Ran into an error with FreeNAS (version 11.1-RELEASE) where the system was complaining about running out of swap space (first noticed there was a problem when getting repeated emails about ‘Unauthorized system reboot’). The error on the console and in /var/log/messages is:
servername kernel: pid 26118 (python3.6), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
Fortunately NFS was still working, and console login (using the second console) worked. Used this to enable ssh:
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As per the previous post, I was having problems with the swap partitions on my main FreeNAS 11 server. All the swap partitions were there, but were not being used until manually mounted. It turns out that FreeNAS now has a new way of using these – it seems to set up mirror devices using gmirror and uses these for swap. There are a couple of gotchas here – the first is that if you do a gmirror list on a working system you will see:
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In Windows Server 2016 the usual trick of just setting a proxy server in IE doesn’t seem to work. The proxy can be set from the command line, but there is some contradictory advice out there. What worked for me was:
netsh winhttp set proxy proxy-server="your.proxy.server:port" bypass-list="*.your.local.domain"
This should result in:
Current WinHTTP proxy settings:
Proxy Server(s) : your.proxy.server:port
Bypass List : *.your.local.domain
You can also check this with
You are meant to be able to import this from IE, but that gave me a syntax error.
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Note – this fix in principle should work on most systemd distributions.
Problem – trying to get a Debian 9 system to mount an NFS share at boot. This was declared in /etc/fstab in the normal way, but kept failing on boot. However, once the system was up you could log in and do a mount -a, which would work fine. Reading around, it looks like a case of the system trying to mount before the network is up (and in this case the network should be reliable, as it’s an internal one between a VM and its host…)
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Problem – I had a system (HP Spectre) with Windows 10 Home edition which I wanted to upgrade to Enterprise (to get BitLocker). The trouble is, even when using the Windows 10 Enterprise install ISO and a clean install it installed Home. This is because it detects a Home key embedded in the BIOS and automatically installs it without giving you a choice.
You can apparently force it to install the version you want by including EI.cfg and PID.txt files in the install ISO (or USB key). I had a look at our ISO, which does include EI.cfg. The contents are:
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