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apt/apt-get commands may use SRV record to find nearby APT service. [1]

However, offical Debian/Ubuntu images cannot utilize such functonality unless /etc/services file is present.

This means APT will download packages from deb.debian.org / archive.ubuntu.com as usual. 🤣

This also means local APT (cache/proxy) servers is bypassed and the build process may be slowed down if the bandwidth is limited.

Workaround

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Description

After Hyper-V host shutdown / reboot, the guest machine had been saved and was resumed into broken state. Block drives were inaccessible and the guest kernel issued I/O errors. Those virtual disk are vhdx files located in BitLocker-enabled hypervisor drives.

The problem is likely that the BitLocker drives is still locked during guest resume, even though autounlock is enabled. This is because SATA drives are removable by default and auto-unlocking removable drives require user login? Since Fast Startup is enabled, windows save its hypervisor state (including guest?) after user logout. When host boot, the hypervisor state is directly resumed from disk. However, those drives containing required vhdx files are not unlocked (no credential available?) so guests run into broken state.

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If the disk image is stored in encrypted volume,

• the image may not be accessible before user login.
• the virtual machine may not start at host boot.
• the virtual machine may not resume successfully.

The fast boot option in power settings enables saving kernel to disk when host shutdown (hiberation?). It seems that the VM memory is also saved and the START and SHUTDOWN actions in Hyper-V configuration is ignored.

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def argmin(seq: Sequence[int]):
    indices = range(len(seq))
    return min(indices, key=seq.__getitem__)

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~# cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 23
model           : 113
model name      : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
stepping        : 0
microcode       : 0xffffffff

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"""
A shared option boilerplate with click.

The top-level do NOT collect enough information about shared options because of how click work.
To achieve the goal, the logic handling shared options must be postponed until shared options in interest are collected.

=====================
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or

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def alphaonly_ordinal(n):
    """
    Use alphabets as ordinal symbols
    
    a = 1, b = 2, ..., z = 26,
    aa = 27, ab = 28, etc
    """
    assert n > 0

    s = ''

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A volume group is unable to activate with the following syslog messages.

Feb  6 15:57:24 hostname kernel: [31991.352746] device-mapper: cache metadata: blocks_are_clean_separate_dirty: cache block 0 is dirty
Feb  6 15:57:24 hostname kernel: [31991.354279] device-mapper: table: 253:47: cache: Cannot enter passthrough mode unless all blocks are clean
Feb  6 15:57:24 hostname kernel: [31991.354291] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Feb  6 15:57:24 hostname lvm[318]:   device-mapper: reload ioctl on  (253:47) failed: Invalid argument

There is something wrong with the dirty bit of the cache.

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from __future__ import annotations

"""
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

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def fn_ifelse(i):
    if i == 0:
        return i
    elif i == 1:
        return i
    elif i == 2:
        return i
    elif i == 3:
        return i
    elif i == 4: