Posts made by scotth

Could easily be.
I'm not sure (maybe Windstream -- ugh) is the next hop up from one of our sites in NE Ohio and they were down all day Monday.
Some odd behavior with our cell service lately too. We have dead spots where we have never had issues before. Verizon, in this case.

Armstrong Cable - their product is called Zoom Internet.

Which has come back up.

Armstrong down in Mercer and Crawford counties. Started about 15 minutes ago.

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Screen Blank in Ubuntu 22.04 | Switch Wayland to Xorg:

If you update to a recent version of Ubuntu, especially Ubuntu 22.04 you will likely have remote access tools like MeshCentral, RDP, Remote Desktop, ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, LogMeIn, and others stop working.

This is generally because Ubuntu has switched from using Xorg by default to using Wayland and changes which is used during the upgrade process. Normally all we have to do is change it back.

vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

Edit this file and Ubuntu has handily included a commented out line for us:

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false

Just remove the comment mark, the pound sign (hashtag for the youngsters), save and reboot. Voila.

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the previous version allow you to switch window managers at the login? I seem to remember that from a year or two ago.

UPS here too. I go to the site and it takes 12-18's. I have 12-12's. I tried the 12-12's and no go. The unit doesn't like it when you try to fake it out. Or I did something wrong. Batteries are due in here on Wednesday.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.

Halloweekends when we went was so busy as to make it not worth the trip (paying for the expensive fastpass would've helped, but we didn't know ahead of time).

We're fastpass fans. My oldest daughter just responded, nope. I'm working her over with my son-in-law's help. This is going to be fun.

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.

The kids are in their 30's, grandkids are getting bigger. I'm pushing this out for review. They better say yes.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

Grass

Oddly enough, after pulling off the cover, looking at the diagram, CPU2 is on the left and RAM slot 3 is the 1st slot on the left of the board. So, in order for the ILO to function, you need viable RAM in the 1st slot on the board. In this device, that's CPU2 slot 3.

The error in ILO was -- Uncorrectable Machine Check Exception (Processor 2 APIC ID .....

Then -- DIMM Failure - Uncorrectable Memory Error (Processor 2, DIMM 3)

Further in the logs -- Uncorrectable Memory Error Threshold Exceeded (Processor 2, DIMM 3). The DIMM is mapped out and is currently not available.

Finally after I pulled the plugs out of the power supplies, and a hard reset -- The installed number of DIMMs on one or more processors results in an unbalanced memory configuration across memory controllers. This may result in non-optimal memory performance.

The server was completely unresponsive. I've never had the ILO go down like this. Fortunately, this was onsite here. It did come back up and ran normally until maintenance showed up with a new stick of RAM. Also, there's two different types of RAM for these units. You need to grab the part number to get the correct replacement.

Like Scott said, ILO was separate from the system -- apparently in the past, this was true. No longer.

@scottalanmiller said in HP ILO Fails with Bad RAM:

@scotth said in HP ILO Fails with Bad RAM:

@scotth said in Proxmox in 2022:

So, this morning 4 VMs are down and not responding. Tell them to start and ppfph. Connect to the ILO and ppfph. I had to power down the box and pull the plugs for a minute before it would start correctly. It turns out that I have a bad stick of RAM on CPU2 -- which prevented me from ILO access. Aaaaaaaahhh!!!
So on HPE G10s, a bad stick of RAM on CPU 2 interrupts the ILO. I would not have guessed. I can get into it now after a hard boot. Friggin' BS.

Sorry, wrong post -- VMWare, not Proxmox. Feel free to move, delete, ....

It's neither. It's about HPE speciifc hardware.

DL360 G10

CPU2 DIMM3

@scotth said in Proxmox in 2022:

So, this morning 4 VMs are down and not responding. Tell them to start and ppfph. Connect to the ILO and ppfph. I had to power down the box and pull the plugs for a minute before it would start correctly. It turns out that I have a bad stick of RAM on CPU2 -- which prevented me from ILO access. Aaaaaaaahhh!!!
So on HPE G10s, a bad stick of RAM on CPU 2 interrupts the ILO. I would not have guessed. I can get into it now after a hard boot. Friggin' BS.

Sorry, wrong post -- VMWare, not Proxmox. Feel free to move, delete, ....

So, this morning 4 VMs are down and not responding. Tell them to start and ppfph. Connect to the ILO and ppfph. I had to power down the box and pull the plugs for a minute before it would start correctly. It turns out that I have a bad stick of RAM on CPU2 -- which prevented me from ILO access. Aaaaaaaahhh!!!
So on HPE G10s, a bad stick of RAM on CPU 2 interrupts the ILO. I would not have guessed. I can get into it now after a hard boot. Friggin' BS.

@notverypunny said in Task Schedule Failed:

@WrCombs said in Task Schedule Failed:

SO Iknow whats causing the issue, I'm just not sure how to fix it.

Windows 11 device, Task is scheduled to start a program

c:\program files (x86)\Parent Director\Subdirectory\program /switch1 /switch2 /switch3 

It shows Last Run results 0x4 Which I find out means "System can't access path/file"

I Changed user, and tried running it again (different admin user) no change, same status.

I go to CMD to see if I can path to it - Can't find path specified - tried writing it a different way (with spaces, without spaces)

Having a hard time understanding why it can't run this program - it's needed to import sales into a different system every day.

The owner of the software suggested making sure DotNetFramework 4.5 or higher was installed and repair it. which it is, 4.8 is installed currently.

Any ideas how I can resolve this?

Ideas:
1- try using single or double quotes around the path, simple way to get the "proper" path is sometimes to use tab-completion

2- if the above doesn't work, maybe try having your scheduled task call a batch or .cmd file (or powershell) which invokes the executable

Quotes around the path and working directory. Yes

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had a good sized scorpion trying to get into our house. I killed it with a shoe.

A claw hammer works too.

Only if you can throw it. Don't want to risk anything it could climb up to get back to me

When the wife and I were living in Hallendale, I found one on the patio, one in the living room and one in the driveway (over several years). My claw hammer did the heavy lifting. I wasted more than one good set of hotdog tongs on them. Big and black, like right out of an episode of Columbo. Ghah!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had a good sized scorpion trying to get into our house. I killed it with a shoe.

A claw hammer works too.

Watching Little River Band Classic lineup YouTube videos.

This may help..... I'm using Vivaldi, a Chrome based browser.

YouTube videos and Jitsi sessions both give me issues. By experimenting, I've found that my bluetooth device and I'm sure, Windows causes all kinds of grief with the audio/video of things. I don't use wired headphones.

I now make sure that my bluetooth device is connected before I open the browser. I also open the sound mixer and choose the bluetooth device as the audio device that's desired for use. Sometimes I change the device in the sound mixer after I have it connected and the browser is opened. It may be listed more than once in different roles, ie as a device with a microphone.

Mess with these settings. It may clear up for you.

@pete-s said in ZeroTier & Security:

@scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier & Security:

@pete-s said in ZeroTier & Security:

@notverypunny

If you assume that being connected to an ZeroTier network is the same as having the host sitting directly on the internet, you'll be fine.

That is the basic premise of the zero trust security model - assuming that the network is hostile.

Ding ding, exactly. It's a connectivity tool, not a security tool. The security has to be provided normally. Any ZT provided security, is purely extra.

Yes, and when it comes to security ZeroTier, as any other VPN, shows up as a virtual network adapter. So you can apply the OS' firewall like you could on any network adapter.

And the ZeroTier network itself also has some limited L2 rules to control the traffic, similar to a switch. It lacks tcp sessions and other things though so it's not like a real router/firewall.

There is also the possibility to connect ZeroTier to a compatible firewall and not the host directly.

I'm running OPNSense at home and have the plugin working and connected to a client's PC's from my house.

Works great.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth I started off on this crazy journey as an electronics tech, spent everyday using a cro of some description.

i can remember one time, i really wanted to work in the r&d area of this company where I worked, they were looking for a junior tech/engineer & I really wanted the position.

I got the spot and I still remember day 1. They sat a huge Techtronix cro on my bench, this thing had more buttons and knobs that anything. I reckon it took me 10 minutes to find the on/off switch.

It is so 'Star Trek'. I can imagine how intimidating it would have been. The more switches and buttons, the better.

I was extremely fortunate in my young life to be hired as a corporate flight attendant. I was cabin crew on an executive airliner -- BAC 1-11 401AK.

I was permitted to help with maintenance, preflight, attend training. The boys would teach me how the systems worked on the airplane. And yes, I have sat in the right seat during flight.

I quit college and landed this job through sheer luck. Although college would have benefitted me orders of magnitude more than this job.

I can honestly say that I don't regret the opportunity. I was 19 and would sit in the jump seat during any/all operations of flight. I lost that job when I was 27. An entirely other lifetime ago. Dare I say that I'm 62 now?

Major geek moments!