Category Archives: UNIX/Linux

Arch Linux: pacman – error “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges”
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30 May 2022

During system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I got internet disruption, and on the next upgrade I got the error from pacman. It sounds like “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume“: [simterm] … ==> Retrieving sources… -> Downloading clightd-5.6.tar.gz… ** Resuming transfer from byte position 12288 % Total % Received % Xferd… Read More »

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SSH: the “Too many authentication failures” error and its solution
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19 March 2022

During an SSH connection, I started getting the “Too many authentication failures” error message from a remote host. The error, and its cause Actually, the root cause is simple: during establishing a new SSH connection, the local ssh-client first tries to use keys, that are loaded by the local ssh-agent, and only after that will… Read More »

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Windows: Windows Subsystem for Linux and Ubuntu Linux installation
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14 March 2021

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a Windows subsystem that helps to run various Linux distribution directly from the Windows OS. WSL version 2 which is the default version now uses the Hyper-V virtualization under the hood to install and run Linux and share files and devices between both systems. Windows Subsystem for Linux To… Read More »

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Linux: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) and Cyrillic symbols
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4 February 2021

Locales is a set of environment variables that are used to determine how to display data and time (for example, first of the week), symbols encoding (for example, how to display cyrillic symbols), default files order when one executing the ls command, and so on. Those variables are: LANG: Determines the default locale in the… Read More »

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Linux: connect Bluetooth headset with bluetoothctl and Blueman
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2 February 2021

Recently, I bought a Sony WH-1000XM3 headset. In general, they are great but need to connect them to my laptop with Arch Linux. The documentation about Bluetooth on Arch Linux can be found here>>> and here>>>: Installation Install necessary packages: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils [/simterm] Check kernel’s module: [simterm] $ lsmod |… Read More »

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Linux: LEMP set up – NGINX, PHP, MySQL, SSL, monitoring, logs, and a WordPress blog migration
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6 November 2020

Finally got time to migrate the RTFM.CO.UA blog to a new server with Debian 10. This time manually, without any automation will set up a LEMP stack Wrote a similar at 2016 – Debian: установка LEMP — NGINX + PHP-FPM + MariaDB (Rus), but in time the post is more complete of the process and… Read More »

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Kubernetes: Service, load balancing, kube-proxy, and iptables
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1 November 2020

One day I wondered – how is load balancing between pods is working in Kubernetes? I.e. – we have an external Load Balancer. Then a Service. And behind it – Pods. What happens when we are receiving a network packet from the world, and we have a few pods – how the traffic will be… Read More »

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Slack: Cannot read property ‘appTeams’ of undefined
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23 September 2020

I have Slack desktop running on Arch Linux. It was installed from AUR and usually works fine. But today after rebooting my laptop Slack won’t start again sying it has the ‘appTeams’ property error: [simterm] $ slack Initializing local storage instance at path: /home/setevoy/.config/Slack/local-settings.json Failed to get path for key, this may be expected: /home/setevoy/.config/autostart… Read More »

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