FreeBSD 12.0 install media :20180208 misses a lot of timezone file. E.g. it doesn’t have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney. Ensure: zoneinfo package is installed. Then run: And confirm: Fri Feb 16 00:19:48 AEDT 2018
Just a quick note to remind myself how I fixed the problem installing VirtualBox 5.2.10 on a Mac laptop running 10.13.4. The installation seemed to go well until it reached the end and reported failing to install. I’ve had this issues for a few weeks already and Google for solution seems to have hit and missed until today. I finally found a solution posted here: https://github.com/docksal/docksal/issues/417. Basically, I need to go the System Preferences and tick the box to allow ‘System software from developer “Oracle America, Inc....
Ever since I have FreeBSD 12 installed on a spare laptop, I notice that this is the most frequently used portable machine at home. (Of course, I still use my main desktop, which runs Fedoda 27, for everything.) I think one of the main reasons is that I like the experiences when I started using Linux years ago – not everything works out of the box, and sometimes I’m forced to learn and understand better about an issue before it can be fixed....
I just updated Ansible to version 2.5.0 tonight, and I came across this issue when I tried to run a playbook for an Ubuntu 16.04 machine: PLAY [Ansible Playbook for configuring odroid.***.com] *************************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************** fatal: [odroid.***.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "None -s system-product-name", "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'None'", "rc": 2} According to the issue #37911, the remote system doesn’t have the dmidecode package installed....
At work, we want to backup an external disk that’s connected to the Mac machine using rsnapshot. In order to do that, the external drive needs to be mounted, and this happens when a user logs in to the Mac. The problem is that when nobody logs in, the external drive is not mounted and rsnapshot will fail. The fix should be easy if there is away to mount the external drive without a user logs in....