If you’re new to FreeBSD, you probably have a lot of questions. It’s a sophisticated system that takes time and practice to get familiar with. Fortunately, the experts at A-Team Systems have decades of experience with open-source systems, including FreeBSD! We put together this all-encompassing guide to help you learn the fundamentals of this dynamic… Read more »
SOLVED: linker_load_file: /boot/modules/openzfs.ko – unsupported file type
While trying to recover and upgrade a FreeBSD install we ran into an issue where the kernel loader would hang when loading openzfs.ko: linker_load_file: /boot/modules/openzfs.ko – unsupported file type In this case /boot/loader.conf had auto-importing enabled via this: vfs.zfs.autoimport_disable=0 The default is 1, or disable auto import, since at least 2014 according to this commit.… Read more »
SOLVED: Magento / PHP datefmt_create: no such time zone: ‘UTC’: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR
After upgrading a host’s operating system we ran into this error on a Magento site: There has been an error processing your request datefmt_create: no such time zone: ‘UTC’: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR After much debugging it turned out that the version of ICU inside the PHP-FPM chroot had not been updated. Updating the chroot copies of the… Read more »
SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026
While working with high-load and high-lock contention NFSv4 with FreeBSD as the NFS client you may see this error and have the NFS mount hang: nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026 Make sure your mount parameters do *not* include the intr keyword, per this PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178231. We found this was especially true when using NFS appliances… Read more »
SOLVED: FreeBSD 12.2 ZFS: can only boot from disk, mirror, raidz1, raidz2, and raidz3 vdevs
After upgrading a file server to FreeBSD 12.2 this last week we ran into an interesting issue where the boot loader immediately errored with the following message: ZFS: can only boot from disk, mirror, raidz1, raidz2, and raidz3 vdevs vdev_init_from-nvlist: 5 It seemed to be a similar issue to this: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20319 but not quite the… Read more »
Dedicated and Cloud Hosting Comparison: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vultr, LiquidWeb
A-Team Systems works with dozens of different hosting providers in almost every environment conceivable. In a unique way this broad experience has given our engineers an inherent “gut feeling” on the performance of these providers and how they compare to each other. The primary goal of this benchmark and hosting review is to replace that… Read more »
SSH Pipe Speed 48 KB/sec FreeBSD 12 PF
We recently ran into an issue after upgrading a server from FreeBSD 11.2 to 12.1 where throughput via SSH pipes would crash to 48 KB/sec almost instantly after starting. The odd thing was scp (which uses SSH) was not affected. After ruling out Internet and remote host issues we discovered that the PF rule was… Read more »
FreeBSD Jenkins ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
We recently ran into an issue where the version of Maven under FreeBSD wasn’t updated enough (ports/pkg was behind) for the version of Jenkins in ports/pkg. It produced an error like the following: [INFO] Installing /usr/local/jenkins/workspace/bdd_framework_test/pom.xml to /usr/local/jenkins/.m2/repository/Cucumber_Framework/BDD_SearchLock_Safelist_Final/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/BDD_SearchLock_Safelist_Final-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom [WARNING] Attempt to (de-)serialize anonymous class hudson.maven.reporters.MavenArtifactArchiver$2; see: https://jenkins.io/redirect/serialization-of-anonymous-classes/ java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)… Read more »
PHP-FPM Chroot “security library: invalid algorithm”
After an OS update on one of our client servers we witnessed a perplexing error in their chrooted PHP-FPM environment: security library: invalid algorithm This is produced when the chroot’s libraries were out of sync with the base system, in our case updating usr/lib64 fixed it. A simple fix but took a significant amount of… Read more »
Expand ZFS To Use Larger Disks / Free Space
One of the great features of ZFS is to be able to expand it using new, larger disks — even while it is online. To do this you’ll replace each disk, one by one with a larger disk. After each replacement you’ll rebuild the zpool, and then move on to the next disk. Once all… Read more »