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In Linux, in particular in Debian 9.9.0-i386-xfce-CD-1, file operations will grow inevitably slower until the speed is unusable.
troubleshooting
All posts tagged troubleshooting
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Problem: On Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD, avconv crashes while building a video from an image and audio. It worked until a recent update.
According to old notes, 6:11.9-1~deb8u1 worked. However, I do not know if a more recent version worked before I noticed this problem.
Problem: A USB stick cannot boot with any of Porteus, the boot-repair LiveUSB, or SystemRescueCD. It used to be bootable with Porteus, and before that it could boot with other Linux LiveUSB distributions.
Solution: Ventoy
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When working with a USB stick or a storage card like an SD or MicroSD card..
- Determine if one is "fake".
- "Fix" one which cannot be formatted.
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Check the read/write speeds (for various file sizes).
See also:
- /tag/usb-hardware
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Flash storage reliability (they are not reliable)
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Visit an image
- e.g. example.com/image.jpg
- Press control-s
- No "save as" dialog appears
- Right-click and select "save as"
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No "save as" dialog appears
Restart in safe mode, and all problems are still seen.
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Problem:
- On Windows 10
- While booted into Windows
- A hard drive is contained in an in-computer dock. (internal SATA)
- That hard drive is powered on.
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That hard drive is not seen by Windows, and does not appear as a new hard drive letter.
Notes:
- It is seen and works in Linux.
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This hard drive was "cloned" with dd.
Solution: The "disk signature" needs to (briefly) be made unique.
If you get something like:
bash: /usr/bin/program: No such file or directory
Then you've tried to run a 32 bit executable on a 64 bit distribution. You need to get 32 bit software.
Many 64-bit distributions have libraries that let you run 32-bit software. No instructions will be given here.
During my recent Linux distributions experimentation, I noticed a few times that Windows 8.1 would no longer "see" a particular USB stick I was using. It would appear within the device list, would test correctly but would not appear in the left-hand pane in explorer.
I learned that this was because one or more of the distributions I was testing would, for unfathomable reasons, prep the USB stick strangely.
Why Windows wouldn't just offer to format the stick is unknown to me.
I found several showstopper issues with the script that Slackel uses to copy its ISO data to a USB stick.
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So I wanted to get City of Heroes - (2004 game) installed to try it out. I've been bored of World of Warcraft for the longest time, and a superhero-based game has been sounding like fun for some time now.
At this point neither Diablo 3 - (2012 game) nor Star Wars: The Old Republic were out. I just needed something to do.
But for some odd reason I could not get City of Heroes to work. It was definitely a DirectX issue, except DirectX refused to install! Hopefully someone out there can benefit from the hell I went through, and my notes would be useful..
