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Linux Stuff / Linux distributions / Re: The alternative Debian install method.
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on: January 14, 2011, 06:59:55 AM
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Some of these Debian install methods seem massively convoluted. I don't consider myself a hardcore Linux guy, but I found the self-build method I used for this method trivial and it flashed using ESIA. Why complicate things? I have a uber-stable squeeze install of Debian that uses Sheeva-With-Linux mainstream kernels, and i'm guessing that's what 99% of people want to be running.
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Hardware and U-Boot firmware / Hardware / Re: Poll: What is the status of your SheevaPlug's Power Supply?
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on: November 14, 2010, 03:11:09 PM
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Mine Sheevaplug PSU failed this weekend. Looking at the design it's clear why it's failed.
It's also rather shocking that supplies of replacement PSU's are not realilly available from Globalscale and it's distributors seeing as it's a know issue. If you have a Sheevaplug and you have the original PSU, then I suspect yours is living on borrowed time...
Will replacing the capacitiors being mine back to life? (it wasn't totally dead, I had flashing LED's)
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Linux Stuff / Kernel / Re: 2.6.35.4 new release
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on: September 15, 2010, 11:33:46 AM
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Any chance CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME can be enabled. It gives timestamps in dmesg output. I don't think it has any other overhead, and makes debugging problems rather simpler :-)
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General Category / Success stories / Re: Managing a USB hard drive on the Plug
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on: September 04, 2010, 04:54:51 AM
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this all sort of stopped working for me recently. I ended going back to: #!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: wait4usbdisks
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Should-stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# X-Interactive: true
# X-Start-Before: checkfs
# Short-Description: Delays boot to ensure USB disks are connected.
### END INIT INFO
echo "Taking a 10 second nap for USB devices to initialize!"
sleep 10
echo "Done napping!"
and then: update-rc.d wait4usbdisks.sh defaults
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General Category / General Discussion / Problems automouting USB HDD on boot.
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on: August 25, 2010, 03:34:10 PM
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Hi, running Debian Squeeze without any issues for rather a long time. However recently something has changed. When I start my system now, my big USB HDD is not mounted, and thus lots of things like my mail server/web server and other stuff all fall over.
I am using the wait4usbdisks.sh script, and that's worked well, but something had changed in either the kernel or debian base that's made it less than efficient (I have seen it work a couple of boots, but it's far from robust and 9/10 times it does not work anymore).
IS there a better, more bullet-proof way of delaying the init until the HDD has spun up? What solutions are others using?
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Linux Stuff / Kernel / Re: 2.6.35.2 new release
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on: August 18, 2010, 12:31:11 PM
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Moving from 2.6.35.1 to 2.6.35.2, my USB HDD does not automount on boot anymore, I need to manually mount it. Has any config change caused this? Anyone else seeing this? EDIT: Seen this is DMESG EXT4-fs (sda1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x4020
[<c003044c>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xec) from [<c00826e8>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4a8/0x50c)
[<c00826e8>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4a8/0x50c) from [<c008275c>] (__get_free_pages+0x10/0x3c)
[<c008275c>] (__get_free_pages+0x10/0x3c) from [<c030fb00>] (pskb_expand_head+0x58/0x1a0)
[<c030fb00>] (pskb_expand_head+0x58/0x1a0) from [<c033aec8>] (ip_rcv_finish+0x164/0x3dc)
[<c033aec8>] (ip_rcv_finish+0x164/0x3dc) from [<c0316a50>] (__netif_receive_skb+0x474/0x4d0)
[<c0316a50>] (__netif_receive_skb+0x474/0x4d0) from [<c0316b3c>] (process_backlog+0x90/0x15c)
[<c0316b3c>] (process_backlog+0x90/0x15c) from [<c0316e20>] (net_rx_action+0x58/0x180)
[<c0316e20>] (net_rx_action+0x58/0x180) from [<c0042608>] (__do_softirq+0x88/0x124)
[<c0042608>] (__do_softirq+0x88/0x124) from [<c00426ec>] (irq_exit+0x48/0xa0)
[<c00426ec>] (irq_exit+0x48/0xa0) from [<c002b070>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x70/0x8c)
[<c002b070>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x70/0x8c) from [<c03e4ae8>] (__irq_svc+0x48/0xa8)
Exception stack(0xc051ff48 to 0xc051ff90)
ff40: 000797ee 00001f40 000797ee 20000013 c0525630 c0525640
ff60: c05ef6dc c0522320 00023c48 56251311 00023b44 00000000 1da979cb c051ff90
ff80: c005bea4 c003441c 20000013 ffffffff
[<c03e4ae8>] (__irq_svc+0x48/0xa8) from [<c003441c>] (kirkwood_enter_idle+0x64/0x90)
[<c003441c>] (kirkwood_enter_idle+0x64/0x90) from [<c02e1718>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0xb4/0x118)
[<c02e1718>] (cpuidle_idle_call+0xb4/0x118) from [<c002c9ac>] (cpu_idle+0x60/0xb8)
[<c002c9ac>] (cpu_idle+0x60/0xb8) from [<c0008988>] (start_kernel+0x284/0x2e4)
[<c0008988>] (start_kernel+0x284/0x2e4) from [<00008034>] (0x8034)
Mem-info:
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 173
active_anon:10108 inactive_anon:11353 isolated_anon:0
active_file:21490 inactive_file:74670 isolated_file:0
unevictable:0 dirty:27 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:4987 slab_reclaimable:2261 slab_unreclaimable:1417
mapped:3534 shmem:37 pagetables:359 bounce:0
Normal free:19948kB min:2884kB low:3604kB high:4324kB active_anon:40432kB inactive_anon:45412kB active_file:85960kB inactive_file:298680kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:520192kB mlocked:0kB dirty:108kB writeback:0kB mapped:14136kB shmem:148kB slab_reclaimable:9044kB slab_unreclaimable:5668kB kernel_stack:944kB pagetables:1436kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
Normal: 2875*4kB 728*8kB 154*16kB 5*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 19948kB
96197 total pagecache pages
0 pages in swap cache
Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 0kB
131072 pages of RAM
5434 free pages
2617 reserved pages
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Linux Stuff / Kernel / Re: 2.6.34 new release
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on: May 19, 2010, 11:03:07 AM
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Your SD Card does internal wear levelling and block management with an undisclosed algorithm.
Ahh, I didn't know this.... I wanted something that managed the wear leveling of my SD Card. I ran for a while with a split setup, with some stuff on the NAND and my /VAR partition mounted on my Transcend Class6 SDCard (EXT3) but every now and again the system would fall over because the mmcblk device was readonly... Never got to the bottom of it, so move back to NAND only. I was thinking of re-using my sdcard for something less critical like /var/log |
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General Category / General Discussion / Re: What Now?
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on: April 29, 2010, 12:23:19 AM
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Twonkymedia should do the trick. I have a Wiki page setup here that describes installation and configuration on Sheevaplug: http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Run_TwonkyMedia_on_SheevaplugAs mentioned, it's not free, but it is GOOD, infact it's the only one that delivers rock solid performance to my home network, both wired and wireless, for video, music, and photos.. You geta 30 day trial, if it works, there is a 50% promo at the mo. http://www.twonkymedia.com/Promotions/index.html |
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