Tag: Linux
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Cruft
“Cruft” is informal tech-slang for anything that’s left in a system but no longer serves a clear purpose—old code, redundant files, forgotten configuration settings, stale comments, or even obsolete hardware. Over time these remnants accumulate, making software (or an organization’s processes) harder to understand, maintain, or extend. In short, cruft is digital clutter or technical…
Manjaro Kernel Fix Guide
I managed to break my Manjaro installation on my home server. The updates failed on me part way through and the terminal died. I had to resort to a repair from a live USB sick. When Manjaro breaks during updates and shows "need to load kernel first" error. 1. Boot from Live USB/ISO Create a…
NFS Hang Troubleshooting Guide
I've been struggling with a docker container that accesses my NAS using NFS mounts, it hangs and refusing to restart on demand. Turns out it's related to NFS mounts. I've been struggling to kill the process as it just sits there as a zombie. Symptoms ps aux command hangs and never completes Process stuck in…
Fish and autovenv
DEPRECATED: See Fish and Python autovenv Zsh has a nice plugin to automate the activation of a Python virtual environment when you change into a directory that has one. I went looking for a fish equivalent. After trying a few, this was the only one that worked for me. Use fisher to install it. https://github.com/aohorodnyk/fish-autovenv fisher…
VSCodium Update Fails
I switched from VSCode to VSCodium some time ago, but recently when updating VSCodium I was seeing it fail with an error message: vscodium lock file version `4` was found, but this version of Cargo does not understand this lock file, perhaps Cargo needs to be updated? Which is an obvious answer. But I've not…
Ansible on Steroids!
Mitogen Mitogen is a program that miraculously speeds up the remote execution of Python scripts. It also has an Ansible plugin. At first, I thought it look
Backgrounding a Current Process
I was today years old when I learned I could background a running task, and exit the terminal to keep it running. I started a pgbackrest backup on a large
Vagrant Issues Again
Updated:Following some more system updates, it looks like updates to ruby continue to break vagrant. I thought I'd try a different approach. Can vagrant work with