Only took seven months to fix although to be fair it hasn't been very far up my list of priorities until last week

Haha, my similar problem took a mere 5 months so I'm much more of an expert than you (yeah, right ) Forum power rules! (eventually)

Yeah but no but I wasn't really trying for six of those months so that makes me betterer than you.

18 months since I've scribbled in here so thought I'd update it.

Why the flipping heck won't the Mint 14 install recognise our ASUS netbook (AMD C-60 based) as being 64bit when Mint 13 64 is running happily on it. I have a bootable USB stick install with 64bit and 32 bit versions on it. My desktop installed the 64bit verison from the stick fine but when I use the stick on my netbook it only shows up the 32 bit versions.

Answers on a postcard please. My Google skills are failing me tonight.

Interesting: I used the mint 14.1 to install on this 64-bit acer in both BIOS mode (fails during configuration, though the live install runs) and UEFI mode (works, but you need to know that the thing wakes up with the screen backlight turned right down so it looks as if nothing's happening.)

Appending this as I have another question for the Linux gurus on here. It's that time of year again where I end up with spare time of an evening and like to fiddle with things.

I want to be able to edit a remote text file using Pluma on my local machine. The remote file is on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and it has a fixed IP address. I can SSH into the Pi fine and see it's contents in the file browser but can I hell as like open the relevant files in Pluma with access to change them. I can open them in Pluma via the file browser but not with the correct access level to save changes.


I did this last year successfully (using sftp IIRC) although it may have been using Ubuntu ninstead of Mint. I can use nano running on the Pi to do this but I don't want to.

Not sure if I am reading this correctly. Where is the file stored on the pi and was it created by a root user? If it's permission related and not owned or allowed to be edited by the user then change it using chown/chmod first (e.g chmod 777 gives full access to the file).

If it's a case of running pluma via ssh then you could do this by enabling X11 forwarding. This allows graphical applications to run on the machine via an ssh connection.

Make sure it's set to on (usually is by default in linux) by checking the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file first, then just use 'ssh -X user@servername'.

You should then be able to open the file via pluma and edit it. Again, make sure you have permission first.

Alternatively, and assuming the permissions for the file in question are OK you could just use filezilla to ssh in and edit.

On the other hand I could be barking up the wrong tree and in this case, just ignore this pointless post!

Not at all, I think you may have a point there regarding the permissions. when I was doing this last year (and it worked for me) it was just c source files that I'd written myself, this time it's network interface config files. I'll have a look later, working from home and constrained to Windows (as well doing the day job) for today.

FWIW the SSH bit works fine and Pluma can open and read files remotely, it's just the saving of them it can't do.

Sorted thanks, a case of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

--trees
++wood

Sorted!

Great, massive post that took an hour to write disappears bug hits me too!

More newbie Linux questions. I've set up a Raspberry as a file server using this guide (pretty much word for word with 2 x 1Tb USB drives hooked up to a powered hub). I've also installed miniDLNA so I can stream video and music from it through my TV.

I give up.

Copy and save somewhere else before hitting submit.

I used to do that ages ago when the forum software was a bit flaky but got out of the habit. Fortunately the back button got me back to my text so I have a copy. I just can't face splitting it into 10 chunks so I can post it yet, maybe later on.

More newbie Linux questions. I've set up a Raspberry as a file server using this guide (pretty much word for word with 2 x 1Tb USB drives hooked up to a powered hub). I've also installed miniDLNA so I can stream video and music from it through my TV. So far so good and it does what it's supposed to but I'm seeing some weird issues that are affecting reliability. I appreciate that a £30 server running USB drives isn't going rival a proper RAID set up so as such there isn't anything on it that's mission critical but still...

The issues are
The two drives are mounted to sda1 and sdb1 and every night a crontab runs a rsync between the two drives. On an almost daily basis one or both the drives decide to unmount themselves. Sometimes the drive won't show up or sometimes it will become mounted to sdc1 instead.
How can I tell when and why this is happening?

Sometimes the contents of folders completely disappears, I *think* this may be happening if the primary drive is unmounted meaning the rsync sees an empty source drive and subsequently empties the destination drive although this is just conjecture at the moment.
How can tell for sure?

Sometimes I'll see the folder and file structure of the mounted drive even when it isn't mounted. Browsing the USBHDD1/2 folder where the drive is mounted shpws all the files despite sudo fdisk -l not showing the drive as mounted.
How can this be?

Sometimes the files will look as if they aren't there only for them to turn up later.

Finally, sometimes files decide to become read only which doesn't really matter for music and film but does for Word and Power-point files. All computers connect to the file using Samba and the backups user on the pi as shown in the guide. Remote computers are running Mint or Windows 7.

Force reloading it doesn't seem to have any effect other than forcing the TV to take an hour for it to be able to see all the files again. The index shows up files that have long been removed and some aren't shown as being in the folders where they are located although they still play.
How do I rebuild the index the of the miniDLNA server?

I think I can make rsync write a log of what it does which may shed some light on it but but how do I find when and why the drives aren't mounted where I left them? Any other ideas from the Linux gurus on here are more than welcome.

I have about 300Gb of music and video so recopying files over from main machine is getting rather tiresome.

This sounds similar to the fault where a non-linux disc in a linux system will sometimes drop out and become invisible, even though it claims to be mounted.

You might try a umount and then a mount -all every now and again?

That's not a bad idea. I could add that into the crontab thingydodah after the rsync runs. I was thinking about putting a shutdown -r in there but this is less drastic.

Of course since putting this post the bloody thing seems to be behaving but then I haven't chucked any new files at it for a couple of days. I *think* my problems occur whenever I chuck a reasonable amount (say 10 Gb) of new data at it which the rysnc then will then copy over to the spare drive overnight.

Try the log file - think it's /var/log/dmesg or another file in /var/log..



Don't know how to tell but you could maybe write a very basic bash script which could incorporate the cronjob and mounting but also checks to see if the destination folders exist? Simple if statement which could log the outcome of errors



not sure but I'd recommend using the command df -h to see mounted volumes. I use fdisk -l to see available partitions to mount



Try chmod/chown commands to set permissions on the files?

Again, could add this to the bash script..

Thanks, I'll have a look at that later on.

Well this is from my new and sparkly Mint 16 on an SSD now it's lightning quick. I only got the drive on Thursday and I have dual boot Win7/Mint 16 and a VM running Win8.1. Bloody expert I is now!

Cheers for the help above with reagrds the raspberry pi, I've delved a little further. It looks like my slave hard drive is crashing completely at some point as it isn't even there to mount. I generally have to unplug and replug it for it to appear so I can mount it again. If I don't chuck large amounts of files at it then it's fine but I'm still trying to get my music onto the flipping thing. The DLNA streaming works fine once the files are there and mirrored.

How come if the second drive (sdb1) has disappeared, and doesn't show in fdisk, that it the volume shows as mounted under df-h?

If I then unplug and replug the drive it becomes sdc1 and a subsequent reboot then puts it back as sdb1 where it should be.

Back here again. In short the upshot of my hard-drive woes above were my hard drive itself. Thanks to a 2 year warranty it's all sorted.

Now next connundrum......
I want to make my Mint boot use a static IP address (for boring reasons involving running another Minecraft server for testing). I tried to do this (as I have successfuly before on different machines) by simply changing the /etc/network/interfaces file appropriately but something went awry (feel free to interpret this as me changing something I didn't understand but hey ho, it's most likely what happened) leaving me with...

1. No internet connection on boot. Manually doing it using sudo ifup eth0 works fine to give me a DHCP assigned IP address though.

2. If I use the static settings in the interfaces file then it appears to work (from ifconfig locally) and I can see the static IP address from my router but I don't get any internet connection. Possibly just some daft error in my file below but I'm sure I've tried every combination known to man...

3. The network applet thingy in the notifcation area has gone. I've tried various suggested routes on t'interweb involving installing and uninstalling network-manager and network-manager-gnome to no avail. This is less important because as long as I can change it with the interfaces file then I don't need the applet as once set to a static address I'm unlikely to need to change it.

Two main questions
1. How do I get my network (eth0 to be precise) to connect on log in again?

2. Once I've fixed the above then how to get the static connection connecting? The static version of the interfaces file is
I've set the DHCP pool of addresses to be assigned to 101 and above so there isn't a clash there.

As usual any suggestions are more than welcome as this should be a piece of cake to fix (especially after the karfuffle I've recently had getting Mint to read a data drive made up of windows dynamic discs but that's another story) but isn't proving so......

When you boot up, before you connect manually, what does


tell you ?

At logon


After sudo ifup eth0

The 101 is my correctly assigned DHCP address and all works

Do you have


in rc.local?

(or possibly

Neither of those, nothing but "exit 0".

network_manager restart and network_manager restart both return command not found if I try them manually.

I guess I can try adding the ifup to rc.local for now to get round problem number 1 but I shouldn't have to.

Will do that later as WishySenior has Windows issues that I need to go and attend to.

Adding the ifup line into rc.local makes it connect automatically. Any attempt to go to static still fails though.

/me scratches head. It's been too long since I've had to play at that level - usually Mint just works.

Can you add an IP address? I don't recall if this works:



Currently doing a mooc - the hardware software interface - and it's a doozy... gone from 'this is an and' to stack attacks in three weeks; my head is full.