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mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 105  

How to fool yourself

well. slightly related but not in technical sense.

I just updated my little homeserver (remotely) to the last versions of chimaera. After the full-upgrade I did a reboot to have it run with the new kernel and opened a ping to the server to see when it is back online.

Well. It didn't. I have (learned years ago) a monitor and keyboard attached to it. So I got there.

Guess what? Remind yourself that, if full disc encryption in place, you "might" have to type your passphrase to get the system running.... (yeah had 2 very long days before that at work).

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 387  

Re: How to fool yourself

I have (learned years ago) a monitor and keyboard attached to it.
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Remind yourself that, if full disc encryption in place, you "might" have to type your passphrase to get the system running.

Which is why real server motherboards come with a serial console that works right from POST and/or IPMI as standard.

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mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 105  

Re: How to fool yourself

Which is why real server motherboards come with a serial console that works right from POST and/or IPMI as standard.

Which still don't solve the problem, which is me forgetting to look at that console....
(remotely over ssh means next room n this case)