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Just found out that Dell just released the a new firmware, 1.10.1, for the Latitude 7400 series. This firmeware was released since 10 Sep 2020. Fixes: Firmware updates to address the Intel Technical Advisory INTEL-TA-00404 (CVE-2020-8758). Fixed the issue where an error message stating Key Mapping for Console Redirection BIOS is displayed before the Dell logo screen, Enhancements: Updated the Embedded Controller Engine firmware. I’m running Fedora 32 on this laptop. To update the firmeware, just execute fwupdmgr update. ...

Nothing excites me than being able to solve a problem on Linux just before bed time. Well, there could be other things, but I couldn’t think of any right now. Right now, I’m preparing for my next exam - Red Hat Certified Specialist in Identity Management (EX362), and one of the topics is about setting up automated home directory using IdM (or IPA). I tried to follow the course material, but I had troubles getting it working. ...

ZFS is one of my favorite file systems. I use it at home on my nas server (running FreeBSD) as well as my Fedora 32 desktop. Today, I’m going to show you (and my future self) how to replace a (faulty) disk in a Zpool. The server I’ll be working on is nas2 and the pool is tank. List the status of the current pool. Password: root@nas2:~ # zpool status tank pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'. see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q scan: resilvered 472K in 0 days 00:00:02 with 0 errors on Sun Aug 23 16:17:21 2020 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank DEGRADED 0 0 0 mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0 diskid/DISK-Z4Z46MXG ONLINE 0 0 0 620907994788427922 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 was /dev/diskid/DISK-Z1E4ZCM2 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 diskid/DISK-Z1E5PFCH ONLINE 0 0 0 diskid/DISK-Z4Z46XQP ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors From the above output, we can see that one of the disk in mirro-0 vdev was missing. (In fact, it has been removed prior to the system rebooted. I also inserted a new disk to the system.) ...

Just a few a days ago, I wrote a blog post about Pairing Bluetooth Mouse on Command Line on a Fedora laptop. So why do I need to write another post about doing the same thing on Gentoo? Well, as it turned out, I need a bit more than just turning on the bluetooth service and pairing the mouse. My Gentoo’s installation is very minimal, and I think this gives me an excuse to document on how I’d solve or get this working on Gentoo. ...

One of my virtual machines runs out of disk space in the root (/) partition, and I want to remove the /home partition and using this free space to resize the root partition. Nowadays, for any serious systems, I’d use LVM with XFS on top. However, for this test VM, I have a virtual disk with 4 partitions without LVM. Managing partition on LVM is much easier than working the disk partition directly. I can’t remember the last time I had to do this, so here is something to remind my future-self if I need this information again. Hey, if you’re reading this now, this might be useful to you too. ...