So, based on everything I’ve found, you can’t. In my opinion this is a shortcoming of using netplan versus the old way of simply using ifupand ifdown. This is in many ways super frustrating as it’s like the developers took the stance of “why on would anyone ever want to Read more…
This is a simple problem in the end that cost me serious troubleshooting time. Hopefully you found this article and it can save you some of what I lost. You may encounter a problem when running a script on the Linux CLI that results in error: bad substitution and a Read more…
Every now and then it can be necessary to disable certain security features temporarily in order to achieve a goal. In my case, it was for the use of a web script that didn’t use HTTPS for composer that I did not have the time to update. Composer allows you Read more…
UPDATE 20 SEP 2020: As it goes, this remains a problem as autoremove is simply not a well rounded solution for this. Yes, autoremove will remove old kernels, but it also removes other software and libraries that can still be in use. It doesn’t seem to perform all the proper Read more…
When attempting to identify certain aspects of events on a system the Event Viewer MMC snap-in may not make the cut. Fortunately there are other ways to search events that are a little more robust than what the filtering mechanism in Event Viewer provides. Step in PowerShell (as seems to Read more…
After several more hours of searching for, and work on, solutions for this problem I’ve found one that seems to work fairly consistently. This mess of a dumpster fire is burning slightly lower this fine day. I would strongly recommend trying this method first since it seems to have consistent Read more…
Dumpster fire fails to adequately sum up the mess of this udev/systemd bug in the Debian package tree. This article provides a possible solution to a non-booting system post system upgrade.