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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time

On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same pacman -Syyu the day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back. nmap -Pn -p 22 showed filtered from anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.

Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:

• The encryptssh initcpio hook referencing a /usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rules file that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway.
• PermitRootLogin no in sshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd shows closed, not filtered.
• Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the .network config to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause.
• Stale GRUB stage1 + core.img in the MBR. Arch never re-runs grub-install after a grub package upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered.
• Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.

The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before systemd-journald could flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.

What it almost certainly was

Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with ip=dhcp on the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:

• Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
• New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays filtered.

Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from ip=dhcp toward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"

One line in /etc/default/grub, grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.

Why it matters for anyone running this stack

If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the ip=dhcp shipped by installimage is a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routine pacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.

Tooling

While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (hal) — including hal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existing systemd-networkd .network file:

→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks

Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original /etc/default/grub is backed up to .hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you.

Arch Tip týdne: pacman jako profík

📦 pacman umí mnohem víc než jen instalovat balíčky.
Tady jsou dotazy, které ti pomůžou pochopit, co máš v systému.

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🔍 ZÁKLADNÍ DOTAZY (-Q = QUERY)
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výpis všech nainstalovaných balíčků

pacman -Q

kolik balíčků mám?

pacman -Q | wc -l

jen explicitně nainstalované (bez závislostí)

pacman -Qe

jen závislosti (instalované jako "side effect")

pacman -Qd

balíčky z AUR / mimo oficiální repo

pacman -Qm

balíčky JEN z oficiálních repo

pacman -Qn

osiřelé balíčky (závislosti, které už nikdo nepotřebuje)

pacman -Qtdq

odstranění osiřelých

sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)

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📋 pacman -Qi → INFO O BALÍČKU
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detailní info

pacman -Qi firefox

co uvidíš:

- verze, popis, URL

- licence

- závislosti (Depends On)

- co na něm závisí (Required By)

- volitelné závislosti (Optional Deps)

- velikost, datum instalace

- důvod instalace (Explicitly installed / Dependency)

rozšířené info (přidá Backup Files = konfiguráky chráněné při update)

pacman -Qii firefox

info z repa (i pro nenainstalované)

pacman -Si firefox

jen velikost balíčku

pacman -Qi firefox | grep "Installed Size"

řazení balíčků podle velikosti (potřebuje: pacman -S expac)

expac -H M "%m\t%n" | sort -h | tail -20

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📂 pacman -Ql → SEZNAM SOUBORŮ
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co všechno balíček nainstaloval

pacman -Ql firefox

jen binárky

pacman -Ql firefox | grep '/bin/'

konfigurační soubory balíčku (vše v /etc)

pacman -Ql firefox | grep '^firefox /etc'

počet souborů v balíčku

pacman -Ql firefox | wc -l

soubory nenainstalovaného balíčku (z repa)

nejdřív aktualizuj file database:

sudo pacman -Fy
pacman -Fl firefox

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🔎 pacman -Qo → KDO VLASTNÍ TENTO SOUBOR?
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který balíček nainstaloval daný soubor?

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/firefox

výstup:

/usr/bin/firefox is owned by firefox 123.0-1

najdi balíček podle příkazu v PATH

pacman -Qo $(which nvim)

najdi balíček, kterému patří soubor – i když ho nemáš nainstalovaný

sudo pacman -Fy
pacman -F /usr/bin/htop

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🛠️ pacnew / pacsave – CHRÁNĚNÉ KONFIGURÁKY
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Backup Files = soubory označené v balíčku jako "neredisej moji verzi"

Když přijde update a soubor jsi upravil, pacman vytvoří .pacnew

(nová verze z balíčku) a tvoji verzi nechá být.

seznam backup files konkrétního balíčku

pacman -Qii pacman | awk '/^Backup Files/,/^$/'

najdi všechny .pacnew/.pacsave v systému (čekající na merge)

sudo find /etc ( -name ".pacnew" -o -name ".pacsave" )

interaktivní merge (z pacman-contrib)

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib
sudo pacdiff

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🌳 pactree → STROM ZÁVISLOSTÍ
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instalace (pokud nemáš)

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

co všechno balíček potřebuje (závislosti)

pactree firefox

obrácený strom – kdo závisí NA tomto balíčku

pactree -r glibc

omezení hloubky

pactree -d 1 firefox

jen názvy, bez ozdob

pactree -u firefox

grafický výstup (potřebuje: pacman -S graphviz)

pactree --graph firefox | dot -Tpng > firefox-deps.png

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🔧 BONUS – DALŠÍ UŽITEČNÉ DOTAZY
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hledání balíčku v repech

pacman -Ss firefox

hledání v nainstalovaných

pacman -Qs firefox

poslední full upgrade systému

grep "starting full system upgrade" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -5

co se naposled instalovalo/aktualizovalo

tail -50 /var/log/pacman.log

pretty výpis posledních akcí (expac)

expac --timefmt='%Y-%m-%d %T' '%l\t%n' | sort -r | head -20

změnit důvod instalace (z dependency na explicit)

sudo pacman -D --asexplicit firefox

označit jako závislost (půjde uklidit přes -Rns)

sudo pacman -D --asdeps nějaký-balíček

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💡 TYPICKÝ WORKFLOW
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1. co mi žere místo?

expac -H M "%m\t%n" | sort -h | tail -20

2. co dělá tenhle balíček?

pacman -Qi <balíček>

3. můžu ho smazat? Co na něm závisí?

pactree -r <balíček>

4. odkud se vzal tenhle soubor?

pacman -Qo /cesta/k/souboru

5. úklid

sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)
sudo paccache -rk2

#archlinux #pacman #linux #cli

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeadLikeMe #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

Pac-Man Snack Breaks

Pac-Man will soon have monthly shorts that will play on YT. Animated in 2D by Cartuna. They tell the story as Pac-Man travels to New Pac City. Toons start on May 22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmo68IPryI

#Animation #PacMan #VideoGames #Cartoons #Comedy #Streaming

With Hall Effect thumbsticks, impulse triggers, and two types of glow, bring the spirit of the arcade to your controller with the PAC-MAN Special Edition PowerA Wireless Controller. On sale now: amzn.to/4rxDWx0 #Games #RetroGaming #Xbox #Arcade #PacMan #BandaiNamco #GameDev #GamingSky #PromoSky

With Hall Effect thumbsticks, impulse triggers, and two types of glow, bring the spirit of the arcade to your controller with the PAC-MAN Special Edition PowerA Wireless Controller. On sale now: amzn.to/4rxDWx0 #Games #RetroGaming #Xbox #Arcade #PacMan #BandaiNamco #GameDev #GamingSky #PromoSky

Avui és el vintè aniversari de la publicació a casa nostra de "Namco Museum 50th Anniversary" per "GameCube" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #NamcoMuseum50thAnniversary #PacMan #Galaga #Gamecube #Shooter #Arcade #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming

Avui fa 20 anys que ens arribava "Pac-Man World 3" per "Nintendo DS" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #PacManWorld3 #PacMan #NintendoDs #Plataformes #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

#BandaiNamco reveló que celebrará el aniversario de uno de sus iconos más importantes con #PACMAN Snack Breaks en #YouTube. Es una serie de cortos animados protagonizados por Pac-Man y los cuales comienzan en mayo :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/05/04/pac-man-snack-breaks-cortos-animados/

Pac-Man Is Getting a New Animated Short Series, Here’s the Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/05/pac-man-is-getting-a-new-animated-short-series-heres-the-official-teaser-trailer

#pacman #videogames #gaming

This #PacMan also had a nice bright and clean monitor, and the joystick worked properly. I didn't manage a very high score, though -- I should have memorized my patterns, since as far as I can tell this is an un-tweaked ROM and they would have worked.

#pacman #tinygo #badge

With Hall Effect thumbsticks, impulse triggers, and two types of glow, bring the spirit of the arcade to your controller with the PAC-MAN Special Edition PowerA Wireless Controller. On sale now: amzn.to/4rxDWx0 #Games #RetroGaming #Xbox #Arcade #PacMan #BandaiNamco #GameDev #GamingSky #PromoSky

How to Handle .pacnew Files in Arch Linux

"Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup."

Link: https://linuxiac.com/how-to-handle-pacnew-files-in-arch-linux/

#linkdump #arch #linux #pacman

💡 Tip: vyčisti osiřelé balíčky
sudo pacman -Runs $(pacman -Qdtq)
Zobrazí a smaže balíčky které už nejsou potřeba jako závislosti. Udržuje systém čistý. 🧹
#archlinux #pacman #tip #arch #arch_tip

The Atari 2600 version of Pac Man is an interesting interpretation of the arcade game. :atari:

The maze is completely different, Pac Man has eyes, and instead of eating dots he eats… pencils?

#RetroGaming #PacMan

Picross S Namco Legendary Edition (Switch): COMPLETED!

It’s been a while since I last completed a Picross game, but I’ve actually been playing this one off and on for six months or more. It is, as they always are, more of the same – a polished, Jupiter developed, game of Picross with loads of puzzles.

The difference this time, however, is that it’s Namco themed. Specifically, 8-bit Namco games from the 1980s. Pixel representations of the likes of Dig Dug, The Tower of Druaga, Pac-Man, Rally-X, Mappy, Xevious and several Japanese titles I’ve never heard of, all in Picross puzzle form. Excellent.

Aside from the music. I mean, I love the Mappy theme tune as much as anyone, but the same 8 seconds over it repeating overandoverandoverandover for a 45 minute puzzle? Nah mate, that got turned down fast.