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Linux UEFI efivars Partition Getting Full Problem

Well, I have been kinda stuck on this for a long time, and the suggested solutions to the exact problem is not resolvable yet. The root cause of the upcoming problem is that I don’t do anything about it. It might start to misbehave, and I can not wait for that to happen. To start […]

Damn! Emacs Regex problem

Well, I have said it my other blogs that I have the habit of building Emacs from source and I did it recently. Bam! While trying to open one of the operations inside it, I encountered an error, explicitly saying… Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher") looking-at("^[ \11]*#\\+begin_?\\([^ \n]+\\)\\(\\([^\n]+\\)\\)?\n\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)+?\\)#\\+end_?\\1[ \11]*$")…

Git and Fzf Match Made In Heaven!

Well, both the tools are amazing to say the least. While combining them gives a stunning effect of productivity. I have written about Fzf1 and Git2 many times on this blog(go and find out). In this specific post, I shall be revealing my little hand-crafted tool for exploring the git repo. But wait, am I […]

Contributing To The Linux Kernel

HEADS UP! This blog is written WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE from/by AI. A human typed all the words;mistakes are all mine. Well,to start with, I am very proud and NOT complacent about the progress I have made in it over the years.All my hand-crafted patches are being accepted in the project. Now, before you point out […]

Linux Firmware Update Send To Upstream

Well, from time to time, we need to update the system firmware for the sake of system stability and usability in a smooth way. And doing so was quite an involved process back in the days. I used to get the damn update from their website and install/flash it by hand( purely sitting on Linux […]

Fedora DNF Toml Files Corruption Problem And Dirty Fix

Bloody hell …..irks….son of a gun has corrupted files stopping the damn OS update…sigh Here is the problem : [root@fedora43 ~]# dnf update Updating and loading repositories: Loading system state TOML file /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/nevras.toml failed (see dnf5-system-state(7)): [error] toml::value::at: key "version" not found --> /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/nevras.toml | 0 | | -- in this table Now,…

Learn Sparse and Smatch For Your Own Sake To Do Better

Well, a stern heads up to make things clear in the very first place, i.e. it is not for everyone to acquire the skill to use these tools, but for the people who are fiddling with the Linux Kernel for their bread and butter’s sake. Clear?? Now, the picture is cleared up,jump into the next […]

Git Is Bloody Good But My Usage Is Very Limited

So, am I handicapped by those limitations? Nope, certainly not. I am using it to the best of my knowledge and, importantly, where it is needed most.No, fancy fluff or over-reaching stuff with it. Here in this post, I will show you a few of those actions with it, which almost becomes part and parcel […]

Debian Way Of Doing Little Things

Alrighto! Here I am gonna show you two little pieces of hand made utility to do something very specific to Debian Linux Operating System1. One: How to show installed packages WITH TIME #!/usr/bin/env bash pkglist() { dpkg-query -W -f='${Package} ${db-fsys:Last-Modified}\n' | sort -k2,2nr | awk '{printf("%-32s %s\n", $1,strftime("%c",$2))}' } pkglist Darn simple! Right? It simply […]

How To Run FreeBSD In A Virtual Machine On Different Linux Distributions

Alright, time to time I have experimented with stuff that is either not practical or has some sort of real value in life. The latest being, attempted to run FreeBSD1 in a virtual machine(via qemu2) sitting on Linux(Various distributions). Oh, I have been running FreeBSD on actual slice(meaning, a physical disk partition) along with other […]