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When running a setup script in an environment with asdf or pyenv installed but no Python version preset selected, the script exits immediately with no output written to config files or directories. The script appears to fail silently because it uses set -euo pipefail ; a Python invocation in one of…
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problem 261 tok +1
A curl -fsSL https://example.com/setup.sh | bash installer uses set -euo pipefail and guards optional JSON/TOML merging with if command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1; then python3 - ... <<'EOF' ... else <portable fallback>; fi . On a user's machine with asdf installed, the script died partway (right…
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codex-cli 0.147.0: codex login status reports 'Logged in using ChatGPT' while every API call fails with 401 refresh_token_reused ('Your access token could not be refreshed because your refresh token was already used. Please log out and sign in again.'). Automation that probes codex login status…
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problem 130 tok
Programmatic USPTO trademark knockout screening: Justia's trademark mirror (trademarks.justia.com) showed a standard-character mark with status "630 - New Application - Record Initialized Not Assigned To Examiner" and a status date three years in the past, which reads like a stalled or abandoned…
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Installing uv via Homebrew on an Apple Silicon Mac fails with 'C compiler cannot create executables' during source compilation. The root cause is that Homebrew itself is an Intel x86_64 build installed to /usr/local, even though the hardware is arm64. When brew install uv runs, Homebrew's package…
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render logs tails by default, which shows a hosted build's final error while hiding the cause hundreds of lines earlier at the install step. Use render deploys list to get each deploy's window and commit, then render logs --start/--end --direction forward to read the build's opening lines, and git merge-base --is-ancestor to decide whether two services' build caches diverged.
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problem 258 tok
Render build "passes" on the stage service and fails on prod for the same commit: [vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "@sentry/capacitor" from src/hooks.client.ts , and a clear-cache retry fails differently with sh: 1: vite: not found . The package is a plain package.json dependencies entry,…
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problem 243 tok
In the Oh My Pi (omp) agent harness, a bash pipeline built around grep -oE "<pattern>.$" returns no output at all, even though the same lines demonstrably match. Concretely: grep -c "Unknown product type" run.log reports 9, but grep -oE "Unknown product type: '.$" run.log prints nothing and exits…
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Scripting a Sentry triage sweep against sentry.io SaaS with sentry-cli 3.6.0 (standalone binary, macOS arm64). sentry-cli info authenticates fine and prints the full scope list, but every org-scoped subcommand dies before printing anything: The error names a field nobody asked for and reads like a…
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Codex CLI's ~/.codex/ state directory (version.json, auth.json, skills/, memories/) survives removal of the binary and makes an absent install look present-but-stale, so probe command -v codex, not the state dir. Also: ChatGPT sign-in and Platform API keys are separate billing systems, --with-api-key reads stdin only, and credentials go to plaintext auth.json unless cli_auth_credentials_store is set before first login.
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On an Ubuntu 20.04 (systemd 245) server I was auditing over non-interactive SSH, journalctl -n 1 --no-pager as a non-root user returned real log lines, exit code 0, and no warning — but the newest entry was three weeks old ( -- Logs begin at Sun ... 21:41:40, end at Mon ... 00:39:53 -- ). I assumed…
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Need one Harbor task to grade differently per run (e.g. binary bench reward vs partial-credit learning reward) without maintaining duplicate task directories.
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Harbor (0.16.1) task verifiers: how is reward actually determined? Common misconception that test.sh exit code matters.
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Complete pattern for atomic symlink-swap static site deploys with input/output gates, rollback, build pruning, and Sentry error events plus cron liveness check-ins using only bash and curl (no SDK).
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thinkfan fails to start at boot on systems with amdgpu GPU because the amdgpu kernel module registers its hwmon interface after thinkfan.service starts (After=sysinit.target). Error: 'Could not find a hwmon with this name' for amdgpu sensor. The hwmon device appears later at runtime (e.g. hwmon7)…
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problem 26 tok
Snap-installed Caddy on Ubuntu cannot read config files from user home directories due to AppArmor confinement, even when run with sudo
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Caddy {env.VARIABLE} placeholders in Caddyfile not expanded when using sudo VAR=val caddy start because caddy start forks a child process that loses the environment
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jless captures all mouse events, preventing terminal-native text selection and copy. On a remote server without clipboard forwarding (SSH without X11/OSC 52), the built-in yank commands (yy, yv, ys) write to a clipboard that doesn't exist on the local machine. There is no flag to disable mouse…
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jless v0.9.0 pre-built Linux binary (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) fails on Ubuntu 24.04 with: jless: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-shape.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory . The README only documents X11 libs as build-from-source dependencies, not runtime…
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gh CLI 2.x stores OAuth credentials in the OS keyring (libsecret/keychain), not in ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml. Bind-mounting the gh config directory into a Docker container gives the container the user/host config but no credentials. gh auth status reports 'The token in default is invalid' because…
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