Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-22 Thread David Fuchs
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > How long are your USB-cables? What kind of power supply do you have, and > what else is drawing power? > The USB cable the drive is currently on is fairly short - about 80cm if I had to guess. The drive has its own wall-wart specced at 2A

Re: Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread David Fuchs
he host is concerned, the underlying device simply ceases to exist. The disk doesn't just get renamed by udev either - there's no entry for it in /dev/sd*, no output whatsoever from dmesg when I plug it out and back in. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jul

Bizarre issue: USB 3 disconnecting and dying

2015-07-20 Thread David Fuchs
Hi all, I have an issue with an external hard drive that I'm at my wit's end with. I'll try to keep it short: My system is connected to an external SATA HD via USB 3 (used for backups). For 6+ months, this setup has worked flawlessly. About a week ago, I disconnected the external drive (a Seagat

Re: Re: dm-crypt/LUKS performance

2014-11-17 Thread David Fuchs
> Which Debian release? Kernel? Motherboard make/ model? CPU model? RAM module(s) > make/ model? SSD exact model? Defaults? Customizations? My initial post was indeed a little light on details, so here's more info: I'm dealing with a pristine installation of Wheezy. It is running on a Supermicro A1

dm-crypt/LUKS performance

2014-11-16 Thread David Fuchs
Hi all, First off, I realize this question has been asked here and elsewhere before, but I can't seem to find any recent relevant numbers on this. I am setting up a system with an Intel octo-core Avoton, which has AES-NI support. After doing some crude benchmarking tests with dd, I am surprised a

Re: boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
load some additional modules too early. cheers, - Dave. On 5/22/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:33 +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > hi all, > > I want to have a grsecurity enabled kernel and thus compiled my own. > while doing so, I also removed tons of mo

boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I want to have a grsecurity enabled kernel and thus compiled my own. while doing so, I also removed tons of modules from the kernel config (drivers I know I'll never need), and chose to compile some into the kernel instead of modules (e.g., drivers for my sata disks). I followed the dire

Re: network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
o physical interface can be enabled as long as the loopback device is down. aptitude reinstall netbase, problem solved :) thanks for the help, - Dave. On 5/21/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:37:34AM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: Putting this back on lis

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
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network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-20 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0, eth1, lo. all network interfaces are configured as auto in /etc/network/interfaces. for some reason, the interfaces all fail to start on boot. I have to manually run ifup -a for them to work. how can I fix this? another

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread David Fuchs
> yes, / on md0 does get fsck'd cleanly, whether in single boot or > 'normal' boot. I can get into a root shell w/o any filesystem related > errors. Good. Now if only debian's single-user mode didn't start all kinds of extras that need /usr and /var > the problem are all other mounts, which

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread David Fuchs
On 5/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > I mounted (read-only) some of the virtual volumes, to see if the data is > still there... it seems as if there is some 'offset' on the file system, &g

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
7;t know how I'm supposed to fix this, any help greatly appreciated. thanks, - Dave. On 5/6/07, David Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the upgrade instructions at http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/rele

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
more importantly, is there a safe (i.e. no data loss) way of fixing it? thanks, - Dave. On 5/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:25:02PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the u

mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the upgrade instructions at http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/. now my system does not boot correctly anymore... I'm using RAID1 with two disks, / is on md0 and all other mounts (/home/, /var, /usr et

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread David Fuchs
27;s got some very useful information regarding signals and how they're handled. -David Fuchs Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while. Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (o

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-10 Thread David Fuchs
Joost Kooij wrote: [ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.] Sorry, I've corrected this now... On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer, and I'm having some diff

dpkg problem

2001-07-09 Thread David Fuchs
e, after deleting a bunch of those list files, dpkg complains whenever I run it that it's missing things.  It would be great if someone could tell me how to repair this as well...       So thats it, I hope someone can help me out here.  I've posted to a local Linux group as well, but to no avail.   -David Fuchs