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  • GitLab not starting after upgrade to 17.8 on ArchLinux

    GitLab introduced 3 new secrets for ActiveRecord encryption. If the secrets are not available in /etc/webapps/gitlab/secrets.yml the gitlab-puma.service is not able to start. Due to the security settings in the gitlab-puma.service it can’t generate the secrets, because the process cannot write files. The secrets need to be generated manually and inserted in the secrets.yml. This… Read more

  • Locale setting in zsh

    I faced the problem that I was using a zsh with my normal user and changed into root, suddenly all escape sequences didn’t work anymore and tools like mc wece unusable. I found out my locale settings didn’t match, root used en_US.utf8, my normal user did not have anything set and used POSIX. To set… Read more

  • systemd with proceeding processes

    To be able to keep processes running which were started from a service unit after the service is stopped, you need to configure the following option in the .service file under the [Service] section: KillMode=process This keeps started processes from the service unit running after the service is stopped. This is not a recommended behavior,… Read more