Just a quick note so I don’t forget now to enable console logging on systems running grub2 (like Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid).
/etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"update-grub( more info can be found here )
If you’re trying to do post-mortem analysis on a crashed river, or trying to find kernel-level
bottlenecks with oprofile, you need the decompressed kernel w/ debug symbols. This comes in a
form of a vmlinux file. Some distributions ship debuginfo packages, namely RHEL. On Ubuntu
this seems lacking.
I was recently asked by a colleague, and now also a client, to look over the [LDAP]{tag/ldap} configuration on his Ubuntu boxen. He was having
issues with the root account. The problem turned out being that the Ubuntu box was trying to get the root authentication from LDAP.
It successfully found an LDAP account on the OSX LDAP server, but was unable to login since that account is disabled. The solution
was to filter out the root account from the LDAP reply using the pam_filter directive in /etc/ldap.conf. Jay was also kind enough
to document his setup for others that are trying to accomplish a
similar task.
Recently I have been doign a bit of contract work for Symbio Technologies. They have had me do various little projects part time. Most recently I got a chance to work on X.org video drivers for the Geode family.
Here is the progress…