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Adopting 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You can’t configure nor download a newer version of the MySQL client using the FreeBSD ports collection while an older version is installed.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 BitLockermath/py-kiwisolver going from 1.3.2,1 to 1.4.3
Commit 94af43935c4e2709577cb4e4723daf9d7cb91494 removed PORTEPOCH for math/py-kiwisolver. The previous version number, 1.3.2,1, is considered higher than the current one, 1.4.3. py38-kiwisolver-1.3.2,1 > succeeds index (index has 1.4.3) Installation by force is the only way forward.
Read More → math/py-kiwisolver going from 1.3.2,1 to 1.4.3Netdata 1.35.1 and EOF found in spawn pipe
If you find the error message “EOF found in spawn pipe” in /var/log/netdata/error.log, then you should probably delete every file in the /var/cache/netdata/dbengine directory. Start Netdata. If this doesn’t help, then you have no choice but to blow away everything within /var/cache/netdata and start Netdata.
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