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jojopi

1) What does "spindle" mean? 2) What "more normal" way does it use? It enables a display manager (lightdm) and configures it to auto-login. Which is definitely more normal than configuring a text auto-login and putting "startx" in your bash profile. And does not break SSH or the serial console. I s...

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The Linux console — the character-based terminal emulator that runs on the kernel framebuffer — is not as versatile as iTerm2. It does not support proportional fonts or spacing, can only show one font at a time, and only supports sixteen colors (but you can choose any sixteen). If you need those mor...

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If you only changed the tty1 line, then you should still have gettys running on the other virtual consoles, which you can reach with Ctrl+Alt+F2 to F6. I am not at all convinced that editing inittab is a good way to automatically launch a GUI, by the way. The latest raspi-config in the recommended r...

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I'm sure the next revision will include some kind of "activity indicator" to run while the resize is happening. Unfortunately, resize2fs's progress bar is only available for off-line (not mounted) resizes. In theory the on-line resize could be started in the background. In theory it would even be s...

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I would want to first find out exactly how much data was overwritten, and overwrite that data again with zeros, to avoid any possibility of recovering the Pi filesystems instead of the one you want. If you have not attempted to mount or otherwise write to the drive since, then "sudo cmp IMAGE /dev/s...

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Nobody yet appears to have matched the stock-clocked results that Dom reported on the first Raspbian boots in April: http://pastebin.com/2NZqH2yY … You can not use -Ofast for benchmarks, without a proof that it does not change their computation results. The option violates the relevant standards in ...

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The architecture string "7" does appear to refer to ARMv7 — the corresponding C preprocessor token is CPU_ARCH_ARMv7. And the kernel definitely seems conflicted about whether ARM1176 is ARMv6 or ARMv7. The very first message logged at boot is: [ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb767] r...

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- Composite connector not soldered on square. - Edge cut of board not as clean It is difficult to be sure without pictures, but this sounds like normal cosmetic variations. The PCB holes for the through-hole connectors cannot be made a tight fit, so they will end up soldered in slightly varying pos...

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Depending on what you did to inittab, there may still be gettys running on other virtual consoles; try Ctrl+Alt+F2 to F6.

You can also fix it by booting in safe mode (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 29&t=12007), then:

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mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt
vi /mnt/etc/inittab
reboot

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Same here. Two ordered 16th which arrived today. Serial numbers nearly consecutive so not random ... Seriously impressed! Do you mean the sticker numbers, or "grep Serial /proc/cpuinfo"? I ordered two on July 17th, over 24 hours after the relaxation of restrictions. Arrived today so I too am well i...

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I think /etc/rc.local was the right place. That runs as root at the end of the boot sequence, before any users log in. Perfect for indicating that the system is ready. /etc/profile and ~/.profile run only when a user logs in. And /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc run only when a user starts a shell. In...

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to make a script executable, you type sudo chmod -x filename That makes a file not executable. (Unless your current umask denies execute permission, in which case that command does nothing, even to files that are already executable.) Anyway, you never need to mess with the permissions of files that...

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In the foundation's kernels, ext{2,3,4} all mount using the same (ext4) codebase. The on-disk formats are basically the same too, of course. Are you talking about loss of data in files written shortly before a crash, or more widespread corruption? If the latter I would expect it to be repeated with ...

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Why does apache need write access? You said you wanted to serve the photos, not delete them.

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Mortimer wrote:Which is great, but it is missing the first virtual machine, so isn't complete. Looks promising, now to try and work out why it is ignoring the entry for the Windows XPSP3 guest.

You specifically asked it to delete the first match: sed '1,1d'.

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If your passwords are guessable enough, or the attacker has a big enough botnet, then blocking brute-force attempts after the fact will not help you. Better to do something that actually increases security, such as choosing good passwords or disabling password authentication completely. If your syst...

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Does this help:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse
killall pcmanfm

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My usb/eth chips has always ran raging hot, by raging hot I mean you couldn't keep your finger on it for more than a minute. Me too. Except that I would call that "a bit warm" rather than "raging hot". You are describing at most 45°C, which is tens of degrees below the point where silicon chips sta...

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Use perl? It is a nicer language than awk or sed, and it is fairly standard even on the remaining proprietary Unices.

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"sudo shutdown -h -H now" will shut down to a more useful state, where you can still press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot. There is a (not) reset pin, but it is not very exposed. Tap a 3K3 resistor between TP2 (ground) and the SoC end of R15. This works even in the new halt state. (The resistor is just to a...

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The debian equivalent of "chkconfig SERVICE on/off" appears to be "update-rc.d SERVICE enable/disable". (Or you can do it the traditional way, manipulating the S and K symlinks in /etc/rcN.d.)

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There isn't any excuse for this behaviour only junk unregulated power supplies vary their voltage with load a switch mode power supply should be able to hold a steady voltage no matter what you throw at. I would say that all switch-mode supplies have some voltage change with current. For one thing ...

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sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse
killall pcmanfm

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I was surprised to see (via "sudo sysctl -w vm.block_dump=1", dmesg) that nearly all reads and writes on mmcblk0p1 are in single-sector or odd-multiple strides. This is despite the fact that the filesystem has 16-sector clusters that are correctly aligned. (By contrast, all I/O on mmcblk0p2 is in ex...

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For what it is worth, it seems that the device names for card readers end in digits while those for "regular" disks end in letters. It isn't clear to me that newbies reading this thread may pick up on this tidbit, as it was indirectly referenced in some of the comments, but, names ending in letters...

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