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nanook · Uncategorized

The upgrade to 6.17.8 failed because there is a bug causing the machines to reboot as soon as they try to go into graphical mode.  I am working on backing out the upgrade but this may take a … Continue reading →

nanook · Uncategorized

Recently, I changed NFS mounts from hardmounts to systemd.automount.  I did this so that servers would recover NFS mounts automatically after reboot.      I did not realize the time that this functionality in systemd did not work … Continue reading →

nanook · Uncategorized

Testies, Testies, 1, 2, 3, Must Be An Oddball.

nanook · Uncategorized

Images were broken because I accidentally removed the folder containing them.  It has been restored from backup.      This post also is a test of WordPress -> ActivityPub federation.

nanook · Uncategorized

I finally got pixelfed.eskimo.com to properly federate so that it now shares images with the rest of the fediverse allowing  you to see pictures from people you follow on other sites and they your pictures.

nanook · Uncategorized

I’ve firewall rules to address recent SYN and UDP floods.  So far they have had the intended effect.      I’ve installed a new shell server, anduinos.eskimo.com.  This is a debian derived server similar to popOS except the … Continue reading →

nanook · Uncategorized

The mail system is currently shutdown to image the servers.  That is to say to take a copy of the virtual machine image while it is down in case it should get corrupted or lost and needs to be … Continue reading →

nanook

Wanted to update folks, the new CPU arrived, I installed it and the machine would not even post. Have not had time to troubleshoot further. However, I have another machine that I recently build that is essentially the same architecture, 10-core rather than 18-cores, but the 18 core machine was only running at less than 4% CPU occupancy so this should be fine. Over the next few days I'm going to move these services over to that machine since the existing machine seems to be determine… (truncated)

nanook

If there is a plus side to any of this, I had to reboot the mail server numerous times during the trouble shooting process, and after doing this I checked all the servers for proper NFS mounting of the mail partitions and every single one of them mounted correctly. So it appears one thing that finally got resolved in 5.13.4 is NFS mount handling. This has been a bug that has plagued his since the beginnings of Linux and it appears finally put to rest. This will make kernel upgrades… (truncated)

nanook

This went better than expected, there were two updates but both were hot fixes meaning no reboot was required.

nanook

Well not 100% success. It reduced the occurrences from several times an hour to around once a day. An improvement to be sure but not a complete fix.

nanook

In reply to mighetto. No machine is old and does not work well with 3.5 version libraries. X2go is recommended instead.

mighetto

New to nomachine. have flushed DNS. It has never worked for me. I am running latest version on win Xp. Is there a file on server to be reset? Can not find .shh on client. Get connection to server lost message like last week when I first loaded nomachine. Help appreciated. - Frank

Nanook

For what it's worth, I've been able to determine that it is partially a kernel problem, partially something else. If I use an older kernel, uid mapping works but gid mapping is still broken.

joe

thanks for the vnc that makes my life so much simpler ..and for all your help

Nanook

Yes, someone took all three.

Mark

In reply to Robert Dinse. So did anyone even nibble ? ... I had to get rid of my old PA RISC HP desktop boxes; could not justify the space and heat no matter how kuell I thought they may be