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    Re: Upgrade to 20.04 killed mysql

    ended up reinstalling mysql, which is a pain as I had to reinstall mythtv.

    regards
    Ian Dobson
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    Upgrade to 20.04 killed mysql

    Hallo,

    I've just attempted to upgrade my ubuntu/mythtv backend server to 20.04 and something has gone really wrong with mysql. After upgrading mysql doesn't start anymore.
    Looking through the...
  3. [SOLVED] Re: do-release-upgrade from 16.4 to 18.4 error

    OK the update appears to have worked.

    I still have afew dependancy Problems with various perl modules, but that happens after each Major update.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
  4. [SOLVED] Re: do-release-upgrade from 16.4 to 18.4 error

    Hi All,

    OK I renamed '/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service' and re-ran "apt-get dist upgrade" which is now running.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
  5. [SOLVED] do-release-upgrade from 16.4 to 18.4 error

    Hi All,

    I've tried to upgrade my old 16.4 System to 18.4 using do-release-upgrade, which crashed after about 30 minutes (download finished) just after asking afew questions about the kerbus...
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    Re: Server storage capacity

    Hi,

    If you could add a Network Card to Server A then maybe try using a NAS with iSCSI, The storage space is mounted on Server A but it's actually attached to the Server through a Network rather...
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    Re: What is going on with forked-daapd?

    Hi,

    I don't know forked-daapd at all but the Errors about writing to a readonly database make me think you have Problems with the SQL backend.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
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    [ubuntu] Re: Video Converter

    Hi,

    It doesn't have a web interface but I use handbrake to transcode Videos.

    Maybe just create a simple cron Job that checks for Video files in a specific Directory and just call handbrake to...
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    Re: Server Freezes every 30 - 90 minutes

    Hi,

    Have a look if there's a BIOS update for your mainboard. It sounds as if there are some really nasty bugs in the BIOS/acpi irq mapping table.

    regards
    Ian Dobson
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    Re: defragment Ubuntu

    Hi,

    I've used e4defrag on several of my systems. It's included in the e2fsutils package in 11.10 und 12.04

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
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    [ubuntu] Re: lm-sensors issue.

    Hi,

    A full output would be nice:-

    sudo dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

    Then upload /tmp/dmesg.txt as an attachment to this forum.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
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    [ubuntu] Re: lm-sensors issue.

    Hi,

    Any chance that you can attach a full dmesg from the box. Maybe then I can see where things are going wrong.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
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    [ubuntu] Re: lm-sensors issue.

    Hi,

    Also it looks as if the BIOS doesn't initalise the PC87364 correctly, so I don't think that lm-sensors will work.

    and have a look here:-...
  14. Thread: Script help

    by ian dobson
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    [SOLVED] Re: Script help

    Hi,

    Maybe have a look at using ssh/expect, something like this:-



    #!/bin/bash
    HOST="localhost"
    USER="myuname"
    PASS="mypassword"
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    [ubuntu] Re: How long can a 12.04 Server 64bit stay up?

    Hi,

    I only ever reboot my backend server when it says a reboot is required on login.

    I have afew boxes that aren't connected to the internet and they have an uptime of almost 500days. So a...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Intel Sandy Bridge with Ubuntu

    Hi,

    You'll need to run make/make install on every kernel upgrade.

    Good luck finding out which voltage is which.

    I imagine in0 is the cpu core,in6 could be the ram voltage,in4 could be 5Volt...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Intel Sandy Bridge with Ubuntu

    OK, I've just tried compiling the it87 module myself and I think I've found your problem.

    1) Rename Makefile.txt to Makefile
    2) Edit Makefile so that it uses the lib dir for the build: ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Intel Sandy Bridge with Ubuntu

    Hi,

    Looks as if support for the IT8728F has been added to kernel version 3.3, so you can wait for that or download the standalone version from http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/misc/it87/ then...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Intel Sandy Bridge with Ubuntu

    Hi,

    as a first attempt to just see if the driver supports your chip
    a "sudo modprobe it87.ko" . If it loads and a "sudo sensors" displays your various temperature/fan speed/voltages then it'll be...
  20. [ubuntu] Re: Samba Write Performance Poor. Need Expert Help.

    Hi,

    Maybe try optimizing your samba configuration. This is what I'm using and am getting approx 50Mbyte/sec write speed over GBit lan from a windows7 box to the linux server.



    client ntlmv2...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Half the drives in my RAID won't spin down

    Hi,

    I purchased several wb 2Tb green drives some time ago for a Backup array on my main server. Even though all the drives where the same model, 2 of them didn't power down.

    After several...
  22. [ubuntu] Re: Maximum partition size in Ubuntu server 12.04

    Hi,

    Linux supports gpt partitions that can be larger than 2Tb.
    The old partition table (msdos) only supports max 2Tb.
    Linux can create a file system on a raw drive (no partition needed)

    The...
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    [ubuntu] Re: IO Wait spikes

    Hi,

    Maybe run iotop -o -P to see who's causing the seeks on the drives.

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Server crashes on boot (possibly HDD capacity problems)

    Hi,

    The errors your seeing are disk errors. It looks as if sda has media errors and could well be dieing.

    Maybe run a fschk to see if there are any sector errors in the ext file system.
    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: How to find my server ip?

    Hi,

    from the terminal type

    ifconfig

    Regards
    Ian Dobson
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