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Apt is broken on my omv box with this error. I am still trying to figure this one out. CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Mon Dec 3 04:00:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT SLEEP: 3420, Mon Dec 3 04:57:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: openmediavault-transmissionbt : Depends: transmission-cli (>= 2....

I have a failed (failing) hard drive on my raid5 array. I have documented the steps needed to replace the failed disk with a new disk. Disk is most likely ok but it is showing read errors. Better be safe than sorry! View Array Status cat /proc/mdstat Remove Failed Disk mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --remove /dev/sda Shutdown and replace disk with new one shutdown -h now...

I wanted a reliable home media server and so far the process to get this up and running has been very fun and rewarding. This is where I store my movies, tv shows and music. I’m a big fan of XBMC and I wanted to set up sharing the xbmc database through mysql to all my clients. I also wanted to be able to stream my music to multiple clients. Initially I used daap but I have since moved on to SubSonic....

I keep forgetting how to do this one… so I wrote it down. Updating TimeZone: Remove current timezone (delete symbolic link): rm /var/db/timezone/localtime Create Symbolic link for Jamaica TimeZone ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Jamaica /var/db/timezone/localtime

Subsonic to the world!! After a little searching I found a SubSonic AddOn that works with XBMC Frodo. I am running the nightly builds for Windows and ATV2. As per this forum post: I find XBMC to be the best experience on a Mac or PC for interacting with my remote Subsonic server. I wanted to try it with the pre-Alpha builds of XBMC Frodo to take advantage of the new audio engine....

My quick and dirty walk through of how to get utorrent installed and configured on Openmediavault, a Debian based network attached storage solution (NAS). I used this package. wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24928836/utserver/deb/utorrent-server_3.0-25053_i386.deb dpkg -i utorrent*.deb point your browser to: http://omv-ip:8080/gui The default is: 8080 The user name is admin with no password. Additionally you will have to add utserver to the machice startup: update-rc.d utserver defaults Reference utorrent.com forums

VOIP is an area that I have a strong interest. Asterisk and Freeswitch are two of my favorite pieces of software and I am always looking for ways in which they can save me some money. I have not been able to get my hands on low power hardware which has always been a deal breaker for me. With the cost of electricity being what it is in Jamaica leaving your gear on 24×7 is just not an option....

Who needs CDROM drives? Can I tell you that burning a DVD/CD is the devil’s work! I always prefer using a USB Flash or External USB drive. To prepare a USB disk for Windows 7 you’ll need to make it bootable by using DISKPART. Format the drive by executing the following commands one by one . Make sure you replace Disk 1 with proper Disk number . select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS QUICK assign exit Copy contents of Windows install media to USB device....

CVMTV’s Olympic coverage has been less than stellar and that is putting it in a very nice way. I’ve spent the first two days of the Olympics trying to find out what was possible in terms of alternate video sources to watch events, both live and recorded. I tend to like the coverage of BBC. They usually have excellent commentators who are very knowledgeable on the athletes and their respective events, unlike what passes for commentary on NBC (US)....

This was harder to accomplish that I thought it would be. I am accustomed to doing this by changing the runlevel in /etc/init.d/inittab. With upstart this has become very foggy for me. Thanks to this Link, I was able to get this done. Step1:Just edit /etc/default/grub with your favourite editor: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub find out this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text” Step2: Update grub and done!...