From the amahi wiki: https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Network_troubleshooting Step 1 From your hda itself (via ssh or at the desktop in a terminal), can you: ping hda (it should ping the IP of your HDA; this ensures the dns server is working) ping router (it should ping the IP of the router; this en...

A little background. Amahi has been serving my small home network for several years. Today I suddenly lost dns. Could not access anything on lan or www. My server is running on an old Samsung n150 netbook with a usb fan/support. The fan plug had apparently shorted and lugged the netbook down. Well, ...

Thanks, I removed /var/lock and apache started normally.
All's well, I hope.....dan

Thanks for quick reply..I had found this amahi bug report and also one on debian/apache from back in 2008. I am just unsure what to do. Are you recomending total removal of /var/lock and restart apache??? $ ls -la /var/lock lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 11 2014 /var/lock -> /run/lock The directory is...

I am running amahi on an old netbook using ubuntu 12.04.4 lts. First installed April 2012. I routinely use apt-get to install security recommendations. Today apache2 failed to upgrade to ver 2.2 with the following error: * Starting web server apache2 /var/lock/apache2 already exists but is not a dir...

Update:>>You (BF) reminded me that the hda users were also ubuntu users.!!!! I logged in as another user (used their passwd), went SU, deleted original user, added orginal user back, modified permissions (admin, home dir. , etc). I think I am back!!! Now need to get to April for the full 2 years, an...

Thanks BF. I think I knew I was s@#$%^d....

OH well, its like my neighbor who's a die hard Alabama fan said after the Auburn loss...."I knew it would not last forever".... 2 years aint bad, and Amahi is definately worth rebuilding....!!!!

Thanks again,

dan

Yesterday 1-7-2014, lost web connection. My server was stuck/stalled. Background>>I installed fedora april 2012 then changed to ubuntu. Installed on samsung n150, full dns/dhcp active (router functions disabled). Ubuntu set to auto update security only. I periodically reboot after update. Its worked...

I have amahi running on an old Samsung Netbook (n150) using Ubuntu 12.04. I would like to test amahi on various linux distros using vbox. When I set up amahi on the vm can I use the orginal "install code" from my control panel. If so does that kill my existing amahi which is the sole dns f...

Thanks, I proceeded as you know. Don't know how you guys stay with it. You deserve all the sucess you can handle...dan