=== kentb is now known as kentb_out === Narwhal is now known as IdleOne [00:32] I'm trying to connect my windows xp machine directly to an ubuntu server with a crossover cable. I thought this was going to be easy. It doesn't appear to be. When I configure the server with a static IP with a netmask, I get "eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device ... SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" [00:33] I'm hoping the fix for that is something that's obvious to someone with more experience than I. [00:35] It also says "SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device" and "Failed to bring up eth0" [00:41] New bug: #619540 in samba (main) "package smbclient 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.5 failed to install/upgrade:" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/619540 === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond [01:04] well I figured it out... for some reason my two network cards are eth3 and eth4 [01:05] did you change cards or motherboards? [01:05] ubuntu remembers the id's of the cards, and assigns new numbers for new cards [01:06] the hard drive is from another machine... that could be it. [01:06] now however I think my problem is that my crossover cable isn't really a crossover cable [01:08] mm... I dunno... the definitely have different wiring between the two plugs [01:17] whew... I rebooted and eth0 is now eth3... [01:17] er... I mean eth3 is now eth0 [01:19] hai [01:19] hey, can someone help me out with PPTPD server? [01:19] i'm having a problem with it. :( [01:19] ND-movie: no one knows if they can help you because you haven't told us the problem [01:19] a fair point [01:20] basically i'm having trouble getting the darn'ed thing to work right, i have it all set up, but i'm getting errors when it tries to handle dhcp [01:22] here's pastebin [01:22] http://pastebin.com/31qdtXsp [01:23] like i can communicate with the VPN server, its not refusing the connection [01:23] but *shrug* [01:23] i think i have the internal and external IP's set up incorrectly [01:23] xxx.xx.31.59 i have set as my internal (which is the IP of my server) [01:23] and i have 192.168.1.1-254 set as my external [01:24] thats probably the wrong idea, i'm guessing? [01:31] any suggestions === rmk_ is now known as rmk [02:32] Hi all [02:33] I'm trying to setup Virtual Machine using JeOS & vmbuilder [02:34] The VM seems to have been installed, but I don't know how to start it :( === dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk [02:35] running a virsh -c qemu:///system list doesn't display anything so I'm not that sure the VM has been installed [02:36] any VM helper there ? [02:53] guest9876543210: (i'm not sticking around, but one suggestion) do virsh list --all [02:53] else you don't see not-started vms [02:53] español? [02:54] fundacion : nope, I'm French [02:55] I give --all a try ;-) thanks [02:55] no body speak in spanish [02:55] or where i can find a irc about server in spanish? [02:56] you seem to type a good english ! can't you ask for help this way ? [02:58] but, i don't understand the englis at perfection [02:59] I'm not aware of Spanish server room, I'd suggest to ask for help there ... [03:02] I'm having some issues with Raid. I have a raid6 array and all of my drives all of a sudden went to spares. mdstat reads this: http://pastebin.com/c8Li0hHj I've tried rebootin and reassembling the array, but don't want to mess anything up the best I can get is 5 devices to try to assemble, but I need at least 6. [03:10] Placebo : do you have critical datas on your RAID array ? [03:14] guest9876543210, I do, loosing it would be bad [03:15] n00b Q: I want to put my wife's teaching docs online for her to access from home/school/wherever... Most files are on ubuntu server box right now. Is WebDAV the way to go here? [03:15] I assembled the array with: mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sd{b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i} [03:15] and it started with 6 devices [03:16] Placebo : and ?? what's wrong then ? [03:16] guest9876543210, there are 8 devices, and I can't add the other two [03:17] guest9876543210, also, now one of the 6 is marked as Failed [03:17] new mdstat http://pastebin.com/CcrgJQs4 [03:19] Plecebo : it might worth to test your HDs, using smartmontools [03:20] guest9876543210, I can do that, do they need to be tested one at a time? [03:21] also, should I take my raid array offline? [03:21] Plecebo : yes one disk at time (2mn per disk), you can leave your RAID on [03:22] sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda [03:22] then after 2mn : [03:22] sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda [03:22] for each HD ... [03:23] guest9876543210, ok, i'll do that and report back, thanks for your help *fingers crossed* [03:25] guest9876543210, what am I looking for? how will I know there is a problem? [03:26] Plecebo : you'll see errors in the last lines [03:29] Placebo : you can run to know to number of hours your HDs have been up : [03:29] for sda : [03:29] sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | egrep '^ 9' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f11 [03:31] /dev/sdb looks clean http://pastebin.com/sCFPcESs [03:32] 8851, is that minutes? [03:32] in hours [03:32] oh hours? nice [03:32] lol [03:32] nearly 1 year [03:33] seems about right [03:33] thats about how long i've had them, nearly always on [03:34] due to RAID (1) crash, I now change HDs before 30 000 hours (3 years) [03:35] between 20 000 and 25 000 [03:36] Plecebo : it might worth to check your HDD temp too : [03:36] sudo hddtemp /dev/sd[a-l] [03:37] mine have often failed because of high temp [03:37] guest9876543210, I know I recently moved them to a hotter part of my house and I was copying data to them when the array crashed [03:37] /dev/sdc looks ok http://pastebin.com/vxpFKmTd [03:38] yeap [03:39] guest9876543210, between 34C and 41C [03:39] at the moment [03:39] but now I know how to monitor them [03:40] FYI : 47° has always killed my HDs [03:41] guest9876543210, well seeing as how its a lot cooler today then it was the day the crashed i wouldn't be surprised if they hit something that high [03:41] guest9876543210, thanks a bunch for your help [03:42] Plecebo : you're welcome .. help each other ;-) [03:42] guest9876543210, yea, i'm writing down these commands so i'll know next time and someday can pass on the info :) [03:44] Plecebo : I've installed a MediaWiKi on my server, so I can record all theses usefull commands and access them from anywhere with www connection, I use it everyday as I can't recall everything ;) [03:44] sdd looks good http://pastebin.com/90HPtcdj [03:45] guest9876543210, that is a great idea [03:45] guest9876543210, as long as your server is up eh? [03:45] Plecebo, do you mean uptime ? [03:46] guest9876543210, if your MediaWiki is on your server and your server is what you are trying to fix... could be an issues [03:46] opps, yeap, that's what I first type .. as long as your server is alive ;) [03:47] it was on this server I have experienced a RAID crash :( [03:48] Maybe I could keep tomboy notes and have them sync with ubuntuOne [03:48] lost 1 week / 15H/day typing invoices and so on ... [03:48] guest9876543210, ewww no fun there [03:48] Now backups are daily [03:48] guest9876543210, at least it wasn't two weeks LOL [03:48] (they were wekkly before) [03:50] sde looks ok http://pastebin.com/UkspLJaj [03:50] Plecebo : I haven't yet found how to use UbuntuOne (neither understood what it can do) [03:50] sdi sdh sdg might be the culpits [03:51] (as they're shown as _ instead of U in mdstat) [03:52] guest9876543210, I have only begun to use it, I think eventually they want it to be like a roaming profile in the cloud... but I think there are some kinks before they get there [03:52] guest9876543210, yea my suspects as well, testing f now [03:53] FYI : I don't use anything that RAID1 for my sensitive datas now : 2 HDs in use, 1 for spare [03:54] yea, I should consider moving mine around a bit [03:54] re-thinking [03:55] I'm using ecryptfs over Ubuntu One, bc I keep switching laptops etc. No problems so far, after 2-3 weeks of heavy daily use [03:55] course all it takes is one snafu on the backend :) [03:55] as sidekick users know [03:55] guest9876543210, most of my 6TB is used for ripped copies of movies I own that I could easily replace (just take me a few months to re-rip them) [03:55] hallyn, you are happy so far? [03:55] very [03:55] I install a new laptop, hook into ubuntu one, wait a few mins, and everything is there [03:56] (bouncing between lucid and maverick) [03:56] hallyn, i've used it for the music stuff, but there is so little space i usually pull it off right away [03:56] Plecebo : for the ripping thing datas, I use RAID5 (never tried the 6 level) as I don't care datas [03:56] again, i suspect i"ll get bitten at some point. but then i have backups on several laptops, implicitly :) [03:56] Plecebo: i want quick syncs, so i don't put music on there [03:56] not yet anyway [03:57] if I could do priorities, "sync this first", then I might start [03:57] maybe i should hop over to #ubuntuone and suggest that :) [03:57] SDG seems fine http://pastebin.com/QbUXawbV [03:57] hallyn, yea the distributed idea of it is nice [03:57] Plecebo : yeap no error shown yet [03:58] guest9876543210, its hard to move around 3TB of data though while you restructure everything [03:59] Plecebo : I know ... :( [03:59] hallyn, priority would be nice I havent heard but excited to see what the devs have in store for 10.10 [04:00] Is one of you good with Virtual Machines ? (JeOS & vmbuilder) [04:00] SDH looks fine http://pastebin.com/mZGZPQHr [04:01] guest9876543210, havent played around with it yet, but i'm interested. I'm considering attempting a small office install with ebox towards the end of sept and want to divide up the server a bit [04:01] guest9876543210, but like I said, not tried playing with it yet [04:02] Plecebo : I'm trying right now .. but it seems I have to read a lot ... not able to start a VM yet [04:03] SDI looks ok... http://pastebin.com/PGeKNUR8 [04:05] Plecebo : once you've tested all drives, try to remove then re-add sde1 to md0 [04:07] mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sde1 --remove /dev/sde1 [04:07] mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sde1 [04:07] and watch the raid re-construction [04:08] watch cat /proc/mdstat [04:08] try to do this for the other drives after (but as i told : never tried the RAID6 level) [04:08] guest9876543210, it added e as a spare [04:09] Plecebo : maybe because of the --force you typed [04:09] guest9876543210, and it doesn't seem to be rebuilding either [04:10] guest9876543210, could be [04:10] from the last mdstat you sent, sde1 if marked as FAILED [04:10] so, try to remove & re-add [04:10] (without force) [04:11] guest9876543210, remove and readd the array? [04:11] guest9876543210, mdstat now doesn't have b and c either, so let me try to readd them [04:11] Plecebo : remove sde1 from array then re-add it (see previous commds I've sent) [04:12] guest9876543210, when I tried to remove/re-add sde1 using the commands you gave they were added back as spares [04:12] arg ... [04:13] guest9876543210, adding sdb and sdc with the same command added them as spares as well [04:13] hmm .. [04:15] it seems you need 4 drives for RAID6 [04:15] as the array already contains 4 valid drives, I think that's why they are added as spare [04:16] from what i understood raid6 is like raid5 with the ability to lose 2 drives [04:16] I'd try a mdadm --assemble --scan [04:16] so my 8 drive array should be able to assemble with 6 drives [04:17] it says my array is active and it can't be restarted [04:18] I suppose this array is only for datas (no boot nor OS on it) ? [04:19] guest9876543210, just data, correct [04:19] so you can stop the array then re-assemble it [04:20] sudo mdadm --stop /dev/mdo [04:20] then [04:20] sudo mdadm --assemble --scan [04:21] mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 3 spares - not enough to start the array. [04:21] LMAO [04:21] closer though [04:21] maybe if i alter the mdadm.conf and restart [04:22] what is your mdstat right now ? [04:27] guest9876543210, it says again that all of my drives are spares (S) [04:28] all the 8 ? [04:28] yea [04:29] md0 : inactive sdf1[0](S) sde1[10](S) sdb1[9](S) sdc1[8](S) sdd1[6](S) sdi1[3](S) sdh1[2](S) sdg1[1](S) [04:30] and if you try to assemble the array you're told not enough drives ? [04:31] mdadm --assemble --scan [04:31] mdadm: /dev/md0 assembled from 5 drives and 3 spares - not enough to start the array. [04:43] Plecebo : Sorry, I'm a bit confused, I really don't know what to do ... [04:44] guest9876543210, ok well thanks for the effort, ill keep plugging away here trying to see what I can come up with === oubiwann-away is now known as oubiwann [05:46] guest9876543210, oh no, i think i might have goofed [05:46] ? [05:48] I removed and recreated the array [05:48] and it started rebuilding [05:48] but it failed at the end ... that's it ? [05:48] but then I got freaked out that I wasn't able to mount the array, which i've been able to do in the past [05:49] and then two of the drives failed out of the array [05:49] and the sync stopped [05:49] but im worried that when I created the array I overwrote the superblock [05:50] arg, sincerely I'm not a that good mdadm user, but I think that overwriting the superblock was probably a bad idea [05:51] yea I'm thinking the same [05:52] I think it's time to think : go for a new mdadm aventure and forget your past array datas ... [05:56] guest9876543210, maybe, but i'm not at that point yet [05:57] courage is a good thing ! :) [06:00] I'm trying the 4th installation of a Virtual Machine on this server ... [06:01] well the info i'm seeing leads me to believe i'll be fine, if I can get the array to rebuild [06:01] I'm shutting it down for a bit and i'm going to try to cool things off in here then have it rebuild again [06:01] good luck with your vm project, i'll be back in a bit [06:47] hi all, anyone used to JeOS & vmbuilder ? [06:48] where does trasmission save torrent files? [06:52] alex88, ~/Downloads [06:54] lol..i already created that dir..so i didn't search in there :) thank you :) [07:55] guest9876543210, gah! it won't rebuild because two of my drives keep failing [08:07] Plecebo, your array should be ok with 6 drives out of 8 [08:07] just remove the bad ones and keep only the good ones [08:08] guest9876543210, but the array keeps wanting to sync [08:09] so it won't stay online [08:09] do you mean on its mountpoint ? [08:09] hey guys is it bad practice if you have a raid 1 array to have swap also mirrored? [08:10] eagles0513875|2 : it works but it is a better idea to have a separate swap on each drive [08:11] i have one main drive and one drive which is mirrored onto [08:12] eagles0513875|2: what guest9876543210 is trying to say is: you don't want to mirror your swap [08:13] O_o [08:13] doh [08:13] eagles0513875|2 : do you mean you have only a / and a swap on the drive and the whole drive is mirrored (using mdadm) to another one ? [08:13] guest9876543210: exactly i have the primary drive and using mdadm its mirroring / and swap :( [08:13] eagles0513875|2: you want 2 swap one on each disk [08:13] ok so it being mirrored is ok gentooxer [08:14] eagles0513875|2: it doesn't harm anything [08:14] gentooxer: it seems you haven't created your RAID array at system install ... [08:15] isnt it better to have swap mirrored just in case one needs to rebuild the array they will have the swap partition already there [08:15] sorry, this was for eagles0513875|2 .. [08:15] and guest9876543210 i did create the array at system install [08:15] eagles0513875|2: the swap is only temporary data like ram [08:15] eagles0513875|2: its garbish after a reboot [08:16] arent you up the creek though if you have to rebuild the array [08:16] eagles0513875|2: why bother an mirror it? [08:16] eagles0513875|2 : datas in swap file are erased after a reboot [08:16] ok then i guess ill re install again :( [08:16] so what would you guys mirror [08:16] the bios boot partition and / [08:17] eagles0513875|2: Ah I see, you have the option to mirror partitions not the whole disk [08:17] just partitions [08:17] i have 2 mirrors using mdadm [08:17] they are /dev/md0 and md1 [08:17] eagles0513875|2: so your RAID doesn't even see the swap, so you are save at rebuild ... [08:17] md1 is the swap [08:17] and md0 is the / partition [08:17] eagles0513875|2 : you should create your partition at install, mark them as RAID, then create the RAID array(s) [08:17] guest9876543210: i did [08:18] eagles0513875|2: just erase md1 and create 2 seperate swap [08:18] eagles0513875|2 : you just have to delete your md1 and create swap on each drive instead [08:18] humm ok [08:18] eagles0513875|2: but you don't need to reinstall [08:19] im new to creating raid arrays in linux [08:19] this was my very first one tbh [08:19] eagles0513875|2 : it doesn't hurts to have swap mirrored (my first server was like this and it has always run fine) [08:19] eagles0513875|2 : just not the best way to go ... [08:19] guest9876543210: humm k :( [08:20] eagles0513875|2: you can deactivate the swap with sudo swapoff [08:20] eagles0513875|2: unmount the swap [08:20] ok [08:20] eagles0513875|2: an create 2 new partitions [08:20] why 2 [08:20] with sudo swapon the system searches for your swap and activates it [08:21] eagles0513875|2 : one on each drive ;) [08:21] eagles0513875|2: because of the 2 disks [08:21] ahhh [08:21] primary disk has swap on it already [08:21] eagles0513875|2: or do you have RAID on a single disk? [08:21] 2x2tb hdds [08:21] raid 1 [08:22] thats kinda pointless though [08:22] to have it on one disk there is no redundancy [08:22] eagles0513875|2: so you create 1 swapspace on each disk [08:22] ok [08:22] eagles0513875|2: you can use the space of md1 [08:22] what does : cat /proc/mdstat answers yuou ? [08:23] hold on let me pastebin [08:24] guest9876543210: http://pastebin.com/HnYujTjc [08:25] gentooxer : are you used to JeOS and vmbuilder ? [08:26] eagles0513875|2 : sorry I have troubles to access pastebin.com :( [08:26] O_o [08:26] guest9876543210: what kinda trouble :( [08:26] paste there ? [08:27] strange [08:27] --- pastebin.com ping statistics --- [08:27] 9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7999ms [08:27] O_o [08:27] works fine for me [08:27] was working ok 30mn ago .. [08:27] guest9876543210: where are you located? [08:28] never seen the .nc before [08:28] South Pacific [08:28] New-Caledonia [08:28] kool kool === rmk_ is now known as rmk [08:28] guest9876543210: ill pm u and paste it to you that way [08:28] just paste here .. easier [08:29] ill spam out of the network [08:29] or at least the channel [08:29] !paste | eagles0513875|2 [08:29] eagles0513875|2, please see my private message [08:29] guest9876543210: does http://paste.ubuntu.com/479797/ work for you [08:30] eagles0513875|2 : yeap ok [08:31] Good morning! [08:31] eagles0513875|2 : just unmount the swap as previously explained, delete md1 and recreate separate partition on each drive [08:31] ok guest9876543210 :) will do [08:31] moin \sh ;) [08:31] moin binBASH [08:32] moin eagles0513875|2 [08:32] hi binBASH [08:32] hi guest9876543210 [08:32] <\sh> hey binBASH [08:32] luckily irc client has tab ;) [08:33] is one of you used to Virtual Machine : JeOS & vmbuilder ? [08:33] binBASH: konversation? [08:33] eagles0513875|2: I didn't read it yet, I just attached to screen. [08:33] nice [08:34] and the very first thing to do this morning is, having a look why MySQL replication lag on the server is at 16.000 [08:34] ouchie [08:34] got another question for u guys [08:35] im trying to install ubuntu server on another machine but for some reason when it loads language selection on the menu after booting off the cd it hangs [08:35] ok it's at 0 again. That was fast ;) [08:35] lol [08:35] man speaking of mysql i love mysql work bench [08:36] eagles0513875|2 : check RAM, CD integrity, CD player [08:36] guest9876543210: cd works fine [08:36] cd integrity [08:36] ya ill check the cd player and reseat the ram [08:36] and try again [08:36] eagles0513875|2: Well, I hate it to manually shard with Mysql [08:37] ? binBASH [08:37] eagles0513875|2: I have to change our company's application so it can use horizontal scaling (db sharding) [08:38] it practically means, changing of around 1500 source files........ [08:38] binBASH: have you tried to see if you could make ur life easier by using the mysql workbench gui [08:38] eagles0513875|2: Yup [08:38] binBASH: what i love about it is that you can reverse engineer and forward engineer the db [08:39] binBASH: humm let me ask in the workbench channel really quick [08:39] eagles0513875|2: We have very big tables here with a lot of entries ;) [08:39] MyISAM....... [08:39] wow [08:39] well im still fairly new to db's [08:39] studied them as part of my course this past yr [08:40] Tables with 19800000000 entries ;) [08:40] O_o [08:40] and that's only for one customer :D [08:40] nice [08:42] im slowly starting to setup my IT solutions business [08:42] eagles0513875|2: You know our company hosts services for image agencies like Getty Images for example. [08:42] nice bi Nafallo [08:42] whoops [08:42] wrong person meant binBASH [08:42] and we also write software to manage their images ;) [08:42] nice nice :) [08:42] im hoping to branch my biz in that direction as well software development [08:43] i have a few ideas i want to work on [08:46] eagles0513875|2: It's a good business I think. [08:46] ya [08:46] im a comp science major hehe [08:47] I never studied. [08:47] ;) [08:48] eagles0513875|2: I started coding 15 years ago [08:49] nice i started 3 yrs ago [08:49] ;) [08:49] in the middle of a java based project atm [08:49] I started coding in the age of 14 [08:49] VGA Graphics and Sound Stuff... [08:50] wow [08:50] i really wanna beef up my programming knowledge [08:50] i dont know much :( [08:50] and i really wanna start developing my own games [08:50] on iphone? [08:51] I didn't write an app for iphone yet. Though some other smart phones ;) [08:52] When I worked in Karlsruhe / Germany I had to code for mobile devices exclusively. But that is now 3 years ago. === rmk_ is now known as rmk [08:54] binBASH: on all platforms [08:54] im not that far from you binBASH [08:54] geographically lol [08:56] eagles0513875|2: Well I'm in Zurich / Switzerland ;) [08:56] binBASH: join me in hi_jack_This its a tech channel [08:57] I have to code now and fix software bugs :) [08:57] PHP.......... [09:00] nice binBASH i need to learn php and java script [09:03] learn python imho :D [09:04] but well, a good coder can use any language ;D [09:08] damn, since upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04 the serial console redirection seems not to work anymore [09:22] binBASH: back [09:40] damn, i fiddled with menu.lst and grub hangs now haha... will have to revert from recovery... sucks [09:47] g0rd0n: hope u took a backup of it [09:48] g0rd0n: no, but i remember what i changed... so as soon as i mount the boot partition i can modify the file [09:48] but still i wonder why console redirection doesnt work anymore [09:48] cause the parameters were not changed in the kernel line [09:48] same as the old kerne [09:48] g0rd0n: 8.04 used grub1 [09:48] if im not mistake [09:48] yes, i still have grub1 [09:48] it doesnt get upgraded [09:49] ya 10.04 uses on a clean install grub2 [09:49] no it doesnt [09:49] !grub2 | g0rd0n [09:49] g0rd0n: GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since Ubuntu 9.10. For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 [09:49] that will tell ya how to upgrade [09:49] i know, but i failed clean installing, cause my video redirection doesnt support framebuffer [09:49] i tried upgrading grub2, but it doesnt work... he doesnt like the boot partition [09:49] i followed the instructions on that page [09:53]