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dont skimp on the shrimp: Apr 23, 2008

Agapetos posted:

Has Debian ever gotten around to making a graphical installer?

Yes, run "installgui" instead of "install" when it asks you what to boot. It should bring up a framebuffer gui which is very easy to use.

# ? Jul 13, 2008 03:59

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# ? May 13, 2024 18:51

Megaman: May 8, 2004; I didn't read the thread BUT...

I have gotten non-broadcast, mac filtered, non-encrypted wireless working. Now I need help getting wpa2-psk personal working. Does anyone know how to get this working through the command line? I have ndiswrapper installed and it is powering my usb adapter with the windows driver installed, any help would be appreciated!

# ? Jul 13, 2008 04:49

hybr1d: Sep 24, 2002

Is there a simple way to change the run level on an Ubuntu machine so it only boots to a console?

# ? Jul 13, 2008 05:41

Scaevolus: Apr 16, 2007

hybr1d posted:

Is there a simple way to change the run level on an Ubuntu machine so it only boots to a console?

System -> Administration -> Services, disable "Graphical login manager (gdm)"

Scaevolus fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jul 13, 2008

# ? Jul 13, 2008 06:04

covener: Jan 10, 2004; You know, for kids!

hybr1d posted:

Is there a simple way to change the run level on an Ubuntu machine so it only boots to a console?

look for initdefault in /etc/inittab

# ? Jul 13, 2008 13:13

covener: Jan 10, 2004; You know, for kids!

Megaman posted:

I have gotten non-broadcast, mac filtered, non-encrypted wireless working. Now I need help getting wpa2-psk personal working. Does anyone know how to get this working through the command line? I have ndiswrapper installed and it is powering my usb adapter with the windows driver installed, any help would be appreciated!

install and configure wpasupplicant

# ? Jul 13, 2008 13:15

hybr1d: Sep 24, 2002

Scaevolus posted:

System -> Administration -> Services, disable "Graphical login manager (gdm)"

Cool, thanks! For the other post, it should be noted that Ubuntu seems to have abandoned inittab.

# ? Jul 13, 2008 18:20

Megaman: May 8, 2004; I didn't read the thread BUT...

covener posted:

install and configure wpasupplicant

Unfortunately that's what I have been doing and I can't seem to get it to work. I'm assuming it works and I'm configuring it wrong, not that it doesn't work. When I do a wpa-suppliment -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d it outputs a huge scan list so I am assuming the wpa_supplicant.conf is correct or partially correct, then instead of -d I do a -B and it runs the daemon. I then cannot connect through knetworkmanager. Anyone have any tips or can someone PM me directly for help?

# ? Jul 13, 2008 19:40

covener: Jan 10, 2004; You know, for kids!

hybr1d posted:

Cool, thanks! For the other post, it should be noted that Ubuntu seems to have abandoned inittab.

Who'd have guessed it would diverge on that!

/etc/event.d/rc-default

code:


 if grep -q -w -- "-s\|single\|S" /proc/cmdline; then
            telinit S
        elif [ -r /etc/inittab ]; then
            RL="$(sed -n -e "/^id:[0-9]*:initdefault:/{s/^id://;s/:.*//;p}" /etc/inittab || true)"
            if [ -n "$RL" ]; then
                telinit $RL
            else
                telinit 2
            fi
        else
            telinit 2
        fi

# ? Jul 13, 2008 20:35

wolfs: Jul 17, 2001; posted by squid gang

I'm having some trouble with rtorrent. I recently switched from Azureus - and I'm having some trouble with seeding. Where after the torrent is finished - it doesn't really seed anymore.
Here is my .rtorrent file

I tried setting the min_peers value to 1. But that made no difference

min_peers = value
max_peers = value
Set the minimum and maximum number of peers to allow in each download.
min_peers_seed = value
max_peers_seed = value
Set the minimum nad maximum number of peers to allow while seeding, or -1 (default) to use max_peers.

Does anything look suspect in my config file?

One of the things I'm not sure about is the bind and ip setting -
bind = a.b.c.d
Bind listening socket and outgoing connections to this network interface address.
ip = a.b.c.d
ip = hostname
Set the address reported to the tracker.

Does that mean that rtorrent is telling the tracker my ip address is 192.168.1.100?

code:

# This is an example resource file for rTorrent. Copy to
# ~/.rtorrent.rc and enable/modify the options as needed. Remember to
# uncomment the options you wish to enable.

# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
min_peers = 1
#max_peers = 100

# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
min_peers_seed = 1
#max_peers_seed = 50

# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
#max_uploads = 15

# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
download_rate = 250
upload_rate = 70

# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
directory = /tivo/incoming/torrents

# Default session directory. Make sure you don't run multiple instance
# of rtorrent using the same session directory. Perhaps using a
# relative path?
session = /home/rince/session 

# Watch a directory for new torrents, and stop those that have been
# deleted.
#schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=./watch/*.torrent
#schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=

# Watch a directory for new torrents, restart torrents that have been
# copied back and stop those that have been deleted.
schedule = watch_directory_1,10,10,"load_start=/home/rince/rtorrent/torrents/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/tivo/downloads/rtorrents"
schedule = tied_directory,10,10,start_tied=
schedule = untied_directory,10,10,close_untied=


# On completion, move the torrent to the directory from custom1.
on_finished = move_complete,"execute=mv,-u,$d.get_base_path=,$d.get_custom1= ;d.set_directory=$d.get_custom1="

# Close torrents when diskspace is low.
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M

# Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio in percent,
# when also reaching total upload in bytes, or when
# reaching final upload ratio in percent.
# example: stop at ratio 2.0 with at least 200 MB uploaded, or else ratio 20.0
#schedule = ratio,60,60,"stop_on_ratio=200,200M,2000"
# Set default ratio stop, 1.5 with min of 50M and max ratio of 3.0
#schedule = ratio,60,60,"stop_on_ratio=150,50M,300"


# The ip address reported to the tracker.
#ip = 127.0.0.1
#ip = rakshasa.no


# The ip address the listening socket and outgoing connections is
# bound to.
#bind = 127.0.0.1
#bind = rakshasa.no

# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 49664-49664

# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
#port_random = no 

# Check hash for finished torrents. Might be usefull until the bug is
# fixed that causes lack of diskspace not to be properly reported.
check_hash = yes 

# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
use_udp_trackers = yes

# Alternative calls to bind and ip that should handle dynamic ip's.
#schedule = ip_tick,0,1800,ip=rakshasa
#schedule = bind_tick,0,1800,bind=rakshasa

# Encryption options, set to none (default) or any combination of the following:
# allow_incoming, try_outgoing, require, require_RC4, enable_retry, prefer_plaintext
#
# The example value allows incoming encrypted connections, starts unencrypted
# outgoing connections but retries with encryption if they fail, preferring
# plaintext to RC4 encryption after the encrypted handshake
#
#encryption = allow_incoming,enable_retry,prefer_plaintext
encryption = allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry,prefer_plaintext

# Enable DHT support for trackerless torrents or when all trackers are down.
# May be set to "disable" (completely disable DHT), "off" (do not start DHT),
# "auto" (start and stop DHT as needed), or "on" (start DHT immediately).
# The default is "off". For DHT to work, a session directory must be defined.
# 
dht = auto

# UDP port to use for DHT. 
# 
dht_port = 49764

# Enable peer exchange (for torrents not marked private)
#
peer_exchange = yes

#
# Do not modify the following parameters unless you know what you're doing.
#

# Hash read-ahead controls how many MB to request the kernel to read
# ahead. If the value is too low the disk may not be fully utilized,
# while if too high the kernel might not be able to keep the read
# pages in memory thus end up trashing.
#hash_read_ahead = 10

# Interval between attempts to check the hash, in milliseconds.
#hash_interval = 100

# Number of attempts to check the hash while using the mincore status,
# before forcing. Overworked systems might need lower values to get a
# decent hash checking rate.
#hash_max_tries = 10

#xmlrpc
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000

# Create symlinks in the watch directory with a suffix indicating the
# download state.

#on_start    = link1,"create_link=tied,,.started"
#on_stop     = link1,"delete_link=tied,,.started"
#on_finished = link1,"create_link=tied,,.finished"
#on_erase    = link1,"delete_link=tied,,.finished"

# Create symlinks in the same directory as the download.
#
#on_start    = link2,"create_link=base_path,,.started"
#on_stop     = link2,"delete_link=base_path,,.started"
#on_finished = link2,"create_link=base_path,,.finished"
#on_erase    = link2,"delete_link=base_path,,.finished"

# ? Jul 17, 2008 13:50

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

What are some good web dev apps for linux? So far Ive been using vim to write all my pages but its getting time consuming :/

# ? Jul 18, 2008 00:53

juggalol: Nov 28, 2004; Rock For Sustainable Capitalism

rincewind101 posted:

I'm having some trouble with rtorrent. I recently switched from Azureus - and I'm having some trouble with seeding. Where after the torrent is finished - it doesn't really seed anymore.

What do you mean by "doesn't really seed" - is it just low activity, or no seeding at all? It could be that you're not on a particularly active torrent, or it could also be that your ISP is doing something behind the scenes (Comcast has become notorious for this).

rincewind101 posted:

Does anything look suspect in my config file?

Nothing jumps out at me as being wrong. I'll post my own .rtorrent.rc at the end - mine is much smaller, only a few options set. It looks like you copied the default config and made a couple of edits.

rincewind101 posted:

One of the things I'm not sure about is the bind and ip setting -
bind = a.b.c.d
Bind listening socket and outgoing connections to this network interface address.
ip = a.b.c.d
ip = hostname
Set the address reported to the tracker.

Does that mean that rtorrent is telling the tracker my ip address is 192.168.1.100?

Doesn't look like you have any of these settings defined in the config file anyway. Rtorrent shouldn't be claiming your IP address is 192.168.1.100, it should be the address of the internet-facing device of your network. Since you're using a 192.168 network, I'm assuming you're behind some router/firewall device.

code:

# modified .rtorrent.rc
session = ~/.rtorrent_session

## default directory to save torrent data before it's complete
directory = /mnt/sda10/temp_download

## move completed torrents to different directories based on the watch dir
## it was initially pulled out of
schedule = watch_directory_1,10,10,"load_start=~/t/music/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/mnt/sda10/music/"
schedule = watch_directory_2,10,10,"load_start=~/t/video/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/mnt/sda10/video/"

# On completion, move the torrent to the directory from custom1.

on_finished = move_complete,"execute=mv,-u,$d.get_base_path=,$d.get_custom1= ;d.set_directory=$d.get_custom1="

## forwarded ports
port_range = 7001-7020

## encryption settings

encryption=allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry

rugbert posted:

What are some good web dev apps for linux? So far Ive been using vim to write all my pages but its getting time consuming :/

Check out Quanta Plus

juggalol fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jul 18, 2008

# ? Jul 18, 2008 02:41

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

EDIT: Nevermind, got it.

# ? Jul 18, 2008 16:00

CRIP EATIN BREAD: Jun 24, 2002; Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T; Soiled Meat

I'm having some strange issues with Ubuntu 8.04.1 right now.

After I pound the network for awhile (500 kbytes/s for a few hours), my downstream caps at around 150 kbytes/s. At first I thought this was my ISP, but even connecting to my local network is slow. There seems to be a lot of latency, because using something like Synergy to control my mouse on my laptop becomes very, very slow. I just brought down the interface with ifconfig, and it caused the machine to hang.

This is an integrated motherboard chipset for the network card, and it appears to be using the sky2 kernel driver.

Also I should note that restarting the machine causes everything to be fixed.

EDIT: It appears this is a known problem. Looks like I'll have to get another network card.

EDIT2: Anyone have a suggestion for a cheap network card with solid Linux drivers?

CRIP EATIN BREAD fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jul 19, 2008

# ? Jul 19, 2008 13:53

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

Your Japanese Dad posted:

I'm having some strange issues with Ubuntu 8.04.1 right now.

After I pound the network for awhile (500 kbytes/s for a few hours), my downstream caps at around 150 kbytes/s. At first I thought this was my ISP, but even connecting to my local network is slow. There seems to be a lot of latency, because using something like Synergy to control my mouse on my laptop becomes very, very slow. I just brought down the interface with ifconfig, and it caused the machine to hang.

This is an integrated motherboard chipset for the network card, and it appears to be using the sky2 kernel driver.

Also I should note that restarting the machine causes everything to be fixed.

EDIT: It appears this is a known problem. Looks like I'll have to get another network card.

EDIT2: Anyone have a suggestion for a cheap network card with solid Linux drivers?

edit - sorry, a D-link 10030C

rugbert fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jul 19, 2008

# ? Jul 19, 2008 14:29

other people: Jun 27, 2004; Associate Christ

Why did VLC drop the wxwindows gui? Am I correct that qt is the only option for a gui now? I love VLC, but even it can't make me install qt.

# ? Jul 20, 2008 01:07

Mario Incandenza: Aug 24, 2000; Tell me, small fry, have you ever heard of the golden Triumph Forks?

code:

matt@box3:~$ /sbin/ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:15:c5:e1:4b:1b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.1.228.30/25 brd 10.1.228.127 scope global eth0
    inet 10.1.74.40/24 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth0:74
    inet 10.1.228.39/25 brd 10.1.228.255 scope global secondary eth0:2
    inet 10.1.228.31/25 brd 10.1.228.255 scope global secondary eth0:3
    inet 10.1.228.49/25 brd 10.1.228.255 scope global secondary eth0:5
    inet 10.1.228.97/25 brd 10.1.228.255 scope global secondary eth0:6
    inet 10.1.228.66/25 brd 10.1.228.255 scope global secondary eth0:10

matt@box3:~$ /sbin/ip ro show table custom1
10.1.74.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.74.40
matt@box3:~$ sudo ip ro add table custom1 default via 10.1.74.1 dev eth0
RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

"gently caress you, route your own drat packets", apparently

Mario Incandenza fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jul 20, 2008

# ? Jul 20, 2008 14:19

juggalol: Nov 28, 2004; Rock For Sustainable Capitalism

Your Japanese Dad posted:

This is an integrated motherboard chipset for the network card, and it appears to be using the sky2 kernel driver.

Also I should note that restarting the machine causes everything to be fixed.

EDIT: It appears this is a known problem. Looks like I'll have to get another network card.

EDIT2: Anyone have a suggestion for a cheap network card with solid Linux drivers?

What chipset is the on-board NIC using? In the past, I've had Marvell Yukon Gig-E chips that hung a machine using the sky2 driver, but I was able to use a patched version of the sk98lin driver without any issues.

# ? Jul 21, 2008 01:09

CRIP EATIN BREAD: Jun 24, 2002; Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T; Soiled Meat

juggalol posted:

What chipset is the on-board NIC using? In the past, I've had Marvell Yukon Gig-E chips that hung a machine using the sky2 driver, but I was able to use a patched version of the sk98lin driver without any issues.

I'm pretty sure that's the exact one. I'll take a look into it. Thanks a lot.

# ? Jul 21, 2008 01:50

juggalol: Nov 28, 2004; Rock For Sustainable Capitalism

Your Japanese Dad posted:

I'm pretty sure that's the exact one. I'll take a look into it. Thanks a lot.

No problem. I'll see if I can find the driver patch - I remember SysKonnect's website being kind of a pain in the rear end to navigate, I may have it lying around somewhere. If nothing else, I'll be able to grab it tomorrow at work, I know I have it on the NAS there.

# ? Jul 21, 2008 02:03

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

Whats wrong with my fstab that it wont mount my new satas?

quote:

/dev/sdb1 /media/musicbackup ext3 auto,user,exec,rw,synch 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/moviebackup ext3 auto,user,exec,rw,synch 0 0

and fdisk -l shows

quote:

/dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux

# ? Jul 21, 2008 15:34

ShoulderDaemon: Oct 9, 2003; support goon fund; Taco Defender

rugbert posted:

Whats wrong with my fstab that it wont mount my new satas?

Error messages are pretty useful for solving problems.

Anyway, mixing auto and user is pretty atypical; the automount will normally mount as root, resulting in the user option being almost completely useless. The exec and rw options are default. And your fs_passno field should probably be 2 instead of 0, unless for some reason you don't want fsck to run (perhaps these are removable drives, in which case the user, sync and 0 make sense, but the auto is kinda bonkers). If these aren't removable drives, the sync is just crazy.

But I'd guess your problem is spelling sync with an h.

# ? Jul 21, 2008 15:46

juggalol: Nov 28, 2004; Rock For Sustainable Capitalism

ShoulderDaemon posted:

But I'd guess your problem is spelling sync with an h.

I did something like that last week - I couldn't figure out why a RAID partition wasn't being mounted at boot, and startup scripts which relied on that data were bombing left and right ... come to find out that I typed "auto" as "audo" in fstab.

Fuckin' New England accent strikes again :v:

# ? Jul 21, 2008 16:02

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

ShoulderDaemon posted:

Error messages are pretty useful for solving problems.

Anyway, mixing auto and user is pretty atypical; the automount will normally mount as root, resulting in the user option being almost completely useless. The exec and rw options are default. And your fs_passno field should probably be 2 instead of 0, unless for some reason you don't want fsck to run (perhaps these are removable drives, in which case the user, sync and 0 make sense, but the auto is kinda bonkers). If these aren't removable drives, the sync is just crazy.

But I'd guess your problem is spelling sync with an h.

the spelling correction didnt help. also, it doesnt look like my /var/log/ folder contains an error log.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 14:10

KS: Jun 10, 2003; Outrageous Lumpwad

Most of my infrastructure is HP BL25P blades, which have 4 NICs, 2 connected to each Cisco interconnect switch. The interconnects have a 4GB uplink to a 6513, but the two ports that cross-connect the two switches are disabled to prevent spanning tree loops.

Round robin load balancing on the nics in this case results in arp flapping between the two interconnects. Active-backup works but we have a few applications for which a single gbit connection is insufficient.

I was thinking I could make two round robin teams for the two nics on each switch, and then make an active-backup team out of the two RR teams.

Is it even possible to NIC team NIC teams? Am I missing the correct way to do this?

# ? Jul 22, 2008 14:23

Megaman: May 8, 2004; I didn't read the thread BUT...

This might have been answered already, but in Kubuntu is there a way to boot with GDM. When I install the OS I like to install from the command line with no extra software except the base and build from there. Unfortunately a consequence of that is that it doesn't boot straight into a windows manager. In Ubuntu inittab has been replaced by event.d, can someone explain how to change the boot runlevels?

# ? Jul 22, 2008 15:02

Spazz: Nov 17, 2005

I have an odd question. I'll give a bit of background. I use an old Compaq 1Ghz Celeron running Xubuntu. Typically I control it using a vnc session. I usually play music off of it, only it runs really loving slow and to queue up music quickly takes ages. I just acquired a dual xeon 3.0 ghz 4gb ram PowerEdge 2650 from a friend and I put Ubuntu server on that. Only it has no sound card.

Here's the question which may take some clarification in the future once a question gets shot to me: Is there a way to share the sound card on the Compaq to the Dell via a media player like Amarok (Which is my first choice to use).

code:

(AWFUL DIAGRAM)

--------------
| Dell Server|
--------------
      |
      |
Streaming Media
      |
      |
--------------
| Compaq Box |
--------------
      |
      |
      |
Outputs Music

Can this either be done via streaming or some remote mounted sound card?

Thanks guys, and if clarification is needed let me know.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 16:04

CRIP EATIN BREAD: Jun 24, 2002; Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T; Soiled Meat

Spazz posted:

I have an odd question. I'll give a bit of background. I use an old Compaq 1Ghz Celeron running Xubuntu. Typically I control it using a vnc session. I usually play music off of it, only it runs really loving slow and to queue up music quickly takes ages. I just acquired a dual xeon 3.0 ghz 4gb ram PowerEdge 2650 from a friend and I put Ubuntu server on that. Only it has no sound card.

Here's the question which may take some clarification in the future once a question gets shot to me: Is there a way to share the sound card on the Compaq to the Dell via a media player like Amarok (Which is my first choice to use).
code:
(AWFUL DIAGRAM)

--------------
| Dell Server|
--------------
      |
      |
Streaming Media
      |
      |
--------------
| Compaq Box |
--------------
      |
      |
      |
Outputs Music
Can this either be done via streaming or some remote mounted sound card?

Thanks guys, and if clarification is needed let me know.

PulseAudio will stream audio output to other sources over a network.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 16:21

SynVisions: Jun 29, 2003

Spazz posted:

Can this either be done via streaming or some remote mounted sound card?

Thanks guys, and if clarification is needed let me know.

Found this on the second hit of a google search: http://pulseaudio.org/

Give it a shot...

Then again they also do make USB sound cards you could plug into your server.

edit: arg beaten

# ? Jul 22, 2008 16:22

JoeNotCharles: Mar 3, 2005; Yet beyond each tree there are only more trees.

A 1 Ghz Celeron should be plenty fast for normal browsing and things. Something's wrong with your setup if it runs that slow.

Why not just take the sound card out of the Celeron and put it in the new computer?

To answer your actual question, though, you want to run a PulseAudio server on the machine with the soundcard, and have all the audio clients on the newer machine use either PulseAudio or eSound output (PulseAudio has a backwards-compatibility mode for eSound).

# ? Jul 22, 2008 16:24

Mr. Eric Praline: Aug 13, 2004; I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.

rugbert posted:

the spelling correction didnt help. also, it doesnt look like my /var/log/ folder contains an error log.

/var/log/messages?

also, watch dmesg.

You should also use either auto or user, not both, as was suggested.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 17:40

dont skimp on the shrimp: Apr 23, 2008

Spazz posted:

Can this either be done via streaming or some remote mounted sound card?

Thanks guys, and if clarification is needed let me know.

As the other people have said, pulseaudio is probably best suited for this. If you don't mind KDE, then arts has a similar feature.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 17:47

ShoulderDaemon: Oct 9, 2003; support goon fund; Taco Defender

rugbert posted:

the spelling correction didnt help. also, it doesnt look like my /var/log/ folder contains an error log.

Type mount /media/musicbackup at a command line and report the error message you get.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 17:58

rugbert: Mar 26, 2003; yea, fuck you

ShoulderDaemon posted:

Type mount /media/musicbackup at a command line and report the error message you get.

code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dmesg shows

code:

ext3: No journal on filesystem on sdb1
ext3: No journal on filesystem on sdc1

rugbert fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jul 22, 2008

# ? Jul 22, 2008 18:14

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

rugbert posted:

code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dmesg shows

code:

ext3: No journal on filesystem on sdb1
ext3: No journal on filesystem on sdc1

Looks like you might be trying to mount an ext2 filesystem as ext3. Try running tune2fs -j /dev/sdb1 and mount it again.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 18:17

Spazz: Nov 17, 2005

JoeNotCharles posted:

A 1 Ghz Celeron should be plenty fast for normal browsing and things. Something's wrong with your setup if it runs that slow.

Why not just take the sound card out of the Celeron and put it in the new computer?

To answer your actual question, though, you want to run a PulseAudio server on the machine with the soundcard, and have all the audio clients on the newer machine use either PulseAudio or eSound output (PulseAudio has a backwards-compatibility mode for eSound).

It runs fine when it plays, but browsing, queueing large amounts of albums, etc. can get slow. I also neglected to mention I run SABnzbd+ and Deluge on it. SABnzbd+ is a memory whore when it is par/raring.

The sound card is onboard for the celeron. If an audiophile saw my setup they'd scream bloody murder and never speak to me.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 19:57

J. Elliot Razorledgeball: Jan 28, 2005

For whatever reason my LAN connection shows up as eth1 - how can I disable eth0 on startup (ifdown eth0)? I'm not too good with understanding Linux startup scripts.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 23:36

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

J. Elliot Razorledgeball posted:

For whatever reason my LAN connection shows up as eth1

Because you have two network cards. Turn off the one you're not using.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 23:45

Megaman: May 8, 2004; I didn't read the thread BUT...

J. Elliot Razorledgeball posted:

For whatever reason my LAN connection shows up as eth1 - how can I disable eth0 on startup (ifdown eth0)? I'm not too good with understanding Linux startup scripts.

I think you can take the device out of /etc/networks/interfaces, the device should be active but will not have networking or detect anything, you can also do this through -> networking in the gui.

# ? Jul 22, 2008 23:46

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# ? May 13, 2024 18:51

Accipiter: Jan 24, 2004; SINATRA.

Megaman posted:

I think you can take the device out of /etc/networks/interfaces, the device should be active but will not have networking or detect anything, you can also do this through -> networking in the gui.

You seem to have some intuitive knowledge of what distribution he's running because your answer drat sure isn't valid on many Linux systems.

# ? Jul 23, 2008 00:19

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