Re: [PLUG] Setting up RAID1 on two 1G disks

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 14:16:43 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >None of these four disks is entered in /etc/fstab; I expect that I >should use blkid and enter all four disks in /etc/fstab before doing >anything else. Yes? Once you've create the RAID1 array(s) each will appear in /dev. Once you have

Re: [PLUG] Backup drive fails suddenly

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:22:35 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >I've not before used any RAID so please suggest a version and I'll >search the Web for how to implement it on the Mediasonic's bays 3 and >4. Some computers and external drive bays have RAID capability built into their BIOS, commonly

[PLUG] Clefs

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:18:29 -0800 (PST) Paul Heinlein dijo: >After ABC 2 comes "ABC: Revenge of the Clef" 'Clef' < French, < Latin clavem/claves, acc.sg/acc.pl 'key.' Note that in Western Latin languages nouns developed from the accusative forms because, as Latin slowly lost its case

Re: [PLUG] Presentation mode in Linux Mint Mate

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:31:57 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >These days, screensaver is disabled through dBus, so individual >applications can, and do, disable it as appropriate. > >Firefox does that when you play video, libreOffice in presentation >mode, etc. However, VLC fails on Xubuntu 20.04.1.

Re: [PLUG] Window expansion

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:29:16 -0500 Chuck Hast dijo: >Not sure what was done in one of the updates, but my >Mate sessions now seem to want to go to full screen >when I try to grasp the upper bar on a window to drag >it elsewhere. I do not understand who gets these stupid >ideas (I see that

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT! PLUG: Russell's Excellent High Altitude Balloon Adventure

For the past 48 hours it has been working without fail. To accomplish this required several shutdowns and rebooting both computers. I don't know which 'repair' did the trick. As for why we did this, my remembery is fuzzy, but it seems to me that it was either to keep CL out, or because they

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Constituent Poll 2021

On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:46:56 -0700 Michael Dexter dijo: >On 9/22/21 5:52 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> In the late 1990s and early 2000s I attended PLUG meetings in the PSU >> Library and the clinics at the schools. Both were where I learned a >> lot about linux. >> >> Now the meetings are

Re: [PLUG] Columbus and paper tape

On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:42:28 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:08:14AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes, >> and take 530 years to read. > >530 years ... if Columbus hadn't destroyed the paper tape >reader he discovered

Re: [PLUG] Block-list, Pass--list

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:52:13 -0700 Denis Heidtmann dijo: >Time for John to contribute some information about the etymology. OK, I've mentioned this here before, but before I plunge in I must point out that not all linguists buy these etymologies, or at least not all of them. English 'black,'

Re: [PLUG] Android Filesystems

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:01:21 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >On Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 00:09 John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Maybe I need some utility on my phone to get it to read/write to >> ext4. Does anyone have any clues? >This has been discussed here before. Still maybe worth of

Re: [PLUG] Android Filesystems

On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 23:03:51 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >I transfer files between my computer and phone with a cable, the phone >in "developer mode" and adb push/pull/shell (in appropriate >combinations). I looked around the net for details, and it looks like a pretty steep learning curve. I

[PLUG] Android Filesystems

I'm tearing my hair out. I have a 1TB USB 3.0 drive with two plugs, Type A on one end and Type C on the other. I bought it to simplify moving files to and from my laptop and my phone, which is Type C. I have been told that Android uses EXFAT and Linux can read/write EXFAT as well, since kernel

[PLUG] EXFAT is not case sensitive

I just tried to rename a file: Mandy Make Up Your Mind.mp3 To make the Up not uppercase (in keeping with norms of English), and I kept getting 'file already exists.' It took me a long time to figure out what the problem was. Apparently EXFAT -respects- case in filenames, but considers

Re: [PLUG] Refresh keyboard

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 22:27:33 -0700 Jeffrey Borcean dijo: >Was it the same 1 TB drive from eBay? If so you may want to test the >drive and see if it truly is a 1 TB disk, or just a trick that may be >causing trouble. >Look into f3 for testing [1], note that the tests are data destructive. OK, a

Re: [PLUG] Refresh keyboard

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 21:11:54 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Yeah, sounds like an out of control browser tab. Once I finally decided that I had no choice but to reboot, I started shutting things down. At the time I had about 20 tabs open in Chromium and another ten in Firefox. I suspected them the

Re: [PLUG] Refresh keyboard

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 21:55:47 -0500 Bill Barry dijo: >You could run top to see if there is some process hogging the cpu. If >so, kill it. I did that (actually, the GUI Task Manager). Of my 32GB of RAM 9GB was in use. I ended up rebooting. Grr. So far since the first of the year I've had to

[PLUG] Refresh keyboard

This is ridiculous. The keyboard on my laptop is mostly not working. I click somewhere to enter text and the cursor appears where I clicked, but when I type something nothing appears. If I leave it sit, about fifteen minutes later the text slowly starts to appear, one letter at a time. This

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:55:21 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >You don't have to reboot right away. All is well. Overnight the copy completed, so this morning I rebooted. Everything seems OK. I reinstalled an application and the process ended cleanly without the error messages about grub-pc. A

Re: [PLUG] Website of linux command examples

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:51:13 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >>The site I'm thinking of: >> 1. does not duplicate man page content. >> 2. does not aim to be a tutorial >> 3. apparently aims to include as many commands as possible. >> {I've found seve

Re: [PLUG] Website of linux command examples

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:29:21 -0500 Richard Owlett dijo: >I've seen a wiki-like page of Linux command examples. >Unfortunately I failed to bookmark it. > >I had seen it it referenced in a post. Thinking it was on the >debian-user mailing list, I asked there but got only references to >discussions

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >How about an "sudo apt update" first? Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't you? So I installed them. They weren't listed in Synaptic, but the little Ubuntu Update Manager had them, so I let it install

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:10:34 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Okay, try this: > > apt-get download grub-pc > dpkg -i --debug=3 grub-pc*.deb E: Can't find a source to download version '2.04-1ubuntu26.4' of 'grub-pc:amd64' I don't know why apt doesn't know where it is. Surely it

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:39:31 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:16 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >> >

[PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

This problem has vexed me off and on for as long as I've used Linux. I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all the

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:36:41 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:34 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 >> Russell Senior dijo: >> >> >Step 1: >> > >> > dpkg -l grub-pc >> >

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:35:13 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Step 1: > > dpkg -l grub-pc > >which should give you the partially installed version you've got. The results are not at all clear: dpkg -l grub-pc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:00:13 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 >Vince Winter dijo: > >>sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn > > sudo mkfs.exfat -n exfat_drive /dev/sdc1 > sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found > >Looking a t

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn sudo mkfs.exfat -n exfat_drive /dev/sdc1 sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found Looking a the man page for mkfs the exfat filesystem is not listed as an option. Maybe I need a newer version

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >Both FAT32 and exFat lack permissions. >FAT32 max file size is 4gb. exFat max file size is 16*EB*. >Only back in January did gparted get the ability to format to exFAT. >(gparted 1.2.0+ using exfatprogs) exFAT is not open source and the

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:23:34 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I can't even get anything done. This is ridiculous. I'm going to have >to nuke exFAT on this USB stick. At the moment I'm using it only for >small audio files, but I want to move them to my phone, so ext* won't >work. I'll

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:28:58 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the >latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that >to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat >without hassle. I had

[PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the usual updates) the Update Manager GUI application announced that it was unable to configure grub-pc. The problem remains. I can install or remove packages, but at the end I always get an error message that grub-pc could not be

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >Both FAT32 and exFat lack permissions. >FAT32 max file size is 4gb. exFat max file size is 16*EB*. >Only back in January did gparted get the ability to format to exFAT. >(gparted 1.2.0+ using exfatprogs) exFAT is not open source and the

Re: [PLUG] 10GBe NICs compatible with arm64 linux?

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:49:49 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >On Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 14:13 John Jason Jordan wrote: >> What's the point of a 10GB connection from my computer if it runs >> straight into a 1GB bottleneck? >NFS, distributed computing, network database access, network b

Re: [PLUG] 10GBe NICs compatible with arm64 linux?

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:15:16 -0700 Alexander Bedard dijo: >I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with 10GBe network >cards that are compatible with Linux on arm64? >I wasn't able to find a specific list when searching online, and the >few results I found were anecdotal at best... I

Re: [PLUG] Linux-friendly product bar code scanners

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:55:10 -0700 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >I hope to purchase a handheld, USB-connected bar code >reader that works well with Ubuntu LTS on a laptop, >resulting in a list of bar codes in some appropriate >format (Openoffice spreadsheet?). > >Suggestions for device and open-source

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Perhaps this will help: >> > >This site has a more clear explanation:

[PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

I just received today a new 1TB USB drive with a USB 3.0 Type A plug on one end and a Type C plug on the other. I plugged it into one of the Type C ports on my Thinkpad and discovered that it is formatted 'Win95 FAT32.' Doesn't FAT32 lack permissions? And isn't the maximum file size 4GB? And

Re: [PLUG] Descrambling PDFs from Docusign and such on Linux

On Tue, 18 May 2021 19:17:44 -0400 TomasK dijo: >I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service >- I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content. > >The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and >included custom fonts to make the

Re: [PLUG] Moving program buttons in XFCE panel

On Wed, 12 May 2021 17:30:17 -0700 Ben Koenig dijo: >I think you might be referring to the Task List or Window List plugin. > >If you are referring to the icons created when an app is opened then >you need to open the settings for thst plugin. Your panel should have >a plugin list, and one of

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:10:50 -0700 King Beowulf dijo: >Note that '1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full' is missing. >For grins ad giggles you can try this to see it the speed suddenly >jumps. ifconfig may display a bunch of TX errors, but at least it will >isolate the issue a bit more. Ignore the VPN

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:38:49 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >As an alternative to looking in the sysfs (/sys/class/net) as I >suggested, you can also install the "ethtool" package and run it with >the interface name. E.g.: OK, at the moment wifi is turned off, so there are just the ethernet and

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:19:19 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >Try: > > ls -l /sys/class/net/ > >I get this (yours will be a little different): > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 14 18:18 eth0 -> >../../devices/pci:00/:00:19.0/net/eth0 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 14 18:18 lo ->

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:52:03 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >In John's second post, it showed a simultaneous wifi interface, >wlp82s0 that showed UP and had an ip address on the same network. I >agree that turning the wifi off removes some ambiguity about which >interface is being used. OK, I

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:15:05 -0700 King Beowulf dijo: >On 4/27/21 3:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> 2.168.1.170 is the address given to the laptop by the router for >> ethernet, and 192.168.1.163 is for its wifi. In the command 'cat >> /sys/class/net/eth0/speed 1000' I

Re: [PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:16:21 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >On the computer you are running the 90Mbps test from, check the >content the interface's speed file (this example assumes your ethernet >interface is eth0): > > $ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed > 1000 Here is the results from ifconfig:

[PLUG] Connection speed suddenly dropped

I have Centurylink gigabit, which normally gives me 600-750 Mbps. When I connect with my VPN it drops to about 300 Mbps. I normally run with the VPN (Mullvad, in Sweden). Several days ago my connection speed suddenly dropped to about 90 Mbps. In trying to figure out what happened and fix it, I

Re: [PLUG] Alternatives for Atril?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:04:47 -0700 Dick Steffens dijo: >In Xubuntu 20.04, Atril is the default program for handling pdf files. >There are some nuisances (to me). I'd like to try an alternative. >Which programs do you all use for reading and printing pdf files? I use Evince (also known as

Re: [PLUG] Auto "Presentation Mode" when watching a video

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:33:27 -0700 TomasK dijo: >AFAIK - this in now the duty of window manager (KDE/GNOME) and the >application-->windowManager communication works through DBUS. > >It works pretty reliably for me in vanilla ubuntu 20.04 and other >distros with working DBUS. > >I am not sure

Re: [PLUG] Auto "Presentation Mode" when watching a video

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:59:58 -0700 Dick Steffens dijo: >Is there a way to tell the computer to suspend power management while >watching a video that's longer than the set timeout? > >OS is Zubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. There is a setting in VLC to disable power management (i.e., stop the screen

Re: [PLUG] Odd 4.1 KB Volume

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:57:37 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >Something I've seen on Xubuntu 18.04 is from time to time, irregularly >and infrequently, an icon shows up on the desktop labeled, "4.1 KB >Volume". I'm now seeing it in Xubuntu 20.04. ... and I just found >something that could be the

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:18:27 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >On 3/8/21 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 >> Dick Steffens dijo: >Mayhaps panel is more correct. What I mean is the panel at the top of >the screen (which can be relocated elsewhe

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:18:27 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >On 3/8/21 6:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 >> Dick Steffens dijo: >Mayhaps panel is more correct. What I mean is the panel at the top of >the screen (which can be relocated elsewhe

Re: [PLUG] XFCE on Xubuntu 20 -- Moving a task in the taskbar

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:34:56 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >I've just swapped my desktop machine boxes so that now I'm using >Xubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. It used to be, in Xubuntu 18.04, that I could >move a task entry in the task bar by clicking and holding it while >dragging it. For some reason, that

Re: [PLUG] Can't access folder

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:25:59 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >Probably a dumb question. The problem was permissions on the Synology. I discovered this when I umounted it, and the permissions on the folder immediately went back to full permissions. Ultimately I solved the problem by chang

[PLUG] Can't access folder

Probably a dumb question. I am having trouble getting my rsync script to work because it cannot access /media/jjj/Synology2. The script is: -rwxrwxr-x 1 jjj jjj450 Feb 20 15:08 Rsync_script2.sh Which has the same settings as the original script, which works fine. These are the

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:51:51 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: Oh my effing god, this was so STUPID! When I plugged in the DS220+ and logged into the DSM, I discovered that shared folder 'Volume 1' had already been created with the name NetBackup. Later I created another name for it as 'JJJ

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:10:46 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I'll continue poking around in the new Synology to see if I can find >somewhere to allow connections. I did find, and enabled, a lot of >permissions, that is, all that I could find. In the Synology Control Panel > Ext

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:09:38 -0800 wes dijo: >On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:53 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: >> >> sudo mount -a >> mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting >> 192.168.1.164:/volume1/Synology >I seem to recall from the discussio

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:20:29 -0800 TomasK dijo: >I use synology NAS - although I am not sure what is synology assistant. >I login to the filer(s) using web browser and use it DSM directly. > >I would recommend you to do the same. Find out IP of your NAS and >access it as: https://ipAddress:5001

[PLUG] I can ping the new Synology NAS, but mounting it fails

This is the line in fstab that mounts my old Synology (DS216j): 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology nfs auto,user 0 0 I copied and pasted it into fstab and then edited the new line as follows: 192.168.1.164:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology2 nfs auto,user 0 0 (And yes, I

Re: [PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:55:55 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >The metadata that tells the operating system what's on the drive is >probably on the first part of the drive. You can probably dd zeros >onto the first part of the drive and it will scan like a blank drive. >Note that nvme device naming is

[PLUG] Can't figure out Synology Assistant

For a couple months I've been working on replacing my DS216j which has two 8TB WD Red drives in RAID0. The drives are pushing five years old, so I bought two new Toshiba 16TB drives. My initial plan was to use them in the DS216j, also as RAID0 (32TB), but after installing them I discovered that

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:36:15 -0800 wes dijo: >On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:24 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> >> It's definitely not the cable. I have three TB3 cables, and they have >> been swapped, yet the problem remains. >So the next logical step is to swap the

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:40:04 -0800 David dijo: >On 2/17/21 4:40 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Yes, device names may change on booting or when plugged in, but don't >> device names stay put once you are booted or a drive is plugged in? > >This sounds like a cable

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:57:55 -0800 TomasK dijo: >On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 21:59 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:27:25 -0500 >> Tomas Kuchta dijo: >> I never heard of 'sync.' Is that a command? >> >> > Definitely not a good ide

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:27:25 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >> And before umount/mount I pulled the TB3 plug from the enclosure, >> waited a couple of minutes, then plugged it back in, but I was still >> unable to access any of the files. It should have automatically >> mounted, because that's what

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:55:11 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 17:30 John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0800 >> John Jason Jordan dijo: >> >> >This is driving me nuts. >> >> Before rebooting I tried to umount

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:05:20 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >This is driving me nuts. Before rebooting I tried to umount md127p1, but got the 'busy' error message, which I solved with the 'lazy' -l option. But although umount -l executed without error, it didn't umount the array. Eventuall

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:31:45 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >nvme0 >nvme0n1 >nvme1 >nvme1n1 >nvme2 >nvme2n1 >nvme3 >nvme3n1 >nvme4 >nvme4n1 >nvme4n1p1 >nvme4n1p2 > >And scrolling up a bit I see md127 and md127p1. > >Everything is back to normal.

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:27:20 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >I did some poking around and came up with something for you to try. > >First, may sure you have the right grub-pc deb package: > > dpkg -l grub-pc > >I see something like this at the end: > > ii grub-pc2.04-1ubuntu26.8 amd64

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:14:24 -0800 Jason Barnett dijo: >For your slow boot times, you might want to look into Bootchart. >http://www.bootchart.org/ Thanks for the suggestion. The link above works, but the links it provides for downloading are not really links. It is not in the Ubuntu repos,

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:18:10 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >This could be a side-effect of using/copying hard drive from the past >Ubuntu installations. If that is the case the problem is likely unique >to one of the past distribution updates such as 14.xx --> 16.xx or --> >18.xx. it might be worth

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:33:32 -0600 Bill Barry dijo: >Is your system using the EFI bootloader? Maybe grub-efi-amd64 is >installed and it is not using grub-pc. > >If your system has this directory >/sys/firmware/efi/ > >Then you using efi and the grub-pc is not needed. > >Also you should check to

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 01:32:10 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >try: > > sudo apt --reinstall install grub-pc That worked, except for the error messages at the end: Setting up grub-pc (2.04-1ubuntu26.4) ... dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure): installed grub-pc package

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:47:44 -0800 wes dijo: >On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 7:43 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> the reinstall option was grayed out >were there any options available? o Mark for removal o Mark for complete removal o Properties Unmark, Mar

Re: [PLUG] Grub-pc errors

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:03:34 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >less /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst > >Or, maybe try to reinstall it manually with debugging turned on. I'm >not actually sure how to do that. OK, I decided to fire up Synaptic and search on 'grub-pc.' That turned up the package, so

[PLUG] Grub-pc errors

Every time I try to install or uninstall something from the command line I get the following error message: installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 I've searched everywhere for some clue how to fix this, but without success.

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 15:05:33 -0800 wes dijo: >On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:19 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:48:48 -0800 Larry Brigman >> dijo: >> >/proc/mdadm will give you the status of the assembled arrays >> >directly withou

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:48:48 -0800 Larry Brigman dijo: >You can use mdadm to examine the superblock on each drive and it will >give you the details of the array that the drive thinks it is in. >Without a mdadm.conf, the kernel will attempt to assemble the array >based on what it finds in the

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 19:46:51 -0800 wes dijo: >If you create the RAID array with UUIDs, it (probably) won't break when >your system renames devices. Brilliant! ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:49:21 -0800 wes dijo: >On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:32 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> I have long been aware that drive labeling like sda, sdb, etc. can >> annoyingly swap around. Apparently NVMe drives can be just as >> exasperating. >Do

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:07:45 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: > smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 OK, this is really weird. All this time nvme0 has been the 1TB m.2 Samsung drive inside the Thinkpad, which holds / and /home. I was amazed when I ran the command exactly as above and it said the drive was a 7.68TB

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 05:50:57 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> And one more thought: I'd consider LVM instead of RAID0. But whatever >> system I set up, I need the four 7.68TB NVMe drives to appear as one >> big-ass 31TB

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:09:06 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 >Ben Koenig dijo: > >>A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is >>doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of >>devices, like

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: >A simple test to help everyone here understand what your machine is >doing would be to run through a few reboots and grab the list of >devices, like so > >1) unplug your TB-3 drives and reboot. > >2) record the output of 'ls -l /dev/nvme*' here

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 23:48:03 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: >On 2/1/21 11:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 22:15:12 -0800 >> Ben Koenig dijo: >> >>>> Perhaps now would be the time to dig out those old emails and >>>> consider some

Re: [PLUG] Raving mad RAID

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 22:15:12 -0800 Ben Koenig dijo: >> Perhaps now would be the time to dig out those old emails and >> consider some of the native alternatives rejected in favor of RAID0. >Unfortunately it looks like RAID might not be the culprit if his NVMe >/dev nodes are moving around. RAID0

[PLUG] Raving mad RAID

About a week ago I finally was successful in creating a RAID0 array on my four NVMe drives that are installed in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. After creating the array it appeared in /dev as md0. After rebooting it became md127. I copied the UUID from Gparted and used it in a line that I added to

Re: [PLUG] 2021 Speakers Wanted

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:35:04 -0800 Michael Dexter dijo: I attended (virtually) a recent meeting, and I have a few observations: 1) In the past we have had occasional issues with the meeting room including" People not realizing it is in the basement, and not being able to find

Re: [PLUG] Xfce4: set panel time

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:32:42 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >None make any difference. I've used the date command many times on >various hosts and that's the time shown on grellm. But, the Xfce4 >panel clock insists on showing UTC rather than PST. The problem is not >with the system but with the

Re: [PLUG] Creating array with mdadm

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:39:06 -0800 wes dijo: >> These are exactly the same errors that I got before. What did I do >> wrong? >I'm not convinced you did anything wrong. But it's hard to tell from >the info available to this point. If it were me, I would try >partitioning and formatting one or

Re: [PLUG] Creating array with mdadm

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:26:12 -0800 Larry Brigman dijo: >There are tons of options for mdadm. >No, you should not put a format on the devices prior to adding them to >the array. >It is recommended that you partition the drives prior to adding them >to the array but you don't need to do that. >You

[PLUG] Creating array with mdadm

I can't believe this information is not in the mdadm man page. Web sites that purport to make it easy to use mdadm just parrot the man page. I created an array on the four NVMe drives in my TB3 enclosure with the following command: sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=0

Re: [PLUG] Using Mediasonic Probox 4-bay enclosure

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:22:11 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >I suspect all their enclosures have both interfaces. It wouldn't surprise me if they used the same card in everything they make. I still have the old card floating around here somewhere, with a flaky USB port but an eSATA port that

Re: [PLUG] Using Mediasonic Probox 4-bay enclosure

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 07:40:16 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >3. What should I read to learn how best to make use of this device? I have a Mediasonic 2-bay enclosure with a 6TB and an 8TB WD red. I set them up as RAID0, which resulted in a volume of 12TB because RAID0 gives you (number of

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 10:47:17 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >But before giving up I poked at other things, and finally had success >with Actions > Connect, which popped up a window allowing me to put in >the IP address of the other computer, and log in to it. I now have a >file

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT! UnPLUG 2021, The Year That Will Be!

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:44:50 -0800 wes dijo: >well it was sent only 2 hours before the meeting, so that's not quite >so extraordinary. And the point to be made here is that two hours before the meeting is hardly an appropriate time to post the meeting announcement. A couple of days should be a

Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer SOLVED

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:49:01 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Before you finish you victory lap here - try to open some larg-ish >file in the file manager. > >You will notice: >a) the file is first downloaded to some temporary file then opened as >local. If you edit and save the edits - it will be in

Re: [PLUG] Strange folders suddenly appearing

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:49:22 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I can't figure out why I suddenly have new folders on my laptop in >/media/jjj/disk, media/jjj/disk1, and /media/jjj/disk2. The first two >appear to have all the folders of /, that is, bin, boot, dev, etc, >home, lib, lib64,

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