Due to boredom and needing something to do to keep my brain from atrophying, I’ve decided to polish some of the rough edges off some of my scripts so that they’re suitable for publication. here’s the first of them, a perl script to list kernels and other grub menu entries, with numeric indexing suitable for use with grub-set-default and grub-reboot
I saw Dead Can Dance at the Palais in St Kilda last night – their first tour back in Australia in over 20 years. I’ve wanted to see them perform live since I first discovered their music in the dim dark past – bought the tickets as soon as the tour was announced last year and have been waiting impatiently ever since. The first act was percussionist David Kuckhermann who played solo and then joined DCD for the main act. …
I just posted the following question to ServerFault….and then realised there might be people out there in magical internetland who know the answer but never visit any of the SO sites, so i’ve posted it here too. Feel free to respond here on on serverfault. In a recent upgrade (from Openstack Diablo on Ubuntu Lucid to Openstack Essex on Ubuntu Precise), we found that DNS packets were frequently (almost always) dropped on the bridge interface (br100). For our compute-node hosts, …
from the whinge of the day dept: I started a bzr branch of calibre about 2.5 hours ago because I wanted to see how difficult it would be to understand the code and make a few changes. The calibre Get Involved page warns that it can take about an hour….which is excessive to begin with and, worse, a huge understatement. $ date ; ps u -Cbzr Sat Apr 14 15:10:00 EST 2012 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT …
how embarassing, i make a point of asking for comments and critique on my previous post but comments didn't actually work unless you're logged in. I only noticed because someone emailed me. It was the admin-ssl plugin. de-activated now, so comments are working again. A few people tried to add comments according to the log – if you feel like making them again, go right ahead. thanks Craig
I’m finally getting around to making myself learn python as more than just a read-only language. Working with Openstack kind of requires it. So far, I like it. Much more than I thought I would as an unrepentant sh and perl using systems geek. And getting over my distaste for the white-space issue is also proving to be much easier than I thought it would (although I still think that block-delimiters like {} make the code easier to read…PyHeresy, I …
zfsonlinux recently added support for visible .zfs snapshot directories, so you no longer have to mount a snapshot to browse/view/recover files from it. This is good, but has caused my rsync backup to zfs script to complain about being unable to delete files in the .zfs directory (which is in the backup but not in the source). e.g. sending incremental file list rsync: delete_file: unlink(.zfs/snapshot/2012-03-31/vmlinuz.old) failed: Read-only file system (30) rsync: delete_file: unlink(.zfs/snapshot/2012-03-31/vmlinuz) failed: Read-only file system (30) […] cannot …
Does anyone use fstrim on an XFS formatted SSD partition? I’ve got two systems with XFS root partitions that fstrim seems to do (almost) nothing on, but it seems to work correctly on another system with formatted with ext4.
This has been a minor annoyance for the last few months, and I've finally figured out how to fix it: Sometime within the last few months, an upgrade prevented Chromium from finding its application icon…with the result that when minimised (or displayed in the panel window list or Alt-Tab) it used the default application icon. It looks to me as if the problem is that Chromium is now looking for chromium-browser.svg but chromium.svg is what's on my debian system. To …
I got home from work tonight and zfs had reported that one of the disks in my main pool was dying. no great problem. insert a disk i had spare, and run zpool replace like so: ganesh:~# zpool replace -f export scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EARS-00_WD-WMAV50933036 scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_9VP16X03 and now it’s just a matter of waiting until the data has “resilvered” and i can remove the old dying drive. ganesh:~# zpool status export -v pool: export state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently …