ramblings, notes, stuff to remember
I downgraded Anydesk in my Debian 12 installation from the latest 7.x version to 6.0.1, and I got a dependency error on the libpangox library and Anydesk 6.0.1 did not start properly. /usr/bin/anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The quick fix (if there are … Read more
While trying to install Parsec application in Debian 12, I came across the following error: root@x220:~# dpkg -i /home/panos/Downloads/parsec-linux.deb (Reading database … 347864 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/Downloads/parsec-linux.deb … Unpacking parsec (150-91a) over (150-91a) … dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of parsec: parsec depends on libjpeg8; however: Package libjpeg8 is not … Read more
Configuration on the hostAdd a virtual serial port to the VM: qm set -serial0 socket or echo “serial0: socket” >> /etc/pve/qemu-server/.conf Configuration on the guest Enable and start serial console on the guest VM: systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.servicesystemctl start serial-getty@ttyS0.service Instruct grub2 to send the boot messages on the serial port by editing /etc/default/grub and adding: … Read more
It’s been a long time since I last posted in the blog. For better or worse, life happened. Hopefully I’ll get around to posting again, and hopefully more often this time. I’ve got a pile of virtual post-it notes related to computer stuff that I should write down for better archiving and posterity. Because even … Read more
When sending mail through the squirrelmail webmail interface and using the installation defaults on Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie, Greek characters do not appear properly in the destination inbox. This has to do with the default squirrelmail encoding which is set to iso-8859-1 . To solve this, I had to perform the following: View the … Read more
After the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch, GRUB started throwing the following error: error: no symbol table. … Press any key to continue… If I pressed any key or didn’t press anything at all, system would boot normally after a few seconds. Still, the error message bothered me, so I fixed it by using the … Read more
After upgrading my laptop from Jessie 8.8 to Debian 9 Stretch on the 19th of June, 2017, PAC Manager stopped working. Specifically, it would start, but hanged when I tried to open a connection, either ssh or local. After searching around, I found the following post which seems to have given the solution: https://sourceforge.net/p/pacmanager/bugs/293/ The … Read more
I use nslookup daily, and I find the fact that I can’t access previous commands or the command history inside nslookup command prompt frustrating to say the least. Looking for a solution, I stumbled across an apple.stackexchange.com question and answer and solved the annoyance. In Debian, do the following (as root, or with sudo): apt-get … Read more
Install pwgen package: apt-get install pwgen Then run the following command to generate one password of length 15 and include at least one capital letter, one number and one special character: pwgen -1 -c -n -y 15 Update (2018-09-23): For even more secure passwords, you should type the command as follows: pwgen -1 -c -n … Read more
I was getting some warnings in one machine’s Apache 2 web server error log regarding mod_python, see below: [Wed Jan 25 01:29:11.717727 2017] [:error] [pid 4389] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected ‘2.7.5+’, found ‘2.7.9’. [Wed Jan 25 01:29:11.717856 2017] [:error] [pid 4389] python_init: Python executable found ‘/usr/bin/python’. [Wed Jan 25 01:29:11.717864 2017] [:error] [pid 4389] … Read more