Running out of vnodes while running Synth
Synth has frozen on more than one occasion while it was running commands like umount /var/synth/builders/synth-live/SL04/ccache and building more than one package at a time. Manually running commands such as df -ah appeared deadlocked since they never finished, and Ctrl+C never aborted the processes. A reboot was needed, well, I always ended up giving the […]
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Windows Update in one of our Windows member servers running Windows Server 2022 threw error 0x8024401c after ingesting KB5070884.
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The ZFS pool feature dynamic_gang_header must be enabled manually.
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Two configuration files named Files.config must be edited if your Revit Server 2026 uses a separate NTFS volume for the user data.
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At ${WORK}, we’ve been running Greenbone Vulnerability Management for some years. After a recent upgrade, Mosquitto wouldn’t shut up about certificate and keyfile until I told it where to find a server certificate and the associated private key. I simply reused what GVM uses in general.
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Today, I had a go at the ETOPEN Suricata rules in Security Onion 2.4.150. I disabled long ago the rule numbered “2060252” and named “ET INFO Go-http-client User-Agent Observed Inbound.” This one popped up when I hunted for the reason the Suricata rules showed “Rule mismatch.”
Read More → ET INFO Go-http-client User-Agent Observed InboundKibana appeared dead after upgrading Security Onion from 2.4.120 to 2.4.130
Kibana appeared dead after upgrading Security Onion from 2.4.120 to 2.4.130. Running sudo so-kibana-restart on the manager solved this issue.
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At ${WORK} we have a so-called “monster server” as our resident FreeBSD builder. Unpatched Synth 3.09 handles up to 64 hyperthreads, i.e. 64 scanners and 128 builders. Our builder has 88 hyperthreads, necessitating an expansion to 88 scanners and 176 builders.
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After surfing for a while I came across source 1 and source 2. This approach worked for me.
Read More → Installing Windows 11 24H2 x64 2025-01BDoes Git have a race condition with itself?
Git is at 2.47.1 and this happened as part of a routinegit -C /usr/src pull -j `nproc` –no-edit –no-ff -p andgit -C /usr/src rebase stable/14 stable/14+local:
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