[00:42] <Penyulap> I have a lot of trouble with my server destroying disks, usually within hours or days of installation, is there an issue with ubuntu server and hard drives ?
[00:43] <sarnold> I've seen a dell desktop destroy three SSDs we fed it, but that was Windows 7.
[00:43] <Penyulap> I don't have the budget for ssd's, these are brand new segate drives
[00:44] <sarnold> is it the same POS dell that my dad owns? :) hehe
[00:44] <Penyulap> what is a pos?
[00:44] <sarnold> piece of shi....
[00:44] <jcastro> are the drives ruined or just the data written to them gets corrupt?
[00:44] <Penyulap> ah, no this is a brand new pos
[00:44] <sarnold> aha :)
[00:45] <Penyulap> one got internally reallocated sectors up to wazoo, the other has twice gone
[00:45] <Penyulap> once it went unresponsive, I could send commands, but nothing could use the hd
[00:46] <Penyulap> so everything came back as command not found or not understood or io error or what have you, the memory and os in memory was ok, but the HD was out to lunch
[00:47] <Penyulap> then today it makes gwd awful clicking sounds, so i shut it down before it killed itself, so i can later start it to run tests (maybe)
[00:48] <Penyulap> I build with new MB new mem simm new cpu new HD, all of them desktop, maybe that is the problem. I don't have the budget for server hardware, but then again ubuntu server doesn't have warning labels 'I shall destroys all Ur hardware' :)
[00:49] <Penyulap> I built it all into an older server case, to use the kick-ass PSU
[00:49] <Penyulap> which kicks ass :D
[00:49] <Penyulap> I just don't know what tools to use to analyse the drive, or what settings like goto sleep or something should be fixed up
[00:53] <sarnold> Penyulap: are these all the same batch of hard drives? or same batch of motherboards? or same batch of power supplies?
[00:53] <Penyulap> well, the problem seems to be 3.5 inch segate 1 and 2 TB hard drives
[00:53] <Penyulap> sata
[00:54] <Penyulap> so far that is, I'm not REALLY eager to feed it my new sexy 2.5 inch 1TB drive, I would love to work out the cause before throwing away more cash
[00:58] <Penyulap> h5 Mr clicky wonky HD this time is seagate barracuda 500GB
[00:58] <Penyulap>  3500330AS
[00:58] <Penyulap> ST3500330AS
[01:00] <Penyulap> Mr I'll just take a little rest now was segate barracuda 2000GB ST2000DM001
[12:48] <hxr> ubuntu apache2 runing at 50% cpu?
[12:49] <hxr> ok now 87%
[12:49] <hxr> any idea
[13:40] <oonick> server basics i came here for if anyone could help
[13:58] <genii> !handbook
[13:58]  * genii glares at the bot
[13:59] <genii> !guide
[17:12] <LargePrime> dear U server technocrats.  I have a headless dedicated i need some graphics tools used on
[17:12] <LargePrime> what are the best practices?
[17:12] <LargePrime> I am thinkking VNC and xbuntu desktop?  but I defer to your thoughts
[17:16] <genii> !info xvfb
[17:26] <genii> With xvfb and xterm on the server, you can start up xvfb with whatever display parameters you like, export it, then run xterm remotely. From xterm you can call up whatever app specifically uoi want to run
[18:32] <LargePrime> genii: do you have a link?
[18:36] <genii> LargePrime: Not offhand but give me a minute and I'll see what I can find for you.
[18:36] <LargePrime> I thank you i am googleing too
[18:36] <LargePrime> but my wheat / chaff filter is not calibrated in this instance
[18:41] <genii> LargePrime: http://www.richud.com/wiki/Ubuntu_Fluxbox_GUI_with_x11vnc_and_Xvfb  gives the basic gist, although you don't really need a desktop environment like fluxbox, just xterm.
[18:42] <genii> Then you connect to the headless xvfm instance running xterm and from there just issue the name of the graphical app you want to run
[18:46] <LargePrime> do i have security issues with this?
[18:48] <LargePrime> genii
[18:51] <genii> LargePrime: Since it happens over an ssh session it's as secure as your ssh is
[21:06] <axisys> is there a mysql 5.0.75 debian package for ubuntu precise? I am still looking and so far no avail
[22:11] <Patrickdk> axisys, I would hope not, that is very very old
[22:11] <Patrickdk> 5.5 is in precise