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CLI, Hardware, OS

Folding@home opencl error fix

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I decided to contribute my GPU on my Ubuntu-based system to the Folding@Home effort for COVID-19. I kept getting this error message for my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TI when I tried:

ERROR:WU00:FS00:Failed to start core: OpenCL device matching slot 0 not found, make sure the OpenCL driver is installed or try setting 'opencl-index' manually

I had the nvidia opencl packages installed but apparently missed something. I finally found on the folding at home forum what I was missing – ocl-icd-opencl-dev

sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

After running the above command and restarting the FAHClient service, the GPU started folding. For science!

EDIT 5/6/2020: After a re-install I had the issue where the GPU wouldn’t show up at all. It addition to ocl-icd-opencl-dev, it looks like you also need nvidia-cuda-dev.

sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev nvidia-cuda-dev

CLI

Sort by middle of a string

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I had a list of items I wanted to sort in a non-standard way:

app-function1.site1.jeppson.org
app-function2.site3.jeppson.org
app-function3.site4.jeppson.org
app-function4.site2.jeppson.org
app-function1.site6.jeppson.org
app-function3.site9.jeppson.org
app-function4.site7.jeppson.org

It’s a generalized list for publication but you get the idea. I wanted to sort by site name. Thanks to this post I found it’s relatively easy. You can tell the sort command to use a character as a tab delimiter (-t) and then specify which key “column” to sort by (-k)

In my case I sorted by site by specifying the dot character '.' as the delimiter, and the second “column” as the key '-k2'

The end result was this:

cat apps-by-site-unsorted.txt | sort -t. -k2
app-function1.site1.jeppson.org
app-function4.site2.jeppson.org
app-function2.site3.jeppson.org
app-function3.site4.jeppson.org
app-function1.site6.jeppson.org
app-function4.site7.jeppson.org
app-function3.site9.jeppson.org

Success

Update 2024-10-18

I discovered two new handy features

  • -V to sort numbers naturally (1 comes before 10)
  • a second -k1 variable to sort the first column after the second one
 |sort -t. -k2 -k1 -V

This allows me to sort human readable, by region, in my hostname list. Awesome.

CLI

git checkout only specific directory from repo

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I have a git repo where I just wanted a specific folder, not the entire repo, cloned to one of my virtual machines. Git doesn’t handle this straightforwardly, but thanks to this article I found there is a roundabout way of doing it., by combining a git sparse checkout and a git shallow checkout.

Below are the commands to run (I ran these directly in my home directory.) Replace FOLDER with the folder from within the repository you wish to clone.

git init <repo> 
cd <repo>
git remote add origin <url to remote repo> 
git config core.sparsecheckout true 
echo "FOLDER/*" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout 
git pull --depth=1 origin master

Success! Now this particular machine only has the folder within the repo I want, not the entire git repository.

CLI, Virtualization

JQ select specific value from array

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I had some AWS ec2 JSON output that I needed to parse. I wanted to grab a specific value from an array and it proved to be tricky for a JSON noob like me. I finally found this site which was very helpful: https://garthkerr.com/search-json-array-jq/. In my case I wanted the value of a specific AWS EC2 tag.

The trick is to grab down to the Tags[] array, and then pipe that to a select command. If your tags have dots in them (as mine did) then make sure to quote the tag name. Then add the .Value to the end of the select statement. This is my query:

jq -r '.Reservations[].Instances[].Tags[] | select (.Key == "EC2.Tag.Name").Value' jsonfile.json

The above query grabs all the tags (an array of Key,Value lines), then searches the result for a specific key “EC2.Tag.Name” and returns the Value line associated with it.

CLI, Hardware

WD*EZRZ NAS array spindown fix

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I recently acquired some 5TB Western Digital Blue drives (WD50EZRZ.) These particular drives were shucked from external USB enclosures. When I tried to add them into my ZFS raid array, though, I ran into constant problems. I would continually get errors like this from the kernel:

[155069.298001] sd 0:0:10:0: attempting task abort! scmd(ffff8f0678887100)
[155069.298005] sd 0:0:10:0: [sdk] tag#5 CDB: Write(16) 8a 00 00 00 00 01 a8 1e 77 10 00 00 00 58 00 00
[155069.298008] scsi target0:0:10: handle(0x0014), sas_address(0x5001438023a93296), phy(22)
[155069.298010] scsi target0:0:10: enclosure logical id(0x5001438023a932a5), slot(53) 
[155069.298012] sd 0:0:10:0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(ffff8f0678887100)
[155069.298016] sd 0:0:10:0: [sdk] tag#5 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_TIME_OUT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[155069.298018] sd 0:0:10:0: [sdk] tag#5 CDB: Write(16) 8a 00 00 00 00 01 a8 1e 77 10 00 00 00 58 00 00
[155069.298020] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdk, sector 7115536144
[155069.298023] zio pool=storage vdev=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD50EZRZ-32RWYB1_WD-WX31XXXXXVA-part1 error=5 type=2 offset=3643153457152 size=45056 flags=180880

After a couple of said errors, the drive would be marked as bad and taken out of the array. A battery of tests on a different system revealed the drives to be fine. It did not matter where I inserted these drives on my NAS, they did the same thing, even on ports I knew had working drives. It wasn’t a cabling or other hardware issue.

The drives would resilver back into the array just fine, and then pop out again at random intervals – sometimes minutes later, other times hours later. After a lot of research I came across this post that got me thinking – this sounds like a drive spindown issue! The random nature of it could simply be the drives not being used and then powering themselves down.

I tried using hdparm to set the spindown timer but was greeted with this lovely error:

sudo hdparm -B /dev/sdk
/dev/sdk:
 APM_level	= not supported

I eventually found this post complaining about their Western Digital drives spinning down aggressively.

idle3 to the rescue

The above post mentions apmtimer which did not help me, however more searches reveled this godsend: idle3-tools

idle3-tools is an open source utility to handle spindown on Western Digital drives themselves (not the OS level.)

Download & compile idle3:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/idle3-tools/files/latest/download
cd idle3-tools-0.9.1/
make
sudo make install

Use idle3 to query current spindown status (update drive letters to suit your needs)

for drive in {a..p}; do echo /dev/sd$drive; sudo idle3ctl -g /dev/sd$drive; done

For anything that doesn’t say Idle3 timer is disabled run the following:

sudo idle3ctl -s 0 /dev/sd(DRIVE_LETTER)

No more drive spindown!

CLI, Networking, OS

proxmox openvswitch bond

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Recently I had to switch my Proxmox server which was using Linux bonds to using openvswitch. These are my notes:

Install openvswitch:

apt install openvswitch-switch

Configure openvswitch to bond interfaces and use VLANs using https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Open_vSwitch as an example:

allow-vmbr0 bond0
iface bond0 inet manual
	ovs_bonds enp4s0f0 eno1
	ovs_type OVSBond
	ovs_bridge vmbr0
	ovs_options bond_mode=active-backup

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual

iface enp4s0f0 inet manual

allow-ovs vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet manual
	ovs_type OVSBridge
	ovs_ports bond0 vlan50 vlan10

#Proxmox communication
allow-vmbr0 vlan50
iface vlan50 inet static
  ovs_type OVSIntPort
  ovs_bridge vmbr0
  ovs_options tag=50
  ovs_extra set interface ${IFACE} external-ids:iface-id=$(hostname -s)-${IFACE}-vif
  address 10.0.50.2
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 10.0.50.1

#Storage network
allow-vmbr0 vlan10
iface vlan10 inet static
  ovs_type OVSIntPort
  ovs_bridge vmbr0
  ovs_options tag=10
  ovs_extra set interface ${IFACE} external-ids:iface-id=$(hostname -s)-${IFACE}-vif
  address 192.168.10.2
  netmask 255.255.255.0

List active interface:

OPENVSWITCH – Playing with Bonding on Openvswitch

ovs-appctl bond/show bond0

Update 3/14/2020

I realized that openvswitch won’t fail back over to the original slave once it comes back online. I couldn’t for the life of me find the equivalent of bond-primary syntax for openvswitch; however I did find this command:

ovs-appctl list-commands

which reveals this command:

bond/set-active-slave port slave

So you can manually fallback using this command:

ovs-appctl bond/set-active-slave bond0 enp4s0f1

CLI, OS

chroot into encrypted drive

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I foolishly went browsing in my EFI partition on my Ubuntu (Elementary OS) laptop and decided to delete the Ubuntu folder. This made my laptop unbootable. This was my procedure to bring it back to life:

Boot into Ubuntu Live CD / USB environment

Decrypt LUKS encrypted drive (https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2015/11/16/how-to-mount-encrypted-lvm-logical-volume/)

sudo fdisk -l
#Determine encrypted partition is /dev/nvme0n1p3 because it's the largest
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p3 encrypted_device
sudo vgchange -ay

Mount encrypted drive & chroot (https://askubuntu.com/questions/831216/how-can-i-reinstall-grub-to-the-efi-partition)

sudo mount /dev/elementary-vg/root /mnt
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/boot/
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo grub-install
update-grub  

#end chroot & unmount
exit
cd
for i in /mnt/dev/pts /mnt/dev  /mnt/proc /mnt/sys /mnt/run /mnt/boot/efi /mnt/boot /mnt; do sudo umount $i;  done
CLI, OS

use zdb to remove pesky device from zfs pool

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I had the following problem with a device in my pool:

config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        storage                                         DEGRADED     0     0     0
          mirror-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            WORKING_DISK_1  ONLINE       0     0     0
            WORKING_DISK_2    ONLINE       0   0     0
          mirror-1                                      DEGRADED     0     0     0
            WORKING_DISK_3  ONLINE       0     0     0
            replacing-1                                 DEGRADED     0     0     0
              PROBLEM_DISK  FAULTED      6     1     0  too many errors

However when I tried to replace the drive I got this message:

no such device in pool

I found here that you can use zdb to obtain the GUID of the problem device and replace it that way:

root@nas:~# zdb -l PROBLEM_DISK
failed to unpack label 0
------------------------------------
LABEL 1
------------------------------------
    version: 5000
    name: 'storage'
    state: 0
    txg: 5675107
    pool_guid: 8785893899843624400
    errata: 0
    hostname: 'nas'
    top_guid: 9425730683443378041
    guid: 3449631978925631053
    vdev_children: 2
    vdev_tree:
        type: 'mirror'
        id: 1
        guid: 9425730683443378041
        metaslab_array: 41
        metaslab_shift: 35
        ashift: 12
        asize: 4000782221312
        is_log: 0
        create_txg: 4
        children[0]:
            type: 'disk'
            id: 0
            guid: 17168510556101954329
            path: 'WORKING_DISK_3'
            devid: 'WORKING_DISK_3_ID'
            phys_path: 'pci-0000:00:1f.2-ata-2'
            whole_disk: 1
            DTL: 14700
            create_txg: 4
        children[1]:
            type: 'disk'
            id: 1
    ----->  guid: 3449631978925631053
            path: 'PROBLEM_DISK'
            devid: 'PROBLEM_DISK_ID'
            phys_path: 'pci-0000:00:1f.2-ata-4'
            whole_disk: 1
            DTL: 14699
            create_txg: 4
    features_for_read:
        com.delphix:hole_birth
        com.delphix:embedded_data
    labels = 1 2 3

I used the guid of the problem disk, and all was well:

zpool replace storage 3449631978925631053 NEW_WORKING_DISK

worked instead of complaining the device I was trying to replace didn’t exist.

CLI, Networking

Add static route in CentOS7

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I recently began a project of segmenting my LAN into various VLANs. One issue that cropped up had me banging my head against the wall for days. I had a particular VM that would use OpenVPN to a private VPN provider. I had that same system sending things to a file share via transmission-daemon.

Pre-subnet move everything worked, but once I moved my file server to a different subnet suddenly this VM could not access it while on the VPN. Transmission would hang for some time before finally saying

transmission-daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

The problem was since my file server was on a different subnet, it was trying to route traffic to it via the default gateway, which in this case was the VPN provider. I had to add a specific route to tell the server to use my LAN network instead of the VPN network in order to restore connectivity to the file server (thanks to this site for the primer.)

I had to create a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 and give it the following line:

192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

This instructed my VM to get to the 192.168.2 network via the 192.168.1.1 gateway on eth0. Restart the network service (or reboot) and success!