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
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
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
After running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on a Debian Wheezy server package apache2-mpm-prefork:amd64 was removed and package apache2-mpm-itk:amd64 installed instead. After this change in Apache worker, all Virtualhosts sites on the server stopped working, with the following error format in the logs: [Mon Nov 21 09:57:41 2016] [emerg] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: mod_fcgid: can’t … Read more
Useful utilities I like to install after a fresh Debian installation (or on a running system): vim-nox debfoster localepurge htop iotop mytop latencytop sysstat debian-archive-keyring (to avoid apt-get update warnings) apticron (list available updates of installed packages along with the differences in the two versions) hdparm (measure I/O speeds) virt-what (decide if we are running inside … Read more