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Well, yes, I guess. But I don't know where the information is stored on the disk. Can it be moved to a different sector if it's found to be bad? And if it can't and where the info is stored is bad, why does it work for a few minutes and then fail? I was also thinking maybe it's got something to do with mdadm. I don't know how long the error has been there but I've not had trouble accessing the data and mdadm doesn't say that the disk has caused the array to be degraded. I don't see any point in going out and spending money on a replacement drive if I'm not at least pretty sure that the fault is a hardware issue.

Once again, b, c, w, error went again. Went straight to fdisk - no error. No errors for the next 5-6 minutes, rebooted, hello error.

I was spamming the verify option in gdisk, it reported it was fine. Quit, entered gdisk again, spammed v and it was fine. Quit, went to fdisk, error is back. Quit, went to gdisk, error is back there aswell.

Hi I have a NAS running OpenMediaVault using mdadm RAID 10. Running fdisk -l shows 'The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that will be used'. I have tried using gdisk using the backup header, rebuilding the main (option r then b), using backup partition and rebuilding the main (option r then c) and writing table to disk (option w). I ran the write table option first and it didn't appear to do anything. After running b, then c, then w, I got a prompt asking if I'm sure I want to do it, and I confirmed. This appeared to fix the issue... for a few minutes. I re ran fdisk and gdisk and they both report exactly the same error. Now running these options again, doesn't appear to do anything but I do get the confirmation prompts. I'm not entirely sure what the error means (I think I understand what GPT partitions are for though) and I don't know how serious it is, but I'd like it fixing. The important stuff on the array is already backed up but it'd be nice not to have to rebuild the array (I'm currently about 160 miles away from the server and would have to get someone to plug in the backup drives. Although I have a copy of the most important stuff with me). While writing this post, I ran b, c then w and it's worked again, the GPT turns from damaged to present. Although I doubt this will last long. Can anyone help?

Switched printers to an XP-335, paper issue seems to have gone (using the same driver so not sure why), is still there and now the printer is printing coloured strips about 5cm down the top of the page then the rest of it is perfect. I have no idea what is wrong with CUPS, it just doesn't seem to want to work at all. The new printer has AirPrint so I'll ahve to stick to wireless for now.

Tried using the more generic driver from Epson. Seemed to help with the colour issue but not the paper issue. Plugged the printer straight into my Windows desktop, prints without a hitch.

I installed CUPS on Debian 8, seemed to work OK. Plugged the printer in, hmm no driver for my model (Epson SX 438W). I tried the SX420 Driver, that made weird colour bands and it was trying to print a single page over multiple pages. I went to the Epson website, downloaded the .deb install package for my printer and CUPS allowed me to select the new Epson SX430 series. SO I tried that one, the defaults look a lot more inline with what the printer can do. But I'm still having issues with the colour and multiple pages. If I try and print a picture in Windows Photo, the printer will print strips of the photo on multiple pages, right at the top. It's like CUPS can't organise the document properly to be printed. Same thing happens with word documents. I've read that CUPS can be a pig to get working, what are the other alternatives? I originally set it up last night and left it as I (wrongly) presumed it would just work. THis printer used to be hosted on a Server 2012 R2 where it worked perfectly for over a year. I'm moving my home servers to Linux so it needs to be Debian 8. Whatever the solution is needs to be able to print from crApple devices (two family members have iPads). Anyone got experience with this paper issue?

I never did figure out if it was permissions. I ran into something called Minecraft Server Manager. It works very well, easy to manage and auto starts the server on boot. Thank you both for your help, it did point me in the right direction.

With using services, do they need special permissions for directory access? I tried deleting the eula.txt and letting the server generate a new one. When running the service, the server did not generate one. If I ran the regular startup code for the server ( java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui) the server generates a new file for me as it should.

Did that, what you said seemed to work but now there's a new problem. When the minecraft server starts loading, it can't find the eula=true in the eula.txt in the same folder as the minecraft server java file. I have no idea why.

I have no idea what that means I don't suppose you have an idiots guide for that do you? At this point with Linux, I'm doing my best to follow guides and patch the holes I find in them.

I edited it at the bottom of the OP. It's Debian 8

Hehe, I'm all for lazy but I'm doing my best to make this new setup as 'proper' as I can. If I can't get it to work as a service properly then that's what I'll do but I'd rather see if I can get it working like this first. Thanks for the suggestion though.

My sister has started getting back into minecraft with her friends. She wanted somewhere they could play together so I said I'd put a minecraft server on one of my VM's. Trouble is, I can't get it to boot with the VM. I've followed this guide - https://github.com/edvind/minecraft-service After issuing update-rc.d minecraft defaults I can do 'service minecraft status' and its there. I can then start it (service minecraft start), it start fine and I can connect to it. However, when I reboot, it disappears. When it boots up and I check the status it gives ● minecraft.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) I can re-issue the update-rc.d command, it adds the service back and I can then start it again. I've tried using update-rc.d minecraft enable but it still disappears from the services. I know the script is still in init.d, I just don't know why the commands aren't surviving a reboot. Either not many other poeple have this issue, I'm just being stupid, or my Google-fu is failing me (For my defence, I have just thrown myself head first into setting up my new home server systems on linux over the past few days and I'm all linuxed out...) Should probably mention its ESXi 6.5 and Debian 8. It was a fresh install about 2 days ago.

Well I've got it working over ESXi with Server 2016. It looks like for it to work with Linux I need samba 4.4 or higher. Digging a bit deeper, it seems some of the bigger NAS OS's started implementing samba 4.5 at the beginning of this year so I've just started to join in at the beginning. I guess it's going to be a while before there is a NAS OS with solid multichannel support so for now I'm going to see if I can get it to work even if it is a bit buggy (FreeNAS and NAS4Free are two that I've found who have implemented samba 4.5)