Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Bill Barry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) > wrote: >> "Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have >> two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple >> partitions)?" >> >> -- I wish it w

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) wrote: > "Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have > two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple > partitions)?" > > -- I wish it was only 1 server that was set up this way, but unfortunately

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
"Can you expand on the description of your environment? Do you have two servers (one with the single partition and another with multiple partitions)?" -- I wish it was only 1 server that was set up this way, but unfortunately it is two servers and they both only have 1 hard drive and 1 large / pa

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) wrote: > Asking people who have direct experience with resolving this nightmare what > the best method is of migrating a production server install on a single / > partition to a multi-partitioned install. Can you expand on the description of

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:39:40 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that >were uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no longer >launch. Dist-upgrades suck rocks. I can't believe the programs that it uninstalled - flashplug

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread Tony Jeffries
I don’t always separate out /home (depends on if space is tight and I will need /home to be able to take advantage of that space flexibly), but definitely separate out /tmp and /var. Most systems I’ve worked on have some downtime available, so if you are in a five-nines situation, this might n

Re: [PLUG] Urgent: MongoDB replication

2014-08-07 Thread aaron
On 2014-08-06 22:50, Michael Dexter wrote: > I'll bite. So far I've heard: "Horrible MongoDB is better than > horrible > CouchDB and PostgreSQL JSON extensions are now as fast as the hipster > JSON DB's. More or less true, though I suspect CouchDB is not as horrible as generally thought, if only

Re: [PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread benjamin barber
I usually have /var/ and /home separate from the root install. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:24 PM, MIke C. (Tech. Coord.) < mike.conn...@albertagrocery.coop> wrote: > One of the of the worst nightmares of a new incoming SysAdmin has to be > having the server not be accessible because the previous Sy

[PLUG] Migrate Ubuntu Server / install to /home. /var, /opt, etc install?

2014-08-07 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
One of the of the worst nightmares of a new incoming SysAdmin has to be having the server not be accessible because the previous SysAdmin thought it was good idea to only have a root partition and then some backup script fails and spools up on the local drive, or there's a bug, virus, etc and / fil

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that >> were uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no >> longer launch. Dist-upgrades suck rocks. >Perh

Re: [PLUG] No stream tonight, sorry

2014-08-07 Thread elcaseti .
I'm guessing this also means that she won't want it to be filmed, either? There's a lot of folks outside the Portland area who would love to see this talk. Thanks, Elcaset On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Hello all, > > While not entirely a surprise, our speaker prefe

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:31:34AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > When I rebooted it brought up the Grub boot menu, which did not appear > before, but it proceeded to boot to the default. Oh well. > > As soon as I was booted I tried to launch Claws Mail so I could write > this reply, but it tu

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that > were uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no longer > launch. Dist-upgrades suck rocks. It may be better to do an upgrade before you do a dist-up

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that were > uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no longer launch. > Dist-upgrades suck rocks. John, Sometimes the efforts to make things 'easy' for users and spa

[PLUG] TONIGHT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Beth 'pidge' Flanagan What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical implications in home building the semi-automatic AK-47 Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 at 7p

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:54:06 -0700 Mark Phillips dijo: >John, > >I use Debian and not Ubuntu, but they are closely related. I use >apt-get to manage upgrades and I have had problems in the past where >the upgrade fails, sometimes silently, and then things are out of >whack - missing packages, won'

[PLUG] No stream tonight, sorry

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello all, While not entirely a surprise, our speaker prefer not stream tonight's talk. Sorry! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread Mark Phillips
John, I use Debian and not Ubuntu, but they are closely related. I use apt-get to manage upgrades and I have had problems in the past where the upgrade fails, sometimes silently, and then things are out of whack - missing packages, won't boot, etc. I have found that re-running the upgrade sometime

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot (SOLVED)

2014-08-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:59:45 -0700 Ben Koenig dijo: >Sorry this isn't working out. > >We should really try the Ubuntu Method first before diving in to this >chroot stuff. Even though that is exactly what all these tools use. > >Install Boot Repair onto the live cd: > >sudo add-apt-repository ppa

Re: [PLUG] Help! Update won't boot

2014-08-07 Thread Ben Koenig
Sorry this isn't working out. We should really try the Ubuntu Method first before diving in to this chroot stuff. Even though that is exactly what all these tools use. Install Boot Repair onto the live cd: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair sudo sed 's/trusty/saucy/g' -i /etc/a