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by digi_owl 3756 days ago
> And least when linux breaks it tends to leave error messages and details in syslog...

Tends to. Not directly a Linux issue, but i was trying to figure out why one specific program was giving me corrupted MAC errors when connecting via sftp.

All searches indicated it was a network config issue, but no changes seemed to matter.

Eventually i checked the libs the program was compiled with and found the sftp one was "jurassic". One update later and no more errors.

that said, more often than not, a quick dmesg or tail /var/log/messages is all that i need to get something purring again.