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: (5. September 2022) when fetching Devuan updates you get the following error: Discussion: The devuan key to sign the repository list has expired on 3. September 2022. This is an embarrassing fail from Devuan. But the solution is quite simple Solution: Install the new keyring manually: Version: tested with Devuan 3 (beowulf), Devuan4 (chimaera)
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Problem: In syslog you find a line like this: But when you check with “smartctl -a” you find a reallocated sector count of zero: Discussion: The harddisk had actually no reallocated sectors, but Smartctrl (Smartmontools) reported a wrong error, because when it was started a different harddisk with errors was found as /dev/sda, but with
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Problem: When pasting commandos to the shell, the shell no longer executes the command but shows the pasted text highlighted and shows the line feed but does not process it. Discussion: Devuan4 and Debian11 upgraded the readline library with a new default “feature” that should prevent noobs from accidentally pasting commands into the shell. But
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After Devuan 3 update ls output showed characters, that are not really in the directory listing. The reason is that “ls” draws quotes around filenames with spaces. This is a bug from my point of view, ls should never change the actual filenames. If a filename has quotes or double quotes it’s even weirder .
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After updating to Devuan 3 the date command shows 12hours am/pm but my days have 24 hours. The locale was always en_US.UTF8 to keep sane command and error output. Debian 10 thinks they had to fix the correct hour display to the complicated one. Therefor all sysadmins like me have to apply the following workaround,
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Problem: if you want to debug a IOS app with MITMProxy, the iPhone needs to trust the MITMProxy CA. This is done by going to http://mitm.it/ and clicking on the apple symbol. Then you have to accept the “profile” in Settings “downloaded profiles”. Then you have to trust this new CA cert in “Settings” “General”
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Problem: after updating from Debian 8 to Devuan 2 the overlay live-boot failes with “no such device” Discussion: I use a bootable USB stick combined with live-boot. In this case the USB stick partition 3 is a normal ext4 file system used as read only “plainroot” filesystem. Live-boot overlays this with an ramfs.As I don’t
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Problem: after upgrading vom greenlock-express v2.0 to v2.5 and switching from acme-v1 to acme-v2 every attempt to register a new TLS cert with Letsencrypt fails with “ECONNRESET” Discussion: the new version of greenlock tries to validate the .well-known/acme-challenge file before asking letsencrypt for the certificate.If your webserver is behind a loadbalancer or firewall and the
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Problem: Apache needs very long to start on a virtual server running on a KVM/QEMU virtual maschine. Solution: Apache needs a RNG (random number generator) for startup, probably because of TLS. A pure virtual maschine has no RNG device per default. If you add an RNG device to the virtual maschine configuration, apache startup is
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