I’ve happily run Fedora for a few years now and noticed this unpredictable problem that goes something like this: I haven’t put any effort into figuring out what is going on here beyond some cursory searched from time to time, but if you’ve been in the Linux Desktop space for any amount of time, you … Read more
Unfortunately I am not aware of a fix for this – but I do have a super easy workaround that should help 99.9% of you out there that have landed on this page. You may have tried to troubleshoot this (like me) by watching top and seeing what is going on, only to notice right … Read more
Well just like troubleshooting the problem with Chia Light Wallet not starting on Fedora 35 for me, it looks like Keybase suffers an almost identical problem and both are Electron-based applications. Following the Linux Install Instructions on the Keybase site, you’ll: Install the RPM Execute the run_keybase command OPTIONAL: Run the new Keybase desktop shortcut: … Read more
The Chia Network has officially released a Beta of the Chia Light Wallet (scroll to bottom of the download page). Up until now everyone has either been using the Wallet directly integrated to their Chia Node (the default Chia software you run to Harvest or Plot), Nucle, Goby or Arbor (although I don’t recommend this … Read more
This problem has had me stuck for 3 days and I am making sure to document the adventure here for my future-self and potentially anyone else this may help. What this is NOT This is not a writeup on how to free up disk space; this is not a writeup on how to find the … Read more
Finding the answer to this took me forever for 2 reasons: Dell has never supported Ubuntu super well – it’s “left up to the community” so relying on their official repos for installing command line utilities is a bust or outdated by a half-decade. I constantly found information on EXPANDING an array or REPLACING a … Read more
Before I bought a couple of NetApp DS4246 disk shelves I was never able to confirm if they supported bigger disk sizes (14, 16 and 18TB). Long story short, I just ended up buying 2x shelves off eBay and then a set of 18TB drives and last night hooked everything up and it just worked. … Read more
I’ve been Chia mining and one of the staples of Chia mining, to keep your SSDs from imploding, is to constantly trim the drives. Fortunately in Ubuntu, this is handled for you already by the systemd service manager and the fstrim service – but out of the box it runs once a week. We want … Read more
If you followed my big write-up about installing an HBA card for the first time in Linux, then you probably know where this post is going. In my particular setup (Chia Farming) – I have 6x SATA HD’s in the main enclosure and another 12x in an external enclosure. The host machine sees ALL of … Read more
Update: I just re-used this guide on a new LSI SAS 9200-16e I got off of eBay and it worked perfectly; when I plugged the card in it couldn’t see any drives, but after wiping it and reflashing the newest bios (instructions below) it suddenly saw all the drives and I was back in action! … Read more