Problem: ssh rejects connecting to old servers with this error: Discussion: After upgrading your client operating system, the new installed openssh-client disabled some old ssh key types, but you can enable them with command line options or in ssh_config. Solution 1: Add a command line option: Solution 2: Add a line to your config file […]
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Problem: you find a key and a cert file on, and need to check if the cert matches the key. Solution: Check the modulo (n=p*q) of both key and cert to see if they are equal. Version: tested with openssl 3.0.11 on devuan 5
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Problem: After upgrading an old HP ProLiant DL320 G6 Server to Linux kernel 6.1 (Devuan 5, Debian12) the system crashes during reboot. You will see the following kernel output: These errors are repeated several times, and the RAID controller driver “hpsa” for the SmartArray Controller P212 gives up, causing /dev/sda vanish. Discussion: While not absolutely
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Problem: when adding a shortcut of a webpage to the Android home screen, Chrome used <link rel=”icon” …> to give this shortcut an icon. Lately Google Chrome broke this feature (intentionally probably). Chrome just shows a grey round circle with a single letter instead of the provided icon. Discussion: Google removed it’s claim “don’t be
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Problem: after upgrading Cisco ISO XE from 15 to 16 on an ASR-1001-X router, the permanent license of this router changes to “evaluation license” and Cisco forces you to use the call-home “feature”. You will find log entries like these: Discussion: Cisco enforces this call-home feature for newer software releases. There is not much you
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Problem: Chrome shows an error message like “NET::ERR_SSL_OBSOLETE_VERSION” when connecting to an old device. This might be an old network device or printer or KVM switch oder DRAC/RemoteInside port of servers. Discussion: since Chrome ~98 Google decided that you are not allowed to connect devices that use TLS1.1 and below, only TLS1.2 and above are
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Problem: You plug in a NodeMCU ESP32 board (from BerryBase in my case) to you computer, but no USB serial port is registered in /dev/. lsusb shows a device called “VeriFone USB to UART Bridge Controller” instead of the expected “CP2102/CP2109 UART Bridge Controller” In this case Ardunio Studio cannot find the module. Solution: thanks
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Problem: After an update of a server to Devuan4/Debian11the switch shuts down the interfaces to the server with status “dcxNoACKi” 48 minutes after the reboot. Discussion: the switch is a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch. It implements “Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange (DCBX)”. The server is a Dell server with X710 Controller 10GbE with i40e drivers.
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Problem: when you switch between Apple Mac and normal keyboards and use German keyboard layout, you can change the keyboard layout on MacOS to “de standard” to have most characters where you would expect them (e.g. @ { } …) but on german keyboards the “AltGr” is located directly right of the space bar. On
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Problem: if you have Windows and Linux on the same computer, windows shows the wrong time shifted by your timezone (dst) after rebooting from Linux. Discussion: Linux stores UTC in the computers hardware clock usually. This makes multi user, multi timezone, and dst handling easy, because it knows hardware clock is always UTC, and calculates
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