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frezik ,

A Gentoo upgrade package list with over 100 packages and conflicts all over the place. Then do it again when the list grows to the same size in a few months.

This is why I don’t use Gentoo anymore.

Veneroso ,

I haven’t used Gentoo in years, maybe I should try to main it again.

It was a pain sometimes but man did I learn a lot from using it.

Draconic_NEO ,
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Rescuing home partition from ZFS, actually that doesn’t really count since I did have to reinstall (was no longer booting), but recovering the Home partition from ZFS and to the other ext4 drive was much harder than it should’ve been and that’s why I would never recommend people use ZFS.

jenny_ball ,
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agree. zfs is a hairy beast with nice features

AVincentInSpace ,

oh god zfs.

tell me, please, who thought it was a good idea for a filesystem to remember the last machine it was mounted from and refuse to let itself be mounted by a different operating system instance even if all the hardware is present?

AVincentInSpace ,

I did a partial system upgrade when installing nginx without upgrading the rest of my Arch system. One of the things it upgraded was libssl.

Turns out systemd depends on that.

Turns out programs won’t start at all if one of their shared libraries is missing.

Turns out that if you write init=bash in the kernel command line, not even Ethernet connections work if systemd isn’t running.

I had to boot off archiso, chroot into my / partition, and run the system upgrade from there.

Adderbox76 ,

Some programs still relying on python2 when the operating system has long since upgraded to python3.

Not really an issue per se, I just had to switch those apps over to using the flatpak version which would have it installed as needed. (I’m looking at you GIMP)

isolatedscotch ,

while playing around with face/fingerprint unlock for my laptop, I messed up pam (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules) and no passwords were working anymore except for the root account. At first I was still on my account, but then I stupidly rebooted and could only log in as root. After so many config edits, I gave up and instead booted up windows (my laptop’s dual booted), setting up a new linux install in VirtualBox, and then copying over the PAM config files from the vm to the actual Linux install.

and it all somehow worked!

I am now facing another issue which I’m gonna say here in the hope somebody has already ran into it: after updating to KDE plasma 6, tap to click works on my touchpad, but actually, physically, pressing on the trackpad doesn’t work. I can hear the pad’s physical clicking noise, but nothing happens os wise

this one’s still to be resolved

dditty ,

Nice I recently borked PAM on my headless fedora server host while attempting to set ssh to require 2fa using Google Authenticator. I still haven’t gotten that process figured out - I follow the instructions but each time it won’t accept any 2fa otps from my Google authenticator app

Gabu ,

What’s the deal with Linux and Tomoko? lmao

I keep seeing memes featuring her on Linux communities. Is it only the shut-in nerdy vibes?

Waffelson OP ,

I think Tomoko would be an ideal Linux user

rowinxavier ,

Working for a VoIP company in the early 2010s I rm -rf’d the /bin/ directory. As root. On a production server. On site.

I ended up booting from my phone (android app for iso booting) then manually coppied over the files from another machine. Chrooted and some stuff was broken but rebuilding from the package manager reinstalled everything that was missing. Got the system back up in around 40 mins after that colossal screw up. Good fun and a great learning experience. Honestly, my manager should not have had me doing anything on a root shell with no training.

dejected_warp_core ,

I ended up booting from my phone (android app for iso booting)

Impressive. I had no idea that was a thing. That’s easily the most “Star Trek” sounding fix I’ve heard in a good while.

back up in around 40 mins […] on a root shell with no training.

… and you intuited that fix, or at least pulled it together from scratch/google with no training? Doubly impressive.

fossphi ,

You might enjoy this ;)

www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

Zacryon ,

Nvidia driver fucking X in the arse without lube.

johannesvanderwhales , (edited )

Back in the day, I upgraded a Slackware install from kernel 1.3 to 2.0. That was a fucking adventure.

The fun part about back then was that if your machine wouldn’t boot or if you couldn’t get your modem or pppd working, you probably didn’t have another internet connected device so you might have to drive somewhere with a computer…or try to figure it out through books.

megabat ,

You probably remember the libc5 to glibc swap. Bad times to DIY distros.

johannesvanderwhales , (edited )

Yep. I remember at the time I saw a lot of advice saying “you know you might want to seriously consider just installing your distro from scratch with a newer version.” Tracking down all of the dependencies (some of which had to be installed as binaries) was a very manual process.

Edit: Oh and another fun aspect of that time period was that since downloads were so slow on a modem, if you wanted a newer version or to try out another distro, you would go and order a cdrom from a place like Walnut Creek.

Nolegjoe ,

Installing a hadoop cluster across 5 machines. I wouldn’t say I fixed it, but I made it so it wouldn’t collapse until long after I’d left that company.

Honytawk ,

That not a thing on Linux?

SFC /Scannow on Windows

Custodian1623 ,

so called free-thinking Microsoft help lines when presented with any problem whatsoever

Honytawk ,

Well, the command was designed to fix the most common Windows problems like corrupted files and weird settings. So of course help lines are going to ask to run it. It was made to automatically fix problems.

It also works amazingly well.

Custodian1623 ,

to answer your question, Linux systems tend to be more stable than windows when it comes to just leaving it running and different distros have different tools for repairing files. Funny enough I actually fixed a windows installation using a equally user friendly tool that shipped with Ubuntu

swordgeek ,

Not Linux, but Solaris, back in the day.

We had a system with a mirrored boot disk. One of the disks failed. And we were unable to boot from the other, because the boot device in OBP (~BIOS) pointed to a device-specific partitIon. When we manually booted from the live device, it was lacking the boot sector code, and wouldn’t boot. When we booted from CDROM, the partitions wouldn’t mount because the virtual device mapping pointed to the dead drive.

This was a gas futures trading system, and rebuild wasn’t an option. Restoring from backup woyld have lost four hours of trades, which would be an extreme last resort.

A coworker and I spent all night on the box. We had a whiteboard covered with every stage of the boot sequence broken down, and every redirection we needed to (a) boot and (b) repair the system. The issue started mid-afternoon, and we finally got it back up by around 6:30 am.

raspberriesareyummy ,

Fast data transmission via TCP over a lossy link.

reverendsteveii ,

windows update kept downloading these bloated “updates” that included brand new software that I didn’t want or use, broke my settings, added a bunch of spyware, adware and other shit and slowed down my system

installing linux fixed that instantly and permanently

dlok ,

I feel seen here, I was building a Ubuntu server and messed up the firewall settings not being able to get an internet connection, hours of trying to get back to where I was I gave up and plan to just start from scratch next time.

Is there a way of taking system snapshots with Linux?

Schola ,

For system snapshots-- Timeshift I think.

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