Synopsys Sentaurus DNS issue

Synopsys Sentaurus is an industry-standard TCAD (Technology Computer-Aided Design) software suite for simulation of semiconductors (fabrication, physical behavior, electrical characteristics etc.) We found a problem when installing it on some of our Linux systems (Rocky 8.10). We could start up the swb application ok and choose a project to run (e.g. an example like swb/mosfet - copy this to a writable location). Once the project was loaded the interface got very laggy, and running the project resulted in not much happening. You can see this by opening the project log (there’s a menu item for this) - it gets to INFO: Starting new project execution... and then nothing happens.

Dell PowerEdge R630 machine check error when booting Proxmox 9

Actually encountered this problem a while ago, but forgot to write it up at the time

We have a Dell PowerEdge R630 that is running Proxmox 9. On update from kernel 6.14 to 6.17 the system started boot looping - the system would start to boot, and then early on when the kernel was booting it would stop and reset the machine. The iDRAC event logs showed that there were “Machine Check errors” occurring. Booting with the previous 6.14 kernel worked as normal.

nano/ssh session freezes on some pastes into Windows terminal

Scenario - ssh into a linux system from Windows using windows terminal/powershell, edit a file in nano and try and paste something.

Sometimes the terminal then freezes, and rings the bell on every keystroke or paste attempt. You can free it up by killing nano from another login session.

The problem is described in this thread:

This problem has been fixed in the latest versions of nano, but it will take a while to get into the distributions. The workaround in the meantime is to use something like PuTTY.