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Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 1 year ago
bodhi, I posted the read results. My disk was faster than David's. Before I blew it up, I used a 8TB drive formatted with ext4. It has an even bigger cache, but I always get "Asking for cache data failed" and "Assuming drive cache: write through" in dmesg, whatever that means. It's definitely CMR (if WD is to believed) and had practically the same read/write spby renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 1 year ago
@daviddyer, thanks for sharing. I was looking mostly at writes which may just be slow no matter what? root@kaceM300-2:/tmp/usb# uname -a Linux kaceM300-2 5.12.6-kirkwood-tld-1 #1.0 PREEMPT Sat May 22 16:43:11 PDT 2021 armv5tel GNU/Linux root@kaceM300-2:~# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=ST1000LM035-1RK172, FwRev=SBM3, SerialNo=ZDE41VKE Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSecby renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 1 year ago
Has anyone connected a SATA hard drive? I tried two different ones expecting to get a huge speed increase over a USB connected drive, but it's barely faster if at all. Do I just have cheap slow drives or is there something I'm missing? I've been wanting to take my venerable Dockstar out of service and replace it with this, but so far it's been very disappointing as far asby renojim - Debian
Re: Netgear Stora MS2110 smbd keeps crashing - 2 years ago
You can see that the tdb files in /run/samba are using up all of /run. You can try to increase the size of /run using fstab, but I have no idea why your tdb files are so large.by renojim - Debian
Re: Netgear Stora MS2110 smbd keeps crashing - 2 years ago
Do you have a log.smbd in /var/log/samba?by renojim - Debian
Re: Netgear Stora MS2110 smbd keeps crashing - 2 years ago
The problem is this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 12M 12M 0 100% /run I'm no samba expert, but what's in /run/samba? I'm guessing there's a file in there growing without bound.by renojim - Debian
Re: Pogoplug e02 boot into rescue:~# after login, please help to reinstall debian - 2 years ago
I'm sure bodhi will be along to answer your other questions, but it appears your wget doesn't support HTTPS. Try: wget http://www.dropbox.com/s/vgbshmiq3o14btp/uboot.2017.07-tld-1.pogo_e02.bodhi.tarby renojim - Debian
Re: Add sound to the dumb linux boxes so it can do alarm, etc... - 2 years ago
I got mine today. It only took 2 months. :-) It may be a slightly different device: cat /proc/asound/cards 1 : USB-Audio - USB PnP Sound Device C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device at usb-f1050000.ehci-1.4, full sp I followed David's instructions and it just works! The mute and volume buttons don't seem to do anything, but I'm not concerneby renojim - Debian
Re: Add sound to the dumb linux boxes so it can do alarm, etc... - 2 years ago
Thanks! I've been thinking of something like this for a while, so why not? I just ordered 2 off of ebay. I'll let you know how it goes when I get them in 1 to 3 months. :-)by renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 2 years ago
Hmm... I thought I tried plugging "something" into the USB port, but it was quite a while ago and at least one of my M300s just started booting reliably from SSD on its own. Out of curiosity, if you remove the USB device does it remain stable?by renojim - Debian
Re: rsync - How to setup rsync job to back up a live rootfs - 2 years ago
Looking forward to this. It's something I've wanted to look into for a while now to handle the remote units I take care of.by renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra - 2 years ago
Doing a web search I come up with these two sites that may help with the serial connection: https://community.wd.com/t/bricked-my-ex2-also-how-i-unbricked-it/98660 https://www.eteknix.com/western-digital-ex2-2-bay-8tb-my-cloud-nas-review/2/ If they show the correct unit it looks like the header is already installed. I don't know if there's a difference between the EX2 and the Eby renojim - Debian
Re: Can't boot without netconsole listener - 2 years ago
Ah, thanks! I thought I had seen it mentioned before, but my search skills must be lacking because I couldn't find it. I did leave it going with the flashing green light for a few hours last night before I gave up and cycled the power and had my laptop listening as the server. I switched everything over to using my desktop as the server, so I should be good if I'm away, but I'by renojim - uBoot
Can't boot without netconsole listener - 2 years ago
This has been bothering me for a while, but not enough to do anything about it until now. I've had netconsole running on my Dockstar within U-boot for some time now and it works great except for one problem. If the server isn't listening the Dockstar won't boot. The light flashes green forever. I even got an APC 1500VA battery backup power supply (which turned out to be a pieceby renojim - uBoot
Re: Ever Try Video on Your Headless 'Plug? - 2 years ago
I hesitate to post because my memory is so poor, but I recall having the same problem when trying to install java on my M300. I think I let it go for at least 24 hours before giving up. I did get past the ca-certificates problem, but I can't remember how. I think I used an older version of java. In the end whatever I was trying to do that needed java didn't work out and because of mby renojim - Debian
Re: Failed to Install latest kernel to NSA310S - 2 years ago
bootcmd_exec=run load_uimage; if run load_initrd; then if run load_dtb; then bootm $load_uimage_addr $load_initrd_addr $load_dtb_addr; else bootm $load_uimage_addr $load_initrd_addr; fi; else if run load_dtb; then bootm $load_uimage_addr - $load_dtb_addr; else bootm$load_uimage_addr; fi; fi You're missing a space after the last 'bootm'by renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 3 years ago
LeggoMyEggo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Finally got the chance to remove the factory SATA > drive from my problem M300 and boot from USB > running 5.6.5 with no hard drive installed. Ran > stress-ng all night and even compiled some drivers > and I experienced no issues or kernel panics. > Looks like in my case it's the hard drivby renojim - Debian
Re: Zyxel NAS326 Installation Instruction - 3 years ago
Can you install u-boot-tools?by renojim - Debian
Re: Dockstar salvage - 3 years ago
I'm sure bodhi will be along to tell you the best approach (he is the man!), but you might want to start reading about how to update the u-boot: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381 I love my Dockstar. It has been in constant operation for about a decade thanks to this forum.by renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 3 years ago
sodface Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Left the hard drive connected up to USB over > night. I've run the test again a couple of times > today, no issues. I have yet to duplicate the > problem when booted from USB. This looks more and more to me like something weird happens with the RAM when booting from other than a USB drive. Very stby renojim - Debian
Re: Debian on Dell Kace M300 - 3 years ago
Cool! Bodhi you are the best! Unfortunately, I'll be away from my M300 for a few weeks. :-( Maybe I'll pack one if I have space. -JTby renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
I'll have to check my two rc.local scripts. They should be identical, but clearly the behavior is different on my two M300s.by renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I want to do more > > experimenting, but I can't make it be unstable > > anymore. > > I think if the USB is plugged in like Mike has > tried, it is stable. Just to be clear, with or without any USB drive plugged in it boots just fine and remains stable. I have no idea why it'by renojim - Debian
Re: [Help Request] Running Scripts from an Application - 3 years ago
That's too bad. If it was getting killed there would be a slew of obvious ugly messages in the dmesg output. Do any of these processes create anything in /var/log?by renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
This is so aggravating to try to diagnose. My one M300 that I've loaded several packages on seems to boot off of SSD and remain stable, so I switched to my other one that is pretty much a bare bones installation. Now I can't make it fail either. Arrrg! One other data point that I don't know if I ever mentioned - when I was experiencing the problem I could have a USB drive inserby renojim - Debian
Re: [Help Request] Running Scripts from an Application - 3 years ago
Does dmesg provide any clues? I've had the OOM (out of memory) process killer kill things on me.by renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
I don't know if it's still needed but here's my output:root@kaceM300-1:~# ll /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/*crypt* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34344 May 1 2019 /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libcrypt-2.28.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 17 23:52 /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libcrypt.so.1 -> libcrypt-2.28.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 17 23:52 /lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libgcrypt.so.20 ->by renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JT, > > Ah. I understood your problem now. Don't have any > idea why yet, but I can see that was a strange > behavior that happens with a new SSD. > > Did you install crytodev or anything like that? I assume you mean cryptodev? No, haven't installed anything like that. Right now iby renojim - Debian
Re: Errors in Boot Log for Dell M300 - 3 years ago
This sounds a lot like my experience with the M300. I can boot off of SSD with something plugged into the USB port, but without that it may or may not boot and if it does it's very unreliable. I hope you guys figure it out because I haven't had any time to try to figure out what's going on. My experience with the M300 hasn't been very good even when I get a reliable boot, sby renojim - Debian