectors have 4 pin. I prefer not to open the computer. It is on warranty. If you don't want to void the warranty, then don't monkey with the fan speed or accidentally shut any fans down for any amount

Re: fancontrol wheezy Dell T7610

2014-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
. Please use the correct terminology. Saying sound dampening is like fingernails on a chalk board to audio engineers. On 2/25/2014 4:16 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Build a 3 sided box out of 3/4 MDF... Just ensure there is enough ventilation (remember air has to get in also, not just out

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 10:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... 1. Contact Gigabyte support 2. Buy another identical 8GB DIMM, or exchange this one for two 4s Should have mentioned this sooner. Gary have you flashed the BIOS to the latest rev? As I stated previously, if POST reports 16GB but the e820 map

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/9/2014 7:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/25/2014 1:09 PM, Garry wrote: I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it. There's only two email addresses I

Re: Install Debian on SD

2014-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/22/2014 11:22 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Another thing that I did was to install 'eatmydata' in order to use the LD_PRELOAD library to disable fsync(). A lot of applications have added fsync() calls everywhere to disable the file system buffer cache. fsync() doesn't disable the buffer

Re: Install Debian on SD

2014-01-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/22/2014 9:12 PM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:10:35PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: The OP will be using a browser. Browser cache writes, index updates, etc, will be far in excess of swap writes. If he uses Thunderbird (IceDove) with GLODA and offline caching enabled

Re: Install Debian on SD

2014-01-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/21/2014 5:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: James Kirk wrote: I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop and I would like to not modify the standard configuration). Sounds reasonable to me. Since SD is a flash memory and - as far as I know - it has a limited lifetime

Re: V Taller Internacional de Tecnologías de Software Libre y Código Abierto

2014-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/17/2014 5:16 PM, Vicios wrote: Hi all! Forwarding message to Debian spanish users list. Regards. That was UCE, i.e. spam. You're an idiot. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Installation

2014-01-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/13/2014 9:52 PM, Azeem Abdul Azeem wrote: I want to install Debian on my vertual machine (windows 200 R2 Hyper-V). So i need a bootable ISO. So kindly send me the link where i can download the bootable iso and install in the system http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ -- Stan -- To

Re: Question

2014-01-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/12/2014 1:25 PM, Cameron Murgatroyd wrote: Hi I've recently become a frequent user of debian and I have a question if I were to want to make a .deb package for a game hack and to do it I needed to delete some files from the users file system before my files go in how would I do it? The

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/11/2014 4:40 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:21:30PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hey folks, I managed to convince my staff to switch to debian from windoze, and they agreed. So I managed to install a PXE server and successfully booted debian installer simultaneously

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-01-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/11/2014 5:57 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 11/01/14 22:07, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/11/2014 4:40 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:21:30PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hey folks, I managed to convince my staff to switch to debian from windoze, and they agreed. So I

Re: Number of Procs

2014-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/9/2014 6:52 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: On 01/08/2014 10:41 AM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: hudson@musix:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 435412 22 0 2 74 -/+ buffers/cache:

Re: why linux can't see my memory

2014-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/5/2014 6:24 AM, Long Wind wrote: BIOS see all memory and Windows XP can run Yes, memory test OK after the memtest probe method To grub config add the mem parameter, e.g. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.X ro root=/dev/sdXX mem=1024M -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

2014-01-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/2/2014 9:04 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Bob Bernstein poo...@ruptured-duck.com wrote: Setting out to install dovecot-imapd on a squeeze host via apt-get, I discovered that: The following extra packages will be installed: dovecot-common

Re: moving buffers/caching from RAM to SSD

2014-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
. Thanks all. i really appreciate your help. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: On 12/31/2013 7:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i dont know why i am saying is even practical or not. here is my free command @thor:# free -g

Re: moving buffers/caching from RAM to SSD

2013-12-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/31/2013 7:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i dont know why i am saying is even practical or not. here is my free command @thor:# free -g total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:31 31 0 0 0

Re: Distro upgrade

2013-12-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/19/2013 9:54 AM, Verde Denim wrote: Just checking in to get a consensus - I'm running a (very stable) Debian workstation with Wheezy that has a lot of development/testing applications installed. I tried an install of hopper disassembler that threw errors concerning GLIBC and libffi so

Re: Wasted space in hard disk partitioning (was Soliciting Hardware Recommendations)

2013-12-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/16/2013 10:12 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:13:16 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Cool. Make sure you partition the SSD so that your first, and all, partitions start on a 4KB boundary. Many guides are available for your favorite partitioning tool. Linux does all IO

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/15/2013 5:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:07:33 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote: I was figuring you'd probably do the install from a USB stick and I threw the DVD drive in as an afterthought. So yes, the ASUS burner above would be perfect. Over 4,000 sold and a 5

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hi Stephen, Have you been eagerly anticipating my reply to your hardware thread? I hope I don't disappoint. :) On 12/14/2013 7:23 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 02:39:04 -0500 (EST), David Christensen wrote: ... I'd like it to have a usable CSM, so I can continue to run my

Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2013-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/15/2013 10:56 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:30:43 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... Wow, you even managed to get a monitor thrown in and still make the ~$500 target. I was expecting to pay around $500 for the system only, with the monitor costing extra. Yeah

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/12/2013 2:42 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Perhaps because 64-bit gives their use case brings disadvantage but no advantages? Perhaps for other reasons. To assume that you *should* use 64-bit in all cases is incorrect. There are old 32 bit PAE only machines around with plenty of capability

Re: Hardware Question about RAM and Capacitors

2013-12-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/12/2013 1:11 PM, Goren Buckwalk wrote: ... I have a system with two AMD Athlon 2400 MP processors and the motherboard has 4 slots for RAM. That makes this board ~10 years old. ... About a month ago, I found the box crashed again and beeping on reboot, so going through the same

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/7/2013 6:58 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I also have a number of remote, normally unattended, locations, with dynamic IPs, containing IP cameras to keep an eye on things. I'm not able to access/change the camera firmware. These cameras send me an email if their IP changes, containing

Re: My apologies

2013-12-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/4/2013 5:18 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Many threads will wonder a bit and everyone accepts this. Just try to Agreed! Also ... wander. :) Those damn homonyms... Heheh, just caught it myself on a re-read of my posts after

plese stop Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
This thread began on Nov 24th, 10 days ago. There have been 211 posts (including this one) in this thread. I dare say it ceased being productive or insightful many, many posts ago. And it ceased having anything to do with Debian Linux quite a while ago. Let's move on to something worthwhile.

Re: plese stop Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/3/2013 2:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 14:39 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This thread began on Nov 24th, 10 days ago. There have been 211 posts (including this one) in this thread. I dare say it ceased being productive or insightful many, many posts ago

Re: My apologies

2013-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/3/2013 4:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: no doubt about it, many of my mails were unneeded, but the most mails for the thread, some from me, many from others, were absolutely ok. Agreed, and thank you Ralf. If I should write again too much off-topic, please send me a note off-list. If a

Re: raid problem

2013-11-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/29/2013 4:43 PM, François Patte wrote: Bonsoir, I have a problem with 2 raid arrays: I have 2 disks (sdc and sdd) in raid1 arrays. One disk (sdc) failed and I replaced it by a new one. Copying the partition table from sdd disk using sfdisk: sfdisk -d /dev/sdd | sfdisk /dev/sdc

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/22/2013 7:34 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/research/ac_research/mot-researchers-uncover-security-flaws-in-c the team ran Stack against the Debian Linux archive, of which 8575 out of 17432 packages contained C/C++ code. For a whopping 3471 packages, STACK

Re: Installation of Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy Raid1

2013-11-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/18/2013 5:03 AM, Joerg wrote: Hi Joerg, I've read all the responses to your post. The reason they contain questions and no answers is because you've provided insufficient detail about your system and its RAID hardware. I have a Fujitsu primergy TX100 S1 and installed a bios-raid1 (LSI

Re: Wich port should I use for Xeon E3-1230v2 processor ?

2013-11-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/15/2013 10:48 AM, John Ostrowski wrote: Hi, I recently bought Dell PowerEdge T110 II with Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 Processor (3.3GHz, 4C/8T, 8M Cache). I don't know which port I should use. At the moment I am using Debian 7.1.0 AMD64 and I AMD64 is the correct architectural port for all

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/13/2013 9:22 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html Dan, you're awesome. I bet alot of nVidia users, especially MythTV users, will find this immensely helpful. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/12/2013 5:37 PM, Jon N wrote: ... There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on purchasing a Nvidia video card and disabling the built in Intel video support. Since I plan to use this computer as a MythTV frontend/backend (as well as for general web browsing/email)

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/12/2013 7:11 PM, Doug wrote: On 11/12/2013 07:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/12/2013 5:37 PM, Jon N wrote: ... There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on purchasing a Nvidia video card and disabling the built in Intel video support. Since I plan to use

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/12/2013 10:09 PM, Jon N wrote: On Nov 12, 2013 7:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 11/12/2013 5:37 PM, Jon N wrote: ... There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on purchasing a Nvidia video card and disabling the built in Intel video support

Re: harddrive spins down and up again after 5s

2013-11-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
CC'ing back to the list. On 11/11/2013 7:42 AM, patrick wrote: Am 11.11.2013 00:01, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 11/10/2013 3:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Thus the problem may not be caused by the operating system. It is the OS, it's gvfs

Re: harddrive spins down and up again after 5s

2013-11-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/10/2013 1:46 PM, patrick wrote: my freshly installed debian wheezy is spinning the harddrive up and down all the time... First let's establish this is actually the case. You didn't state new computer new drive or old computer/drive, new wheezy. If new computer/drive, which drive is

Re: harddrive spins down and up again after 5s

2013-11-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/10/2013 3:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Thus the problem may not be caused by the operating system. It is the OS, it's gvfs. Sure, it doesn't cause the spin down, but gvfs does cause the unwanted spin up. You may be correct

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/4/2013 10:28 PM, Tazman Deville wrote: ... Got it! find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf (passes the files to rm one at a time). Glad you got it squared away Anthony. Normally I'd suggest filing a bug report against the problem application, but since the system is Squeeze it's

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/5/2013 1:21 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very dumb. Or perhaps That's

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/4/2013 8:30 PM, Tazman Deville wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:43:45PM -0500, Hecber Cordova wrote: Hi, Did you check inodes usage? (df -i) I could be inodes availability rather than block availability. AHA! I have no idea what the significance of this is, but df -i

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/1/2013 9:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : This is precisely why I use hardware RAID HBAs for boot disks (and most often for data disks as well). The HBA's BIOS makes booting transparent after drive failure. In addition you only have one array (hardware) instead

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/1/2013 12:23 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : On 11/1/2013 9:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : This is precisely why I use hardware RAID HBAs for boot disks (and most often for data disks as well). The HBA's BIOS makes booting transparent after

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/31/2013 3:41 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Veljko wrote: I'm using four 3TB drives, so I had to use GPT. Although I'm pretty sure I know what I need to do, I want to make sure so I don't loose data. Three drives are dying so I'm gonna replace them one by one. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Re: How and where lspci utility gathers information about hardware components?

2013-10-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/27/2013 1:18 PM, Martin T wrote: lspci utility shows information regarding devices on various buses like PCI or PCI Express. For example on IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop: [snip] Am I correct that lspci uses SMBus which is present both on PCI and PCI Express? In addition, how are the model

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Is this your first rodeo with HP servers? I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any link

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/22/2013 10:11 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Is this your first rodeo with HP servers? Blades yes I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/22/2013 1:42 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: On Oct 22, 2013 12:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/22/2013 10:11 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Is this your

Re: postfix

2013-10-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/21/2013 6:55 AM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: On 21.10.2013 07:56, Pol Hallen wrote: Hey all :-) I'm sorry for banal question but I didn't find any answer to my question. In the /etc/postfix/main.cf I see many parameters like: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes but also:

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Beco rcb at beco.cc writes: Is xtrs broken under wheezy? What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2013 1:47 PM, Beco wrote: On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Beco rcb at beco.cc writes: Is xtrs broken under wheezy? What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator? Hi Stan, Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly

Re: Unable to locate mail spool file.

2013-10-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/12/2013 9:27 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, I have exim4 setup as internet site, using Maildir. my /home/user/Maildir is there. I sent a test message and a new message shows up in /home/user/Maildir/new . in Thunderbird when I try to check mail in that account is says Unable to locate

Re: Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/11/2013 2:42 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: [Cut]. Are dual and quad port Intel NICs available in your country? Not very easily but yes, we can arrange. i personally have PCIe 4 Port intel NIC. so this can be arranged. I recommend Intel NICs because they simply work, every

Re: Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/9/2013 5:51 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: [cut]... What workload do you have that requires 400 MB/s of parallel stream TCP throughput at the server? NFS, FTP, iSCSI? If this is a business requirement and you actually need this much bandwidth to/from one server, you will

Re: Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/8/2013 4:41 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am using bond mode balance-alb. and here is my /etc/network/interfaces ... auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 10.5.X.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 newtork 10.5.x.0 gateway 10.5.x.9 slaves eth2 eth3 #bond-mode active-backup

Re: Building computer

2013-10-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/4/2013 4:44 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 10/03/2013 05:11 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: No apology necessary. I'm on many open lists (LKML) where hitting reply-to-list only goes to the sender. So I've been guilty myself a few times. so that is list specific... I wondered, because

Re: Building computer

2013-10-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/3/2013 7:49 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 03 October 2013 05:52:06 Stan Hoeppner wrote: In my early 40s A mere strippling! And there was I pegging you as a sage*. ;-) Lisi * a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment (Wiktionary) I'm sorry, I'm not [The One]. I'm

Re: Arduino TRE

2013-10-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/3/2013 2:55 PM, Beco wrote: Hi guys, Anyone have tested this Arduino TRE [1] with Debian? I'm very happy such enterprises still believe in, and produce hardware to linux! :) I bet this 1-GHz Sitara AM335x processor is very fast, suitable for most end-users to do basic stuff,

Re: Building a computer for compiling and CPU emulation (Re: Building computer)

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/1/2013 9:16 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/29/2013 6:01 AM, Joel Rees wrote: ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_mobile_microprocessors tells me that AMD A4-1250, AMD A6-1450, and E2-1800 all have AMD-V

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/1/2013 5:13 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Actually they were, up to the point you finally told us what screen resolution you use. That changes things quite a bit, or I should say changed one thing dramatically

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 5:41 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: On 10/02/2013 04:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/1/2013 5:13 PM, Catherine Gramze wrote: I have also looked at my memory usage. At this very moment, not running WoW, I have 5.22 gig being used. 4 gig would not be sufficient for me. You would

Re: Getting Postfix to sort spam into different folders

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 10:17 AM, Robin Kipp wrote: Hi all, I've been running my own mail server for a while (Postfix as the MTA and Dovecot for retrieving mail via IMAP). Yesterday, I added amavis-new for content filtering, and so far have implemented spam checking using spamassassin and virus

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 8:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:59:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This will really throw you for a loop. Open a shell window and execute ~$ sudo echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches She'll probably get 'Permission denied', you need elevated

Re: Building computer

2013-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/2/2013 9:42 AM, Rhiamom wrote: On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote This is the limiting factor. And this is why I implore people to buy the fastest dual core and forgo the quad, six, eight core models. And in fact, for non gamer daily use, I

Re: Building computer

2013-10-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/1/2013 12:29 AM, Rhiamom wrote: Sent from my iPad On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: ... It's quite funny to see someone of your knowledge level tell me I'm wrong by quoting the cardboard box as your evidence, while I'm demonstrating how

Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?

2013-09-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
With scsi, the disk address is determined by its physical connection to the scsi cable. This is absolutely not correct. SCSI device IDs have always been programmed at the endpoint device via DIP switches, jumpers, or a dial. There was one short lived exception to this. In the late 1990s

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