CentOS is out of date – yum upgrade is failing – Fixes for yum update and yum upgrade
CentOS 7 Is Broken for Upgrade In the last few year RedHat destroyed CentOS 7. Now we’ve moved on to Debian, Ubuntu, and Alma Linux.
Operating Systems
Upgrading Virtualmin on CentOS 7.9 to AlmaLinux using ELevate
Question Is it possible to ELevate out of the hole called CentOS 7.x when running Virtualmin? In this article, we’ll try. Start with reading the
Ubuntu Unattended Upgrades causes MySQL to restart
This morning an Ubuntu Forge server had some MySQL exceptions on a client website. Flare and email errors came it. As it turns out, unattended
How to upgrade ARM64 Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04
I love ARM64. It’s low power highly efficient computing. Additionally one of my major workloads, namely Webmin, works on ARM64. Ubuntu has ARM64. There is
yum update on AlmalLinux WHM server fails with thread died, dbenv->failchk
On a perfectly stable AlmaLinux server you suddenly get the following error: # yum update error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 3960860/140378867591040 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in
How to create your own ARM64 Debian
Use Debian on UTM to create another Debian. Steps sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential debootstrap live-build Then sudo debootstrap stable vdh http://deb.debian.org/debian Then
Webmin on CentOS 7.9 fails to update with DB_RUNRECOVERY
On an older system with CentOS 7.9, Webmin might fail to update: Failed to upgrade from www.webmin.com : RPM signature verification failed : error: rpmdb:
RDP stops working – grace period issues – then 120 days later – no remote desktop license servers available to provide a license
TL;DR? Delete $registryPath = “HKLM:\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod” Restart Remote Desk Services which will also restart Remote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector RDP essentially has three modes:
How to reset CentOS 7 based VM’s root password on a KVM system
Steps: Reboot. You should see the menu with CentOS 7 and have a few split seconds to press e for edit. Scroll down, you’ll have
Can’t update Chrome on Linux Mint – waiting for mint-refresh-ca to exit
If you get this message whilst trying to update or install a new version of Chrome on Linux Mint: Can’t do updates -Waiting for mint-refresh-ca