Linux Mint Troubleshooting Tips
How to change the computer’s name First check it so: hostnamectl Then fix it so: hostnamectl set-hostname ‘newname’ This setting will persist on reboots unlike
Operating Systems
Using systemctl to see which services are automatically starting up (PHP-FPM issue)
Use systemctl list-unit-files –type=service –state=enabled to get a list of services that will automatically start. E.g.: user@server:~$ systemctl list-unit-files –type=service –state=enabled UNIT FILE STATE VENDOR
grub> primer
Today I attempted a leapp upgrade of a CentOS 7 Virtualmin box to AlmaLinux 8. This failed and I saw the grub> menu. Instead of
Adventures in leapp upgrade – upgrading a CentOS 7 Virtualmin server to AlmaLinux 9
Notes on trying to upgrade an old CentOS 7 Virtualmin server using leapp . The point is to keep Virtualmin going and end up with
ssh-copy-id fails with Permission Denied due to immutable attribute
You might not be able to copy your SSH key. The problems is immutable attributes as below: ~ ssh-copy-id -p30022 [email protected] /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of
CentOS is out of date – fix can be sort of fixed for yum update and yum upgrade
CentOS 7 broke. Redhat destroyed it further. Now we’ve moved on to Debian, Ubuntu (that we always had), and Alma Linux. These are the clues:
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