Recently ran into this lovely message: root@g73sw01:~# root@g73sw01:~# systemctl status gdm3 -l ? gdm.service – GNOME Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; static) Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-09-14 14:42:24 EDT; 1 day 21h ago Main PID: 3254 (gdm3) Tasks: 4 (limit: 19063) Memory: 5.7M (peak: 50.2M) CPU: 2.239s CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service ??3254 /usr/sbin/gdm3 Sep 16 11:52:32 […]

Getting this? Sep 14 14:04:08 g73sw01.nix.mds.xyz krb5_child[53814]: Disk quota exceeded Digging further: root@g73sw01:~# cat /proc/key-users 0: 163 162/162 131/1000000 2746/25000000 101: 1 1/1 1/200 9/64000 108: 1 1/1 1/200 9/64000 110: 4 4/4 4/200 44/64000 113: 2 2/2 2/200 18/64000 123: 1 1/1 1/200 9/64000 128: 4 4/4 4/200 44/64000 135: 1 1/1 1/200 9/64000 […]

Getting this? root@g73sw01:~# mount -t cifs -o credentials=/home/unbeknownst/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0 //nfs-c01.nix.mds.xyz/nfs-bob ./test -vv mount: /root/test: mount(2) system call failed: No route to host. root@g73sw01:~# Solve it with: root@g73sw01:~# apt-get install keyutils cifs-utils Next hurdle, was the following: tom@g73sw01:~$ id uid=1000(tom) gid=1000(tom) groups=1000(tom),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),122(lpadmin),135(lxd),136(sambashare) tom@g73sw01:~$ mount -t cifs -o credentials=$(pwd)/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,uid=1000,gid=1000 //nfs-c01.nix.mds.xyz/nfs-vincent ./samba mount.cifs: permission denied: no match for /home/tom/samba […]

There are three NVMe’s in a laptop. Two of the NVMe’s are the exact same model, Intel, and the other is a Kingston NVMe. All NVMe’s are 512GB. All are running either Windows 11 on the two identical drives, or Windows 10 on the Kingston drive. I want to keep only the second NVMe drive […]

Windows 11 already has the AHCI drivers by default.  There’s a number of articles that explain how to modify regex settings.  Usually this is not for the average user, or even an experienced one since if it doesn’t work, those settings would need to be reverted.   And there may not be an easy way to […]