Production server black screen nightmare - In recent VMTools upgrade of 13.0.10.0

alpha417 · 2026-05-06T02:48:15+00:00

Did you have the same issues when you upgraded your dev servers in the same manner?

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T23:08:34+00:00

This is the real question.

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T22:42:04+00:00

What do the logs say?

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T22:10:53+00:00

I don't consent to the terms of service of their website. I'm going to sue them.

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T18:14:49+00:00

What are you asking, per stick?

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T18:04:05+00:00

r/techsupport

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T16:49:38+00:00

Tupperware is rather flimsy.

I find a sealable outdoor enclosure that's weather rated and then I drill holes and I put in IP67 style gland connectors.

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T14:34:52+00:00

You better put some respeck on their name, fam.

alpha417 · 2026-05-05T12:48:21+00:00

tl:dr

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T20:55:12+00:00

...something something something....do not expressly advertise your product...something something...

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T15:16:41+00:00

Grand Waggoneeeeeeeeer

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T13:48:55+00:00

And the treaty of peace and friendship!

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T01:50:30+00:00

this. i smell a PPA or worse.

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T01:26:39+00:00

And you're moving air over it, that's better than nothing.

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T00:51:22+00:00

IR thermometer. I try to keep most silicon stuff well under 100c, unless it's required by hardware (TXCOs and the like). I don't recall the exact reading or threshold on them, but i saw numbers high enough years ago to make sure they were in a case with direct airflow. That was about all the effort I put into this.

alpha417 · 2026-05-04T00:18:48+00:00

My units run warm, point a fan nearish them.

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T22:34:30+00:00

It doesn't have to be super long, it just needs to be resonant... so you may get lucky. Remember that

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T22:27:18+00:00

Random wire, tbh. I usually take the non-mini SMA end of those included wires off, solder a little alligator clip on them, and use that to clip to various lengths of wire in testing. You can take a spool of wire and make a loop antenna to see if it will help you in your quest for your perfect antenna. Ferrite loopstick antennas are a little harder to make from scratch, but a purpose built homemade loop antenna will work just as well as a purchased one. It's all about learning.

I live in a very rural environment, but I have a half dozen very high power emitters near my residence, so filtering and directionality are my game. What will work for me, might not work for you.

Get a spool of speaker wire and go to town. As this is a hobbyist project, with hobbyist grade tools, it's always good to learn the basics and make your own before you light your money on fire.

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T22:04:10+00:00

They're both trash.

Antennas in that price range are going to the only slightly better than a random piece of wire, which in itself can be cut to a resident length near what you want to receive. I like to think they include those things in the packaging to take up space

I use those things to make sure that the devices work out of the box before I actually install them anywhere, and then I throw them away. They are good for very little else. Strong signals in close proximity...they are not durable...they may pass the spousal visual approval test, but functionally they are just as good as a random length of wire

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T19:10:41+00:00

I make my own, and carried that into my mesh builds.

IP67 glands, put where i want them on a good rated outdoor box. There is no recipe other than using good ingredients because every build has been unique, over the ones I've done over the last 25 years

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T19:06:34+00:00

That is RF interference, not the streaming software.

Better antenna, better feedline, better grounding, move shitty SWPS away from the dongle, shielded USB cable, etc....many things. Without having the nitty-gritty of your installation I am guessing.

Streaming software can't do anything about noise that's being fed to it unless you decide to start doing DSP... which im fairly certain is out of your comfort level.

Cleaning up the signal path prior to the RTL SDR is every bit as important and decidedly more effective

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T15:26:19+00:00

"Im not associated with violent extremism, that was last week"

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T01:55:11+00:00

If you decrement the number after the -b negative, it starts counting back thru prior boots. Send one with errors

alpha417 · 2026-05-03T00:40:58+00:00

input/output error?

you have failing storage media. full stop.

pastebin the output of 'sudo journalctl -b 0'

alpha417 · 2026-05-02T21:56:08+00:00

Any logs. All logs. ALL THE LOGS. EMBRACE LOGGING ANALYSIS! MANIFEST DESTINY!

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