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Fedora, NFS Home Directories, and You: Proprietary NVidia Driver Edition
Well that was one hell of a circuitous problem solving tale of woe. So here’s the rundown: After some upgrades, I ran into the following slew of errors on reboot (in reverse chronological order): Jan 31 23:31:48 gdm[1217]: GLib: g_hash_table_find: … Continue reading
Linux Kernel 4.7 Memory Allocation Bug (mm/slub.c)
Just a heads up if you’re seeing unpalatable behavior with your Fedora 23 or Fedora 24 rig running any of the 4.7.* kernels: It looks like Kernel 4.7 may have introduced a memory management bug. It looks like the bug … Continue reading
Fedora 24 NFSv4 Clients Spontaneously Mount Previously-Working Shares as Nobody:Nobody!
A Bug Report is Already In: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372136 The Quick Fix Up Front: executing sudo dnf downgrade libnfsidmap suffices to resolve the matter until the new package version is out with the fix. Man, that was annoying. I’m glad people are already on … Continue reading
For NFS’ sake: Installing and Configuring the Client for NFS Windows Feature
Finding information on this product is not incredibly easy, so I thought I’d throw another little bit into the Interwebs for anyone else who might be looking. Update: No NFSv4 Support! Well that really sucks. I attempted to mount a … Continue reading
For NFS’ Sake: Installing WDLXTV Firmware on the WD TV Live (P/N WDBAAN0000NBK-00)
So, this took me a good amount of time, though the process is simple once you know what you’re looking for. The firmware delivered with the WD TV Live device does not permit the use of NFS, and I’m really … Continue reading
LFCE Preparation Guide: Network Filesystems and File Services – Configuring systems to mount standard, encrypted, and network filesystems on demand
Introduction Obviously, the handling of file systems is integral to the job of any system administrator or engineer. Without file systems, operating systems are not of much use, after all. The key to distinguishing this competency from the subsequent “Create, … Continue reading
Engineering Walden 