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: if you separate the management from the normal traffic on a switch you will usually configure the swtich via this mgmt vpn-instance and also backup and restore config files via this mgmt vpn-instance. But if you use the “backup startup-configuration to ..” it always tries to find the tftp server on the normal network Even after changing
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Problem: You want to check the hardware health status on you debian server running on an HP ProLiant hardware. After spending some time on the HP.com homepage, I got really angry. HP does a really bad job on their support homepage. If you search for DL360 G5 you see a list of operating systems. The
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I don’t use Gnome, KDE, etc. My window manager is WMX with some patches. Without all those fancy window environments, you get rid of all magic auto configurations, and wizards at the same time, and you can configure your system like real man do: using the command line. ;-) I bought a HP OfficeJet Pro
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