#linux
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i need a calm person to talk me down. thats my Pop! OS laptop after a routine kernel update 😂 it just freezes there with teh caps lock light blinking. i have a live USB from when i installed it. im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to repair a…
trying to SSH from WSL2 into a freshly built Ubuntu VM and i get: Permission denied (publickey). I added my public key to authorized keys, double checked its the right one, even regenerated it once... password login is disabled sooo i cant get in any other…
CI just broke. The deploy step connects to the backup server and fails with: Nothing changed in the pipeline. The key is stored as a CI secret. This used to work last week, I promise. I suspect a recent client or server update changed something, but I have…
help!! home lab drama. rocky Linux on my physical srever got a kernel update and now it panics during boot: it was running for months without a hiccup. is this hardware failing at teh worst possible time, or the update? I haven't touched the hardware in…
long time lurker first post lol home lab drama. AlmaLinux on my home lab box got a kernel update and now it panics during boot: It was running for months withuot a hiccup. Is this hardware failing at teh worst possible time, or teh update?? i havent touched…
im literally losing my mind here routine patching on our Fedora physical server. Updates installed without errors, I rebooted, and this is what greeted me on the console: the services on this box matter. i have console access but i've never dealt with a…
help!! ive been dual booting Windows and Pop! OS for a while, and i noticed i almost never boot Windows anymore. The only reason i keep it is music production, and even that is starting to feel optional lmao Before i wipe teh Windows partition, i wanna hear…
guys pls help i wrote a simple unit file for our app. Running teh command manually works perefctly. Running it as worker.service: systemctl status shows sattus=1/FAILURE and thats it... no useful message... ive relaoded the dameon a dozen times. Ive compared…
ok so my key works on every other server. on our Git server, from PuTTY, nothing: A colleague set up the account. They swear they pasted my key. i'm starting to suspect teh server, but i don't even know where to look. its frustrating because i cant see…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts api.service was fine until todays server patching. now it wont start: The status line says status=200/CHDIR. i didnt touch the unit file. Did the update change smth underneath? the update touhced a bunch of packages, so…
so annoyed rn debate time. position A: Linux is ready for most home users today. position B: as long as fingerprint readers is a problem, its not ready for a non technical friend 😅 im somewhere in the middle. where are you, and do you have stories to back…
Weird one. After switching to an NVMe drive, my Ubuntu install panics on boot: But if i pick teh previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works xD So the disk isnt dead. Whats different about teh new kernel entry? Id like…
long time lurker first post lol every year someone says its finally the year of the Linux desktop. im wondering if it quietly already happened. ive been thinking about putting Ubuntu on a machine for a gamer. browsing, email, video calls, maybe some light…
applied updates on Debian and the reboot ended in this: It mentions not being able to mount the root filesystem. Nothing chagned with the disks... pls tell me the data is still there. the update included a new kernel, and as far as I can remember there was a…
Every year someone says it's finally teh year of teh Linux desktop... i'm wondering if it quietly already happened... i've been thinking about putting Linux Mint on a machine for a gamer. Browsing, email, video calls, maybe some light documents 😅 The one…
guys pls help reproducible crash, at least... the new OS image kills teh Ruby job runner instantly: i found a core file somewhere once but no idea what to do with it. Do i really need to learn gdb tonihgt? I can reproduce it in staging with the exact same…
ok so im a backend dev, not a C person, today my C++ API server started crashing after a library upgrade, and all I get is: Our own code is plain high level code. i dont manage memory anywhere. So how can it segfault? Is the server hardware dying? my manager…
ugh. ive tried Ubuntu three times over the years and gave up every time. Something always pulled me back, usually gaming. ppl keep telling me its different now. What changed for you? Im curious what a realistic first month looks like for someone who knows…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts third time this quarter, overnight, /var on our web server fills up and things fall over: I clean it, its fine for a few weeks, and then it happens again lmao I want to fix the root cause this time, not just mop teh…
Genuine question, not trying to start a war. For pepole doing photo editnig: are you on Windows, macOS, or Linux, and would u switch? 😅 I'm tempted by Linux Mint because my lapotp feels slow on Windows and I like the idea of controlling updates. But I…
Help. The jump host is barely alive. SSH works, but every command complains about writing temp files. Here's the disk: i deleted the biggest log i could find and df didn't budge. am I losing my mind? im pretty suree Im missing something fundamental about how…
ok so i need a calm person to talk me down. Thats my Pop! OS laptop after enabling disk encryption. It just freezes there with the caps lock light blinking, i have a live USB from when i installed it. Im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to…
ugh. third time this quarter. after a holiday weekend, /var on our montioring box fills up and things fall over: i clean it, its fine for a few weeks, and then it happens again, i wanna fix the root cause this time, not just mop the floor. Every time, I find…
im literally losing my mind here help. The jump host is barely alive. SSH works, but every command complains about writing temp files. Here's the disk: I deleted the biggest log I could find and df didn't budge. Am I losing my mind? I'm pretty suree I'm…
help!! help... the file server is barely alive. SSH works, but every command complains about wriitng temp files... heres teh disk: I deleted teh biggest log I could find and df didnt budge. am i losing my mind? im pretty suree Im missing smth fundamental…
