Hi, welcome from dirty-power California. My UPS protects my network-based equipment from brownouts average 3 times a day and whilst blackouts are rare, typically annually, I had an outage recently which ran long enough to flatten my UPS and the Debian Dockstar build on external USB stick was corrupted and I had to manually intervene, insert in a Linux laptop and do a fsck -t ext2 to repair the fiby nigelhealy - Debian
How's this going, you trying this? I have 128MB and its swapping a little about 40MB max. Its causing performance issues. Compcache is one solution, as is compressing /usr but it's not liking my squashfs+aufs method.by nigelhealy - Debian
Well I've got these little beauties as core to my global domination, in my home I have one Dockstar as router (WAN is 6Mbit) and my LAN is 100Mbit. I have another Dockstar as my Torrent and Airvideo server and file-server, connected at 100Mbit and to a 802.11g router which is basically doing about 20Mbits. So the 100Mbit network is the fastest part and nothing can really tax the harddrive.by nigelhealy - Debian
petergunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for posting build instructions. > > FYI - You have a typo on the following line: > wget > 'ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-2/p > kcs11f.h' # should be /v2-20/ > Thanks, I edited my original post to correct the typo, and a few other typos.by nigelhealy - Debian
I have tried different ports. So if a cold boot means a boot off internal and then I can see that via the ssh known_hosts problem and then use the Pogoplug root password, then reboot - that is imperfect but livable. Right now I have the boot USB in the right-most, a swap USB on the one to the left, and USB harddrive round the corner on the left-most. I've tried booting just with the bootby nigelhealy - Debian
I've tried start/stop/start usb_init and also just start usb, and I've tried extending the delay from 10 to 15secs, still can't get coldboot off USB to work. Here's current output from a failed cold-boot and it goes to Pogoplug internal OS, and then a warm-boot having told internal to reboot. U-Boot 2010.09 (Oct 23 2010 - 11:49:22) Marvell-Dockstar/Pogoplug by Jeff Doozaby nigelhealy - Debian
So I have a stick which will warm-boot but not cold-boot. NC output below of a warm-boot working then a cold-boot not working and eventually going to Pogo's internal OS. Advice? U-Boot 2010.09 (Oct 23 2010 - 11:49:22) Marvell-Dockstar/Pogoplug by Jeff Doozan Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 (Re)start USB... USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1 USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus for devicby nigelhealy - Debian
I've been searching the Airvideo forums and seems the error messages may be related to the relatively slow CPU of the Dockstar, the Java code has short timeouts and is deeming the slowness as a bug and terminating threads. So... I've nested the directory structure, to have less files in each directory and that will apparently improve matters. As to memory consumption, I am tryingby nigelhealy - Debian
I need help here to make it work as I'd like. I can make the Dockstar stream pre-converted media but can't make it recode live, getting threads error messages, which might be Java, the JAR or ffmpeg, not sure which. I've tried using different ffmpeg make options but haven't been able to improve it any better than I have now. I've used the Debian x264 and that works betterby nigelhealy - Debian
The issue is not compiling, I don't have make problems, its run-time problems. I've also had crashing with HandbrakeCLI crashing. Is this an issue with lack of FPU with the ARM? The compiler knows this is ARM so I don't understand why runtime problems it should have compile-time issues if FPU is essential. I've posted a partially-successful HOWTO with Airvideo hope someonby nigelhealy - Debian
I am trying to build FFMPEG and do anyone know why the resulting executable crashes complaining about threads? I've compiled both with and without pthreads. Error messages with pthreads Encoder thread exception: EOFException - null Error without pthreads Warning: not compiled with thread support, using thread emulation Encoder thread exception: EOFException - null I am very closeby nigelhealy - Debian
Update - I am about 60% there. I can make Airvideo stream IPOD-compatible media which I have previously recoded, and these stream off the Dockstar with good end-user (e.g IPOD Touch) performance. The actual running is simple, just need java and run the Airvideo jar with a config file edited. I am still having difficulties with making it convert-on-fly video using ffmpeg. These issues are I'by nigelhealy - Debian
Hi, I have bought a 2nd Dockstar, I've been hammering the one I used as all-things device and worried high-cpu and memory contention will cause some issues. At $27 delivered, can't really see it as a bad value. I played a few years ago with COMPCACHE, which pipes the SWAP via GZIP to compress the swap so it has a smaller footprint. That is used currently primarily by LiveCD for comprby nigelhealy - Debian
I'm beginning to build Airvideo for the Dockstar, currently I have a Vista PC doing the hosting of the Airvideo server with the files stored on the Dockstar with SAMBA. I'm following the Debian install howto. I know the ARM is a fast integer, but poor floatingpoint, I guess that quantatision for video recoding is probably integer so will work ok on ARM? I'll let you all know ifby nigelhealy - Debian
PG - thanks. Did I use the wrong, an old, version? I copy+pasted as I scrolled up through my actual commands, might have been a typo as I rejoined lines to make it look better? Should I recompile? Anyhow my Truecrypt 7.0a is working great so far.by nigelhealy - Debian
I benchmarked my USB flash stick and my USB-2 harddrive. Flash is faster for random access, harddrive faster for sustained. So I'd say your OS will run faster on flash but use harddrive for storing large files. I have a 2GB USB flash and a 500GB USB harddrive attached, boots off the USB stick (it would NOT boot off the harddrive) but by time the mounts are occuring, it will see the harddriby nigelhealy - Debian
Irevised for typos including ones from feedback, thanks) This is the current latest version 7.0a, built using static library and NO gui. So command-line. To install you'll need to copy this file to your path e.g. /usr/local/bin You'll need to install dmsetup package. You'll need to add fuse to /etc/modules If there's anything I've forgotten if anyone wants to tryby nigelhealy - Debian
I have managed to make a two ethernet Dockstar, using a USB ethernet and have it as a seamless proxy server, with OpenDNS gives me some parental control even for iPODs. I wish to add traffic shaping to this and I've not done this before. I was looking at some GUIs to do this Mastershaper and Mastershaper seems a good fit. It has some requirements, are these met, how do I tell? The lisby nigelhealy - Debian
I have a Fritz!box FON ATA which as a USB socket, I connected it to the Dockstar running Debian and auto-recognized but i had to do a allow-hutplug in the /etc/network/interfaces, it was autorecognized. Slow throughput - it does not necessarily mean an issue in certain situations like if that is the link on to streaming over Wifi which often is sustaining only 10Mbits. My intention though is tby nigelhealy - Debian
So far, I've played safe. I've added a higher priority swap via editing rc.local tail /etc/rc.local # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/SG500G swapon -p1 /mnt/SG500G/swap exit 0 Which seems to work root@dockstar:~# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priby nigelhealy - Debian
Thanks to this forum, I have a working Dockstar with Debian :) However, I could not get my fast USB harddrive to be my boot host, it was too slow to spin-up and would boot say 25% of the time, but I have a 2GB USB which boots reliably. I am using the harddrive for data a post-boot mount, that is also working reliably. What I'd like to do is remove the OS cap of 2GB, move SWAP and other perby nigelhealy - Debian
Is your DHCP all working? I just solved my problems for some reason my Dockstar was not getting DHCP. The USB stick which Jeff's script makes, you can plug into a Linux PC and mount and edit the files. If you don't have a working DHCP then make your file something like this cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.by nigelhealy - uBoot
Phew, yes that worked. DCHP, TFP, and then could SSH and fw_setenv. You are a most clever person Jeff :) So my next problem back my first problem, nc is showing nothing for this Docstar, as I was trying to debug why it was booting off USB (tried one type of USB harddrive, one type of USB stick). I've since read that I might to hit the reset button so the drives are ready.by nigelhealy - uBoot
I got a Dockstar, and it initially booted fine, and I could login. I attempted to make a bootable USB harddrive, no errors, just would not boot off, and then would eventually boot off Pogoplug code. Tried making a bootable USB stick, same proble. Then tried to get to the netconsole to find reasons why USB booting wasn't working. No errors in using "nc" commands, but console messageby nigelhealy - uBoot