Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, and went into a kernel panic. After rebooting everything seems fine, though. I've ran a SMART long test, but as I found out the SMART error log is not supported on

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 29/05/2015 5:08 PM, "Petter Adsen" wrote: > > When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of > errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, and > went into a kernel panic. > > After rebooting everything seems fine, though. I've ran a SMART long > test,

Re: dmesg BIOS error

2015-05-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, 28 May 2015 23:54:40 -0400 Deb wrote: > What does this error listing in my dmesg mean: > > [0.00] ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch > in FADT: 0xCF7E4E40/0xCF7E4D40, using 32-bit address > (20140424/tbfadt-283) This[1] seems to be a relatively clear

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0 Reallocated_Event_Count is 0 meaning no bad sectors were ever found. I have a failing drive atm and this number slowly piles up. > 201 Unc_Soft_Read_Err_Rate 0x001c 120 120 000Old_age Offlin

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > >> > Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to run >> > completely without X? >> >> Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode. > > Yes, I know. But as I (mis?)understood it, the purpose was to do a specific > piece of administartion w

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of > errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, and > went into a kernel panic. It's probably a good idea to test with the manufacturers own diagnostic

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-29, Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> > >>> > Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to run >>> > completely without X? >>> >>> Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode. >> >> Yes, I know. But as I (mis?)understood it, the purpose was to do a

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 May 2015 10:04:47 Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-29, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-05-28, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> > Can you not just boot into level 1 in the first place if you want to > >>> > run completely without X? > >>> > >>> Runlevel 1 is single-user/minimal mode. > >> > >> Yes, I know. B

Re: Debian/MIPS Jessie doesn't resolve hostnames?

2015-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 May 2015 01:09:43 Stuart Longland wrote: > > The upgrade guide from debian tells us to do apt-get upgrade and then > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > this reduces the pain and will probably help you. > > Sadly it does not: > > root@qube:~# apt-get upgrade > > Reading package lists... Don

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 29 May 2015 11:04:09 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > When I woke up this morning, one of my boxen had spewed out a ton of > > errors from one of my SSDs (the root drive), remounted read-only, > > and went into a kernel panic. > > I

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-29, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > He wants to install a video driver, and needs to do so with X not running. > > https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8OJ-8BjL=6g6v_ucfnzeh+lkpc7ap_uuxzvumg620b...@mail.gmail.com > > startx was mentioned by someone else as a means of getting back to X after > instal

Re: jessie: need help with serial port

2015-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 28 May 2015 23:55:31 D. R. Evans wrote: > Re-send, with the correct subject line. I keep getting wheezy and jessie > mixed up. Sorry. Would you find it easier to refer to Stable and Old Stable? Or 7 and 8 and confuse people like me? (The problem with numbers is that Testing (current

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread ken
On 05/27/2015 09:06 PM, Frank wrote: This is long so I hope all can read till the end. I access all my mail through Thunderbird using IMAP. It has always been flawless until yesterday. When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon fail

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 May 2015 10:28:15 Curt wrote: > It would have been more friendly and convenient had he asked a question > that corresponded to my answer. So the OP must foresee what you are going to say later in the thread and phrase his original question accordingly?!! And those of us who answer

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Mart van de Wege
Frank writes: > On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: >> On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: >>> When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a logon failure..despite the fact not

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-29, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> It would have been more friendly and convenient had he asked a question >> that corresponded to my answer. > > So the OP must foresee what you are going to say later in the thread and > phrase his original question accordingly?!! That was a jocular remark on

when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread mudongliang
First , when does debian8.1 come? Second, I know the development of debian big version (for Debian 7 -> 8). oldstable->stable->testing -> unstable wheezy Jessiestretchsid I'm using testing version now! How is the development about smal

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread Pete Orrall
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, mudongliang wrote: > First , when does debian8.1 come? When it's ready. > Second, I know the development of debian big version (for Debian 7 -> 8). Huh? -- Pete Orrall p...@cs1x.com www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 20:05 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > First , when does debian8.1 come? June 6th. https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/05/msg00605.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, mudongliang (2015-05-29): > First , when does debian8.1 come? dda@ → https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg5.html → https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/05/msg00605.html > Second, I know the development of debian big version (for Debian 7 -> 8). > > oldstabl

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread mudongliang
On 05/29/2015 08:37 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 09:05, mudongliang wrote: First , when does debian8.1 come? It is planned for June 6th 2015. https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/05/msg00605.html Second, I know the development of debian big version

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Frank
On 05/29/2015 02:31 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 Frank wrote: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Frank
On 05/28/2015 10:06 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 05/27/2015 06:06 PM, Frank wrote: I access all my mail through Thunderbird using IMAP. It has always been flawless until yesterday. snip/// When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a l

Two network cards

2015-05-29 Thread michael-spree-michael
Hello, It used to be that one can use two network cards at the same time, after configuring /etc/network/interfaces and making the networks static. This I did. The results; the wifi card won't connect and the wired connected. Is this something different in Jessie? Thanks a lot in advance. --

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Frank
On 05/29/2015 02:35 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2015 08:31:49 +0200 Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:21:05 -0400 Frank wrote: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Frank
On 05/29/2015 06:04 AM, ken wrote: On 05/27/2015 09:06 PM, Frank wrote: This is long so I hope all can read till the end. I access all my mail through Thunderbird using IMAP. It has always been flawless until yesterday. When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Frank
On 05/29/2015 06:52 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Frank writes: On 05/28/2015 02:44 AM, Emil Payne wrote: On 05/27/2015 10:16 PM, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:06:10 -0400 Frank sent: When I went into Thunderbird at mid-day one of my accounts with my ISP Videotron.ca registered a log

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:19:01PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > When you upgrade to Debian 8.1 , what does the "setting " show, Debian 8 or > Debian8.1? I don't know what exactly you mean by "setting", but the way /etc/debian_version, /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are usually handled for point rele

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Petter Adsen: > On Fri, 29 May 2015 11:04:09 +0200 >> >> It's probably a good idea to test with the manufacturers own >> diagnostic tool to make sure nothing is wrong with the disk. > > I'm starting to suspect that it is. Either that, or the controller on > the motherboard, which would be even wo

Re: when does debian 8.1 come?

2015-05-29 Thread mudongliang
On 05/29/2015 09:56 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:19:01PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: When you upgrade to Debian 8.1 , what does the "setting " show, Debian 8 or Debian8.1? I don't know what exactly you mean by "setting", but the way /etc/debian_version, /etc/issue and /et

Re: Two network cards

2015-05-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-29, michael-spree-michael wrote: > Hello, > > It used to be that one can use two network cards at the same time, after > configuring /etc/network/interfaces and making the networks static. > > This I did. > > The results; the wifi card won't connect and the wired connected. > > Is this

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread ken
On 05/29/2015 06:04 AM, ken wrote: ...the above stuff should do the trick on a fully upgraded system. I meant to say "updated". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lis

Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread b-misc
Hi list, I've a very strange problem in my home network: One machine runs apache2 with services like owncloud as well as avahi-daemon. Other machines (clients) connect to it, e.g. with the owncloud client, using .local as URL. After some time, maybe 2 or 3 minutes or so, the other machines loos

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-05-29, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > He wants to install a video driver, and needs to do so with X not running. > > > > https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8OJ-8BjL=6g6v_ucfnzeh+lkpc7ap_uuxzvumg620b...@mail.gmail.com > > > > startx was mentioned by someone else as

RE: Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > One machine runs apache2 with services like owncloud as well as avahi-daemon. > Other machines (clients) connect to it, e.g. with the owncloud client, using > .local as URL. > > After some time, maybe 2 or 3 minutes or so, the other machines loose the > connection. In a browser I cannot

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-29, David Wright wrote: > > Happily, /lib/systemd/system/gdm.service and /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service > are linked, which, AIUI, is the unix way. gdm is the GNOME Display Manager > regardless of the version of GNOME. In Squeeze root@einstein:/home/curty# service gdm stop gdm: unre

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 17:17 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: > I am a relatively new Debian user. I had my system set up properly and > everything seemed to be working well. I used the Pithos front-end for > the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused > all of my audio n

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 29 May 2015 18:26:13 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2015-05-29, David Wright wrote: > > > > Happily, /lib/systemd/system/gdm.service and > > /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service > > are linked, which, AIUI, is the unix way. gdm is the GNOME Display Manager > > regardless of the version

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
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 a laptop). I got rid of > similar errors in the past by replacing the SATA cable. If i

Re: Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread b-misc
On Friday 29 May 2015 18.11:29 Arno Schuring wrote: > Hi=2C > > > One machine runs apache2 with services like owncloud as well as avahi-dae= > > mon.=20 > > > Other machines (clients) connect to it=2C e.g. with the owncloud client= > > =2C using=20 > > > .local as URL. > > > >=20 > > > > After

Re: Install of Debian 8.0.0

2015-05-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 19:47 +0100, Martin G Clayton wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian 8.0.0 64-bit under Oracle > Virtualbox (current version) and it persistently fails at the 'Select and > install software' step. Unfortunately Google gives a lot of hits on this particular

RE: Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
(apologies in advance for any mangling caused by hotmail's web interface) > From: b-m...@gmx.ch > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 21:19:48 +0200 > > On Friday 29 May 2015 18.11:29 Arno Schuring wrote: [..] > > Sorry, forgot to mention, ping with ip does work, only ping with > hostname.local doesn't. >

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
Back in the day -- when running Linux was *fun* -- most of us simply edited inittab to change the default runlevel. How wonderful! And everyone knew how to do this since NO ONE wanted a stoopid "display manager" getting in the way. nb. Further info left as an exercise for the reader. --

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 29 May 2015 15:44:42 -0400 (EDT) Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Back in the day -- when running Linux was *fun* -- > most of us simply edited inittab to change the default > runlevel. How wonderful! > > And everyone knew how to do this since NO ONE wanted a > stoopid "display manager

Re: unattended-upgrade fails to upgrade libreoffice

2015-05-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, On 22.05.15 22:51, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have libreoffice and unattended-upgrades installed on wheezy/i386. the newer libreoffice packages have been uploaded some time ago, but unattended-upgrade still fails to install them. When I run "unattended-upgrade -d", strange error app

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-05-29, Reco wrote: >> >> service gdm3 stop >> >> (SysVinit). > > Which shows that you have 'gdm3' package installed. Right. >> Some people might have been confused by the fact that the name of the >> package in Squeeze (gdm3) doesn't correspond to the version >> (2.30.5-6squeeze5). >

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:35 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: > The output from this command follows: > > Failed to play sound: File or data not found > > Hope this information helps. > Does logging out and in again make a difference? sound-theme-freedesktop is installed? (Please answer directly to

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel
Yeah! It was quite fun to play with runlevels, i think so. But isn't hard to disable services using systemd. Whatever, for servers, sysv is a good choice yet, i think. P.d. play with GNU is very fun on these days too ... Greetings. El 29 de mayo de 2015 21:44:42 CEST, Bob Bernstein escribió:

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Jose Martinez
I did log-out, and in fact rebooted the system with no change. However, I just checked and the freedesktop audio theme was not installed.I'm pretty confused at this point. I know the notifications worked, but then they shouldn't have without that stuff installed.I must be losing my min

Re: Missing audio notifications

2015-05-29 Thread Jose Martinez
I just did another system reboot after installing the freedesktop audio themeThe notifications are back.:-) Once again, I must have lost my mind at some point in timeI think I'll go look for it:-D I appreciate your help. I sure need to get up to full speed on the gnome desktop and Linu

Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:16:15 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > >> Some people might have been confused by the fact that the name of the > >> package in Squeeze (gdm3) doesn't correspond to the version > >> (2.30.5-6squeeze5). > > > > But the most confusion comes from the fact that Squeeze actually

Re: Two network cards

2015-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
michael-spree-michael wrote: > It used to be that one can use two network cards at the same time, after > configuring /etc/network/interfaces and making the networks static. Yes. This is a standard and widely used feature. > This I did. > > The results; the wifi card won't connect and the wired

RE: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 20:16:15 + > > That seems to ring a bell, now that you mention it (seems I do remember > intentionally installing gdm3 at some point on this machine). Except the > name of the previous package was gdm (version 2.20.11-4) not gdm2. > > So Squeeze

Re: wheezy: need help with serial port [really jessie, and now SOLVED]

2015-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
bri...@aracnet.com wrote on 05/28/2015 09:47 PM: > what is the physical port, is it an actual rs-232 ? Yes. ( Amazingly, such things do still exist :-) ) But I figured it out this morning. I was being completely misled by the error message that came from the application, which made it seem that

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-29 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/3/2015 3:32 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an HBA (preferably non-RAID) that is stable, supports drives larger than 2T, is either supported directly in the Jessie Kernel or has open source drivers, and either has management utilities that either r

Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-29 Thread John Aten
Hey all, I would like to see if anyone could give some advice or opinions on getting an inexpensive laptop to run Debian. I plan to use the machine for lighter duty functions; writing, web browsing, programming, etc. Basically, I am looking for something with a little more muscle than a Chrome

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-29 Thread Robert Crawford
On May 29, 2015 7:04 PM, "John Aten" wrote: > > Hey all, > I would like to see if anyone could give some advice or opinions on getting an inexpensive laptop to run Debian. I plan to use the machine for lighter duty functions; writing, web browsing, programming, etc. Basically, I am looking for som

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-29 Thread Doug
On 05/29/2015 10:38 PM, Robert Crawford wrote: On May 29, 2015 7:04 PM, "John Aten" mailto:welcome.to.eye.o.r...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hey all, > I would like to see if anyone could give some advice or opinions on getting an inexpensive laptop to run Debian. I plan to use the machine for

Re: Problems with SSD

2015-05-29 Thread Petter Adsen
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 a laptop). I got rid

Re: Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-29 Thread Bret Busby
On 30/05/2015, John Aten wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to see if anyone could give some advice or opinions on getting > an inexpensive laptop to run Debian. I plan to use the machine for lighter > duty functions; writing, web browsing, programming, etc. Basically, I am > looking for something

Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?

2015-05-29 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 29 May 2015 08:31:49 +0200 Petter Adsen sent: > I don't quite see why they have any reason to believe your system is > compromised, unless there is something they aren't telling you (and > that would be irresponsible of them, IMHO). A compromised account would have to be just so much smok

Inexpensive Laptop for Debian

2015-05-29 Thread Juha Heinanen
John Aten writes: > Basically, I am looking for something with a little more muscle > than a Chromebook. Well, some of the cheap Acer Chromebooks come with i3 processors and are more than adequate for what you describe. -- Juha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org