Not getting a DHCP IP?  Instead getting: 169.254 169.254.149.164 The tcpdump of the traffic from the affected DD-WRT router shows the DHCP sending over a valid IP yet said IP address is not assigned to the 5Ghz WIFI band? 23:54:16.735841 bb:bb:bb:bb:bb:bb > aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 366: vlan 1, p 0, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), […]

If the Wireless setup page is missing the 5GHz or any GHz settings, or other pages are missing this info:it could be a sign of exhausted nvram.  A clue to this is when resetting the nvram to defaults, all options become available again.  But what about this message? kern.warn kernel: wl driver 7.14.164.18 (r692288) failed […]

After regenerating the initramfs using dracut -f, we end up seeing the following, rather disappointing message: r8169 0000:09:00.0: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0x001cc912, maybe realtek.ko needs to be added to initramfs? More specifically, in order to fix a QLogic card firmware issue on the following Linux kernel level, which foced the […]

Gnome session issues: Apr  9 17:02:55 rfc1178-01 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit sys-kernel-security.mount, ignoring: Unit sys-kernel-security.mount failed to load: Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status sys-kernel-security.mount' for details. Apr  9 17:02:55 rfc1178-01 systemd[1]: Stopping Remote desktop service (VNC)… Apr  9 17:02:55 rfc1178-01 gnome-session[2885]: gnome-session[2885]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource […]

Getting this? [root@rhcpm03 ~]# crictl images FATA[0000] listing images: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = layer not known [root@rhcpm03 ~]# Solve it with this: mv /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay-images /root/ and reboot.  Result: [root@rhcpm03 ~]# crictl images IMAGE                                       […]