Introduction: services that depend on NFS If a linux server boots and a block device isn’t available, it’ll drop into some sort of single-user mode. This was the way with init, and is the way with systemd. NFS, not so much. In my experience, systemd will start services implicitly dependent on an NFS mount the […]
You want to flash a Samsung Galaxy Android device. You’ll need heimdall. It’s not available as a package for Centos7, so you’ll need to compile it. Expanded instructions It uses cmake, which I’d not tripped over before, and the build process is a good deal messier than I expected. As in literally, it leaves stuff […]
The file got corrupted is usually a shortcut for .. something changed it. I’ve never really seen files get corrupted without good reason .. like a hardware fault or unexpected powerdown. And the corruption wouldn’t have any sort of random consistency to it. Update 2019-12-22: Another Puppet related file got damaged. I suspect this hard […]
Ubuntu 18.04 and Centos 7.6 both run the fwupd service. This polls for updates on supported hardware. Support arrived in 16.04 and 7.4 respectively (from the docs.) hat tip Check the daemon’s status with the following; problems with any plugins are noted in the logs. systemctl status fwupd On ubuntu 18.04 updates are via the […]
Starting point upgraded GitLab Omnibus from 12.1.6 to 12.2.4 afterwards; Prometheus no longer showed as up # gitlab-ctl status [..] down: prometheus: 1s, normally up, want up; run: log: (pid 1666) 2881s [..] At this time, last known good (for sure) was following the last upgrade (to 12.1.6) as I have output stashed A restart […]
One of the GNU core utilities is the shred command. On both Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos it comes in the coreutils package, and even on a minimal install, I suspect you can count on it being there. # fdisk -l /dev/sda | head -1 Disk /dev/sda: 6 GiB, 6448619520 bytes, 12594960 sectors # shred –iterations=0 –zero […]
This is related to the various posts tagged gitlab-runner. I got puppet linting, syntax checking etc. is working via the GitLab runner shell executor, and the next step was to move it into containers. There be dragons, and they didn’t google very well, so here goes. I’m using a Red Hat UBI Ruby 2.5 container […]
There’s lots of content already out there about puppet CI testing; this is what I initially came up with using GitLab CI, and with various other improvements such blogged about previously in posts tagged gitlab-runner such as: Separate rake files. A lot of examples I found had very long complicated rake files to define different […]
Announced Redhat Summit 2019, distribution of containers based on RHEL using their universal base image is now a thing. So, let us say you want to do some container stuff at home and use UBIs? Registering and using a service account Sources redhat developers blog. redhat blog. ubi. Sort yourself out with a Redhat login: […]
tl;dr The logs lead me to realise gitaly was having issues. This serves up the repositories to the rest of the gitlab installation. The only bits of gitaly running were this: ├─3670 runsv gitaly ├─3691 /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/gitaly-wrapper /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/gitaly /var/opt/gitlab/gitaly/config.toml └─9405 svlogd -tt /var/log/gitlab/gitaly These were failing to stop via gitlab-ctl stop It should have a gitaly […]
