Systemd Service Hang
Why and when do systemd services hang indefinitely
Posted on April 22, 2022
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Finally, TIL, what can all be the reason for systemd services to hang indefinitely. The internet is flooded with numerous reports on this topic but no clear answers. So no more uselessly marked workarounds like: systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl-daemon-reexec for this scenario.
The scene would be something along the lines of:
rrs 6467 0.0 0.0 23088 15852 pts/1 Ss 12:53 0:00 | | \_ /bin/bash rrs 11512 0.0 0.0 14876 4608 pts/1 S+ 13:18 0:00 | | | \_ systemctl restart snapper-timeline.
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Human Society
My experiences with people
Posted on October 3, 2021
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| 145 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
In my past, I’ve had experiences that have had me thinking. My experiences have been mostly in the South Asian Indian Sub-Continent, so may not be fair to generalize it.
Help with finding a job: I’ve learnt many times, that when people reach out asking for help, say, for helping them with finding a job; it isn’t about you making a recommendation/referral for them. It, instead, implies that you are indirectly being asked to find and arrange them a job.
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Kget Goodness
Dear Google - KISS
Posted on May 24, 2021
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| 236 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Why is it so hard to have a proper download manager in today’s day ? We had it in the previous decade. Or do tech giants self-proclaim that the world lives only in their cloud.
At one point, there used to be great download managers for all major web browsers, either in-built, or external. Then came the latest trend with Chrome and Firefox, where they make it difficult to have an external download manager work proper.
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Indian Economy
Posted on April 21, 2017
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| 789 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
This has gotten me finally ask the question
All this time since my childhood, I grew up reading, hearing and watching that the core economy of India is Agriculture. And that it needs the highest bracket in the budgets of the country. It still applies today. Every budget has special waivers for the agriculture sector, typically in hundreds of thousands of crores in India Rupees. The most recent to mention is INR 27420 Crores waived off for just a single state (Uttar Pradesh), as was promised by the winning party during their campaign.
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Fixing Hardware Bugs
Posted on April 4, 2017
| 9 minutes
| 1709 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Bugs can be annoying. Especially the ones that crash or hang and do not have a root cause. A good example of such annoyance can be kernel bugs, where a faulty hardware/device driver hinders the kernel’s suspend/resume process. Because, as a user, while in the middle of your work, you suspend your machine hoping to resume your work, back when at your destination. But, during suspend, or during resume, randomly the bug triggers leaving you with no choice but a hardware reset.
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Google Take Action - Encryption
Posted on September 12, 2015
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
So I got an email yesterday from Google’s Jess Hemerly, talking about how they care about encryption
To quote a small snippet of the email:
We use locks to keep our homes and our possessions safe offline. But how can we protect our digital things, like photos on a smartphone or email traveling across the web? **[The answer is encryption.](https://takeaction.withgoogle.com/page/m/1439db80/19cdc98/22666ed/3ed584ff/875135400/VEsE/ "http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2FGoogleTakeAction%2Fvideos%2Fvb%2E924932914232399%2F939211039471253%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_source=google&utm_content=2+-+The+answer+is+encryption&utm_campaign=20150910encryption1pm&source=20150910encryption1pm")** To change, it has to start from home. That means, add encryption support to Gmail.
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Citizen
Posted on February 18, 2011
(Last modified on January 31, 2013)
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| 232 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
What is a Good Citizen?
These are my observations in an urban city of a developing country. One unanimous comment that I often hear is Traffic. That that how bad it is, no rules, pathetic roads and so on…… The government is to blame for this unplanned growth that has been causing chaos. And then there ’s no effective system to raise, track and execute Tickets.
All these might be very facts based arguments if thrown out in the wild.
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Icedove
Posted on November 7, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
| 5 minutes
| 919 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
My recent experience with Mozilla ThuderBird, IceDove.
With KDE 4.x, the KDE team took a radical step of ripping apart most of the stuff and rethinking many of the designs. Quite a bold move. Many people appreciated KDE’s efforts to start afresh while others moved away from KDE. For some reasons, I decided to stick to KDE. Maybe it was because of the awesome flexibility KDE provided provides to customize the DE to one’s personal taste.
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Fuck you Sony!
Posted on June 6, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
| 1 minutes
| 54 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
First you go unethical by forcing users (stating security concerns) to upgrade
to a newer firmware. And then, you don’t even do a good QA on the firmware you
release. It clearly looks you were in a hurry to strip off the “Other OS”
feature.
I lost all my gameplay in the firmware upgrade.
The 'F' Word
Posted on June 1, 2010
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
| 2 minutes
| 325 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
The blog entry is about the F word.
What the fuck? You don’t know what the F word is. Sigh!!!
Mea Culpa! Not your fault. It is quite offensive, no? More offensive than BC, MC, BsdK, LkB ?These are some of the usual terms used in our local derived languages in all its locally derived richness.
The word Fuck, many times, either from people with authority (HR) or the receiver, is termed and reacted to as a very offensive term.
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