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Installation issues / Re: Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 18, 2011, 07:18:06 am »
Ok, so I reinstalled, had some issues with it booting to the wrong partition, but I think I have that straightened out. The issue is that after updating Kubuntu, and running the NVIDIA...280.run file, it installs fine in Kubuntu. But when I reboot then hit the Linuxmce button, on reboot, I get nothing to tty7. It also appears that LMCE is installing nvidia driver version 195. which is probably part of my problem. Is there a way to stop LMCE from installing 195?

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Installation issues / Re: Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 18, 2011, 03:06:06 am »
Ok, so I am reinstalling everything. I have gotten kubuntu 0810 on, with the latest nvidia proprietary driver. One question though. I updated my /boot/grub/sources.list to this:
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deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ intrepid  beta2
deb http://debian.slimdevices.com/ stable  main
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid  free non-free
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid  main universe multiverse
deb http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ replacements_debian  main
deb http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ 20dev_ubuntu  main
from here: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Installing_0810

After a sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade it only adds a handful of packages and there is no 2.6.27-17 kernel. Am I missing something? I don't want to hit the Linuxmce button until the kernel version is updated...

DoTheDog

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Installation issues / Re: Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 13, 2011, 02:32:22 pm »
fibres ,
Thanks for the reply. In answer to your first post. Yeah, it is a bit wierd. When I boot straight up, it looks like X crashes, and I get a blank screen. If I alt-F2, log in and run /usr/pluto/bin/Startup_Core-Hybrid.sh then it starts up, I get an Orbiter, and I can start KDE from there. What I can't do is change the resolution. It is stuck at 640x480. If I try to manually start the AVWizard it crashes to a blank screen.

I guess I could try reinstalling. The only thing I didn't do as per your instructions was install the proprietary nvidia  driver before hitting the Install LinuxMCE button. I just used the 195 driver that gets installed with it. Would you use envy? or just run the NVIDIA....sh installer?

DoTheDog

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Installation issues / Re: Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 12, 2011, 02:31:45 pm »
fibres,
Thanks for the reply. I have run the setup wizard. So I have set up all the rooms etc. I have not been able to get the avwizard to start. X either doesn't start or crashes. Probably the latter. Any Ideas how to troubleshoot that?

DoTheDog

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Installation issues / Re: Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 07, 2011, 02:44:28 pm »
Just a little more detail on the MD  issue. I have two different mb's, One is a Via C7 1.5 GHz with a RTL8110  dual nic  (I have disabled one in bios). This one now kernel panics when I try to start it. The other is an intel atom 330 with an RTL8111 nic. this one loads the r8168 module then errors out with, "Cannot connect to router. Rebooting in 5 seconds". I'm guessing that  since I blacklisted the r8169 module and updated the initramfs on the core, when I reran the Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh, it removed the r8169 module and included the r8168?  Will it help to blacklist the r8168 and redo the initramfs, run the Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh then put it back?

also on the second X issue. Should I just update to the latest proprietary Nvidia linux driver? Or will that break things?

DoTheDog

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Installation issues / Help with Reinstallation
« on: September 07, 2011, 04:01:50 am »
Hi all,
I had to do a full reinstall after a failed motherboard. It had been running relatively stably until recently. In any event, I installed this on a AMD 990FX MB with a 6 core Phenom II, 4 GB ram and an old Nvidia 8400 GS. I also have 4 1TB hard drives in a RAID 5 array mounted on home, and a 500GB disk for the OS. I installed 08.10 using the DVD (version 23858). I upgraded the r8169 ethernet driver to the r8168 using thishttp://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Installation_of_r8168_network_driver. Make sure you do the
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update-initramfs -v -u -k `uname -r`at the end or it won't stick. Also, took a while to get the iptables, dansguardian, squid, firewall working correctly. I had to make sure that the ip_forwarding was on before it all worked http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/01/how-to-enable-ip-forwarding-in-linux/. I finally have the interwebs working (to much happiness from the family;) however, I still have a couple of issues.

1. Cannot add diskless mds. There is no /usr/pluto/diskless directory. I tried invoking Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh however it puked on dependency issues with Mythtv. I am using a separate mythtv installation so I just commented out lines 188-194. It finishes running but there still is no /usr/pluto/diskless directory structure. If I start a diskless md, it looks like it starts finding the vmlinuz, etc. then pukes, saying it cannot connect.
2. When I boot, I cannot get the windows manager to start. It crashes back to the tty. I tried starting the AVWizard but it also crashes. I tried using the 1-5 keys with no results. I have been able to get the Orbiter (Core/Hybrid) running by running /usr/pluto/bin/Startup_Core-Hybrid.sh. however it opens as 640x480. I tried the nvidia-settings program but it does not allow me to change the resolution. The /etc/X11/xorg.conf has device as "nvidia" and one modeline for 640x480.

Any ideas on how to fix these two issues?

Thanks for any and all help in advance.

DoTheDog

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Users / Re: Import playlists (m3u)?
« on: May 23, 2011, 01:32:27 am »
posde,
Thanks for the reply. I understand what has to happen with the script, parse the records, look up  PK_File in File then insert t all into PlaylistEntry. I am afraid however it is beyond my scripting foo skills. Has someone written something that I can edit ?

DoTheDog

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Users / Import playlists (m3u)?
« on: May 22, 2011, 06:38:22 pm »
I have seen a few old references to some work done on importing m3u playlists, e.g. here:
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5803.0

and I noticed that there is an "Export" button in the webadmin. I am still looking for an "import" function. I have a few playlists that are pretty large, but are in m3u format. Barring a "button", can this be done in mysql? I looked at the PlaylistEntry table and the only thing I couldn't figure out was the FK_File. Where is that number located? Any thoughts on a stand alone script to build a Playlist?

Dothedog

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Users / Re: Orbiter Size for Netbook
« on: April 08, 2011, 10:22:44 pm »
Running various flavors of Ubuntu on most of them. I really should get all of my boxes (kids, wife, my own desktop, netbooks, etc.) on the same version (running everything from Hardy to Maverick) but...If you have packages for Ubuntu, I'll be more than happy to try them out.

DoTheDog

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Users / Re: Orbiter Size for Netbook
« on: April 08, 2011, 03:09:33 pm »
Thom, Thanks. The scale ratio did the trick. I am running this in wine on my netbooks so the pocketfrog window takes up some pixels, I just shrank it a bit so that all of the buttons showed up. For anyone running this in wine on a 1024x600 netbook you can try this:
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mysql -uroot pluto_main
INSERT INTO Size SET Description='Netbook', Width=1022, Height=575, ScaleX=479, ScaleY=359, ScaleMenuBg='S', ScaleOtherGraphics='F';

Guess you probably don't need the ScaleMenuBg or the ScaleOtherGraphics.
But Thanks again Thom, that did the trick.

DoTheDog

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Users / Re: Orbiter Size for Netbook
« on: April 07, 2011, 07:33:06 pm »
Thom, Thanks! I will try it tonight when I get home. Just for curiosity sake what were your values?

DoTheDog

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Users / Orbiter Size for Netbook
« on: April 07, 2011, 03:17:19 pm »
All,
I had this working correctly before, but I had to do a full rebuild and the only thing I can't quite get working is a new orbiter size for a Netbook. I actually use a few netbooks as orbiters and they all have a 1024x600 resolution. So this is what I did:

I used a spreadsheet to calculate all this and create a sql statement. I'm attaching it to this post (in open office format).

Calculations are from here* http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Custom_Display_Resolutions

Description='Netbook'
Width=1022
Height=575
ScaleX=359 (1022/2.8444444)
ScaleY=359 (575/1.6)
ScaleMenuBg='S'
ScaleOtherGraphics='F'

Sql Statement

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mysql -uroot pluto_main
INSERT INTO Size SET Description='Netbook', Width=1022, Height=575, ScaleX=359, ScaleY=359, ScaleMenuBg='S', ScaleOtherGraphics='F';
exit

The Record looks like this:

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mysql> select * from Size where Description='Netbook';
+---------+-------------+--------+-------+--------+--------+--------+---------------------+-------+-------------+--------------------+--------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+
| PK_Size | Description | Define | Width | Height | ScaleX | ScaleY | PreserveAspectRatio | FK_UI | ScaleMenuBg | ScaleOtherGraphics | psc_id | psc_batch | psc_user | psc_frozen | psc_mod             | psc_restrict |
+---------+-------------+--------+-------+--------+--------+--------+---------------------+-------+-------------+--------------------+--------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+
|      24 | Netbook     | NULL   |  1022 |    575 |    359 |    359 |                   0 |  NULL | S           | F                  |   NULL |      NULL |     NULL |          0 | 2011-04-06 20:16:06 |         NULL |
+---------+-------------+--------+-------+--------+--------+--------+---------------------+-------+-------------+--------------------+--------+-----------+----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I then go to web admin and select the orbiter I want to change, select Netbook for Size,, Skin is Basic, UI is Normal Horizontal (16:9). Check Reset Router when done regenerating, then click on Full Regen.

Once it is done regenerating, I launch the new orbiter on my netbook. The outer dimensions are perfect, however the orbiter itself is broken. The bottom row, where you can select the user and the room etc. is blank. And when you select audio, you go to a blank screen.

If regenerate the orbiter with all the same settings except that I change the UI to Normal Horizontal (4:3), it generates an orbiter that is functional however it only takes up 2/3 of the outer dimensions.

I had this working before the rebuild but I didn't keep the settings I used, so I don't quite know what is breaking here.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
DoTheDog

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Users / Re: Help with Orbiter Crashing
« on: April 07, 2011, 02:12:03 pm »
Not sure if this ranks as a "Solution", but I fixed it by doing a complete reinstall. A bit of a pain but I have most of my configurations for Squid, Dansguardian, etc. saved out, so its only a few hours to rebuild. But the orbiters are no longer crashing.

Dothedog

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Users / Re: Help with Orbiter Crashing
« on: April 02, 2011, 04:14:39 pm »
Ok, I have been tracking the logs in /var/log/pluto when I play something. I have noticed a couple of things:

died__DCERouter shows DCERouter is dying about every 15 minutes..
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Sat Apr 2 04:07:59 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 04:22:21 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 04:36:44 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 04:51:05 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 05:05:25 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 05:19:18 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 05:33:13 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 05:47:34 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 06:01:59 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 06:15:55 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 06:30:19 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 06:44:12 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 06:58:08 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 07:12:30 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 07:26:50 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 07:41:17 MDT 2011 died
Sat Apr 2 07:55:42 MDT 2011 died

Also 26_Mplayer_Player.log shows this:
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Sat Apr  2 07:55:19 MDT 2011 Restart
========== NEW LOG SECTION ==========
1 04/02/11 07:55:27 26 (spawning-device) Starting... 1
1 04/02/11 07:55:27 26 (spawning-device) Found ./MPlayer_Player
05 04/02/11 7:55:28.678 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:29.678 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:30.678 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:31.678 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
Snip...
05 04/02/11 7:55:45.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:46.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:47.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:48.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:49.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:50.694 Connect() failed, Error Code 111 (Connection refused)) <0xb72366c0>

Also it looks like this is why I need to regenerate Orbiters every time I start them:
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-r--------  1 root     root            0 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_2196.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_25763.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_26318.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_29453.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_32337.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_32556.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_3523.log
-r--------  1 root     root          199 2011-04-02 07:56 Spawn_storagedevices_3612.log

they all say:
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sudo cat Spawn_storagedevices_32556.log
error: libhal_device_get_property_type: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property storage.serial on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_54823dd8_bc56_489e_9e07_8db56614f2ef

Finally in UpdateEntArea.log I get this:
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05 04/02/11 7:55:49.324 Resetting db_wrapper connection <0xb664f6c0>
01 04/02/11 7:55:49.324 Table_CommandGroup::Commit Cannot perform update query [update CommandGroup set `PK_CommandGroup`=2, `FK_Array`=26, `FK_Installation`=1001870, `Description`="Sunset", `Hint`="", `CanTurnOff`=0, `AlwaysShow`=0, `CanBeHidden`=0, `FK_Criteria_Orbiter`=NULL, `FK_DesignObj`=NULL, `FK_Template`=31, `AltID`=NULL, `FK_Icon`=NULL, `AutoGeneratedDate`="2009-09-19 22:53:19", `Disabled`=0, `TemplateParm1`=0, `TemplateParm2`=0, `FK_Text`=NULL, `psc_id`=NULL, `psc_batch`=NULL, `psc_user`=0, `psc_frozen`=0, `psc_restrict`=0 where `PK_CommandGroup`=2] Unknown column 'FK_Text' in 'field list' reconnect: 1 result2: 1 <0xb664f6c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:49.324 Resetting db_wrapper connection <0xb664f6c0>
01 04/02/11 7:55:49.325 Table_CommandGroup_EntertainArea::Commit Cannot perform query [insert into CommandGroup_EntertainArea (`FK_CommandGroup`, `FK_EntertainArea`, `Sort`, `psc_id`, `psc_batch`, `psc_user`, `psc_frozen`, `psc_restrict`) values (0, 2, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL)] Duplicate entry '0-2' for key 1 reconnect: 1 result2: 1 <0xb664f6c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:49.344 Resetting db_wrapper connection <0xb664f6c0>
01 04/02/11 7:55:49.344 Table_CommandGroup::Commit Cannot perform query [insert into CommandGroup (`PK_CommandGroup`, `FK_Array`, `FK_Installation`, `Description`, `Hint`, `CanTurnOff`, `AlwaysShow`, `CanBeHidden`, `FK_Criteria_Orbiter`, `FK_DesignObj`, `FK_Template`, `AltID`, `FK_Icon`, `AutoGeneratedDate`, `Disabled`, `TemplateParm1`, `TemplateParm2`, `FK_Text`, `psc_id`, `psc_batch`, `psc_user`, `psc_frozen`, `psc_restrict`) values (0, 5, 1001870, "TV", "JinShinOffice", 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, 33, NULL, 11, "2011-04-02 07:55:48", 0, 161, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL)] Unknown column 'FK_Text' in 'field list' reconnect: 1 result2: 1 <0xb664f6c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:49.345 Resetting db_wrapper connection <0xb664f6c0>
01 04/02/11 7:55:49.345 Table_CommandGroup::Commit Cannot perform update query [update CommandGroup set `PK_CommandGroup`=2, `FK_Array`=26, `FK_Installation`=1001870, `Description`="Sunset", `Hint`="", `CanTurnOff`=0, `AlwaysShow`=0, `CanBeHidden`=0, `FK_Criteria_Orbiter`=NULL, `FK_DesignObj`=NULL, `FK_Template`=31, `AltID`=NULL, `FK_Icon`=NULL, `AutoGeneratedDate`="2009-09-19 22:53:19", `Disabled`=0, `TemplateParm1`=0, `TemplateParm2`=0, `FK_Text`=NULL, `psc_id`=NULL, `psc_batch`=NULL, `psc_user`=0, `psc_frozen`=0, `psc_restrict`=0 where `PK_CommandGroup`=2] Unknown column 'FK_Text' in 'field list' reconnect: 1 result2: 1 <0xb664f6c0>
05 04/02/11 7:55:49.352 Resetting db_wrapper connection <0xb664f6c0>
01 04/02/11 7:55:49.352 Table_CommandGroup_EntertainArea::Commit Cannot perform query [insert into CommandGroup_EntertainArea (`FK_CommandGroup`, `FK_EntertainArea`, `Sort`, `psc_id`, `psc_batch`, `psc_user`, `psc_frozen`, `psc_restrict`) values (0, 2, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL)] Duplicate entry '0-2' for key 1 reconnect: 1 result2: 1 <0xb664f6c0>

Any Ideas on how I can knock some of these things down?

DotheDog

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Users / Re: Help with Orbiter Crashing
« on: March 31, 2011, 06:15:02 am »
golgoj4,
Thanks for the response. I was wondering about something similar. The %wa in top goes between about 20%-30% most of the time. That does seem high. I have also in the past had problems with apt-cacher-ng and Start_NewMD_interactor.sh taking huge amounts of proc. Although that seems to have been fixed when I did the last apt-get upgrade. It seems like it loses connection sometimes.

The other thing I noticed that may or may not be relevant is in pluto.log, "MythBackend_Restart (server) MythBackend not found running; restarting it" is running every minute. I am not using MythTV in linuxMCE. Is there a way to stop it from trying to restart all the time?

DoTheDog

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