Author name: Dan Langille

The backup disk image … sparsebundle could not be accessed (error 19)

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I wrote this back when and left it in drafts. Time to publishh. I was getting this message when one of my MacBooks was trying to back via TimeMachine to my FreeBSD ZFS server. “The backup disk image … sparsebundle could not be accessed (error 19)” imeMachine also told me the last backup was on Oct 7. Checking my snapshots: [20:01 r730-03 dvl ~] % zfs list -r -t snapshot data01/timemachine/dvl-air01 NAME USED […]

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Eaton 5PX removes power every 24 hours

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When I powered on my UPS yesterday, I predicted when it would power off: 24 hours later. To be clear, it’s removing power from the outlets and not sending any notifications to the hosts that it’s about to do so. Today, I captured the console when resetting and trying to power on the UPS. The reset This is the reset output: At this point, I waited. With no more output for 3+ minutes,

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Let’s find the dead cell in my Eaton 5PX

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Todays goals: pull both the ups and the external battery unit (EBU). While there, swap them so the UPS is on top. Take photos of the wiring. Disconnect each battery. Measure it. Replace anything not like the others. Expecting 13V or so on most. One should read way less. Maybe. But the UPS is now charged to 100% All cells in the UPS measure about 13.4V. Next, the EBU. All aboutt 13.4 or

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Complete network shutdown – wtf?

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This afternoon, I was running an Ansible script to update the snmpd configuration settings on nagios03 (which replaced nagios02 – which was intentionally destroyed earlier today). After the script completed, I could not access the ngaios3 website, nor could I ssh into the host. My first thoughts: I must have messed up the ssh configuration, I’ll fix it through the console. I can’t get to anything. Anywhere. WIFI now? No, it’s me that’s

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Eaton 5PX console booting screen shots

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This post shows my screenshots from the console of my Eaton 5PX as it was powered on. In this post: Eaton 5PX 2200 I was trying to clear the Replace Battery warning on my UPS after recently replacing the batteries. At present, the warning message has been cleared, I’m not sure how or why. Before taking these screen shots, the server connected to the UPS was not loading up the driver. This was

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PF states limit reached – on three different host at nearly the same time

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What are the chances that three different hosts, in thee different datacenters all display these messages within seconds of each other? The uptimes: [dvl@r720-02:~] $ uptime 1:42PM up 62 days, 15:01, 2 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.12, 0.18 [13:42 tallboy dvl ~] % uptime 1:42PM up 62 days, 15:37, 2 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.37, 0.34 [13:42 zuul dan ~] % uptime 1:42PM up 62 days, 14:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.24, 0.25,

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Playing around with a ‘failing’ drive

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In zpool replace, you can read about a drive which was giving errors and which I replaced. At present, that drive is [still] giving these errors, but it not part of any spool. [17:38 r730-03 dvl ~] % tail /var/log/messages Dec 25 14:52:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT], 18 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Dec 25 14:52:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT], 18 Offline uncorrectable sectors Dec 25 15:22:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT],

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Converting a subversion repo to git

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This is not finished. It has been posted for review. When this paragraph is gone, the post is finished. I’ve wanted to convert my subversion repos to git for years. It’s never been a high priority. But here we go. First, I created a local temporary and insure subversion repo with a copy of my real repo. This allows me to mess up and not affect the real repo. I’m sure nothing I’m

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Setting up a local subversion repository server with nil security

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There is much code for FreshPorts which lives in a subversion repository in my basement. I have long wanted to convert that to git and move it to git hub. In this post: FreeBSD 14.1 subversion 1.14.4 Which reminds me: I need to find a tool which backs up Github repos for me. Preferably everything under an organization. Just in case. I will copy the data from my repo to another host and

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zpool replace

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Yesterday, I added a new drive into the system. Today, I will replace the failing drive with that one. In this post: FreeBSD 14.1 Before [18:23 r730-03 dvl ~] % zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data01 32.7T 26.0T 6.76T – – 32% 79% 1.00x ONLINE – zroot 412G 18.5G 393G – – 18% 4% 1.00x ONLINE – [18:24 r730-03 dvl ~] % zpool status data01

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