We were trying to install a QLogic card and it’s drivers on one of our SLES11 servers this morning and mkinitrd kept barking at us: lebsvn2:/boot/grub # mkinitrd -v Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-5-default Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.19-5-default Root device: /dev/root (mounted on / as ext3) Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHZ2080_K85CT9925KBH-part3 (/dev/sda3) Device root not found in sysfs […]
At work, we have many Unix and Linux systems, so we use NIS to coordinate the authentication and authorization of users. One of our Unix groups has so many members that the older Unix systems can’t “see” them all. So, we split up the membership into a set of entries in the /etc/group file that […]
Don’t forget that by default, most python module install themselves in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. But the default install of python2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04 doesn’t look there. Ugh. So, instead of installing with python setup.py install use python setup.py install –install-layout=deb and the module will install itself in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and then python will be able to find it.
Old news. Didn’t upgrade my wordpress for a looong time. Came over this afternoon to make a new post and found the bottom of my blog covered in arabic. Ugh. Someone had added an administrator account, too. So, apply new theme and nuke the old – the templates were altered. Delete all three add-ons. Change […]