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Common Problems 117588

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – disk usage spikes from oversized systemd journal logs

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04.6 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention […]

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Common Problems 116930

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS systemd Service Fails with Start Request Repeated Too Quickly

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 116618

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OOM Kills Increase After Swap Disabled

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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Common Problems 116530

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – system clock drift breaks TLS and package updates – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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Common Problems 116390

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – apt update fails because dpkg lock is held

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Ubuntu 24.04 Ubuntu 24.04.1 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — perl-IO-Compress-Lzma — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — perl-IO-Compress-Lzma — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2026:8096 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40909 CVE-2023-47038 Upstream summary: Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl threads have a […]

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How to Set Up Mail Relay with Postfix on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Mail Relay with Postfix on RHEL 10

Introduction Setting up set up mail relay with postfix on a RHEL 10 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Set Up Mail Relay with Postfix on RHEL 10, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to keep in […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.233-224.894 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.233-224.894 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2025-223 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-21703 CVE-2025-21796 CVE-2025-21647 CVE-2025-21702 CVE-2024-56631 Upstream summary: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netem: Update sch->q.qlen before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() (CVE-2025-21703) Table of contents Symptom […]

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Debian 12 — gdcm — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — gdcm — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 August 2025 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2009-3560 CVE-2009-3720 CVE-2015-8396 CVE-2015-8397 CVE-2024-22373 CVE-2024-22391 CVE-2024-25569 CVE-2025-11266  +5 more Upstream summary: The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up the ELK Stack on Ubuntu 24.04

The ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is the leading open-source log management and analytics platform. This guide installs ELK Stack 8.x on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for centralised log collection and analysis. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Minimum 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) Java 21 installed A user […]

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