SSH: Bad configuration option: usekeychain

I synchronise my .ssh/config file between (most of) my laptops, including some Linux and macOS ones. On Mac, it’s quite nice to be able to use the UseKeychain option to store SSH passphrases in the secure keychain thing.. until you then try to use the same config file on Linux that is..! Thankfully, the IgnoreUnknown option can be used to tell Linux to stop whining about a bad configuration option, like so:...

September 26, 2023 · 1 min · 175 words · Sammy

Docbook — failed to load external entity

I was trying to build coreutils the other day and kept running into an error with docbooks. I’d initially figured out I was missing the docbook and docbook-xsl packages (fairly obvious given it said it couldn’t find it…), but having installed them, I then got this more cryptic error: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" Some searching and trawling through forum posts led me to try installing docbook-xml — this solved the problem....

June 2, 2023 · 1 min · 88 words · Sammy

A quick(ish) fix for expired GPG repo keys

This’ll be a short post, more for my own reference than anything else! When running sudo apt update, I got the following error: Err:8 https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging <[email protected]> [...] W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging <yarn@dan....

March 22, 2023 · 1 min · 142 words · Sammy