Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 12:31 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was > wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on May 30

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:01 PM Tim via users wrote: > > Hi, > > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on M

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm self-hosting so I haven't seen anything like that (only commenting > since I started the LetsEncrypt thread). Thanks. I was pretty sure it's down to something odd they're doing (like many other odd things they get wrong). And th

Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

After dnf upgrade today, abrtd.service failed to start, with dependency failures for abrt: ccoredumpctl, kernelpanic detection and kernel log watcher. Booting the previous kernel also hung for 10s of seconds but seems ok. 6.2.15-200.fc37 systemctl reboot hangs for 5 minutes with akmods, pre

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

On 5/31/23 8:47 AM, John Pilkington wrote: After dnf upgrade today, abrtd.service failed to start, with dependency failures for abrt:  ccoredumpctl, kernelpanic detection and kernel log watcher. Booting the previous kernel also hung for 10s of seconds but seems ok. 6.2.15-200.fc37 systemctl r

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

> On 31 May 2023, at 16:02, home user wrote: > > "Job akmods-shutdown.service/stop running". That is likely to be because it is compiling the new nvidia drivers. I use a script to do my updates that waits for all systemd jobs to stop before rebooting. You can see the jobs with: $ systemctl

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

> On 31 May 2023, at 15:15, Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I'm self-hosting so I haven't seen anything like that (only commenting >> since I started the LetsEncrypt thread). > > Thanks. I was pretty sure it's down to something odd the

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 31 May 2023, at 16:02, home user wrote: "Job akmods-shutdown.service/stop running". That is likely to be because it is compiling the new nvidia drivers. I use a script to do my updates that waits for all systemd jobs to stop before rebooting. Y

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

> Am 31.05.2023 um 05:01 schrieb Tim via users : > > Hi, > > After discussing let's encrypt on here the other week, I was wondering > if you get the same nonsense warnings as my hosting service provider > was emailing me over and over: > > begin paste > > ⛔ example.com (checked on M

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 31 May 2023, at 16:02, home user wrote: "Job akmods-shutdown.service/stop running". That is likely to be because it is compiling the new nvidia drivers. I use a script to do my updates that waits for all sys

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

> On 31 May 2023, at 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: > > Simple answer: it has been ok but now seems unpredictable. It maybe systemd waiting for a user session to close down. You can see what services systemd is waiting on by pressing ESC when you are in shutdown to remove the splash screen and

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

On 31/05/2023 20:21, John Pilkington wrote: On 31/05/2023 18:39, home user wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Barry Scott wrote: On 31 May 2023, at 16:02, home user wrote: "Job akmods-shutdown.service/stop running". That is likely to be because it is compiling the new nvidia drivers. I use a s

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

(replying to Tim and George) Thank-you Tim and George. On 5/29/23 7:01 AM, George N. White III wrote: Early USB-3 was problematic. Have you used USB memory sticks before? There have been cheap USB sticks that advertise a much higher capacity than they actually provide. I've been using U

Re: Boot failure with 6.3.4-101.fc37

John Pilkington wrote: > I just tried 'sudo akmods --force' and it failed. An updated package > > nvidia-470xx-kmod-470.182.03-2.fc37 > > was placed in testing on 27 May. I haven't tried it yet. The changelog for that package is: Added patch for the Linux kernel 6.3 support. So I'd say

Re: Fedora USB live: not lively. [SOLVED]

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM home user wrote: > 2. I used Fedora Media Writer to put > Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-37-1.7.iso" on stick_1; no hint of trouble. I > tested it in the left USB-3 port; it failed. I tested it in the right port; > it succeeded. Instead of Media Writer, you co

stress testing

In anticipation of the arrival of a new system, I was looking into the availability of open-source stress testing tools. Turns out that there is one in the Fedora distribution, aptly named "stress". A web search turned up a number of "best of" articles, none of which mentioned the Fedora "stress"

Re: stress testing

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:51 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > In anticipation of the arrival of a new system, I was looking into the > availability of open-source stress testing tools. Turns out that there > is one in the Fedora distribution, aptly named "stress". What are you testing? > A web searc

Re: stress testing

On Wed, 31 May 2023 17:01:15 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > $ dnf search stress > Fedora 38 OpenH264 (from Cisco) - x86_644.9 kB/s | 2.5 kB > 00:00 stress.x86_64 : A tool to put given subsystems under a > specified load stress-ng.x86_64 : Stress test a computer system in > various ways str

Re: stress testing

stress and stress-ng and the gui versions all do a pretty good job of heating up the cpu, and a marginal job of finding memory issues.  However, the rest of the motherboard and disks get almost nothing. On 2023-05-31 4:51 p.m., Geoffrey Leach wrote: In anticipation of the arrival of a new syst

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > Did you really use example.com ? That would > never work. No, I sanitised it. I've found, in the past, that exposing real addresses gets it abused (extra spam and hacking attempts), since such people harvest mailing lists

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my coun

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On 5/31/23 18:57, Mike Wright wrote: On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration.  Trying

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my country is difficult (for Google to return my site to people as some kind of local service it needs to be at a local IP). Tr

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 9:45 PM Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > > [...] > > Otherwise it would be helpful, to post the SSL related part of your > > configuration file. > > Much as I'd like to, since it's a virtual host on a cpanel managed > system, I

Re: OT question about let's encrypt

On 5/31/23 18:45, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 20:26 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: Did you really use example.com ? That would never work. No, I sanitised it. I've found, in the past, that exposing real addresses gets it abused (extra spam and hacking attempts), s