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Re: laptop sleep on closing lid
by Craig Sanders 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 06:35:10PM +1000, ed chan wrote: > I tried this change on my eee701 pc which I used as a gateway machine at my 701 died a few months ago...i was using it as a wireless AP. > home and it works ( closing the lid does not suspend the netbook. ). It was > an annoying problem that started once I installed Ubuntu 14.04 server on > the device. > > Now it works. > > Thank you very much. You're welcome, i'm glad somebody found the info useful. btw, don't let an upgrade replace logind.conf or it will go back to the default. i forgot oncw and allowed logind.conf to be replaced while running an apt-get dist-upgrade over ssh and it immediately shutdown (suspended) the laptop again. craig -- craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>

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Re: ADSL problems
by Mark Trickett 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Hello Andrew, You rail against Telstra, but where I am, there is zero choice. For mobile coverage, there are a few Telstra black spots where Optus has coverage, but far more of the reverse. I am cursing Telstra as there is ADSL either side of me, by something like four kilometers at the closest. My copper pair is about 1,000 meters to the base of a mobile phone tower, where there is ISDN equipment, but not ADSL. It used to be a very poor quality 11 plus kilometers to the nearest exchange, but now straight to fiber at the base of the mobile phone tower. Add to that that NBNCo is not due to pass here for quite some time, and that my mobile looses signal every now and then, sometimes when dry, not just wet foliage. When NBNCo take over the copper network, Telstra/Big Pond will no longer do dial up, and I will be forced to go 3G (that is the best the tower will support) on Big Pond. At least that way over contract gigabytes will be speed shaped, rather than an extra ten dollars for each over plan gigabyte that is the Telstra plan. Think about what it will take to get a DVD .ISO, currently not possible on my dial up. I am fortunate that I can visit a local friend with ADSL now and then for some updates and .ISO images. Think about what it would be like trying to cope with the Windows Updates pushed out without warning. I do not think much of Telstra, but that the other majors are even worse. Taking an on topic point, have you ever heard of being able to activate a USB modem under Linux? I gather many, even most, can be used, after activation, but the activation requires Windows, with a vague nod to Apple. I have even seen trouble, quite a few years back, with a Windows Netbook, one of the early ones that was also available with Linux. It belonged to a German national who brought it with him, and he had enormous trouble getting activation of anything. He even grabbed an update or two on a USB stick, and still did not work. As to reading any replies, that depends on the status of Telstra's modem pool, whether they answer, and whether they will let me log in, then whether the networking is functional. I suspect that there may be a problem with resetting and being ready when a Windows user just drops the line rather than logging out. However I have had it cut me off well under the ten hours that any one session may run up to, the dropping the connection happening from their end. They appear to not be looking after in this last time window before dropping the service. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Re: ADSL problems
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 07:26:20 Andrew McGlashan said, Linz's comment first, hope do not mind me saying this................ >If Telstra wasn't so hell bent on milking every consumer [of any type] >for as much as they can and if they cared about keeping our network up >to world standards without super premium pricing, well .. I might be >able to support them. Whilst they continue to extort far too much for >their product, they don't deserve ANY support and will remain the last >bastion of hope for those unfortunate enough to actually need to rely >upon them. You appear not have understood what Mark was saying, in most rural Australia one simply has no choice, you have Telstra or nothing. As far as I am concerned these other Telco's you are defending are as guilty of gouging the public as Telstra, as they will ____ONLY____ provide services where they can get a large return on as small an outlay as possible. Telstra's performance is poor, but at last its there you mostly cannot get support from anyone else. I am somewhat luckier than Mark as my rural house is just below a hill that has both Telstra and another carriers (Optus) mobile towers on it so I can get a half decent although from in town standards very expensive fast internet (I use Virgin), even then its NOT reliable. The nearest town around 5 kilometres away has both ASDL and fixed radio, neither of these will reach me. NBN will not be availible at my location for at least another couple of years and then it will be via satelite. Note: I am not complaining just making a point. services will _____ALWAYS______ be poorer in rural areas, something most town and city folk do not always understand, one lives in such an area to get a quite life. Lindsay

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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 31 Jul '15

31 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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