August 2015

Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering

Yes, this was not fun. I took some notes, but not everything. Please read the notes if you plan on doing these foolish things. I was cleaning up /usr/src on a host which does not hold src. I looked and found: It was there that I knew I’d done the wrong thing. Trying snapshots Let’s […]

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Smart quotes are not so smart: net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user for LibreNMS

I wasted a few hours today trying to figure out why special characters in passwords were causing problems. I was chasing the wrong problem. Conclusion: smart quotes are dumb. Full disclosure: I should have seen the problem. The problem is not with LibreNMS. Here is my procedure for creating an snmp read-only user, as provided

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CAM status: ATA Status Error READ_DMA48 Error 5, Retries exhausted

This turned up this morning: Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 d0 c4 6e 40 57 00 00 00 60 00 Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) Aug 5 05:10:04

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