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Mixed results with Linux 5.1
by Duncan Roe 21 Jun '19

21 Jun '19

Hi all, Following Andrew's exhortations at the last main meeting, I built 5.1 and installed it on my laptop. My 3 AMD GPU bugs are all fixed! Very impressive, since I haven't had any Bugzilla email about them for months. At least, I suppose they're fixed: the symptoms don't show any more. On checking logs I saw 1 Oops (from 3 boots), and it looked similar to the ones I used to see all the time. Confidently I installed 5.1 as my default desktop system. This was a disaster. The system came up to the login prompt very quickly, without changing from the initial terminal font to a smaller one as it usually did. There was a message from INIT that "SV" was respawning too quickly. When I supplied user name and password, I just got the login prompt again. I went back to 5.0 and checked what was in debug.log (which logs everything). And there was nothing at all! No hint that 5.1 had ever started - just a 7 minute gap between the last 5.0 shutdown and 5.0 starting. I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to report this - does anyone have a suggestion? Cheers ... Duncan. ======================= Have you seen this email before? Please mail me off-list if so. I originally sent this on 13th May but didn't see it come back. Cheers ... Duncan.

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Lacie Porsche Drives.
by stripes theotoky 31 May '19

31 May '19

I have been intending to buy this drive for back up of my Linux boxen but Googling shows that some people at least are having trouble with Porsche drives. I understand I can't install the software as it is Mac but then I don't want to. Is there any reason why this particular drive won't work as a standard USB3 on Ubuntu and Devuan laptops? https://www.mwave.com.au/product/lacie-8tb-porsche-design-usb-30-external-d… -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562

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Upcoming Linux Journal Cool Projects issue
by Mark Irgang 25 May '19

25 May '19

We are working on our annual cool projects issue and are still looking for a few more articles. Are your LUGS working on cool projects? If so, would you or someone you know be interested in writing an article for us? Email ljeditor(a)linuxjournal.com if you have an idea for an article, and note that the deadline for that issue is July 10th. As a thank you, here are the links for the* Linux Journal* -- Deep Dive Collection Ebook for everyone in your LUG. Our Deep Dive Collection is indeed deep, coming in at 800+ pages! As such, we've provided it in two ebook formats. Please follow the version link(s) of your choice to download now: - EPUB <https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/lj-podcast/Linux+Journal+Deep+Dive+Editi…> - MOBI <https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/lj-podcast/Linux+Journal+Deep+Dive+Editi…> Mark C. Irgang Associate Publisher Linux Journal -- The Original Magazine of the Linux Community www.linuxjournal.com 9597 Jones Rd, #331 Houston, TX 77065

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Message for Linux Journal LUG advisory Members: Invitation to Holepunch.io a new Tunneling Service
by Linux Journal 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hello Community Advisory Members, holepunch.io [https://holepunch.io/signup] is a new tunneling service developed by some folks at London Trust Media (our parent company), and they'd like to share it with you for free. The service is currently in beta testing, and we are sending this out to you, our LUG community advisors. We would appreciate if you could also pass this along to your LUG members. The development team would love to hear your feedback, so please tell them what you like or don't like, and let them know if you find any bugs (email [support(a)holepunch.io] You can use holepunch.io [https://holepunch.io/signup] to host a website locally over http or https and share it with friends or clients via a public URL (support for tcp or udp coming in the near future). To get started, simply sign up [https://holepunch.io/signup] and then go to the download page [https://holepunch.io/download] to get the punch CLI that you will use for starting a tunnel. You also can use the CLI to do other things [https://holepunch.io/docs] like reserving a specific subdomain to use for your site. Now, other services similar to holepunch.io do exist, but holepunch.io is focused on providing the best quality at a lower price while being more private, secure and open than other options. The holepunch.io team is making business, architectural and development decisions that will allow you to trust your data going through their service. You already can find much of their code on github [https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/holepunch] The development team would love to hear your feedback, so please tell them what you like or don't like, and let them know if you find any bugs (email [support(a)holepunch.io] Thanks, Linux Journal and the Holepunch.io teams Sign Up Now [https://holepunch.io/signup] Linux Journal 9597 Jones Rd #331 Houston, TX 77065 You are receiving this email because you previously subscribed to Linux Journal or had signed up for one of our products. Unsubscribe https://linuxjournal.cmail19.com/t/j-u-melujt-jjjlyklulk-u/

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IEEE Vic Talk: Tue 21 May 18:30: Prof J. Lygeros: Feedback everywhere
by Rodney Brown 20 May '19

20 May '19

*Title:* Feedback everywhere *Speaker:* Professor John Lygeros, Professor of Computation and Control and Head, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich *Date/Time:* 6.30-7.30pm, refreshments from 6pm *Location: *Woodward Conference Centre, 10th floor, Melbourne Law (Building 106), 185 Pelham St, Carlton VIC 3053 *Registration: *https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2019-miegunyah-public-lecture-feedback-everywhere-tickets-59205215393 <http://enotice.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=O_5crvo8-OpaaQy2hmvJVQ~~&pe=OLeDtmo5tVsI…> *Abstract:* What do self driving cars, power grids and homeostasis in biology have in common? Seemingly not much. If one looks "under the hood", however, one discovers that they all rely on a common principle that renders their operation robust and reliable. This principle, known as feedback, is intuitive: see where you are, compare to where you want to be, and move in the direction that reduces the difference between the two. Though the feedback principle itself is simple to explain, understanding its implications, uses and limitations is far from it and forms the topic of a branch of engineering known as automatic control. *23rd May 2019* Winprop workshop: AP-MTT is also co-sponsoring a free workshop on wireless propagation modelling. Again further details are available from http://sites.ieee.org/vic-apmtt/ <http://enotice.ieee.org/link.cfm?r=O_5crvo8-OpaaQy2hmvJVQ~~&pe=Kz_axBBP47bd…> and registration is by email to marketing-anz(a)altair.com <mailto:marketing-anz@altair.com> http://www.ieeevic.org/

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USB drive errors
by stripes theotoky 19 May '19

19 May '19

I have a WD passport USB drive that has been working fine. Just plugged it in and get input / output errors and it won't mount. Mounted it manually with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt it mounts fine and ls shows this. ls: cannot access 'Locale': Input/output error total 4845912 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Apr 23 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 18 19:03 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 25 2018 apache2-Debian drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Dec 15 2012 Extras d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Locale drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 3 2011 'System Volume Information' drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 4 2013 .Trash-1000 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 294697 Jun 23 2009 'User Manuals' -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2013 May 9 2009 'WD Apps for Windows' drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Aug 11 2014 Windows I have no idea what Locale is and there seems to be no way to do anything with it. Any suggesting apart from using rsync to copy everything else off the drive and formatting it? Stripes. -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562

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Mixed results with Linux 5.1
by Duncan Roe 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hi all, Following Andrew's exhortations at the last main meeting, I built 5.1 and installed it on my laptop. My 3 AMD GPU bugs are all fixed! Very impressive, since I haven't had any Bugzilla email about them for months. At least, I suppose they're fixed: the symptoms don't show any more. On checking logs I saw 1 Oops (from 3 boots), and it looked similar to the ones I used to see all the time. Confidently I installed 5.1 as my default desktop system. This was a disaster. The system came up to the login prompt very quickly, without changing from the initial terminal font to a smaller one as it usually did. There was a message from INIT that "SV" was respawning too quickly. When I supplied user name and password, I just got the login prompt again. I went back to 5.0 and checked what was in debug.log (which logs everything). And there was nothing at all! No hint that 5.1 had ever started - just a 7 minute gap between the last 5.0 shutdown and 5.0 starting. I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to report this - does anyone have a suggestion? Cheers ... Duncan.

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Suggestion for 2 in 1 laptop
by H 06 May '19

06 May '19

I am looking to get a 2 in 1 laptop with a touch screen for personal / hobbyist use. I would like 512 GB of storage for Linux (datafiles), but also to be able to boot Windows. I have been on various manufacturers and retailers websites and can find only limited technical information I don't think the SSD available / supported are large enough for dual boot. I am therefore thinking of getting something with a M.2 SSD socket, and changing over the card depending on which O/S I want to use. Swapping cards does not strike me as problem (I did it regularly on my previous laptop) Can anyone advise where linux support for touch screens is at? (I heard some dated stories that it is not there yet - I'd like to run opensuse (kde), but hear Gnome (ubuntu) offers better support, happy to try other distos if suggested ) Can anyone advise about '2 in 1s' and whether / which have replaceable M.2 SSD cards? Many thanks, H

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