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Kernel 3.17 no longer allows bonding ppp devices
by Toby Corkindale 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

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

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apt config to acquire http but not https proxy?
by Toby Corkindale 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Hi, Google is failing me. I know I can use acquire::http::proxy in apt.conf.d to set a proxy server, but this seems to make it used for both HTTPS and HTTP traffic -- however I only want to use it for HTTP traffic. Any suggestions? (Things not to say: * Use iptables to transparently proxy port 80 * Get a better HTTP proxy that support SSL ) Toby

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adsl problems
by bnis＠fastmail.fm 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

I am unable to get my Telstra adsl working. I'm trying to upgrade from dial-up and I thought I did a lot of research, but I have failed to get anywhere with the adsl and I need help. The adsl unit is a Technicolor modem/router TG799vac. I hooked it up and the lights flashed but the Status and Internet lights remained red. I tried to get into the unit with firefox and midori but both failed to reach the modem's address http://10.0.0.138 which is the address on the unit. I am running network.service and it's up. The config for my ethernet connection which goes into the ethernet socket on the modem is: [ben@til network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-enp63s0 TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=no NAME=enp63s0 UUID=6479f67e-53e7-4953-a796-cf3d3f770b2f ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:1E:0B:2C:8E:22 PEERDNS=yes PEERROUTES=yes IPADDR=192.168.0.3 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 USERCTL=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no PREFIX=24 This config was part of my home network and I didn't change it before I plugged everything in and powered up. I tried to make a route to the modem with: #route add default gw 10.0.0.138 but I get "network is unreachable" but 'systemctl -a |grep network' shows network service loaded and active. So, I'm stuck. In my research before hand I came across many posts saying: "just plug it in, use the browser to configure it and off you go." I did get comfort from that, but my experience is of failure. What can I do to get this modem working? My distro is fedora 22 and I don't run a desktop, just a window manager and am used to doing most things on the command line. -- Thanks. ben bnis(a)fastmail.fm

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bttrfs questions
by Brian May 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

So it seems the best way of getting Raid1, for the purpose of protecting your data if one hard disk fails, is to use Software Raid, and then put bttrfs on top? Is this correct? Is it ok to run bttrfs in a VM using virtualized disk? I have heard people say you shouldn't do this, because there is no guarantee that data has been written to physical disk when requested by the VM. Is this correct? Overly paranoid?

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systemd btrfs timeout
by Brian May 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Hello, I seem to get intermittent systemd time out errors when trying to mount btrfs, which throws the system into systemd rescue mode. e.g. "Job dev-sdb1.device/start timed out." I can't actually see any reason for the problems in the systemd journal. Furthermore, "mount -a" from rescue mode works perfectly. Maybe the hard disks just aren't "waking up" fast enough in the boot sequence. I have reported slowness here before when system is cold, which I suspect is hard disk related (spinning WD disks). Hmm. It is now booting fine again, maybe I need to leave the hard disks on for a while before they start working properly... smartctl reports nothing abnormal. Any ideas? Maybe time to get new hard disks? Thanks

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Timeline
by Tim Hamilton 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hi All, Recently I've been using a little python program called Timeline on my Ubuntu 15.04 system. Today, however, it stopped working and now gives me the following error when I try to launch if from the command line. (timeline.py:10359): Gdk-CRITICAL **: _gdk_pixmap_new: assertion '(width != 0) && (height != 0)' failed (timeline.py:10359): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_cairo_create: assertion 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed Segmentation fault (core dumped) As Timeline relies on wx widgets (python-wxgtk2.8 on Ubuntu) and associated libraries to run I thought there might be a problem with the package though a purge and reinstall of these has not fixed the issue. I redownloaded the source in case something in the local install had changed, still no joy. A look through other recent updates show no other obvious candidates that could have caused the breakage. I've also spun up a lubuntu 15.04 live session where Timeline ran without issue. Any idea where to look next? Tim Ps As Sourceforge is (partly) down, so is the Timeline mailing list and homepage. Timeline can downloaded via wget from http://sourceforge.net/projects/thetimelineproj/files/thetimelineproj/1.6.0…

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wifi authentication by certificate
by Nic Baxter 21 Jul '15

21 Jul '15

Hi All I am trying to connect my tablet running mageia 5 to the wifi in my local secondary school. When I was an employee it was quite easy to do this using wpa2 enterprise with a username and password. However I am now a casual and so don't have that any more. The school tech has provided me with a root certificate and a machine certificate which is how the school owned windows netbooks are connected. Does anyone have any idea how to use the certificates? My searching has only found certificates paired with username and password. Cheers Nic

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RE: Recording and displaying total internet traffic.
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Many thanks for the replies, James reply put me on the track, vnstat just reads /proc/net/dev this give full stats for all up interfaces. All I need to do is when ppp0 comes up is to start reading /proc/net/dev and feed it to grep ppp0, extracting the transmit and recieve count will be trivial. Flamming horrible weather must be making my brain freeze. Up here in NE Vic we normall get frost mornings and sunny days. We have had lots of cloudy days either drizzle (mostly) or rain top temperatures of between 7 and 10 degrees. To cold to do anything outside particularly in the machine shop. My fitness program has gone completely to the dogs.........sigh...... Lindsay

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Desktop, enviroment, poll, on, LUV, web, site
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

On the poll on the LUV web site they have missed out the best window manager ever programmed. A lot of people regard it as old hat, this is largely to do with its standard config has not changed in around 10 years, so it looks something from the dark ages. I am talking about FVWM of course, its ____THE____ most flexible WM to config there is, there is almost nothing you cannot do in it as long as you are willing to dive into the config files, and this does apply to making it look top class . Its very flexibilty though makes it a challenge to config, but in the end its the ___ONLY__ window manager that one can change to suit you. Nearly every other one forces something down ones throat. Note FVWM does provide tools that help one experiment with the config. I am not trying to sell FVWM to anybody just mentioning a program I cannot get on without. Uisng linux for 21 years, Lindsay

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embedded 3G
by Russell Coker 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Is anyone an expert on 3G on embedded devices (I'm particularly interested in hardware from embeddedarm.com) and looking for some work over the net? I've got an embedded device that isn't working on 3G, if someone can ssh in and fix it that would be great. Contact me off-list if interested. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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