Re: Laptop fails to suspend

2019-05-08 Thread Sam Smith
On 4/27/19 5:25 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 3/30/19 2:07 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: Il 30/03/19 00:56, Sam Smith ha scritto: I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop that I've ran Debian on for years and I have never had any issues with putting it to "sleep" or suspending when closing t

Re: Laptop fails to suspend

2019-04-27 Thread Sam Smith
On 3/30/19 2:07 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: Il 30/03/19 00:56, Sam Smith ha scritto: I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop that I've ran Debian on for years and I have never had any issues with putting it to "sleep" or suspending when closing the lid. However after upgrading f

Laptop fails to suspend

2019-03-29 Thread Sam Smith
I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop that I've ran Debian on for years and I have never had any issues with putting it to "sleep" or suspending when closing the lid. However after upgrading from stretch to Buster, suspend fails to work. I run KDE and I've tried to suspend from the desktop using

Stretch -> Buster = Shot Fonts

2019-03-18 Thread Sam Smith
After upgrading from stretch to buster, I was left with some fuzzy fonts on the built in KDE terminal (Konsole). I documented the painful 12 hour discovery process here: http://www.net153.net/blog/20190318-shot-fonts.html This is the new engine: http://www.net153.net/pics/shot-fonts/Screenshot

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2018-05-19 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/19/2018 01:56 AM, Hans wrote: Hi, looks like the laptop is going too hot. This is a problem at many laptops. because of the cooler is set with dust. Take a look at the cooling system, if there is any dust in the way. Especially, as you told, this is a used one, take care of good cooling.

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2018-05-18 Thread Sam Smith
On 09/04/2017 11:46 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 08/28/2017 03:32 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 06/13/2017 02:27 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 05/12/2017 03:38 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 01/20/2017 08:04 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It ha

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-09-05 Thread Sam Smith
On 09/05/2017 06:25 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:46:58 AM Sam Smith wrote: Well I guess I really spoke too soon Just got a random reboot a minute ago... Pretty much at a loss now. The only thing that hasn't been replaced now is the CPU, battery, and

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-09-04 Thread Sam Smith
On 08/28/2017 03:32 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 06/13/2017 02:27 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 05/12/2017 03:38 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 01/20/2017 08:04 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It had the motherboard with nvidia GPU. Because it

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-08-28 Thread Sam Smith
On 06/13/2017 02:27 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 05/12/2017 03:38 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 01/20/2017 08:04 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It had the motherboard with nvidia GPU. Because it sucks power and doesn't really have go

Re: Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-13 Thread Sam Smith
On 07/11/2017 06:27 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-07-11, Sam Smith wrote: [...] But what the heck? KDM with XDMCP was a feature. And it just worked. Maybe I missed something, but am I seriously reduced to using this complete "run X as setuid root so I can run startx as a normal

Remote GUI Instance + Debian 9

2017-07-10 Thread Sam Smith
For years I've used KDE on on my computers. I used to just have one desktop about 10 years ago but have since added many other laptops to my collection (all running debian of course). My now 10 year old desktop sits in the corner all by it self and rarely gets turned on. But my wife still uses

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-06-13 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/12/2017 03:38 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 01/20/2017 08:04 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It had the motherboard with nvidia GPU. Because it sucks power and doesn't really have good suspend/resume support, I bought a u

Re: SATA hotplug + mdadm raid

2017-05-18 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/18/2017 12:30 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: It doesn't matter that much. Use this: mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/whatever1 then check on progress with cat /proc/mdstat -dsr- Ok, I just went ahead and yanked the drive and stuck th

SATA hotplug + mdadm raid

2017-05-18 Thread Sam Smith
Hi, I recently upgraded my home server to an HP ml30 tower server. It came with a 4 drive hotplug SATA cage. I loaded two old unused drives in it and installed Debian Stretch on it putting the drives in a software raid1 via the debian installer. My plan was once I got the new box up and runni

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-17 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/16/2017 12:40 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 16/05/2017 à 19:12, Sam Smith a écrit : On 05/11/2017 12:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Also, when using the default ID ("debian"), it deletes any existing EFI boot entry whose name contains "debian" (case insensitive IIR

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-16 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/11/2017 12:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/05/2017 à 00:53, Sam Smith a écrit : On 05/09/2017 05:44 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Or use grub-install with --removable and --efi-directory for each disk. Or use grub-install with --efi-directory and --bootloader-id to install a copy of

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-05-12 Thread Sam Smith
On 01/20/2017 08:04 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It had the motherboard with nvidia GPU. Because it sucks power and doesn't really have good suspend/resume support, I bought a used mother board off of ebay that only

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-10 Thread Sam Smith
On 05/09/2017 05:44 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 09/05/2017 à 01:48, Sam Smith a écrit : I have installed Debian Stretch on my first system using UEFI. I used a two disk Raid 1 + LVM configured during install time to mount / on (among other things). But now I need to figure out how to add

UEFI + Raid

2017-05-08 Thread Sam Smith
Hi, I have installed Debian Stretch on my first system using UEFI. I used a two disk Raid 1 + LVM configured during install time to mount / on (among other things). But now I need to figure out how to add redundancy to the software raid 1 since I believe boot entries are only added to one di

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-01-23 Thread Sam Smith
On 01/20/2017 11:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: Looking at the data sheet for your computer: http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/pdf/system_data/t520_tech_specs.pdf It covers three variants: 1. ThinkPad® T520 4243 (Onsite) 2. ThinkPad® T520 4243 (Optimus) - Onsite 3. ThinkPa

Laptop randomly reboots

2017-01-20 Thread Sam Smith
I'll try to keep this short. I bought a used Lenovo T520 back in May. It had the motherboard with nvidia GPU. Because it sucks power and doesn't really have good suspend/resume support, I bought a used mother board off of ebay that only had intel integrated graphics and I swapped it out. All wa

Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

2015-09-12 Thread Sam Smith
On 09/07/2015 01:23 PM, Sam Smith wrote: 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 sometime after I u

Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

2015-09-11 Thread Sam Smith
On 09/09/2015 01:11 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Sam Smith (deb...@net153.net): Another issue is when a fsck actually does run, systemd doesn't display the output, the screen just hangs for 20 minutes or so which to the unknown user, they may reboot the machine and screw stuff up. Is

Re: Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

2015-09-11 Thread Sam Smith
On 09/09/2015 08:10 AM, Linux 4 Bene wrote: 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 rem

Fsck errors at boot, but boots anyway

2015-09-07 Thread 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 sometime after I upgraded to using systemd. I kept thinking it was a

Re: network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

2015-06-29 Thread Sam Smith
On 06/27/2015 07:48 PM, Sam Smith wrote: On 06/27/2015 04:42 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot get wifi to work now. I have been using network-manager with KDE for years now. I tried removing everything network-manager related through apt and

Re: network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

2015-06-27 Thread Sam Smith
On 06/27/2015 04:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 27 June 2015 22:42:11 Sam Smith wrote: I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot get wifi to work now. I have been using network-manager with KDE for years now. I tried removing everything network-manager related through

Re: network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

2015-06-27 Thread Sam Smith
Indeed :) --Sam 'the' smith On 06/27/2015 09:34 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Wait...*the* Sam smith? ahem! Sorry, could not resist. Kare On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Sam Smith wrote: On 06/27/2015 04:42 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot ge

Re: network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

2015-06-27 Thread Sam Smith
On 06/27/2015 04:42 PM, Sam Smith wrote: I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot get wifi to work now. I have been using network-manager with KDE for years now. I tried removing everything network-manager related through apt and starting over but that didn't work. I

network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

2015-06-27 Thread Sam Smith
I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot get wifi to work now. I have been using network-manager with KDE for years now. I tried removing everything network-manager related through apt and starting over but that didn't work. I have network-manager and plasma-widget-networkm