Rebooting [was: how to add more ipv6 addresses to an interface that is being configured through dhcpv6]

2022-11-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 02:03:19PM -, Curt wrote: > [...] (whether this is a somehow invalidating reminder of > Microsoft Windows is left as the traditional exercise): I know that smugness. I'm old, after all :-) That said, as age accrues, I've learnt an upside of rebooting after sw

Re: Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-02 Thread john doe
an option of an RS-232 connection into the BIOS or equivalent, allowing remote control of BIOS parameters and rebooting when necessary. It's an unfitted option on my HP microserver. Many UPS devices have an RS-232 connection to a server to notify of loss of mains, low battery etc. SSH would not normally

Re: Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-01 Thread Joe
hooting, and we do not know if the console is the usual client. Many proper servers have at least an option of an RS-232 connection into the BIOS or equivalent, allowing remote control of BIOS parameters and rebooting when necessary. It's an unfitted option on my HP microserver. Many UPS devices ha

Re: Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 09:14:11 +0100 john doe wrote: > I'm using a RS232 cable to connect to a server everything is properly > set up and works fine. > For some reasons I lost the connection to my server that is I can not > control the server using serial console. ... > > In other words, how can

Re: Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-01 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > I'm using a RS232 cable to connect to a server everything is properly > set up and works fine. > For some reasons I lost the connection to my server that is I can not > control the server using serial console. > If I reboot that server I can once again manage that server using

Avoid rebooting server to gain back RS232 connection

2021-12-01 Thread john doe
Debians, I'm using a RS232 cable to connect to a server everything is properly set up and works fine. For some reasons I lost the connection to my server that is I can not control the server using serial console. If I reboot that server I can once again manage that server using serial console.

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-18 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Dec 2020 at 09:45:22 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 06:45:47PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > A correction - GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true should be put into > > > /etc/default/grub. > > > > What sort of weirdness happens? Is the problem with writing > >

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 06:45:47PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > A correction - GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true should be put into > > /etc/default/grub. > > What sort of weirdness happens? Is the problem with writing > /boot/grub/grubenv (where the strings reside), or with Grub's >

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Dec 2020 at 13:47:28 (+0300), Reco wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:46:18PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:12:37AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > 2. As far as I

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread Anssi Saari
PstrfZ writes: > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based.  Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the command via SSH) Yes, I do this a lot in a

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread Joe
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:29:02 +0100 (GMT+01:00) PstrfZ wrote: > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based.  Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the com

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 10 décembre 2020 à 10:50:06 UTC+1, PstrfZ a écrit : > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based. Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the com

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:46:18PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:12:37AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > 2. As far as I recall grub1 has a 'grub set-default' or similar

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:12:37AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > 2. As far as I recall grub1 has a 'grub set-default' or similar command > > that could be used for to change the default for the next

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > 2. As far as I recall grub1 has a 'grub set-default' or similar command > that could be used for to change the default for the next boot only[b]. > Maybe this was re-implemented also in grub2? It seems so (note version

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 10:29:02, PstrfZ wrote: > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based.  Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the command via SSH)

Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread PstrfZ
On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all debian-based.  Is it possible to select which system to boot while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system by sending the command via SSH)

Resolved: Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-24 Thread rhkramer
enabled, but I don't really want to do either -- as is often the > case, I have various files and such open and to an appropriate place that I > don't want to lose (nor have to re-establish). > > So, that leads to two questions: > > 1. Is there a way to re-enable the external m

Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-07 Thread elvis
On 8/2/20 4:02 am, Ralph Katz wrote: On 2/7/20 2:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: [snip] I have found that if I close the lid on the laptop, with or without an external monitor or KVM connected, I am unable to get the display working again without a reboot. I had a similar problem with a

Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 2/7/20 2:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: [snip] > I have found that if I close the lid on the laptop, with or without an > external monitor or KVM connected, I am unable to get the display > working again without a reboot. [snip] Maybe it's this bug: light-locker, lightdm: screen stays off

Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-07 Thread David Christensen
doing something like rebooting? 2. Is there a way (a setting to change) to keep the problem from recurring in the future? One more "extra credit" OT question (which I can ask in a future thread if no one responds here) -- how can I tell whether the Buster installation is using X or Wa

Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-06 Thread Kenneth Parker
nnections. I generally "reserved" one Port for "transient" (i.e. Laptop) computers. I occasionally encountered your issue, when the Laptop went to sleep. My workaround (when rebooting was not practical) was to bring Video back first, using the Video Settings screen and bringin

Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-06 Thread rhkramer
-- as is often the case, I have various files and such open and to an appropriate place that I don't want to lose (nor have to re-establish). So, that leads to two questions: 1. Is there a way to re-enable the external monitor, keyboard, and mouse without doing something like rebooting? 2

Icons are mixed when rebooting.

2019-06-26 Thread Мухоморик Мухоморик
When you restart, the first icon at the top at the top moves to the end of the list of icons on the desktop. LXDE Linux debian 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5 (2019-06-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: user shutingdown/rebooting system w/wo sudo

2017-07-20 Thread Lck Ras
On 07/20/2017 05:39 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > Apart from what different wm/dm do, should a user without sudo > priviledges be able to stop or restart a system? > In most wm I have seen the user is able to do this without being > asked for root priviledges and I believe this is wrong and should > not

Re: user shutingdown/rebooting system w/wo sudo

2017-07-20 Thread Reco
is redundant. Likewise if a user can press 'reset' button on PC - requiring to be root is redundant for rebooting. Same goes for laptops, tablets and even servers in certain situations. On the other hand, if user connects to own PC by some means of remote desktop protocol (be it VNC, RDesktop, SP

user shutingdown/rebooting system w/wo sudo

2017-07-20 Thread Fungi4All
Apart from what different wm/dm do, should a user without sudo priviledges be able to stop or restart a system? In most wm I have seen the user is able to do this without being asked for root priviledges and I believe this is wrong and should not be done. As I see contradictory reading material on

Re: watchdog did not stop (on rebooting)

2017-06-07 Thread RavenLX
On 06/07/2017 07:33 PM, Dekks Herton wrote: If you have a thinkpad and use tlp you can set the NMI watchdog to off in /etc/default/tlp I do have tlp installed. Here's what is in the file. Looks like it's already disabled: # Kernel NMI Watchdog: # 0=disable (default, saves power),

Re: watchdog did not stop (on rebooting)

2017-06-07 Thread Dekks Herton
If you have a thinkpad and use tlp you can set the NMI watchdog to off in /etc/default/tlp also look at /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog to see the state RavenLX writes: > I was trying to find a way to fix this warning on my Thinkpad. I have > found out that it is normal for this to happen

watchdog did not stop (on rebooting)

2017-06-07 Thread RavenLX
I was trying to find a way to fix this warning on my Thinkpad. I have found out that it is normal for this to happen and can safely be ignored. Reference links: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153205

Re: unmount sys/fs/cgroup/systemd after chroot, without rebooting

2017-05-03 Thread Sam Kuper
; which the system for some reason thinks is "in use". [...] > > - How can I unmount `/mnt/sys` after the chroot, without rebooting? > [...] > > VIRTUAL_FILESYSTEM_DIRS=(dev proc sys) > > for i in "${VIRTUAL_FILESYSTEM_DIRS[@]}"; do > # Make mountpoint

unmount sys/fs/cgroup/systemd after chroot, without rebooting

2017-05-03 Thread Sam Kuper
system for some reason thinks is "in use". Reformatting the ZFS drive and rebooting fixes the problem, but hugely slows the iterations of my learning and documentation process. My questions are: - How can I unmount `/mnt/sys` after the chroot, without rebooting? - Is the failure (`umount: /m

Unexpected inconsistency error message after rebooting a newly installed debian wheezy with preseed (lvm partitioning) - Any idea how to auto run fsck after installation, slipstreamed to preseed.cfg

2015-01-08 Thread Eran M.
Hi all, Below is my preseed.cfg file. What's wrong with it? Why am I getting unexpected inconsistency and forced to run fsck after a fresh installation? d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? Here is a

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is it mandatory that

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst image or CD-1 to complete successfully. If you say so :-) I do say so. I find it hard to

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst image or CD-1 to complete

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: menuentry jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst { loopback loop (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz initrd

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: menuentry jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst { loopback loop

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 15:47:57 +, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en That is

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 09:56:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same reason: the netinst image

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same reason: the netinst image does not contain loop.ko. It should work with the mini.iso (the netboot image),

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:16:16 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same reason: the netinst image does not contain

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: Would you please explain the boot recovery option. Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken system. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:51:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: Would you please explain the boot recovery option. Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken system. Amazing what one forgets. The mini.iso downloads

Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Lee Winter
It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, how can the image be transformed into an executable program and associated

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, how can the image be

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 23:14:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? For example, several boot

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims from vendors. From your favorite company: research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf Power Cycles. The power cycles indicator counts the number of times a

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 12:44 +, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims from vendors. From your favorite company: research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf Power Cycles.

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Don't confuse 12 Power_Cycle_Count with 193 Load_Cycle_Count Well, actually, I just discovered that my Western Digital (WD15EARS) drive suffers from the dreaded Load_Cycle_Count syndrome (parked/unparked heads once every 8

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two years. On Linux Audio Users mailing list

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: I'm too embarassed to give you my load cycle count, but if I had as many euros as I do cycles, I'd be living in luxury down on the Côte d'Azur. http://www.fishofadifferentcolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/du-money-bin-play1.jpg

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would have been, that it's impossible, that such a

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always - 7539 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always - 500820 500820 / 7539 = 66 so around 1 time each minute, but I'm

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 21:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always - 7539 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always - 500820

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:56:12 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 20 Oct

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 17:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: Do you have reason to believe this, or a source, or are you just expressing your opinion, unshackled by facts and data? Quite likely not, but who said that that will be due to excessive spinups / spindowns? It's the kind of breakage, the

Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: ... Each time you reboot, you harm your HDDs. You do?

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: ...

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
Bill Harris wsharri...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I booted into W7 and launched IE last night, and then I shut down again. Then I booted Debian. This time

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 06:32:08AM -0700, Bill Harris wrote: Bill Harris wsharri...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I booted into W7 and launched IE last

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:32:08PM +0100, Bill Harris wrote: Bill Harris wsharri...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I booted into W7 and launched IE

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Dawid Toton
On 04/18/2013 07:41 AM, Bill Harris wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard stops

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Harris
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: This looks like it might be http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html. Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that thread that the change was

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 19, 2013 7:43 PM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: This looks like it might be http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html . Try a newer kernel, if

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 11:29 AM, Soare Catalin lolinux.so...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, Bill Harris bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 06:41:58AM +0100, Bill Harris wrote: I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing

Re: Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Harris
Soare, Thanks for your quick response. The laptop is currently crashed, and so I'll check logs and more later. I discovered uprecords a while back, and I've had uptimes as long as 136 days. I think the current mode of uptime is around 10-20 days, but it may be longer. I do sense that it's

Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-17 Thread Bill Harris
I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard stops responding, but I'm not sure it always freezes

Re: Xen Domain0 keep rebooting on IBMx346

2013-04-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
G'day Alan, On 5/04/2013 5:57 PM, alan04 wrote: I saw your email :http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg00504.html, and hope to learn some infomation from you. I have similar problem of IBM x346, with Xen 4.1.2(on Ubuntu 12.04), or Xen 4.1.3 (on Ubuntu 12.10). The domain0 always

Re: change hostname without rebooting

2012-11-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: # Me, wonders why systemd-hostnamed does not run, google says it should: $ echo $PATH /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin:/home/justa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games $ dpkg -L

Re: change hostname without rebooting [SOLVED]

2012-11-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/24/12, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: # Me, wonders why systemd-hostnamed does not run, google says it should: $ echo $PATH

change hostname without rebooting

2012-11-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
So I change hostname from localhost to x. I run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start I'm still logged in. I have many firefox tabs open. Actually, I changed the hostname a day ago. Now, when I try to start an xterm, it takes about 9s. I run xterm from an existing xterm, to see what might be happening,

Re: change hostname without rebooting

2012-11-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
# Me, wonders why systemd-hostnamed does not run, google says it should: $ echo $PATH /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin:/home/justa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games $ dpkg -L systemd|grep hostnamed /lib/systemd/system/systemd-hostnamed.service

Re: change hostname without rebooting

2012-11-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Final step: $ sudo ./systemd-hostnamed Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname! # indefinite pause/hang at this point... # I did CTRL-C to exit after about 2min. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: Unnecessary rebooting (was Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias)

2012-03-14 Thread rcb
From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz, Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:00:24 +1300 [Please, don't top post in this mailing list] Just logout then log back in again, or even better, type: source .bashrc at a command prompt. :) -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people

Re: Unnecessary rebooting (was Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias)

2012-03-14 Thread Dom
On 14/03/12 12:50, rcb wrote: Dear Camaleón, Unfortunately, this nice command of yours doesn't seem to work. Is it me typing something wrong, or there is really a problem? :~$ alias muda='find $1 -name * -mtime $2' :~$ muda /home/cheetara -4 find: invalid arg `-4' for `-mtime' Command line

Changing subscription from -digest to normal [was: Re: Unnecessary rebooting (was Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias)]

2012-03-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 14 mar 12, 09:50:11, rcb wrote: PPS. I think I need to change the list subscription from digest to normal emails. I tried subject:help to debian-user-request, but the message that came back was of no help. (Maybe this is offtopic here -- in this email of course, and in the list in

Unnecessary rebooting (was Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias)

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please, don't top post in this mailing list] On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:47:27PM -0300, rcb wrote: seems to works inside .bashrc file! (Just 'seems' because I did not reboot, just typed in a terminal and it worked great!) You shouldn't reboot for changes you make to your .bashrc to take

Fwd: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-09 Thread Gustavo
...@creativecow.net Date: 5 de mayo de 2011 17:38:09 GMT+02:00 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically? Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also

MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Abraham
Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? Much appreciated! Abraham

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
5.5.2011 18:38, Abraham kirjoitti: Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? Rebooting? Is the mysqld process restarting

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 05/05/2011 09:08 PM, Abraham wrote: Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? Much appreciated! Abraham The janitor

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Abraham
Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? Rebooting? Is the mysqld process restarting at midnight, or is the whole

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Bob McConnell
Abraham wrote: Does anyone know why a MySQL Server would be automatically rebooting at midnight? I never set it to reboot and can't find an option to change this. I've also searched online and can't find an answer. Any ideas? Rebooting? Is the mysqld process restarting at midnight

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Abraham
logrotate? That's the only thing I could find that might be doing it as I went through the cron files. In the /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server file there is a /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs command that is probably being run which would probably restart the server?

Re: MySQL Server Rebooting Automatically?

2011-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 May 2011 11:13:14 -0700, Abraham wrote: logrotate? That's the only thing I could find that might be doing it as I went through the cron files. In the /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server file there is a /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs command that is probably being run which would

Fallacy of rebooting after updates (was Re: FAT: Filesystem panic)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 03:23 PM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: [snip] Hm, up to date Lenny with 5374942 seconds uptime? Maybe you should reboot after you do an update? Not sure how update works but if it only changes the files, and not the images of running kernel or processes... And if you do several

Re: X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 11 mar 11, 19:44:49, George wrote: Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have a problem which happens on almost every boot. The nvidia logo shows up and then I'm thrown to a command line. I have to login from the command line and reboot from there and then everything works fine. Here are

Re: X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-12 Thread George
On 3/12/11, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 11 mar 11, 19:44:49, George wrote: Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have a problem which happens on almost every boot. The nvidia logo shows up and then I'm thrown to a command line. I have to login from the command line and

X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-11 Thread George
Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have a problem which happens on almost every boot. The nvidia logo shows up and then I'm thrown to a command line. I have to login from the command line and reboot from there and then everything works fine. Here are the Xorg.logs generated, first when the problem

Re: X starts only after rebooting

2011-03-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
George wrote: Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have a problem which happens on almost every boot. The nvidia logo shows up and then I'm thrown to a command line. I have to login from the command line and reboot from there and then everything works fine. Here are the Xorg.logs generated, first

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 20:19:50 -0500, PMA wrote: Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this alert! I may have alarmed you unduly and should have

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 09:25:24, Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 20:19:50 -0500, PMA wrote: Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this alert!

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:00:36 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: If you used the mini.iso to install to a different device[1], then it sounds like a bug. I can't think of any reason for the installer to offer anything but the MBR of the device holding /boot as *default* for installing grub.

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 10:49:28, Brian wrote: The same thing came into my mind at the time but I moved on. Perhaps it has been fixed in a daily build. I don't like reporting as bugs something which I'm not sure about so I'll have a closer look at it today. Which package would I report the bug

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