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 »
After each new VirtualBox installation – I’m stepping on the same rake again and again and have to go to Google to ask: The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv Attempt to load vboxdrv manually also provides the error: [simterm] $ sudo modprobe vboxdrv… Read More »
After the successful installation of WoT on my new Arch Linux setup (see the World of Tanks: installing and running on Arch Linux post) I decided to “achieve the next milestone” – install EVE Online. On a Google search by the “EVE Online Linux” request, I found the wiki.eveuniversity.org guide and tried to use it… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Have a fresh Arch Linux system setup. After some Viber’s fixes (see the Viber: no connection – qt.network.ssl: Incompatible version of OpenSSL post) – sound system sometimes stops working. It looks like next: run qmmp, press Play and: [simterm] … DecoderMAD: Fixed rate detected DecoderMAD: Total time: 297900 ReplayGain: disabled Dithering: disabled ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1108:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable… Read More »
On a fresh Arch Linux setup – Viber starting, but during authorization – can’t connect to the network. In general – Viber’s desktop version is really limited but anyway it’s better then use it from a cell. Tried to google few times as I didn’t found the error in messages to use exactly in google’s… Read More »
The goal is to set up a new Arch Linux and Windows (just for some games) on my new PC and use dual-boot using GRUB. Disks Currently disks layout is next: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 476.7M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk… Read More »
During new Arch Linux set up grub-mkconfig suddenly hangs on creating new /boot/grub/grub.cfg. No warnings, no errors. Thanks to this>>> googled discussion – it worked for me. So the issue looks like next: [simterm] [root@archiso boot]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg ^C [/simterm] Check the /usr/bin/grub-mkconfig script for every /dev/null redirects: [simterm] [root@archiso boot]# cat /usr/bin/grub-mkconfig… Read More »