Questions tagged [alpine-linux]
Alpine Linux is a distribution for small, secure systems, based on busybox and musl
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Alpine linux failed kernel upgrade and unresponsive keyboard in recovery shell
I tried to upgrade my alpine linux kernel version from linux-lts to linux-stable because support for a device I am installing was added in a newer kernel version. I changed the apk repositories from ...
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Why would an alpine docker container resolve an IP with getent and not ping or in python?
I've run into a really weird issue while switching a docker build from a debian base image to an alpine base (FROM python:3.12-slim-bookwork, to FROM python:3.13-alpine). I suddenly get very weird DNS ...
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unable to select packages: breaks iotop, satisfies iotop ... huh?
I'm using Alpine Linux 3.18 and I'm trying to install iotop. # apk add iotop ERROR: unable to select packages: python3-3.11.12-r1: breaks: iotop-0.6-r13[python3~3.12] satisfies: iotop-0.6-...
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job started by BusyBox crond doesn't complete
I need a script to run daily in an Alpine docker container. I have set it up as follows: copy the script to /etc/periodic/daily start the crond daemon in the container's ENTRYPOINT script: /usr/sbin/...
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cloud-init tailscale setup fails due to missing /dev/net/tun
I want to provision a VM in proxmox with cloud-init, such that tailscale will be set up and running on first boot. The image I use is alpine 3.22.1 (nocloud_alpine-3.22.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0....
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Replicating "world" (set of installed packages) on another Alpine Linux system
When using Alpine Linux normally, it's easy to install a set of packages and then just transfer the /etc/apk/world file over to another system (followed by apk fix on the other system) to ensure that ...
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Can't use distrobox due to permission error. Podman behaves weirdly
Prerequisites Alpine Linux Edge ~ $ podman --version podman version 5.5.2 ~ $ distrobox --version distrobox: 1.8.1.2 ~ $ mount|grep ^cgroup|awk '{print $1}'|uniq cgroup2 I followed the steps in ...
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Alpine linux (LXC) not running cron jobs
I have been trying for a long to make the crontab entries to run, but it doesn't matter what Time / schedule I enter, it doesn't seem to work. I have confirmed my current time zone with date command &...
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Linux: Podman container Alpine + Wayland + xRDP multiuser + any window compositor
Does there is any possibility to have this combination? Podman container with: Alpine Linux Wayland xRDP with multiuser support any window compositor I have found there are some limitation of ...
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Can not run script with jenkins user
My host is on alpine Linux and I'm running a jenkins agent on docker. I need the jenkins agent to be able to run a script when it does a build that changes the ownership of a few directories. Every ...
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apk update -- WARNING: opening /repo: No such file or directory for existing repo
I'm trying to collect apk packages to local repo to install them later. But apk update says that this repo directory does not exists (what is not true). It does not depend on actual location and is ...
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Custom PAM module and Oauth2 tokens
I have rootless Podman container (system: Alpine Linux) in Podman (master system: Alpine Linux). Container is able to work with xRDP (and sesman) so I am able to connect to it via local user (if ...
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Add only a part of an Alpine package
A coworker recently shelled into an Alpine-based container and ran apk add with some special additional syntax such that only a part of a package was installed. More specifically, he wanted only the ...
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WiFi not working Alpine Linux on DC ROMA Laptop II
I have installed Alpine Linux on my DC ROMA Laptop II successfully and managed since then to get the password to work too. I am piggybacking off of the kernel (and boot stuff) provided by ...
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Why is BusyBox find 10x slower than GNU find?
on a directory containing ~26 million files, GNU Find is 10 times faster than BusyBox find, why? /var/www # time find /var/www -regex .*\.\(php\|js\|json\|html\|htm\|css\) -not -regex \(.*/docroot/...
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