KeithMukai on Nostr: Sys admin shit is hell. Proxmox and its first VM working great... until it isn't. ...

Sys admin shit is hell.

Proxmox and its first VM working great... until it isn't. Spontaneously. Looks like everything is still running but the networking is getting knocked out.

Googling... specific ethernet controller + specific driver release = these failures. Sure, yeah, that classic "r8168 vs r8169" gotcha.

How do I install/revert to r8168? Enable `non-free-firmware` apt sources. But, what... can't resolve the domains? Total DNS failure... Oh, DNS server is set to localhost? Update to 8.8.8.8 (this is shit I'm surprised I know and am not happy it's taking space in my brain). Ah, now able to resolve DNS.

Cool, back to apt. Can't update from an unsecure repository? Okay, googling... edit `/etc/apt/sources.list` (again).

Nope, not there. Ah, remove the proxmox enterprise repos...

(endless spiraling sys admin hell continues)