Category Archives: Unix

Some of the interesting things, too me anyway, I have been doing with Linux and other unix operating systems.

Interesting issues with grub2 and Fedora 30

While the resolution was found in the Fedora forums as RedHat is built from successfull pilots of new code in Fedora in may exist in RedHat systems as well. I had major issues upgrading my KVM F29 instances to F30. … Continue reading

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BasKet notes appear to be no more, switched to CherryTree

I used to rely on BasKet notes on both Fedora and Redhat After rebuilding a Desktop I discovered it was no longer available in the Fedora repositories. This may not be a new thing as I discovered I had also … Continue reading

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Mirroring up two spare internal disks under Fedora29

Having had to rebuild another machine, After it was up and running I had a server with the OS installed on the boot disk and two spare internal disks that used to be in a raid array. While the machine … Continue reading

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Interesting issue with creating CentOS7 KVM machines on the F29 OS

The interesting this is that is seems specific to the CentOS7 install media, and the issue is the intsaller cannot detect VIRTIO disks. My OS is Fedora 29 fully patched, the CentOS7 install media I was using is CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1503-01.iso When … Continue reading

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OwnCloud server on Fedora 29, hmm

I used to run OwnCloud on Fedora, and have finally been able to get it working again now. The environment is a Fedora29 server running apache. The main issue is… you cannot get the owncloud server running using the packages … Continue reading

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F29 and file indexers, how many is too many ?

I use my own home grown monitoring tools on my servers and they picked up something interesting. One of the checks my tools run is to look for processes that are growing in memory size, or are using more memory … Continue reading

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Openstack Queens, my latest install from RDO

This post is based on the “queens” release of OpenStack available from the RDO distribution site. It is based upon the documentation available at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack/, but modified to install the services I wish to play with which are not installed … Continue reading

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The Jan/Feb updates to Fedora 27 really broke VMs

My specific environment is that the VM machines I am having issues with are all CentOS7 or Fedora27 VM guests running on Fedora27 host machines and all are managed by virsh. I now have a novel and very irritating problem … Continue reading

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New Fedora quirks, SAR and the logger program

SAR Noticed SAR had not been collecting statistics for a while, looks like it actually stopped around the time I upgraded to F26 rather than being a F27 issue. Systemctl showed the sysstat.service was running, just not producing any data. … Continue reading

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Upgrade to Fedora27 issues so far

These are the issues I had personally, as every user has a different setup your distance may vary :-). They are covered in detail below. Desktop upgrade does not work, no big deal (workaround works) Network manager misbehaves (unsolved) Bacula … Continue reading

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