Re: was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-07-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
s and resume regular ones? Don't you have some method of checking the integrity of you backups? (http://www.taobackup.com/integrity.html) > How risky is the > partition even though the manufacturer's diagnostic utility reports no >

was getting disk failure errors, repaired the sectors, now what?

2010-06-30 Thread H.S.
s on the drive. This was from a Windows 7 machine. But it would not repair the disk. Searched some more and realized I should try it from a boot disk (as opposed to from within Windows) created from the diagnostic utility. So I did that, rebooted in DR DOS and ran the test again. This time the test

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:42 PM, David Baron wrote: > > [snip] > > So .. I got rid of ntpdate altogether, installed the ntp daemon instead. I > still get the error messages, now with /usr/sbin/ntpdate does not exist (of > course). So I still need to find the original cron script! > write a scrip

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:42:02 David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > > > Period. This run works. > > >

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:42:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > > > Period. This run wor

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: > > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > > Period. This run works. > > > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
> > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > Period. This run works. > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not > > run webmin for ages. This simply made

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
> > I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate > > entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. > > Period. This run works. > > > > The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not > > run webmin for ages. This simply made

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/10/2010 10:38 AM, David Baron wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon > To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 Woah! Cron should NOT be running NTP. That defeats the wh

Re: Fetchmail/SMTP Errors

2010-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:27:37 +0300, David Baron wrote: > I am getting these every five minutes or so: (...) Re: Email Errors from Spammers http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01115.html :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:38:00 +0300 David Baron wrote: > I get these periodically through the day: > > Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) > From: Cron Daemon > To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net > > command failed with exit status 1 > > I have no cron running ntpdate that I kn

Re: Dhclient Errors

2010-06-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:32:22 +0300 David Baron wrote: > My logs are filling up with: > Jun 10 15:16:14 dovidhalevi dhclient: send_packet: Operation not permitted > > I did not what is doing this, started happening after recent update of Sid > but > I did not notice exactly when. Network is bei

Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
I get these periodically through the day: Cron /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) From: Cron Daemon To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net command failed with exit status 1 I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.loca

Fetchmail/SMTP Errors

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
I am getting these every five minutes or so: FROM: SIZE=8814") 2010-06-10 19:00:32 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL And a series like this as well: Jun 10 15:26:03 dovidhalevi fetchmail[6514]:

Dhclient Errors

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
My logs are filling up with: Jun 10 15:16:14 dovidhalevi dhclient: send_packet: Operation not permitted I did not what is doing this, started happening after recent update of Sid but I did not notice exactly when. Network is being accessed by a static-IP'd router. I should not need any of this.

Re: Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 21:13:03 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > > wrote: > > | > It is a spamer... > > | > > > | > > > | > > > | > It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > > | > > | How do I do this obvious task? I

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread Pete
protocol errors (last command was "MAIL FROM: SIZE=8814") ^^^ I am running exim4 heavy on a Sid box. Exim shows no stuck messages or such. How can I stop this? It is a spamer... It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist H

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
David Baron wrote: >> | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but >> | this is  not catching this one. man exim4-config_files /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist is an optional file containing a list of IP addresses, networks and host names whose messages will be den

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > | > It is a spamer... > | > > | > > | > > | > It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > | > | > | > | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this > | is not catching thi

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
David Baron wrote: >> >> It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > > How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this > is not catching this one. IF you are heavy user implement amavis-new (We've been using this in our company since 2002 with great success -

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread John
On 25/05/10, David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il) wrote: | > > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: | > > | > > | > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] | > > dropped: too many syntax or protocol

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: > > > > > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] > > dropped: too many s

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: > > > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] > > dropped: too many syntax

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David Baron, Am 2010-05-24 19:31:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] > dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last comma

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/24/2010 11:31 AM, David Baron wrote: I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL FROM: SIZE=8814") I am run

Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread David Baron
I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL FROM: SIZE=8814") I am running exim4 heavy on a Sid box. Exim show

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
report.cgi?bug=287876) whereas > >> currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > > > For what reason can't you simply modify you Xsession file to do as you > > like? It is a conffile, so your changes would be preserved through > > upgrades.

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-20 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 19 May 2010 11:33:02 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk >> it each time when started >> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) whereas >> currently, my ~/.xsession-errors

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread Sven Joachim
ME at $(date)" > > and the contents of it are, unsurprisingly: > > "Xsession: X session started for dawud at mié may 19 18:25:05 CEST > 2010" > > $ ll .xsession-errors > -rw--- 1 dawud dawud 72 may 19 18:25 .xsession-errors Looks like somebody truncated the file for yo

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
T o n g wrote: Hi, I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too big. I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it each time when started (http://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:45:04PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a > > humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too > > big. >

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote: > I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a > humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too > big. > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it >

Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 11:18:57 T o n g wrote: > I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a > humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too > big. > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk

~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

2010-05-19 Thread T o n g
Hi, I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too big. I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it each time when started (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-17 Thread AG
On 16/05/10 22:13, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2010 07:52:06 -0400, Snood wrote: On 05/16/2010 11:34 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2010 08:35:29 +0100, AG wrote: Dear all On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy. Florian helped

Re: Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 16 May 2010 21:13:23 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > But I > also believe that they are based on the actual application virtues and > value. Sorry for a typo. Read this passage as follows instead: "But I also believe that they are NOT based on the actual application virtues and value."

Re: Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 16 May 2010 07:52:06 -0400, Snood wrote: On 05/16/2010 11:34 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010 08:35:29 +0100, AG wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy. >> Florian helped me with an issue like this sometime back, b

Re: Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 16 May 2010 08:35:29 +0100, AG wrote: > Dear all > > On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy. > Florian helped me with an issue like this sometime back, but revisiting > his helpful advice has not helped on this occasion. > > The situation is as follows: >

Re: Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-16 Thread Snood
On 05/16/2010 03:35 AM, AG wrote: Using Iceweasel, I enable the tor button and receive a warning message "Tor proxy test: local HTTP proxy is unreachable. Is polipo running properly?" Well, no because polipo wasn't installed - why and when this suddenly became a necessity I don't know, but anywa

Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo

2010-05-16 Thread AG
Dear all On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy. Florian helped me with an issue like this sometime back, but revisiting his helpful advice has not helped on this occasion. The situation is as follows: Using Iceweasel, I enable the tor button and receive a wa

Re: Email Errors from Spammers

2010-05-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:33:54 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Recently, I have been getting a load of errors from fetchmail of the > form: May 13 19:01:15 ... fetchmail[6102]: SMTP error: 501 > : domain literals not > allowed. > This email is spam. (...) > To keep chasing these d

Email Errors from Spammers

2010-05-13 Thread David Baron
Recently, I have been getting a load of errors from fetchmail of the form: May 13 19:01:15 ... fetchmail[6102]: SMTP error: 501 : domain literals not allowed. This email is spam. There are also loads of errors from a small number of senders like: 2010-05-13 15:06:34 SMTP call from localhost

Re: Continuous wifi errors

2010-04-21 Thread green
Curt Howland wrote at 2010-04-20 09:27 -0500: > I get the following messages continuously, via dmesg: > > [10438.440147] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble > (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) > [10453.293891] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble > (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) > [10741.016287] wlan

Continuous wifi errors

2010-04-20 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Debianistas, I get the following messages continuously, via dmesg: [10438.440147] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) [10453.293891] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) [10741.016287

repeated ATA errors debian lenny

2010-04-16 Thread samuel
Hi all, Recently a couple of new machines came to my hands, HP DL 180 G6 with 500Gb SATA hard disk, and I tried to setup a 2-nodes ganeti cluster with debian lenny. Default 2-6-26 kernel does work without any issue. I've done a fresh installation with nothing more than the basics (vim and less ;

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: pecon...@mesanetworks.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: About USB hard drives and errors >Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:47:40 -0600 > >>On 20100411_115203, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sa

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: >> My understanding is that S.M.A.R.T. doesn't generally work over USB. > > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking > for a USB

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100412_152156, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 > >Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >... > > > >>I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was > >>quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave > >>somewhat

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: ... I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave somewhat different output, but none gave output that claimed there was a work

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 4/11/2010 4:40 PM: > All of the computers are hand-me-downs. None have eSATA capability. So > far I have not convinced myself that spending money would help solve > the problem. Perhaps in a few years, computers with eSATA will start > showing up in dumpsters. Maybe I sh

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_115203, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first > > indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An > > example is: > > > > ker

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
the sad story is that I don't really want to do S.M.A.R.T. I was experiencing disk errors on the drives which caused something in the kernel to throw a fit. When this happened, the only recovery I could find was to reboot. This is slow and not really a way to learn how to fix the problem. So

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tes

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:48:51 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: ... > Your comment was/is helpful to me. Thanks. Please don't drop off this > thread because I'm sometimes too terse. Following some links from article No offense taken - I just didn't want you to get your expectations up of the likelihood

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote: > The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first > indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An > example is: > > kernel: [78454.939948] journal commit I/O error [...] > When this ha

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 4/10/2010 11:41 PM: > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking > for a USB solution. What other options are there for external HD? You're got 3 USB hard drives already,

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_005504, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:57 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > ... > > > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking > > for a USB solution. What other options

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:57 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: ... > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking > for a USB solution. What other options are there for external HD? I'm sorry, I don't real

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_002510, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > ... > > > I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was > > quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave > > somewhat different output, but none ga

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: ... > I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was > quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave > somewhat different output, but none gave output that claimed there was > a working SMART

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
ocks on a HD cannot work. > > Thanks Clive. Your post has been invaluable in fixing some faulty thinking > on my part, and in provoking other useful posts. But I want more ... > > The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first > indication of a problem is a messag

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
in provoking other useful posts. But I want more ... The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An example is: kernel: [78454.939948] journal commit I/O error This appears on all xterm windows on the affected machine.

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> will be listed as "Pending". Pending sectors are much worse than > Reallocated sectors, as Pending sectors mean lost data (if the sector Indeed. OTOH "Pending sectors" can be eliminated by turning them into Reallocated sectors (just write to the corresponding sector), whereas Reallocated sec

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Clive McBarton
ctual use, which SMART does not know -- and figuring out which > file might have been affected is, umm, tedious). OK. Usually (during regular use) the internal errors probably increase more slowly. If a single sector is already really unreadable, then every last one of the internal error correcti

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-10 03:20:44, Clive McBarton wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote:> > > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have > > been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find > > it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks. > > Every HD that is even remot

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Interesting. So what is /badblocks/ for, > > I would say it is useful to make the drive access every single block; > afterwards you can check in the SMART log if that caused any remappings. That's a good idea. Another appl

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:45:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote: [...] > >Every HD that is even remotely close to being usable will always have > >zero bad blocks when seen from outside the HD. All HDs have error > >recognition and error correction and autom

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote: Paul E Condon wrote:> dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks. Every HD that is even

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote: Paul E Condon wrote:> dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks. Every HD that is even remotely close to b

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote:> > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have > been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it > hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks. Every HD that is even remotely close

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-09 11:04, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] But ... Why does the output say that the disk was modified during the run? There were no badblocks found. What needed modification? Good question. Do you have similar magic for dumpe2fs? Nope. Of course your output presented here indicates

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-09 Thread Paul E Condon
>>several of them and started experimenting. The results so far > >>are puzzling. > >>I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad blocks. The drives > >>I'm using are all Western Digital because they have been the lowest > >>cost at the times I buy at

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
errors. So I decided to do scans for bad blocks. The drives I'm using are all Western Digital because they have been the lowest cost at the times I buy at Costco. Also all are 500GB. e2fsck -c is supposed to scan for bad blocks and allocate them to a special inode so that they cannot be use

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 08 April 2010 04:44:33 pm Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are > for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on > several of them and started experimenting. The results so far > are puzzling. > > I d

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:44:33 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale > in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them > and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. > > I do g

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad

About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad blocks. The drives I'm using ar

Re: New Iptables Errors

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
nyway to fix guarddog (this outdate, KDE4 version is needed!)? Or a simple script to do these changes afterwards. BTW, I never noticed these errors in guarddog's terminal pane before. So something changed outside guarddog to initiate this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: rkhunter errors

2009-12-07 Thread Dale
                                                    1:5.1p1-5 > secure shell client and server (metapackage) > > which seems to me to be the latest package available to me in Lenny.. > this is a brand new error message, never seen it before. I am getting similar errors too wit

Re: rkhunter errors

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
date, and possibly a > security risk. > > > yet, exim is not installed, and ssh is: > ii ssh 1:5.1p1-5 > > secure shell client and server (metapackage) > > which seems to me to be the latest package available to me in Lenny.

rkhunter errors

2009-12-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
I just got this error message back from my rkhunter cron job: Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'named', version '9.5.1', is out

Re: many errors on hp installation

2009-11-16 Thread Camaleón
El Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:01:26 +0100, roberto escribió: (...) > i let the setup utility to find manually the printer and it actually > did, then i manually provided the ppd file and finally i get that error > message: > error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again. > > also

many errors on hp installation

2009-11-15 Thread roberto
hello, i try to install the HP LaserJet 2600n printer and using hp-setup i receive the following messages: error: No devices found. Please make sure your printer is properly connected and powered-on. \error: PPD not file found. An appropriate PPD file could not be found. Please check your HPLIP in

Thoughts about /etc/X11/Xsession and .xsession-errors

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Dalfuß
Hello. /etc/X11/Xsession creates a ~/.xsession-errors and then creates a symlink from that file to /tmp/xsession-$USER. But if that fails, it tells the user that it has tried it the other way round. Doing it the other way would not only fit to the message, but would also make more sense to me

Re: dpkg fails - exact errors

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:02:16PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I've tried to remove adobe-flashplugin, with the force option, but that > didn't work, now if I take dpkg's advice and reinstall I also get errors. > I've solved this issue, I simpley removed all

dpkg fails - exact errors

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've tried to remove adobe-flashplugin, with the force option, but that didn't work, now if I take dpkg's advice and reinstall I also get errors. Here is the errors I get with the removal: dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very b

Re: Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64

2009-10-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
1 > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Running "gr

Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Brunoli
e): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have read http://osdir.com/ml/debian-user-debian/2009-05/msg02074.html and followed instruct

RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Kevin, Thanks for providing all the information from your end. I did read somewhere that many times kernel driver will not report back at CRC errors found in the Physical layer even though there is a counter for that. Also, in our previous email, where you posted your stats, I noticed that

RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:14 PM > > It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those > statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that > time. I just checked on another c

RE: Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kevin Ross
It could be that the driver you are using doesn't report those statistics. It's also possible you haven't had any errors in that time. In my statistics below, the send/receive byte counts have overflowed the 32-bit limit many times, so don't believe them. I probably dow

Ethernet CRC errors statistics in Linux

2009-10-19 Thread Kushal Koolwal
I have a system (x86_64) running Debian Lenny on a standard Gigabit Ethernet LAN. I have been doing some researching on how to measure Ethernet CRC errors (Physical layer), if there are any, on my Debian system's ethernet card . It is clear that the ethereal (now wireshark) cannot measu

Re: xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 15:44 Thu 15 Oct , Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I think I had this problem many years ago. I dont remember if it was in my old redhat days or after I moved to debian in ?2003 or so. I remember I had a 50G or 100G .xsession-errors file or something like that. The solution is simple. You

Re: xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread green
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote at 2009-10-15 08:44 -0500: > On my machine the file ~/.xsession-errors grows and grows without > limits. I have to remove it regularly before it takes over my > whole disk; this has been the case for years. Last time I removed > it was September 21; now it is a

xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
On my machine the file ~/.xsession-errors grows and grows without limits. I have to remove it regularly before it takes over my whole disk; this has been the case for years. Last time I removed it was September 21; now it is again already 135M in size! It grows by the minute. It is mainly full of

Re: seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 10/9/2009 5:37 AM: > Jude DaShiell wrote: >> I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times >> after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my >> user account. This happens even though I think e2f

Re: seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem

seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem is as well as what can be

Re: Debian preseed errors with DHCP and network parameters

2009-10-07 Thread Josep M.
Hello Frank. I created a .sh that modify /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hostname and I solved with this, seems to me the most easy solution to the problem. Thanks fo the advice Josep from Spain El dom, 04-10-2009 a las 14:25 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT escribió: > On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 23:51 +020

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