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When using getfattr and setfattr on a filesystem that you’re sure about extended attributes is supported (i.e. ext4, reiserfs, btrfs) and get “Operation not supported” errors like this… # touch test.txt # setfattr –name test –value 42 test.txt setfattr: test.txt: Operation not supported # getfattr –name test test.txt test.txt: test: Operation not supported … then

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It is rather annoying when systemd-tty-ask or /bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent –watch hangs during a package installation, service start or stop operation. Although rebooting system solves the problem, fortunately it is enough to restart the systemd manager only: sudo systemctl daemon-reexec I suspect this is a systemd bug as daemon-reexec said to be doing nothing special apart from

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I have some HVM guests on XEN but most of them have memory around or less than 2048 MB. However when I tried to give more than 3200 MB of RAM to them I faced the following message: # xl create /etc/xen/configs/a.conf Parsing config from /etc/xen/configs/a.conf xc: error: panic: xc_dom_boot.c:395: xc_dom_gnttab_hvm_seed: failed to add gnttab

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Download one of Ubuntu 12.04 (multiarch) or Debian 7.0 (multiarch) version from the Skype download page. Add the i386 architecture to your package manager:sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 Update your package list:sudo apt-get update Try installing the Skype package – will fail on dependency tests, that’s normal!:sudo dpkg -i Downloads/skype-<version>_i386.deb Fix the dependencies and then install

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Just a quick post. I created the RAID-0 array just for a speed test on a HP ProLiant DL380p G8 server. # dd if=/dev/vg0/test of=/dev/null bs=8M iflag=direct 1280+0 records in 1280+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 16.0664 s, 668 MB/s # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/test bs=8M oflag=direct 1281+0 records in 1280+0 records out 10737418240

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