Category Archives: Operating systems

TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux
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22 March 2019

TestRail – Test Case Management Software for QA and Development Teams. Well – that’s all needed as a description) Below – its installation on Debian Linux with NGINX, Let’s Encrypt, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Exim. Project’s homepage – www.gurock.com/testrail Installation official documentation – here>>>. Setup will be on an AWS EC2. LEMP and SSL Login to… Read More: TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux0 (0) »

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Linux: telegram-desktop – no systray icon
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13 March 2019

Have the telegram-desktop installed via pacman on the Arch Linux. After starting – no systray’s icon present and thus can’t see new messages and even can’t exit in a normal way. This issue is not specific for the Arch Linux and happens on any Linux systems. Go to the Google and make search with “telegram linux… Read More: Linux: telegram-desktop – no systray icon0 (0) »

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Linux: LVM – pvcreate Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter.
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9 March 2019

During new Linux set up – suddenly got a weird message. It happen just because of my carelessness and haste. Let’s create new partition: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb4 Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter. [/simterm] Check new partition size: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 476.7M… Read More: Linux: LVM – pvcreate Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter.0… »

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OpenVPN – auto-start on Linux
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8 March 2019

I have an OpenVPN AS server running on EC2 in AWS and the openvnp client on my Arch Linux (см.OpenVPN: настройка OpenVPN Access Server и AWS VPC peering). Need to have it started and connection established after OS start. Will use the systemd, documentation is here>>>, will work with any other Linux-system. Client’s configs have… Read More: OpenVPN – auto-start on Linux0 (0) »

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Arch Linux: Steam installation
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6 March 2019

Got a new PC and want to play games here. World of Tanks already works – check the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux, and now I want to install Steam. It worked with no issues on Ubuntu a few years ago and I could play Civilization V there – so now… Read More: Arch Linux: Steam installation0 (0) »

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Android Studio: adb – INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE
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4 March 2019

Proceeding fighting with our UI auto-tests 🙂 Two previous posts were really useful this time – Android Studio: установка на Linux и работа с Android Virtual Devices and Appium: Android Virtual Device, Original error: Condition unmet after 60159 ms и костыль. In general – tests works fine but sometimes gives me interesting issues. This time… Read More: Android Studio: adb – INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE0 (0) »

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Linux: woeusb – creating Windows USB boot flash drive
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4 March 2019

Well – sometimes have to do a bit weird things… Need to create bootable USB flash drive with WIndows 10 using console on Linux. There are various solutions but today I found the woeusb utility and it works pretty well plus it can format a drive to a necessary filesystem. Intsall on Arch Linux from… Read More: Linux: woeusb – creating Windows USB boot flash drive0 (0) »

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Arch Linux: OpenVPN – resolv.conf is not updated
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2 March 2019

On an Arch Linux setup – local resolv.conf not updated after connection to OpenVPN AS. As far as I know – the problem is specific to Arch Linux and its “child’s” like Manjaro Linux installations. Local openvpn installed via pacman – see the OpenVPN: OpenVPN Access Server set up and AWS VPC peering configuration post for… Read More: Arch Linux: OpenVPN – resolv.conf is not updated0 (0) »

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Linux: systemd-unit files edit, restart on failure and email notifications
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1 March 2019

We have a RabbitMQ service which sometimes can go down. So need to: restart it if is exited with the failure send an email notification Let’s do it via RabbitMQ’s systemd service (though there are various options, e.g. using the monit, check the Monit: мониторинг и перезапуск NGINX post). Will use two options here: RestartSec=: delay… Read More: Linux: systemd-unit files edit, restart on failure and email notifications0… »

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World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux
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25 February 2019

Didn’t think it will work, but it did 🙂 Used guide of the 2017 year from here>>>, and after everything was done – found another one here>>>. Not sure if it will work on the nouveau drivers – I did with nvidia. Enable the Multilib repo. Update packages: [simterm] [setevoy@setevoy-arch-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu [/simterm]… Read More: World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux0 (0) »

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