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How to remove all backups in Plesk for Linux

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 19. Februar 2020

If you ever find yourself confronted with a Plesk system that is running out of disk space, and you just want to get rid off all the misconfigured "keep forever" backups, here's how to remove them all from the command line:

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --get-dump-list | egrep "name=\".*.xml" | awk -F '"' '{ print $2 }' | xargs -I {} /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --verbose --debug --delete-dump --dump-specification={} --session-path=/var/log/plesk/PMM
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Windows 10: Creating boot partitions from scratch

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 13. Februar 2020

First, boot a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019 rescue CD and enter the command prompt.

Step 1a: If you have the 128MB + 100MB partitions and they are broken for some reason

list disk
select disk
list part
# visually check you are about
# to do the right thing
select part 1
delete part override
select part 2
delete part override

Now continue with step 2.

Step 1b: If you don't have at least 228MB of unpartitioned space in front of your Windows partition

Boot the gparted Live CD and move your Windows partition to the right, 250MB is usually fine, then continue with step 2.

Step 2: Recreating the UEFI boot partitions and installing the bootloader:

create partition efi size=128
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter="k"
create partition msr size=100
exit

bcdboot C:\windows /s k: /f UEFI

Step 3: Profit

That's all there is to it! Make sure to set your computer to UEFI ONLY, because it's past 2020.

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Xiaomi Robot Vacuum 4S2P DIY Battery Pack Repair

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 31. Mai 2019

My Xiaomi Robot (V1) just sporadically shut down after around 20 Minutes of cleaning, stating "Error 14". I looked it up, and Error 14 stands for battery malfunction.

Since i own a lot of 18650 battery packs I'm able to build my own battery from old laptop battery 18650s, so I decided to upload the pinout of the Xiaomi Charging Pad

Solder your 4S cells here and you're good to go!

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gentoo/octane – A modern GNU/Linux system for the SGI Octane Workstation

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 10. Mai 2019

It took about 6 months of work, and it's done: gentoo/octane 1.0 has been released.

Grab your copy here: gentoo-octane-v1.0-by-rephlex.tar.xz

It's basically a complete tarball of the system. So:

  • attach scsi disk to any machine or netboot the octane using root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=a.b.c.d/path/to/filesystem (if you're a tough guy)
  • prepare the octanes local disks
  • add tarball
  • set envvars (included)
  • profit

What works:

  • everything that would work in any random gentoo that is up-to-date as of April 2019 😉
  • Kernel 4.12 with audio, and all the funny devices inside the octane including impact graphics.

What doesn't work yet:

  • xf86-video-impact xorg module ;/ – see /etc/motd for how to achieve running xorg. It's ALMOST DONE!
  • Kernel newer than 4.12. The patches need to be tested and maybe adjusted, that's it.

IF YOU HAVE THOSE PATCHES, PLEASE CONTACT ME!

If you want to donate money, my paypal is rephlex@rephlex.de 😉

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Preferred settings for Macs Fan Control on older iMacs that run hot and make funny noises

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 26. April 2019

Yesterday I encountered a customers iMac which ran crazy hot on the backside. Macs Fan Control indicated that the PSU was running on 70°C and more, and something made a buzzing sound (like a wire dangling inside a fan, which was not the case).

So I decided to set up the fans manually, the Mac now runs much cooler and still it's not too loud.

Here's my settings:

Set everything to manual
ODD Fan is controlled by GPU Diode. 40°C – 75°C (this controls the right hand side of the iMac)
The HDD fan is controlled by the HDD temperature. We set it to 45°C – 55°C. If your disk runs hotter, you'll shorten its lifetime and jeopardize your data. This stuff is sitting in the middle of the iMac case.
OK, and this one here is most important. Set the CPU fan to be controlled by the PSU Primary temperature.

I learned that Apple did decide to "cool" the PSU by blowing the CPUs hot air onto it. Duh. So since we need to make sure the PSU does not overheat and melt your display panels LED strips on the right side, we set the CPU fan speed in relation to the PSU temperature. We want the PSU to be 40°C – 53°C. The CPU temperature will also stay in this healthy temperature range.

Download Macs Fan Control on the dev's website, on github, or from my local mirror (v4.1.12).

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Fix IcedTea "cannot grant permissions to unsigned JARs" error

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 18. März 2019

In case you are a Linux user unsuccessfully trying to connect to your IPMI/LOM Console using IcedTea / OpenJDK 8 or newer, you will likely run into this error.

You know, because if you're a major hardware vendor selling expensive enterprise class servers, you don't care about your IPMI hardware once you sold it.

Here's how to fix the issue on the client side:

Find the java.security file. In my case it is located in /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/security/java.security

Then find the row

jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, RSA keySize < 1024

Comment it out, copy it, delete the word "MD5".

jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, RSA keySize < 1024
jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024

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Fix errors when compiling Linux Kernel 4.12 with GCC 8

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 29. Dezember 2018

Error:

In file included from arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:17:
./include/linux/syscalls.h:196:18: Fehler: »sys_mips_mmap« Alias zwischen unverträglichen Funktionstypen »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, off_t)« {alias »long int(long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long unsigned int, long int)«} und »long int(long int, long int, long int, long int, long int, long int)« [-Werror=attribute-alias]

Solution:

echo "KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-error=attribute-alias" >> Makefile

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Installing Brother DCP Scanner Drivers in Ubuntu

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 29. August 2018

Start a Terminal using CTRL+ALT+T. Install some depencencies and frontend scanner tools using

sudo apt-get install xsane sane-utils simple-scan lib32stdc++6

Now download the drivers. In case brother loses them, I mirrored them here. Alternatively use the wget commands down below.

brother-scanner-drivers-rephlex-deDownload

wget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006646/brscan4-0.4.4-4.i386.deb -O brscan4-0.4.4-4.i386.deb
wget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006651/brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.i386.deb -O brscan-skey-0.2.4-1.i386.deb
wget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006654/brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb -O brother-udev-rule-type1-1.0.2-0.all.deb

Now install the drivers you just downloaded:

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture brscan.deb brother-udev-rule.deb

And restart your udev service:

sudo systemctl restart udev.service

All i had to do was unplug and plug in my DCP, and i could immediately scan using simple-scan in Gnome.

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Asus ZenBook 13 (UX331UN) with Ubuntu: Battery drain while in suspend

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 21. August 2018

When i got my shiny new ZenBook 13 UX331UN in July, i immediately wiped it and installed Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).

But I soon realized something was wrong with suspend: The laptop would go to sleep and over night the battery would either almost (10-ish percent) or completely drain, leaving the laptop completely powered off.

On other laptops the suspend state would eat about 5% charge per day, leaving you able to suspend around 3 weeks in theory, but something was using the battery in suspend here.

Here's the problem analysis:

Suspend your laptop. Wake it up again. Now check the output of

sudo journalctl | grep "PM: suspend" | tail -2

May 13 18:41:00 mex kernel: PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
May 13 20:52:36 mex kernel: PM: suspend exit

If you end up with 

Your laptop is only entering "s2idle" sleep (which is basicallynot saving much more than with blanking out screen and disabling the network). What we really want instead is the "deep" sleep.

You can also check

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

which yields

[ s2idle] deep

meaning the s2idle state is active in standby, because it's written in brackets.

The permanent fix:

Edit your grub bootloader config to add a parameter to your Linux kernel when it boots. Type

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

and replace the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash mem_sleep_default=deep"

Save the file and exit. Now run

sudo update-grub && sudo reboot

To apply the changes and reboot. Test. Done.

IMPORTANT: If you now have troble waking your laptop up, DO NOT USE THE NVIDIA DRIVERS. They suck. Use noveau.

EDIT: The above works and is tested, but i now have the problem that the laptop won't resume when on battery. When it's on power supply it can resume. Any ideas!?

EDIT: You're  not alone: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201307 and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1071855/ubuntu-18-04-does-not-wake-up-from-suspend-on-asus-zenbook

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Proxmox: " perl: warning: Setting locale failed."

Veröffentlicht von Florian Panzer am 13. Juli 2018

If you run Proxmox and run into

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.utf8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

here's your solution:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales -u

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