Just in the last month; 1. Physical machine booting up, getting a valid IP address and route from DHCP but being able to ping anything on the internet. 2. VM SSH'ing to a specific IP address but getting to a machine with a different IP address. 3. Deleting a file (successful) but still seeing the file on the filesystem with a 6 month old timestamp.
Been intentionally breaking things in my home lab to practice / learn new technologies. I am a human chaos monkey at times. 🤣
I was migrating a server and went to change the docroot owner from apache to nginx. I meant to run:
chown -R nginx:nginx ./
What I actually ran was:
chown -R nginx:nginx /
This broke ssh and sudo. I was eventually able to recover it by getting into a recovery and reinstalling every rpm and manually fixing /etc leftovers from there. It was an early cloud server, so I didn't have physical access. This was back when #Rackspace support was worth the premium you paid for it.
I couldn't make Slackware start on a laptop after installation. It stuck during boot every time. It took me about a week to find the solution: "acpi=off" as a boot parameter.
a non-memorable one. Had a bunch of issues with the display, keyboard, fan noise, standby/suspend and started researching on how to fix them, feeling all nerdy and pro.
Then I just switched to a newer kernel version and it fixed everything. Simply a driver issue. (btw: as a linux noob, was *very* hard to find out kernel version is a thing, installing piece of cake)
Point being: if you get a new laptop, consider installing a new kernel version, before putting in too much manual effort.
James Wells
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Just in the last month;
1. Physical machine booting up, getting a valid IP address and route from DHCP but being able to ping anything on the internet.
2. VM SSH'ing to a specific IP address but getting to a machine with a different IP address.
3. Deleting a file (successful) but still seeing the file on the filesystem with a 6 month old timestamp.
Been intentionally breaking things in my home lab to practice / learn new technologies. I am a human chaos monkey at times. 🤣
It's FOSS
in reply to James Wells • • •Scott Williams 🐧
in reply to It's FOSS • • •I was migrating a server and went to change the docroot owner from apache to nginx. I meant to run:
chown -R nginx:nginx ./
What I actually ran was:
chown -R nginx:nginx /
This broke ssh and sudo. I was eventually able to recover it by getting into a recovery and reinstalling every rpm and manually fixing /etc leftovers from there. It was an early cloud server, so I didn't have physical access. This was back when #Rackspace support was worth the premium you paid for it.
bazio101
in reply to It's FOSS • • •grob 🇺🇦
in reply to It's FOSS • • •a non-memorable one. Had a bunch of issues with the display, keyboard, fan noise, standby/suspend and started researching on how to fix them, feeling all nerdy and pro.
Then I just switched to a newer kernel version and it fixed everything. Simply a driver issue. (btw: as a linux noob, was *very* hard to find out kernel version is a thing, installing piece of cake)
Point being: if you get a new laptop, consider installing a new kernel version, before putting in too much manual effort.
It's FOSS
in reply to grob 🇺🇦 • • •It's FOSS
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