Re: RAID installation at boot questions

2020-11-13 Thread john doe
On 11/14/2020 4:23 AM, Charles Curley wrote: I've added RAID and two new hard drives to my desktop. The RAID appears to work, once it is up and running. Alas, on boot it is not being properly set up. Everything else comes up correctly. I have two new four terabyte drives set aside for RAID. They

RAID installation at boot questions

2020-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
I've added RAID and two new hard drives to my desktop. The RAID appears to work, once it is up and running. Alas, on boot it is not being properly set up. Everything else comes up correctly. I have two new four terabyte drives set aside for RAID. They are partitioned, with one partition on each, a

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-13 Thread David Christensen
debian-users: FYI. Please do not respond to this message. David Forwarded Message Subject: Regarding your case number 10724899[ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ] Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:45:22 + (GMT) From: discsupp...@seagate.com To: dpchr...@.com He

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap > gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. AFAIK this is not a common problem. There's a known problem in ZFS that exhibits this behavior, and IIRC there could be similar problems in the past if you tried to swap ov

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 8:52 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Right, that routine is to establish whether you have a tape > problem or a hardware problem. OK. I'm almost positive I have a hardware problem. But the p

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of: > > > > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which > > part is good > > > > - write a different file to a new tape > > -

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 13 Nov 2020 at 16:52:41 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 13 nov 20, 14:06:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > On 11/13/20 12:12 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > Miroslav Skoric writes: > > > > On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old p

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of: > > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which > part is good > >

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:08:24 + ghe2001 wrote: > The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is > writing for a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and > amcheck just fine. Have you cleaned the drive lately? (Or is that still necessary? It's been a while since

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > I know this is way OT, but the amanda-users list isn't working, not for me > anyway, and this list is full of knowledgeable people. > > The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is writing for > a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and amcheck

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-13 17:09, Dan Ritter wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:20 AM Dan Ritter wrote: Something ate it. Weird. d...@randomstring.org is correct. was sent to d...@randomstring.org -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap > gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. Without even a warning > message. Linux always behaved that way. BSD-derived OS's running on the > very same commodity Intel hardware dont have that

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. Without even a warning message. Linux always behaved that way. BSD-derived OS's running on the very same commodity Intel hardware dont have that problem. Among my fellow system a

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
The problem is the same as the original post: something bad happens, swap gets used or over-used, and the machine locks. Without even a warning message. BSD-derived OS's running on the very same commodity Intel hardware dont have that problem. Why does linux? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:20 AM Dan Ritt

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I guess Im not the only crank with antique hardware. One of my few unending > beefs with the linux kernel is swap behavior. Everyone knows what it's for > and how it "works". But even glancing thru the code doesn't explain its > real-time run-time behavior. In contrast,

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I guess Im not the only crank with antique hardware. One of my few unending beefs with the linux kernel is swap behavior. Everyone knows what it's for and how it "works". But even glancing thru the code doesn't explain its real-time run-time behavior. In contrast, the last time I had swap issues li

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 nov 20, 14:06:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 11/13/20 12:12 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > Miroslav Skoric writes: > > > > > On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > > > > Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is > > > > important to > > > > test if the new kern

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> When it happens, I'll probably play the same 'upgrade game' with the next > 'elderly' candidate (CPU Athlon XP 2500+ 1.84 GHz, 512 MB RAM). I purchased > it some ten years ago as then second-hand, for some 70 US$, incl. CRT > display, keyboard, mouse ... I have recently upgraded it from Deb 8 to

Re: Celeron vis a vis Pentium

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 10:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote: ...PS: Pentium II and Celeron are two processors. Celeron is a budget family of Intel processors, based upon Pentium II, III, 4 and newer Pentium processors. Pentium II Celeron means a Celeron based upon the Pentium II family, the oldest family of Ce

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 12:12 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Miroslav Skoric writes: On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is important to test if the new kernel will still support them. So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only? If you have an ea

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 2:36 AM, Doug McGarrett wrote: I have been only cursorily following here, since I don't use debian, but I wonder if you might consider upgrading your mother board to a new one the same size and shape, with a faster processor and probably more ram. Then the latest version of deb wou

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:01:19PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > At first, I wondered whether Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM, would > make it even bootable after upgrading 8 to 9. (Without any GUI, if needed to > be removed before the upgrade). Yes, it will boot, assuming the upgrade is

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 nov 20, 23:01:19, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > At first, I wondered whether Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM, would > make it even bootable after upgrading 8 to 9. (Without any GUI, if needed to > be removed before the upgrade). > > And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at b

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 nov 20, 15:07:48, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:50 +0100 > Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) > > running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very > > slow after starting GUI. I wonder whet

Re: PCI-Express not mapping a card's memory

2020-11-13 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 05:54:14PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > What could I try to do? Thanks to some people around here (private replies), I tried: - finding an option in the BIOS about 64 bit PCI addresses, none found - setpci -s 01:00.0 COMMAND=0x02 - removing all cards, shuffli

Re: HDD for CCTV

2020-11-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.11.2020 12:56, mick crane wrote: regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs ? mick In addition to Reco's advice, some HDDs have special prog

Re: HDD for CCTV

2020-11-13 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-13 08:11, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 07:56:24AM +, mick crane wrote: regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs ? Yu

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:20:55PM +0100, Malte Marwedel wrote: > Am 12.11.20 um 09:35 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > >On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:57:08PM +0100, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: > > >I don't know (not sure I'd want to) where Gtk keeps its MIME types > >database these days. But, as a

Re: HDD for CCTV

2020-11-13 Thread Kamil Jońca
mick crane writes: > regarding earlier post with do not reply request. > There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" > Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular > PC HDDs ? IIRC WD has discs series dedicated (Purple?) for that. They saying that no

Re: HDD for CCTV

2020-11-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 07:56:24AM +, mick crane wrote: > regarding earlier post with do not reply request. > There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" > Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs > ? Yup, a critical one. Co