Re: Can't Log in

2015-09-21 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:31:08 -0700, schreef ray: I have had this happen when my harddisk was at 100%. I got as far as the graphical login, but it didn't accept my login. I'm not sure but I believe I logged in via ssh or maybe I was still connected. I don't recall that. Anyway, on my end it was

Re: Redirecing root emails to a gmail account

2015-09-09 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:03:01 +0100, schreef James Allsopp: > Hello, > I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if possible. I > can send email here via commandline > > echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test > > but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the external

Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

2015-09-09 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:23:03 -0500, schreef Sam Smith: > Hello, > > I've been getting some strange fsck errors for over a year now on my > Debian 8 workstation. See photo: http://tinyurl.com/otzxebh Ignore the > softreset errors. I can't really remember when the issue started, but it > was

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:34:59 -0500, schreef David Wright: Also, my advice in this post applies only when the disk size is bigger than 2 TiB, and 2 TB 2 TiB. Although I was being flippant, isn't that a bit short-sighted? Currently a 2TB external desktop (Seagate, Staples regular price) is

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:01:16 -0400, schreef Gary Dale: On 16/07/15 08:00 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: snip Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:36:07 +, schreef Linux4Bene: Well, I have tried so many configs to get this dedicated server up and running, that I tried a whole bunch of scenarios. The OVH rescue system only loads raid partitions of the type 0.9. It didn't look like it wanted to read my type 1.2