From 06.05 to 09.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Denver. The conference once again focused on the latest developments and announcements from the company's own ranks. Approximately 6000 participants attended the event in Colorado.

When deploying a new AlmaLinux 9.3 VM under QEMU/KVM, I encountered the following error during the first boot:

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IEEE 802.1X is a standard for authentication and authorisation of devices in networks. Thus, physical LAN ports, VLANs or WLANs can only connect to the network after successful authentication, for example via RADIUS. Communication can be encrypted via TLS or PPP-EAP-TLS, for example.

If this network configuration is to …

From 23.05 to 25.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Boston. The manufacturer's own conference thus took place - for well-known reasons - for the first time since 2020 in presence. For me it was the first Red Hat conference.

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- …

Recently I had the problem that my homelab's Linux machines managed by Puppet were generating dozens of error messages when updating the catalog:

1# puppet agent --test
2Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/functions/load_module_metadata.rb]/ensure: change from absent to file failed: Could not set …

After my last Spacewalk 2.7 installation I had the problem that synchronising repositories using the web interface failed with the following error:

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When installing Spacewalk 2.7 under CentOS 7.4 along with PostgreSQL 9.2.23, I recently stumbled upon the following error:

1# spacewalk-setup
2* Setting up SELinux..
3** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
4** Database: Installing the database:
5** Database: This is a long process that is …