It’s not often, but sometimes I need to boot the system from a USB and rebuild initramfs-linux.img. This post is more of a quick note to myself on how, what, and where to mount on my laptop to run mkinitcpio, as I have LVM partitions, separate disk partitions for /boot, and swap. iwctl and WiFi… Read More »
We have an API service with Gunicorn in Kubernetes that periodically returns 502, 503, 504 errors. I started debugging it, and found a weird thing: there were no messages in the logs about the received SIGTERM, so I first went to deal with Kubernetes – why doesn’t it send it? The Issue So, here’s… Read More »
I updated my Arch Linux yesterday, and for the first time in 9 years of using this system, I encountered an error when after a reboot the system could not mount a disk: ERROR: device UUID not found. mount: /new_root: can’t find UUID. ERROR: Failed to mount UUID on real root. You are now being… Read More »
This time it became interesting to me – is it possible to somehow save the charge of the laptop battery? Not to say that it discharges quickly, it is enough for 5-6 hours of work, but it will not be too much, especially with the current power outages in Ukraine. Found several utilities, and… Read More »
There are a lot of utilities to create a Git animation for Linux, but I like the peek. Besides the Gif, also can create files in the MP4, WebM, APNG formats. On the Arch Linux can be installed from the AUR: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S peek [/simterm] Run it: [simterm] $ peek [/simterm] The… Read More »
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a Windows subsystem that helps to run various Linux distribution directly from the Windows OS. WSL version 2 which is the default version now uses the Hyper-V virtualization under the hood to install and run Linux and share files and devices between both systems. Windows Subsystem for Linux… Read More »
Locales is a set of environment variables that are used to determine how to display data and time (for example, first of the week), symbols encoding (for example, how to display cyrillic symbols), default files order when one executing the ls command, and so on. Those variables are: LANG: Determines the default locale in the… Read More »
Recently, I bought a Sony WH-1000XM3 headset. In general, they are great but need to connect them to my laptop with Arch Linux. The documentation about Bluetooth on Arch Linux can be found here>>> and here>>>: Installation Install necessary packages: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils [/simterm] Check kernel’s module: [simterm] $ lsmod |… Read More »
Finally got time to migrate the RTFM.CO.UA blog to a new server with Debian 10. This time manually, without any automation will set up a LEMP stack Wrote a similar at 2016 – Debian: установка LEMP — NGINX + PHP-FPM + MariaDB (Rus), but in time the post is more complete of the process and… Read More »
One day I wondered – how is load balancing between pods is working in Kubernetes? I.e. – we have an external Load Balancer. Then a Service. And behind it – Pods. What happens when we are receiving a network packet from the world, and we have a few pods – how the traffic will be… Read More »