Category Archives: HOWTO’s

What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus
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7 December 2019

It’s a really long-read post and I wast sure if it’s better to split it into three parts or put them together. On the one side, there are keyrings, from another – D-Bus, and finally, there is a Secret Service. Eventually, I decided to keep them here together as I googled all it in the… Read More: What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus0 (0) »

SSH: RSA keys, and ssh-agent for SSH keys and their passwords management
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1 December 2019

During keyring configuration for the Nextcloud client (see the Linux: the Nextcloud client, qtkeychain and the “The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files” error post) – I decided to clean up the mess in my SSH keys, as I have a lot of them and sometimes authentication became just pain. In general… Read More: SSH: RSA keys, and ssh-agent for SSH keys and their… »

Linux: the Nextcloud client, qtkeychain and the “The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files” error
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1 December 2019

After installing Nextcloud (see the Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt SSL post), on the next day its client ton my Arch Linux asked for authentication. But after I entered my credentials, it returned me the following error: Reading from keychain failed with error: ‘The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by… Read More: Linux: the Nextcloud client, qtkeychain and the “The name org.freedesktop.secrets… »

Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt SSL
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30 November 2019

I while ago I’d tested the Nextcloud, see the NextCloud: installing server on Debian behind NGINX with PHP-FPM and client on Arch Linux post. In general, it looks good, so it’s time to try to run in a production environment and finally migrate from Dropbox to it. Today, let’s spin up a Nextcloud instance using… Read More: Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt… »

Arch Linux: key could not be imported – required key missing from keyring
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25 November 2019

A couple of days ago I got an additional laptop to take it on meetings. As it will be used rarely and not as my main laptop – I decided to install Manjaro Linux there instead of usual Arch Linux – to take a look at the Manjaro itself and because don’t want to spend… Read More: Arch Linux: key could not be imported – required key… »

AWS: RDS Certificate Authority SSL certificate upgrade
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22 November 2019

We started receiving emails from AWS with notifications to update RDS Certificate Authority certificates. It’s time to do it, so let’s start from our Dev, then will repeat on Staging and Production environments. W eare using common AWS RDS MariaDB instances, and the upgrade documentation is available here>>>. The process itself is really simple and… Read More: AWS: RDS Certificate Authority SSL certificate upgrade0 (0) »

Linux: Kazam – record a screencast
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21 November 2019

had to create a short demonstration video for Okta’s support, googled a tiny, quick and simple application – Kazam. On Arch Linux can be install from AUR: [simterm] $ yaourt -S kazam [/simterm] Run it: [simterm] $ kazam [/simterm] I set the Automatic save by default (to the ~/Videos): Now, chose an area to record… Read More: Linux: Kazam – record a screencast0 (0) »

Grafana: Loki – the LogQL’s Prometheus-like counters, aggregation functions and dnsmasq’s requests graphs
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17 November 2019

The last time I configured Loki for logs collecting and monitoring was in February 2019 – almost a year ago, see the Grafana Labs: Loki – logs collecting and monitoring system post, when Loki was in its Beta state. Now we faced with outgoing traffic issues in our Production environments and can’t find who guilty for… Read More: Grafana: Loki – the LogQL’s Prometheus-like counters, aggregation functions and… »

dnsmasq: AWS – “Temporary failure in name resolution”, logs, debug and dnsmasq cache size
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28 October 2019

We are using AWS VPC DNS and sometimes facing with errors like “php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution“. The only advice from AWS tech. support was to configure a local dnsmasq service to act as a local DNS cache, but I did this already year ago and this issue happens once in 1-2-3… Read More: dnsmasq: AWS – “Temporary failure in name resolution”, logs, debug… »

Arch Linux: package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11
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26 October 2019

Didn’t install upgrades for a couple of weeks, today packages to be upgraded became over 100, so I run it. Upgrades on my Arch Linux are installed with a simple alias in the.bashrc: … alias osupgrade=”yaourt -Syua –noconfirm” … (seems eventually it’s time to change it to the alias osupgrade=”yay -Syua –noconfirm”) The error Usually,… Read More: Arch Linux: package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.110 (0) »