When you want to update the navigation maps or software on your #Peugeot car, you (most likely) run the "Peugeot Update" program.
This is where you could run into a situation where the download of the update itself works, but then writing to the attached USB drive remains stuck after writing the first few KB.
In my latest #blog post I show the reason why this failed for me and how to fix it.
In a specific #Ansible playbook I wanted to retrieve the root partition's size in GB. Sounds easy, right?
Actually this turned out to be more complex than I anticipated.
json_query filtering, type issues with arithmetic calculations and rounding were some of the hurdles I needed to jump. 🦘
May my latest #blog post be helpful to you. Happy Friday! 🍻
When I prepared a @Raspberry_Pi with the latest #RaspberryPi OS (based on #Debian Bookworm) as a monitoring and observability display, I noticed the "wayvnc" package during the dist-upgrade.
Turns out this is a pre-installed #VNC server package - at least on the Desktop variant.
@aallan 🤣 lol, I didn't see that in the Raspi documentation! Good to have it there though 👍 . In the documentation TigerVNC is mentioned. In my case I went with RealVNC which works, too (after running into errors with TightVNC - which is pretty much a default).
@kernellogger Thank you, Thorsten. This is highly appreciated! I remember I had to do something similar (a Kernel bisect) a few years ago and I continuously ran into outdated and non-working tutorials.
While testing a #Perl script on a couple of #Linux servers, a strange error message popped up on one specific server:
Can't locate strict.pm: Permission denied
Usually the "Can't locate xyz.pm" error message points to a missing Perl module. But strict.pm comes bundled with Perl (perl-libs) itself and is not part of a separate module. So why would the script fail to locate strict.pm?
On a #Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) #Linux server, #MySQL should be upgraded from 5.7 to 8.0, using the MySQL community packages from the official MySQL repositories.
But a "simple task" turned out to be a weird head-scratcher. But read yourself. 👇
Due to a #SQL compatibility issue of an application, the underlying #MariaDB database needed to be replaced by a #MySQL 8 community database. But when the dump was about to be restored from MariaDB (10.5) into MySQL 8.x, the data import failed.
@stooovie Agree. In the forums the main problem with LE+Kodi on Raspi 4 are HDR issues. So I really hope this will be much better with Raspi 5. But it will depend on LibreElec developers, too.
Unfortunately the Libreelec 11 release doesn't work well at all on my Wetek Play 2 so I have been looking for a new device for a while.
The Slack redesign breaks the most useful feature. In the old design, I can see at a glance which Slack teams have unread messages for me. In the new design, I can see that there are unread messages but I have to click to examine which teams those messages are on.
While working on a newly installed #Linux server, I wanted to edit a config file located in /tmp/ with vim. I was pretty surprised to see I was unable to save the changes - even as root user! It turns out this is due to a #security standard (fs.protected_*), introduced in #Kernel 4.19, which I simply happened to never come across - until now. 🐧 https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1343/cant-open-file-for-writing-tmp-even-root
There are many ways how to setup #SUSE#Rancher Kubernetes, including the handling of TLS certificates. By using the default (letting Rancher create internal certificates), this results in "Kubernetes Ingress Controller Fake Certificate" certificates for the Ingress pods. Eventually you will run into a certificate expiry warning (if you monitor it).
No need to panic. A "renewal" is achieved quickly as we show in our latest shared knowledge #blog post. https://www.infiniroot.com/blog/1337/rancher-kubernetes-ingress-controller-fake-certificate-expire-monitoring-renew
While playing around with group_vars in #Ansible, I noticed that a specific host never applied the variables defined in the group_vars.
To verify that a host is actually a member of the wanted group(s), I needed a quick way to check for group memberships. Here's a possibility how to do that. 👇
Inside a #Perl script I wanted to compare an input string against an array of strings. When the input exactly matches against one of the array items, then print that a match was found.
One way to solve this is to use the Perl-internal grep function (similar in behaviour to the grep Shell command, but not exactly the same).
@tobyink@ology@mjgardner
Just tried using 'any' instead of 'grep' and unfortunately it needs List::Util, which I can't install on the target system. But else I'd go for the any approach. Thanks again for all the hints.
@mjgardner@ology@tobyink
Thanks for all these insights, it's much appreciated! I updated the blog article with some "any" tests I did on my local machine. Unfortunately on the customer site I am only allowed to fix the Perl script, not anything else on the OS or packages (besides, access to Internet is blocked). But in my own environment I'd go for the newer 'any' approach 🙂 👍
