When automatically customizing openSUSE 15.2 guests under VMware vSphere 6.7 recently, I stumbled upon the famous "Guest Customization failed" issue (once again).

After eliminating the most common error (not having Perl installed which is necessary) I had a look at the VMware Compatibility Guide. Looks like …

The struggle is real: for day-to-day work, leveraing several web applications such as messenger or customized booking systems is necessary. After a short time you will mostly have a flood of browser tabs and lose track.

Using nativefier it is possible to package websites into desktop applications.

Some websites and …

When using Ansible under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) recently, I stumbled upon the following error:

1Failed to create temporary directory.
2In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path …

Recently, I stumbled upon the following issue when creating new openSUSE Leap 15.1 Vagrantboxes from the generic and roboxes projects:

1[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-sda2.device.
2[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Resume from hibernation using device /dev/sda2.
3[  OK  ] Reached target Local File System (Pre). …

Recently I stumbled upon the following error when registering a new openSUSE system in Uyuni:

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In the last part of this series, we enabled the voice assistant to read temperature sensors and checking the weather over the internet. In this article, we will ensure entainment by implementing a DIY internet radio and an API for bad jokes.

Radio streams under Linux

A commonly used function of commercial voice …

Sometimes Spacewalk still suggests updates and errata for a system even though they have already been installed. Especially for bigger system landscapes this is confusing as planning maintenance using the web interface is hard in this way.

1# zypper update scout
2Refreshing service 'spacewalk'.
3Loading …

During a recent installation of Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA I stumbled upon the following error message:

1DEBUG The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: RuntimeError: CA did not start in 300.0s
2ERROR CA did not start in 300.0s
3ERROR The ipa-server-install command failed. See /var/log/ipaserver- …

There are plenty of radiators and fans for the small single-board computer - but how big is the impact of using cooling? Don't get me wrong - having a cooling system is always better than having no cooling at all. But I was curious about the exact difference with the current top model (RPi 4B, 4 GB).

First of all it is …