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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In Linux, the hard link, in general, is just the same file that the link refers to. As opposed to the hard link – the symlink is kind of “soft link”. Let’s check the details but first – a few words about inodes as they are the best way to demonstrate the difference. This post… Read More »
Please note – this is absolutely not a complete guide about all MySQL commands usage – but just examples of the most commonly used ones. mysql> at the begin of the line means it’s executed from the MySQL console. Symbols # or $ means it’s executed from the Linux shell. UPD 03.03.2019 This post… 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 »
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 »