2013-05-24 | 5 Comments
Occasionally, RPMs will set the xattr immutable flag on important libraries as a safety mechanism to try to prevent core OS breakage. Unfortunately, this will cause package upgrade failures with vague error messages. Eg.: [root@archive ~]# yum update -y nss … Continue reading
2013-02-27 | 0 comments
I’m sure it’s never happened to you but for me, occasionally, bundler or even the gem command pulls in a different version of a Gem that was installed by a standard system package. Even more rarely, this breaks some other … Continue reading
2013-02-25 | 0 comments
I’m not sure why it had never occurred to me before this morning but it’s trivial to umount just NFS mounted filesystems by combing umount‘s -t and -a flags. This is particularly useful for fixing hung NFS mounts. Attempt to … Continue reading
2013-01-24 | 0 comments
It appears that the pip provider for the package type on RHEL6 / $::osfamily = redhat seems to think that the pip utility (provided by the python-pip rpm) should be, and logically it would be, named pip. It’s actually installed … Continue reading
2012-08-09 | 0 comments
After a very frustrating hour of trying to figure out why pwauth called from the Apache module mod_auth_external was failing for some user accounts but not others, I finally discovered that the source code has a default mimum UID of … Continue reading