Create an EFI partition on the boot disk using gdisk. Where it exists on the disk doesn’t matter. The partition should be at least 100MB but >200MB is recommended. It is critical that the partition type is Boot Partition (type ef00). Create a filesystem on that partition. It MUST be vfat type 32. A regular vfat format […]
cd /Library/Frameworks/OpenVPN.framework/Versions/Current/bin ./capicli -k basic_client -v false SetPreference
New Windows Server 2019 install fully updated and virtualized using libvirt on CentOS 7. Any time the network settings are clicked in the taskbar the entire system crashes with no trace in the system logs. There are no reports of this anywhere on Google. Final resolution was to change the adapter type from e1000 to […]
If you’re running a very large dovecot config that takes a long time to load and dovecot won’t start you’re going to see this error: master: Error: service(config): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process In our case we have many certificates to load from the SNI configs. You’ll also see […]
This error can be caused by a few different reasons. In this particular case it’s a Centos 6 server connection to a Microsoft Active Directory 2016 DC. The short version of the story is that even though the FQDN has a valid key in the krb5 keytab it will only properly authenticate using the short […]
If you get locked out of the FreeIPA admin account due to the failed password count being too high you’ll receive an error like this from the command line: [root@ipa1 ~]# kinit admin kinit: Client’s credentials have been revoked while getting initial credentials You’ll also get an Internal Server error via the web interface or […]
ldappasswd -ZZ -D ‘cn=Directory Manager’ -W -S uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com -H ldap://ldap.example.com
If you’ve had a previously configured Raid Set on an Areca RAID controller and it all of a sudden disappears it can sometimes be salvaged. In the RAID BIOS: Raid Set Function -> Rescue Raid You’re then prompted to “Enter the Operation Key.” This is ambiguous in the documentation and there’s also a mispelling for […]
When running quotacheck on a filesystem that isn’t read only it will error out and not finish if it’s unable to stat a certain file or directory. It does this because it assumes that there’s a problem with the filesystem. If your mail software is actively processing mail when running quotacheck it will get an […]
If you use software RAID at boot time, either for your /boot or / partition, it may not assemble at the correct time and prevent a successful boot. This can be confusing to track down as a cause if one RAID that’s a physical volume of a volume group assembles but another PV in the […]