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Dell PowerEdge R330, Dell PERC H730 Adapter, L2/L3 Cache error was detected on the RAID controller
The Dell PERC H730 Adapter, a 12 Gbit/s SAS controller, in a Dell PowerEdge R330 server, complained about “L2/L3 Cache error was detected on the RAID controller.” This server was using BIOS 2.16.0 in UEFI mode and the SAS controller ran firmware version 25.5.0.0018. Entering X to accept the current predicament went nowhere and nothing else […]
Read More → Dell PowerEdge R330, Dell PERC H730 Adapter, L2/L3 Cache error was detected on the RAID controllerREDZONE: Buffer overflow detected
I updated my laptop running FreeBSD current yesterday. For the first time I saw kernel messages about redzone violations.
Read More → REDZONE: Buffer overflow detectedAdopting Curl 7.88.1 ahead of the official branch of the FreeBSD ports collection
pkg audit has flagged Curl 7.87.0_1 as vulnerable for a week or so.
Read More → Adopting Curl 7.88.1 ahead of the official branch of the FreeBSD ports collectionUpgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0
Upgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0 was mostly uneventful.
Read More → Upgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0Preparing to upgrade MySQL
You can’t configure nor download a newer version of the MySQL client using the FreeBSD ports collection while an older version is installed. It’s outrageous.
Read More → Preparing to upgrade MySQLCisco Aironet 3700 Series Access Points and expired Manufacturing Installed Certificates
Sometimes old equipment fails in mysterious ways. This time a whole fleet of Cisco Aironet 3700 Series Access Points disappeared from their controller. The access points have “Manufacturing Installed Certificates” and these certificates will expire sooner or later. In this case, the certificates expired sometime during the weekend.
Read More → Cisco Aironet 3700 Series Access Points and expired Manufacturing Installed Certificatesld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libxenstore.so.4” not found, required by “xenstore-read”
Caused by xen-guest-tools-4.16.1. Solved by running these commands:
Read More → ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libxenstore.so.4” not found, required by “xenstore-read”Upgrading PostgreSQL and PHP
One thing has annoyed me for years, and that is the ports tree refusing me to configure and download newer versions of PHP and PostgreSQL while an older one is installed.
Read More → Upgrading PostgreSQL and PHPAlert! iDRAC not responding, rebooting
I reviewed some used Dell PowerEdge R720. Yes, they’re EoL, a long time ago, but they are some really good workhorses.
Read More → Alert! iDRAC not responding, rebootingDisable BitLocker
Based on all the ruckus caused by KB5012170, if you are able, determine if BitLocker is active, and if so and if undesired, disable it on all drives before rebooting your computer running Microsoft Windows 10/11. It looks like my computer is in the clear. If it hadn’t been, then I would run these two […]
Read More → Disable BitLocker