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Archive for February, 2016

Recovering root passwd

Yes, sometimes you just forget it and probably you already read this on the web, but let’s just be sure about that.

Steps:

  1. in grub screen press ‘e’ to edit
  2. in kernel line, at the and append: init=/bin/bash (to see how your cmdline looks like, just type: cat /proc/cmline)
  3. Done that, wait for it.
  4. mount -o remount,rw /
  5. passwd root
  6. touch ./autorelabel  (For fedora, because SELinux)
  7. and enjoy it.

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If you are an unhappy user of Chromium-browser or chrome you know exactly what I’m talking about. I stopped to count how many time I had to reboot my whole system because these two guys. Yeah, I’m guilty in part. Since I often have 30 tabs in my browser. But, shouldn’t these guys handle with memory resource in a more clever way? Recently I read that the new way Chrome is deal with it is to kill tabs that reach a limit amount of memory, but it’s not a happy end at all.
In my system, Linux Mint (currently), I just lost my counts the times I had to reboot all the system because The Memory Eater.
For now , seems it hasn’t any solution, but I realized these guys have a chrome://memory-redirect tool [1], that show you how many memory are in using. Take a look at the s-shot.
chromium

While any real solution comes, how about to keep an eye in who is the greedy memory guy and close it :).

Resources:

[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/memory-usage-backgrounder

 

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