We all know there are like 42,000 different distributions of Linux out there to pick from and I have tried many of them. Some I liked but most just got boring and the idea of participating in the community was just a joke. So I always moved on, until now.....

I have to say I ABSOLUTELY LOVE VSIDO!!

With installations varying from daily use desktops to an office file/ftp server I have yet to get bored. Some of this I know has to do with running SID which in its self is fairly new to me (almost a year) but even more its the way this distro has been put together and the comrodery within this community.

Each and every one of you make this forum a better place and if I could I would buy you all a cup of coffee (with VastOnes being a nice big bottle of Jameson Whiskey). Just felt the need to thank you guys for the fantastic work that is done here.

Having a strange issue with systemd.

I had my ssd fail the other day and finally got around to replacing it.

I replaced it with the newer revision of what I originally had but I switched up my install a bit to save room for the Windows install since this is a dual boot machine. Normally I would put root, home and swap all on the same drive but today I just put my root partition on the ssd and home and swap on a secondary 7200rpm hdd.
As normal I did all my video driver and kernel installing through smxi and the installed systemd by running

get systemd

Install was fine so I then added

init=/lib/systemd/systemd

to grub and then ran

sudo update-grub

Everything seemed just fine until I reboot and the boot process stalled out on



I seem to remember someone else (maybe Jedi) having a similar issue. Did this ever get figured out?
Could this be caused by having root and home on seperate physical drives?

When I rebooted and edit grub and removed

init=/lib/systemd/systemd

the boot process was perfect with no errors and it booted right up.


Edit:
I should mention that although the boot process stalls with systemd enabled it does finally boot after about 5-7 min of waiting and wheeping.

No matter what I do I am unable to get audio working via HDMI

lspci -v | grep Audio (onboard audio disabled)

01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]


aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


Any ideas?

I just had what looks to be a fatal SSD crash during a dist-upgrade, so tomorrow it looks like I will be parts shopping.

All of my machines are running SSD's for the root and home partitions and I love them but my question is, is it really worth it?
What am I really gaining? I save a little time and my machine is faster but are SSD's really advanced enough now to
be a viable replacement for the mechanical drive? This one that failed was a 60gb drive that has lasted me almost exactly a year and a half (purchased February 13, 2012). It looks like this drive will be covered under warranty so thats cool and yes I know HDD's die too.

If Im storing most of my data on a mechanical drive because SSD's are still pricey then Im still limited to the capabilities of the mechanical drive.

I know many of you use SSD's and Id love to get your input on this.

I have an old Dell that I turned into an office file and ftp server and figured that would be a great stability/efficiency test for VSDIO.

Initially I had some concerns about memory usage with a 64 bit install but am now convinced I should never doubt VastOne. This server has been running for a month now and with an uptime of 14 days
and a 170mb memory usage.

I havent seen any stability issues whatsoever and have not had one glitch when connecting to or downloading from it.


The only thing that I have an issue with is lightdm and samba integration. From what I can tell Samba needs a login manager to start properly and I would love to be able to have this machine
boot up to a console rather than with a gui.

All in all this project is 99.9% perfect. Thanks again VastOne for all the time an effort you have put into VSIDO.

This question is not specific to any OS. I have (a customers) Toshiba Satellite C655, today I changed out the dc adapter and the re-assembled the laptop. Once reassembled I attempted to power it on but the screen just lit up and thats all. No bios. Nothing at all. The fans comes on and I could hear the drive going so I knew it was booting, so I plugged it into an external monitor via a vga cable and BAM.... I had picture.
I have once again pulled the laptop apart and removed everything except one ram chip, reset the bios and I get the same outcome. Just a blank lit up screen.

After all this I spoke with my customer and found out that the laptop had been freezing constantly with as little load as opening a web browser.

My thoughts are that this is video card related and that it has been failing for a while. The freezing makes me think that its more than just a bad cable from the mobo to the monitor.

Any ideas?

Edit:

Also I should have mentioned that I have gotten very close to the screen and tried to see if the display was there at all in case the display was failing but theres nothing at all

Just a quick question......

What are the best update habits for SID?

I have been updating with

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

once a week or so and seem to have  around 125 updates each week. Is once a week often enough to update? Or to often (if possible)?

Also is dist-upgrade still the recommended update command?

Thanks guys

While creating a gallery on a website I had to find a way to mass resize my images to create thumbnails and this is what I came up with.

First, if you dont have imagemagick installed then you will need to run

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

First we need to create a directory for our thumbnails

mkdir ~/thumbs

Then create a copy of the images we want to resize and place them in ~/thumbs

cp ~/gallery_images/* ~/gallery_images/thumbs/

Then cd to our thumbs folder

cd ~/thumbs

Now we can resize all the images in our thumbs folder using the mogrify command
As far as I know this will work with all image types (png, gif, jpg, jpeg... etc)

This will keep the aspect ratio

mogrify -resize 250 *.jpg

If you want to force resizing without maintaining the aspect ratio you can run
the command using a specific size such as

mogrify -resize 640×480! *.jpg

Thats it. Hope this helps someone.

Ok well after weeks of saying Im gonna do it, I am finally downloading and installing the 32 bit ISO on an old Dell Dimension 2400 to use as a backup server in my office.
Ill update after its up and running.......

Edit:

Just burned ISO to a disk and it errored when I boot to the disk. So I DD'ed to USB and I got the same error. No UI or Boot. Trying to download again and will update if I get the same error (on multiple machines).
Also, I dowloaded via wget and file was 710.9mb. This time I am downloading again with wget and also directly

There seems to be an issue with the new 32 bit ISO........ Has anyone else had any issues with it?

So, before someone says it, I know mixing stable/testing/unstable is not a wise idea but Im in need of acidrip (mostly cuz I know it and it works) but it isnt available on Debian anymore.
Now I found a .deb intended for squeeze and I have installed with no problem, but my question is, do you think this will cause problems in the future? (probably a stupid question I know).

Does anyone know of a better dvd ripper that is supported for SID? Preferably one that will rip to .avi so I dont have to convert them all after ripping. Thanks in advance

Many argue that there are better ways to share files/folders between Linux and Windows machines than to use Samba but it works for me so I thought Id share
here, and maybe I can answer someone questions.

We need to start by installing Samba

sudo apt-get install samba

First lets look at how smb.conf is setup

[global]

This starts the server settings section

workgroup = YOUR_WORKGROUP

The option workgroup specifies the workgroup your server will appear to be in when queried by clients. It's important to have the same workgroup name on both clients and servers.

server string = Samba Shares

The option server string specifies the string that you wish to show to your users in the printer comment box in print manager, or to the IPC connection in the net view command under Windows machines.

encrypt passwords = True

The option encrypt passwords if set to True instructs Samba to use encrypted passwords instead of plain text password when negotiating with the client. Sniffer program will not be able to detect your password when it is encrypted. This option always must be set to True for security reasons.

security = domain

The option security, when operating in security = domain mode, the Samba server has a domain security trust account (a machine account) and causes all authentication requests to be passed through to the domain controllers. In other words, this configuration makes the Samba server a domain member server, even when it is in fact acting as a domain controller. All machines that participate in domain security must have a machine account in the security database.

smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

The option smb passwd file specifies the path to the encrypted smbpasswd file. The smbpasswd file is a copy of the /etc/passwd file of the Linux system containing valid usernames and passwords of clients allowed to connect to the Samba server. The Samba software reads this file, smbpasswd when a connection is requested.

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

The option log file specifies the locations and names of Samba log files. With the name extension %m, it allows you to have separate log files for each user or machine that logs on your Samba server i.e. log.machine1.

socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY

The option socket options specifies parameters that you can include in your Samba configuration to tune and improve your samba server for optimal performance. By default we chose to tune the connection for a local network, and improve the performance of the Samba server for transferring files

domain master = Yes

The option domain master specifies to set nmbd, the Samba server daemon, as a domain master browser for its given workgroup. This option usually must be set to Yes only on one Samba server for all other Samba servers on the same network and workgroup.

local master = Yes

The option local master allows nmbd, the Samba server daemon, to try to become a local master browser on a subnet. Like the above, usually this option must be set to Yes only on one Samba server that acts as a local master on a subnet for all the other Samba servers on your network.

preferred master = Yes

The option preferred master specifies and controls if nmbd the Samba server daemon, is a preferred master browser for its workgroup. Once again, this must usually be set to Yes on one server for all the others on your network.

Quick note

You only want to use

domain master = Yes
local master = Yes
preferred master = Yes

on one machine, so on all other machines you will want to have

domain master = no
local master = no
preferred master = no


os level = 65

The option os level specifies by its value whether nmbd, the Samba server daemon, has a chance of becoming a local master browser for the Workgroup in the local broadcast area. The number 65 will win against any NT Server. If you have an NT Server on your network, and want to set your Linux Samba server to be a local master browser for the Workgroup in the local broadcast area then you must set the os level option to 65. Also, this option must be set only on one Linux Samba server, and must be disabled on all other Linux Samba servers you may have on your network.

dns proxy = No

The option dns proxy if set to Yes specifies that nmbd, the Samba server daemon, when acting as a WINS server and finding that a Net BIOS name has not been registered, should treat the Net BIOS name word-for-word as a DNS name and do a lookup with the DNS server for that name on behalf of the name-querying client. Since we have not configured the Samba server to act as a WINS server, we don't need to set this option to Yes. Also, setting this option to Yes will degrade your Samba performance.

name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast

The option name resolve order specifies what naming services to use in order to resolve host names to IP addresses, and in what order. The parameters we chose cause the local lmhosts file of samba to be examined first, followed by the rest.

bind interfaces only = True

The option bind interfaces only if set to True, allows you to limit what interfaces will serve smb requests. This is a security feature. The configuration option interfaces = eth0 192.168.1.1 below completes this option.

interfaces = eth0 192.168.0.1

The option interfaces allows you to override the default network interface list that Samba will use for browsing, name registration and other NBT traffic. By default, Samba will query the kernel for the list of all active interfaces and use any interface, except 127.0.0.1, that is broadcast capable. With this option, Samba will only listen on interface eth0 on the IP address 192.168.0.1. This is a security feature, and completes the above configuration option bind interfaces only = True.
Basically you want the interface you are connected through (eth0,eth1,wlan0,wlan1.... etc) and your router's password.

hosts deny = ALL

The option hosts deny specifies the list of hosts that are not permitted access to Samba services unless the specific services have their own lists to override this one. For simplicity, we deny access to all hosts by default, and allow specific hosts in the hosts allow = option below.

hosts allow = 192.168.1.4 127.0.0.1

The option hosts allow specifies which hosts are permitted to access a Samba service. By default, we allow hosts from IP class C 192.168.1.4 and our localhost 127.0.0.1 to access the Samba server. Note that the localhost must always be set or you will receive some error messages.

debug level = 1

The option debug level allows the logging level to be specified in the smb.conf file. If you set the debug level higher than 2 then you may suffer a large drop in performance. This is because the server flushes the log file after each operation, which can be very expensive.

create mask = 0644

The option create mask specifies and sets the necessary permissions according to the mapping from DOS modes to UNIX permissions. With this option set to 0644, all file copying or creating from a Windows system to the Unix system will have a permission of 0644 by default.

directory mask = 0755

The option directory mask specifies and set the octal modes, which are used when converting DOS modes to UNIX modes when creating UNIX directories. With this option set to 0755, all directory copying or creating from a Windows system to the Unix system will have a permission of 0755 by default.

level2 oplocks = True

The option level2 oplocks, if set to True, will increase the performance for many accesses of files that are not commonly written, such as .EXE application files.

read raw = no

The option read raw controls whether or not the server will support the raw read SMB requests when transferring data to clients. Note that memory mapping is not used by the read raw operation. Thus, you may find memory mapping is more effective if you disable read raw using read raw = no, like we do.

write cache size = 262144

The option write cache size allows Samba to improve performance on systems where the disk subsystem is a bottleneck. The value of this option is specified in bytes, and a size of 262,144 represent a 256k cache size per file.

Im not totally sure why but when I find an answer Ill update this, but the following lines are needed to keep samba shares working after a reboot

client lanman auth = yes
client ntlmv2 auth = no


Just like when editing any config file its a good idea to have a backup

so

sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/backup_smb.conf

will create a backup of the original /etc/samba/smb.conf file

Now we need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

sudo medit /etc/samba/smb.conf

The default samba config is a bit complicated for what we are doing here so highlight everything and click delete 

Now we create a new config.

A basic Samba configuration can be as little as


[global]
    ; General server settings
    netbios name = YOUR_HOSTNAME
    server string =Samba file server
    workgroup = YOUR_WORKGROUP

[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    path = /home
    read only = no 
    available = yes
    browseable = yes
    writable = yes
    guest ok = no
    public = no
    printable = no
    locking = no
    strict locking = no



mine looks like this

[global]
      workgroup = HOME
      server string = Samba Shares
      encrypt passwords = True
      security = domain
      smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
      log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
      socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
      domain master = Yes
      local master = Yes
      preferred master = Yes
      os level = 65
      dns proxy = No
      name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast
      bind interfaces only = True
      interfaces = eth0 192.168.1.1
      hosts deny = ALL
      hosts allow = 192.168.1.4 127.0.0.1
      debug level = 1
      create mask = 0644
      directory mask = 0755
      level2 oplocks = True
      read raw = no
      write cache size = 262144

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home/luke
read only = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no

[backup]
comment = Backup Directories
path = /media/storage
read only = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no


Now we have to create a samba password for all users who will login

For example, to create mine in a terminal I ran

sudo smbpasswd -a luke

I then entered my password and was then asked for the samba password I wanted to use for myself

luke@VSIDO-FX:~$ sudo smbpasswd -a luke
[sudo] password for luke:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:


To test whether your samba shares are working correctly you can run

smbtree

and if everything is working correctly you should get an output similar to this

luke@VSIDO-FX:~$ smbtree
Enter luke's password:
HOME
\\VSIDO-FX        Samba Shares
\\VSIDO-FX\IPC$            IPC Service (Samba Shares)
\\VSIDO-FX\backup          backup Directories
\\VSIDO-FX\home            Home Directories
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\Users         
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\Storage       
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\J$              Default share
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\IPC$            Remote IPC
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\F$              Default share
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\D$              Default share
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\crystal       
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\C$              Default share
\\LUKE-PHENOM-PC\ADMIN$          Remote Admin
luke@VSIDO-FX:~$



If there is an issue with your configuration you will get a warning when you run smbtree, but I will note that this command doesnt always work as it should. Its nice to know it but I have
had times where I ran it on a known working network and didnt get any output so if theres no output dont get discouraged.

Also, to make any changes you have made to your smb.conf active you will need to restart samba by running

sudo smbd restart
sudo nmbd restart


Now accessing your samba shares in Windows is easy, if using Vista/7/8 just open Explorer and on the left side click on network. Find the machine you want to access and click on it. Enter your login info and your good to go.
If using XP open the start menu and select My Network Places. Any shared folders available on the network will be visible in the My Network Places window.

When accessing shared files with Linux there are many different ways but personally I prefer using Thunar

sudo apt-get install thunar  gvfs-backends libbluetooth3

Once done open just run thunar and click  browse-network over on the left side

















Please feel free to correct me if you find a mistake or make a suggestions.

Parts of this HowTo were pulled from http://www.tldp.org and if you want to read more then check it out [urlhttp://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/soft-fileshrng.html]here[/url]

Im ordering a raspberry pi and wondered if anyone has tried a vsido (or comparable) install on it and if so what issues did you run into? I am building one to run in my car with a 7 inch in dash touchscreen   

This machine is a 6 core AMD FX cpu with 16gb ddr3 so resources arent an issue. So when the machine started to freeze up and lag I really questioned why.
Well, I ran ceni for something and then rather than hitting enter to close out I just "x"ed out of the terminal screen and forgot about it. about 3 min later I looked up (after the machine started lagging) and
noticed one cpu core was maxed out and my memory usage was around 12gb and climbing very quickly. Conky showed ceni usage as around 90% cpu and 15gb memory.
I then let the machine just run for about 15 seconds and right as my swap was maxing out also the system finally killed ceni.

This isnt a major issue but on a slower system it could cause a crash Im sure.

All of a sudden Im getting random crashes where everything will be fine and then the screen will go black and Im back at the Lightdm login screen.
I have noticed that Chromium flash is crashing from time to time also.
Here is my .xsession-errors

Xsession: X session started for luke at Mon Apr 29 15:23:38 PDT 2013
localuser:luke being added to access control list
xmodmap:  unable to open file '~/.Xmodmap' for reading
xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.
tint2 : nb monitor 2, nb monitor used 1, nb desktop 1
tint2 : pixmap background detection failed
print() on closed filehandle $fifofh at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 313.
Reading saved tags in /home/luke/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ...
Reading saved tags in /home/luke/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc ... done
These commands were not found : flac123, ogg123
=> these file types won't be played by the 123 output : oga, flac
utf8 "\xF3" does not map to Unicode at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_layout.pm line 780, <$fh> line 41.
*** unhandled exception in callback:
***   Usage: Gtk2::Widget::set_visible(widget, visible) at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_list.pm line 1773.
***  ignoring at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_list.pm line 1777.
*** unhandled exception in callback:
***   Usage: Gtk2::Widget::set_visible(widget, visible) at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_list.pm line 1773.
***  ignoring at /usr/bin/../share/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_list.pm line 1777.
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-lC85D6/pkcs11: No such file or directory
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-lC85D6/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Conky: /home/luke/Conky/conky_system_2: 68: no such configuration: '${lua'
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/01- Chromium.desktop
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/02- Vuze.desktop
tint2 : nb monitor 2, nb monitor used 1, nb desktop 1
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/03- Gimp.desktop
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/04-terminal.desktop
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/05- thunar.desktop
Add launcher app: /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/06- Xchat.desktop
tint2 : nb monitor 2, nb monitor used 1, nb desktop 1
Loading LinuxLex-8. Icon theme : 'LinuxLex-8', 'Tangerine', 'gnome', 'hicolor',
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/icons/chromium.png
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/icons/azureus.png
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/icons/creston-gimp-15150.png
Conky: desktop window (368) is root window
Conky: window type - desktop
Conky: drawing to created window (0x1c00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/icons/Terminal.hicube.png
Conky: desktop window (368) is root window
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x1e00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/Thunar.png
launcher.c 215: Using icon /home/luke/.config/tint2/tint2launchers/icons/Xchat.png
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-lC85D6/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Conky: desktop window (368) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2000001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-lC85D6/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Conky: /home/luke/Conky/conky_weather: 73: no such configuration: '${lua'
Conky: desktop window (368) is root window
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
wget: no process found
--2013-04-29 15:23:47--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/current-weather/2168292
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.43, 205.168.236.49
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/curr_cond_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  300K
    50K .......... .......... .......... .....                  549K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:47 (370 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/curr_cond_raw' saved [87649]

--2013-04-29 15:23:47--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/daily-weather-forecast/2168292
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.49, 205.168.236.43
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.49|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/first_days_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  323K
    50K .......... .......... .......... ......                 489K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:48 (377 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/first_days_raw' saved [88509]

--2013-04-29 15:23:48--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/daily-weather-forecast/2168292?day=6
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.43, 205.168.236.49
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/last_days_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  314K
    50K .......... .......... .......... ......                 622K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:49 (397 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/last_days_raw' saved [88099]

wget: no process found
--2013-04-29 15:23:49--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/current-weather/2168292
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.49, 205.168.236.43
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.49|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/curr_cond_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  421K
    50K .......... .......... .......... .....                  712K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:50 (508 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/curr_cond_raw' saved [87660]

--2013-04-29 15:23:50--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/daily-weather-forecast/2168292
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.43, 205.168.236.49
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/first_days_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  319K
    50K .......... .......... .......... ......                 638K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:51 (404 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/first_days_raw' saved [88504]

--2013-04-29 15:23:51--  http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/monrovia-ca/91016/daily-weather-forecast/2168292?day=6
Resolving [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])... 205.168.236.49, 205.168.236.43
Connecting to [url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url] ([url=http://www.accuweather.com]www.accuweather.com[/url])|205.168.236.49|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/last_days_raw'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  377K
    50K .......... .......... .......... .....                  559K=0.2s

2013-04-29 15:23:51 (436 KB/s) - '/home/luke/1b1_accuweather_images/last_days_raw' saved [88033]

[7860:7901:0429/152351:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[7860:7901:0429/152351:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[7860:7860:0429/152352:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method: org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was not provided by any .service files
[7860:8014:0429/152352:ERROR:connection.cc(730)] sqlite error 19, errno -2: PRIMARY KEY must be unique
[7860:7860:0429/152402:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[7860:7860:0429/152526:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[7860:7860:0429/152535:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()

(exe:8254): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
[7860:7860:0429/152543:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()



This seems to be the only real error that I can see

[7860:7901:0429/152351:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[7860:7901:0429/152351:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[7860:7860:0429/152352:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method: org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was not provided by any .service files
[7860:8014:0429/152352:ERROR:connection.cc(730)] sqlite error 19, errno -2: PRIMARY KEY must be unique
[7860:7860:0429/152402:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[7860:7860:0429/152526:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[7860:7860:0429/152535:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()

(exe:8254): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
[7860:7860:0429/152543:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()

(exe:8254): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead



Thanks in advance for the help

So all of a sudden Ive got duplicate songs in gmusic browser. The even weirder thing is that I deleted the library from gmb settings but it still comes up. I tried purging gmb and reinstalling and deleting the gmusic broswer directory from /home and starting from scratch but no luck.

I guess the title says it all. When I boot to the new 32 bit live disk I  receive this error (failsafe mode)

This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae

Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

Im attempting to install on an old HP pavilion ze4900

Just installed the new ISO and theres an issue with FB




Just a stock FB desktop comes  up rather than the VSIDO desktop. I will be changing it anyway but just thought youd wanna know VastOne

I guess the title says it all. I am unable to download directly, it gets to about 200mb or so and then errors. So I tried wget and that is even less stable. Wget will download between 20 and 200mb but then terminates.

Luckily I have an older ISO (January I think) so Im ok and can update and run the update script.

I know this has been addressed but has anyone come up with a fix or reason for this?

For some reason my .xsession-error file is getting huge and filling up the free space on my /home partition.

The current .xsession-error


Xsession: X session started for luke at Tue Mar 26 03:16:53 PDT 2013
localuser:luke being added to access control list
tint2 : nb monitor 1, nb monitor used 1, nb desktop 1
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-7lOKHW/pkcs11: No such file or directory
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/luke/.cache/keyring-7lOKHW/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Conky: can't open '/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/temp1_input': No such file or directory
please check your device or remove this var from Conky
Conky: forked to background, pid is 4313
Add launcher app: /usr/local/bin/.tint2oblaunchers/01-iceweasel.desktop
Add launcher app: /usr/local/bin/.tint2oblaunchers/02-terminal.desktop
Add launcher app: /usr/local/bin/.tint2oblaunchers/03-spacefm.desktop
Add launcher app: /usr/local/bin/.tint2oblaunchers/04-gmusicbrowser.desktop
Add launcher app: /usr/local/bin/.tint2oblaunchers/06-xfce menu.desktop
tint2 : nb monitor 1, nb monitor used 1, nb desktop 1

Conky: desktop window (159) is root window
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x1e00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
gathering data with curl
[4323:4359:0326/031658:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
[4323:4359:0326/031658:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0[4323:4323:0326/031659:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method: org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was not provided by any .service files

  9 71869    9  6757    0     0   4043      0  0:00:17  0:00:01  0:00:16  5392
100 71869  100 71869    0     0  37803      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 48461
[4323:4362:0326/031701:ERROR:backend_impl.cc(2149)] Invalid cache (current) size
you have no weather alerts
processing complete
/usr/bin/pithos:805: GtkWarning: Ignoring the separator setting
  builder.add_from_file(ui_filename)
ERROR:root:Could not bind media keys
gmrun: no process found
[4323:4323:0326/111952:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(exe:4744): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(exe:4744): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[4323:4323:0326/112029:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[4323:4323:0326/112030:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[4323:4323:0326/112228:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
[4323:4323:0326/112612:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()


Now that log isnt very big and only shows as like 200kb but the .xsession-error.old is 80gb. A couple of the errors I have since fixed (conky related) but since I am unable to open the old 80gb xsession-error file I am not even sure what needs attention. Any idea?
What Ive been doing is manually going in and removing that error file and rebooting which will then ... USUALLY... free that space up.

Ive been using VSIDO as my main OS from day one (Sept. maybe?) and have found it to be 100% stable from my first install. Now MANY MANY installations later and Im even more on board. Ive installed on everything from a dual thread P4 to a 6 core AMD FX-6200 and on systems with Intel, ATI and Nvidia video cards and had 99% out of the box functionality. In my experience this is unheard of in a new distro.
Out of the box hardware support is fantastic but even more than that, this community is top shelf. And that is why I have stuck around like I have. Whether its artwork, conky or troubleshooting a fix for VastOne to add into the next ISO you all have blown me away in how you communicate and feed off of one another.

So, now I am running VSIDO on 3 machines and this weekend will be installing on a fourth that is my office server which at the moment is running CentOS. 

The only thing I would like to see added in one of these days is

gvfs-backends

and

libbluetooth3   

These are required to use samba shares directly through Thunar.  At one point I was working on sharing with SpaceFM but it didnt seem nearly as stable or fast so I stick with what works.

Thanks VastOne and everone else who makes VSIDO and this community so amazing!