[RHEL 7/CentOS 7] Hanging Boot After Conversion to RAID1 (degraded RAID)

Quick fix… Rebuild the ramdisk. If you are using a rescue disk and are compiling for a different kernel version replace $(uname -r) with your kernel version: dracut –mdadmconf –fstab –add=”mdraid” –filesystems “xfs ext4 ext3 tempts devotes syses proc” –add-drivers=”raid1″ –force /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r) $(uname -r) Add the following to /etc/default/grub inside the quotes for the […]

[SQL Server] Database Mirroring login attempt by user ‘DOMAIN\SERVER$.’ failed with error. ‘Connection handshake failed. The login ‘DOMAIN\SERVER$’ does not have CONNECT permission on the endpoint. State 84.’.

When setting up mirroring (and witnessing) among SQL Server instances when the servers are configured using Active Directory it will automatically try to auth using the ID of the server. You need to grant CONNECT permissions on the endpoint on each server for the other server that will be connecting to it (or two if […]

[SolusVM/Websocket/noVNC] OSStatus Error -9807: Invalid certificate chain

After updating an SSL certificate on a SolusVM master installation we still receiving an error on the web console for SSL noVNC when the old certificate expired: OSStatus Error -9807: Invalid certificate chain It turns out noVNC on these installations doesn’t run through the web server. Instead change the following certificate file: /usr/local/solusvm/ssl/cert.pem This file […]

[CentOS/Linux] WARN : [ipv6_add_route] ‘No route to host’ adding route ‘::/0’ via gateway ‘XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ::1’ through device ”

When trying to add an IPv6 address to a server via the ifcfg-eth0 file resulted in the following error (redacted) upon restarting networking: RTNETLINK answers: Permission denied WARN     : [ipv6_add_route] ‘No route to host’ adding route ‘::/0’ via gateway ‘XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ::1’ through device ” This was further confirmed by trying to add the IP […]

[Linux/NVME] Find serial number of NVME drive

Traditional methods of finding the serial number on a live Linux system do not work for nvme drives.  You can download the name-cli package from: https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli Once installed you will then have the “nvme” command and can find the serial number with the following command: nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0n1  

[Raspberry Pi 3/CentOS 7] ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’ ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory […]