Category Archives: Troubleshooting

Various problems solutions

Arch Linux: installation, troubleshooting and playing EVE Online
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4 March 2019

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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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Linux: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1108:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
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28 February 2019

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 »

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Viber: no connection – qt.network.ssl: Incompatible version of OpenSSL
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27 February 2019

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 »

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Arch Linux: installing with EFI and Windows dual-boot
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24 February 2019

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 »

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Arch Linux: grub-mkconfig hangs on the /boot/grub/grub.cfg config generation
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23 February 2019

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 »

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Viber: Linux – Qt WebEngine resources not found
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20 February 2019

After latest packages upgrade on my Arch Linux workstation – Viber stopped working. Found a few solutions, but the only one really solved the issue. The errors during Viber start looks like next: [simterm] $ viber Qt WebEngine ICU data not found at /opt/viber/resources. Trying parent directory… Qt WebEngine resources not found at /opt/viber/resources. Trying… Read More »

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Chromium: Youtube error 400
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19 February 2019

In the Chromium browser (and not only the one I believe) sometimes the 400 error can happen. There are two solutions: first, most simple – just to clear all data via Settings => Clear browsing data. The second one has googled on Reddit here>>> with a hint that the error appears because of the The Great Suspender plugin… Read More »

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