| Takyoji | Heh http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/protestors-ipad-is-nothing-more-than-a-golden-calf-of-drm.ars | 03:03 |
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| _diablo | haha | 03:03 |
| _diablo | that protest is a little ridiculous. especially when apple just moved to the ePub format | 03:06 |
| Takyoji | Apparently my desktop just froze; and is now not quit bootable | 03:26 |
| Takyoji | Freezes at the login screen | 03:26 |
| Takyoji | quite* | 03:26 |
| mr_steve | Takyoji: that sucks | 03:27 |
| Takyoji | Had issues going using gksu (to do "gksu wireshark") then went to terminal and tried "sudo wireshark" and it froze from there, with the audio I had playing the background repeating in a 1 second long segment | 03:27 |
| mr_steve | ouch, I haven't run into anything like that in a long while now | 03:28 |
| Takyoji | Tried to access other terminals (Alt-F#) to no avail | 03:28 |
| Takyoji | and at my last attempt I was able to move the mouse, selected my username, and right as I wrote the 5th character of my password, it completely froze again | 03:29 |
| Takyoji | right now I'm on my laptop | 03:29 |
| Takyoji | Doesn't seem to be any physical issues with my RAM; memtest is at 12% right now | 03:30 |
| mr_steve | Hm. When it locked, was there any keyboard response at all? like could you get the capslock light to change? | 03:31 |
| mr_steve | Or the magic SysRq key? | 03:31 |
| Takyoji | I should try running a LiveCD, and if that fails as well, then it would be conclusive of being a hardware issue | 03:31 |
| mr_steve | indeed | 03:31 |
| Takyoji | Never tried SysRq | 03:32 |
| Takyoji | Tried Alt+SysRq+d to no avail | 03:40 |
| Takyoji | otherwise this time it froze at the X-based boot screen | 03:40 |
| mr_steve | Heat? Cleaned yer heatsink recently? I just had that problem with my server, drove me nuts for 3 weeks before I figured it out | 03:41 |
| Takyoji | though I believe that would cause it to shutdown/restart rather than just freeze | 03:43 |
| mr_steve | Mine would just lock up hard | 03:43 |
| mr_steve | I'd have to power cycle it myself, and each time it would take a few boots to get it running right again, since it was still cooling down | 03:44 |
| mr_steve | Then it'd heat up under load and do the same thing again. That's how I learned how to recover MySQL InnoDB tables :) | 03:45 |
| Takyoji | I have been running Folding@Home in background pretty much always; but I haven't seen the heat go up at all that much | 03:45 |
| Takyoji | If only the acpi command was installed by default... | 03:46 |
| mr_steve | Hm, well it's just a thought anyhow. Lockups are such a pain to troubleshoot. I bet it logs nothing, right? | 03:46 |
| Takyoji | I'm running a LiveCD right now which is acting fine | 03:47 |
| Takyoji | Alright; it's most likely not heat related | 04:22 |
| Takyoji | Just vacuumed, used canned air to blow out any dust found, and it still freezes at the same spot | 04:23 |
| Takyoji | Couldn't feel anything hot | 04:26 |
| Takyoji | I'm worrisome of it potentially being harddrive failure | 04:42 |
| _diablo | yup | 04:42 |
| Takyoji | Although it's only a year old harddrive (in terms of usage) | 04:43 |
| _diablo | Takyoji, that shouldn't happen... is it still under warranty? | 04:44 |
| Takyoji | Should be | 04:47 |
| Takyoji | 3 year warranty | 04:49 |
| Takyoji | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148230 | 04:49 |
| _diablo | good luck :( | 04:50 |
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| Takyoji | I want to get to the boot screen of GRUB2, but can't. I try hitting ESC to no avail | 21:28 |
| Takyoji | I don't dual-boot another OS on the system | 21:32 |
| Takyoji | Ohh, I guess it's Shift you hold for GRUB2 | 21:43 |
| Takyoji | Yay, Shift worked | 21:44 |
| tonyyarusso | darnit Takyoji - stop finding out the answers yourself before I come around to tell them to you! | 21:56 |
| Takyoji | Well at least SOMEONE knew the answer. :P | 21:56 |
| Takyoji | Think I should run fsck on my system perhaps? | 21:57 |
| tonyyarusso | sure, why not? | 21:58 |
| tonyyarusso | btw, the 'touch /forcefsck' trick doesn't work on Maemo, in case anyone cares. | 21:58 |
| Takyoji | Although, would be sane to be running fsck on the filesystem the fsck binary is on? | 21:59 |
| Takyoji | (although I'm in recovery mode; a root prompt) | 21:59 |
| tonyyarusso | You have to remount it as read-only first. You can run fsck on the fsck binary, since it will be loaded into memory first and not matter, but running it on a mounted filesystem is A Bad Idea (TM). | 22:01 |
| Takyoji | and now it mystically works after all the absurd things I've tried on it | 22:10 |
| Takyoji | Otherwise I have some stupid ideas. | 22:11 |
| Takyoji | Could do a little Linux [useful] trivia on this channel for entertainment/learning. | 22:12 |
| tonyyarusso | could be fun | 22:12 |
| Takyoji | Could also have little competitions of fixing/securing a server installation (remotely) | 22:13 |
| Takyoji | Ho-ly crap | 22:17 |
| Takyoji | Apparently I'm cleaning out my filesystem since I only have less than a GB left | 22:18 |
| Takyoji | So I run the disk usage analyzer; and it says my home folder is consuming 101GB | 22:18 |
| Takyoji | So I delete some things, virtual disks, etc. and it barely goes down. I try adding the size number for all the folders in my home folder, and it doesn | 22:19 |
| Takyoji | doesn't add up | 22:19 |
| Takyoji | So then I had it expose the hidden files in my home folder, and had it arrange by size | 22:19 |
| Takyoji | And APPARENTLY my ".xsession-errors.old" file is 76GB | 22:19 |
| Takyoji | That is beyond insanity | 22:21 |
| Takyoji | Error logs reaching GIGABYTES is madness | 22:21 |
| Takyoji | Now my home folder is only using 25GB | 22:21 |
| kermit | Takyoji: i think its the stderr from every single X app | 22:59 |
| kermit | Takyoji: everything you run in X, ever, stderr goes there | 22:59 |
| kermit | Takyoji: mplayer, outputting a line of text 30 times per second? goes there.. | 22:59 |
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| Takyoji | oh fun | 23:12 |
| Takyoji | That is just pure insanity though | 23:13 |
| Takyoji | I've never heard of like 76GB of human readable text. | 23:13 |
| Takyoji | Just because I'm stupidly curious. Would your average work perfectly fine in these Minnesota outdoor temperatures? :P | 23:15 |
| * Takyoji literally envisions a server "farm" out in the cold. xP | 23:15 | |
| Takyoji | So. Anyone have suggestions of how I could try and convince the district to consider open source solutions for some things, rather than burning thousands of something shiny that doesn't work. | 23:41 |
| Takyoji | Like; any specific school-oriented projects that would also be worth noting? | 23:41 |
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