Hi,
I hit a problem when attempting to upgrade to kernel 3.17.2 on a
particular server.
Some time between 3.13 and 3.17, the bonding driver has stopped
accepting ppp devices, instead throwing an error that the MAC address
cannot be changed.
(And does not allow this to be forced)
I suspect it's unlikely.. but has anyone here encountered this issue
and found a solution?
Alternatively.. do you know where the right place to file bug report
about this would be? It's been a while since I've filed anything
against the linux kernel itself.
Cheers,
Toby
I'm curious to know what your SSD wear indicators look like, from
long-running Linux machines, and how long it looks like they'll last
based on existing usage.
You can query these with smartctl (if your drive db is too old, run
sudo update-smart-drivedb first)
I'll go first. These are just private machines, albeit ones doing
reasonable work. Perhaps at some point in the future I'll be able to
report on long-term results of enterprise SSDs, but I can't right now.
Machine one:
Power_On_Hours 4522 (188 days)
Total_NAND_Writes_GiB 18846
Maximum_Erase_Cycle 199
Avg_Write_Erase_Ct 74
Total_Bad_Block 201
Perc_Avail_Resrvd_Space 100
This machine has been running for over 188 days non-stop, has logged
nearly 19 TB of writes, and is about 2.5% of the way through it's
expected minimum lifespan[1].
Estimated total lifespan time: 20.6 years.
Machine two:
Power_On_Hours 18326 (763 days)
Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0
Wear_Leveling_Count 13
Total_LBAs_Written 2066747494 (ie. about 1080 GiB [2])
This has been running for 763 days non-stop. Like the first machine,
it hasn't used any of the reserved blocks yet. It's about 1.3% of the
way through its min expected lifespan.[3]
Estimated total lifespan time: 160 years.
-Toby
1: ie. 3000 write/erase cycles for MLC; in practice you seem to get
quite a bit more though, according to testers.
2: This drive doesn't report the actual NAND writes, just LBAs
written, but you can roughly convert those out; call each LBA 512
bytes, and then multiply the total by a conservative 1.1 to allow for
write-amplification; we come up with about 1080 gigabytes.
3: This machine is running a cheaper type of TLC-based SSD, so
theoretical amount of erase/write cycles are just 1000.
Hello All,
I recently posted about my troubles booting from a DVD.
It turns out that my MB bios will only detect UEFI boot structures and any
devices (USB, DVD) with pre UEFI (legacy) boot structure is not
detected...ie. never show up in the boot menu.
I have been trying to get a resolution to this from the MB manufacturer.
To make a long story short, they claim that the MB will boot legacy boot
structures with particular bios settings, which I am using. They also
assert that they do not support linux and the linux driver is the issue,
and that I should install Windows and test if I still have the problem.
It has been my understanding that any OS driver will only come into play
after the bios has detected the boot device and commenced the boot process
by loading the OS/driver/whatnot from the bootable device.
Is the MB manufacturer correct to say that the linux driver is the cause
of the problem?
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
Hello All,
Some months ago I installed a new motherboard (Asus Z97M-Plus UEFI) and an
SSD.
I installed Fedora 20 on the SSD without any problems (GUID partition
table), but had a few issues getting Fedora to boot, either the MB manual
or I'm a bit vague...one of the two, maybe both.
In the end, using 'other OS' for the secure boot setting worked OK.
Yesterday, for the first time since this install I had need to boot from a
DVD, and it failed...always falling back to booting the SSD.
After some discussions on an Asus site it was suggested that maybe I need
to set the MB for IDE controller instead of AHCI, and that disabling 'fast
boot' might help.
Changing AHCI to IDE didn't help.
Disabling 'fast boot' allowed the latest 'Gparted-live' DVD to boot, but
still cannot boot older bootable DVDs that I have tried whilst testing
this.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
Hi
I have obtained an nVidia nvs300 card as a cast off from my work, it has
a one into two cable which serves 2 dvi monitors from a single port on
the card. Has anyone used this before, is it 32bit/64bit particular? Is
it likely to work with an AMD 64 bit system?
At present I am running two identical monitors from the DVI and VGS
ports. I would like to move to two dvi monitors set up for consistent
resolution between the two.
Hopefully yours
Andrew Greig
Hello all,
I am looking for some opinions on how to best support the development of
coding skills in a child who is interested. I'm not sure if this is the
correct forum or should it be Luv-talk?
He has built a Kano computer (Rasberry Pi based) and followed the
programs it provides. As a next step I am looking at Code Academy which
offers tutorials in about 6 languages.
Could someone please offer a view as to where is best as a starting
point, or is there perhaps a better route to follow? Does he start with
web languages and then progress to Ruby or Python?
All advice would be most welcome.
Thanks
Bob
Hello,
I have a i7 based HP computer here that until recently was booting Linux
and Windows just fine. According to the user, it stopped working after
updating the graphics drivers under Windows.
Anyway the symptoms are:
* Grub loads fine.
* Selecting any Linux kernel from grub, results in the computer freezing
immediately after loading the kernel (no time to initialize the kernel),
with a black screen.
* Selecting memtest results in similar problems.
* Same thing happens booting from rescue items in grub menu. No extra
debugging information.
* Keyboard unresponsive after crash. Caps-lock, num-lock, and
Ctrl-Alt-Delete don't work.
* Booting windows works fine.
* Booting Debian live CD image on USB works fine. It has the standard
Debian wheezy kernel, 3.2.0-4-amd64, which is the same as one of the
options I was attempting to boot from the hard disk.
* Power cycling is the only way to un-crash the system.
Extra facts:
* It is a Nvidia GeForce GT 640 based graphics card
* The live CD does not use grub.
* Debian/wheezy based system with extra kernels installed from Debian
backports.
* The dog barking does not make any difference what so ever.
* Nvidia closed source drivers not installed (not that I see this making
any difference, as the kernel doesn't appear to be started when it crashes)
* This is a UEFI boot system, with secure boot turned off.
Have tried installing another kernel after booting live CD, and
reinstalling grub, however nothing changed.
Have run memtest from live CD, no errors reported.
Only thing I can think of is that the update of the graphics drivers under
Windows has updated the graphics card firmware breaking boots from the
version of Grub in Debian stable/wheezy. Does this even make sense?
Any other ideas?
Thanks
--
Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>
I have a btrfs directory exported via nfs. Are there any secret mount options that would allow 'cp --reflink' on the nfs client to work (eg pass the required IOCTL to the server via nfs)?
Thanks
James