The following error may occur when runnong “yum update” on a new installation of CloudLinux from official ISO : CloudLinux-8 – Gradual Rollout Slot 1 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00 Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘cloudlinux-rollout-1’: – Curl error (58): Problem with the local SSL certificate for https://rollout.cloudlinux.com/slot-1/8/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml [could not load PEM client… Read More »
To put a disk or block device in offline mode and delete it from the system, follow the following steps. This example will assume that we want to remove the 5th disk on the system (connected on controller 0, id 5 and seen as “sdf” and mounted as /mnt/disk5). REMARK: If you were using this… Read More »
Use the following PowerShell command (run as admin) to list and export all installed software on Windows and export to a text file : Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Format-Table –AutoSize > C:\InstalledSoftware.txt This will save the output to C:\InstalledSoftware.txt
If you are used to “noop” kernel scheduler, you might have been stunned to see that it is nowhere to be found on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux, CentOS v8, Debian v10 and above : cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler none [mq-deadline] kyber bfq Well, since then, it has been renamed from “noop” to “none”. So by… Read More »
The following message may show up the first time you SSH login to a X11 forwarding enabled machine : /usr/bin/xauth: file /home/%user/.Xauthority does not exist In order to workaround this issue, just do the following : 1. Create an empty file for the concerned user : touch /home/%user/.Xauthority 2. Change the user/group permission to match… Read More »
By default, ext4 formatted drive will automatically reserve 5% of the allocated space for root user, which reduce the total available space for other users or the application you may want to use that drive for. This 5% ratio make sense on small volumes and purposes like the root (/) filesystem, but does not make… Read More »
You finally nailed all the requirement for Windows upgrade, where the PC Health Check confirms but unfortunately, Windows Update keep telling you “This PC doesn’t meet all the minimum requirements to run Windows 11”. Fortunately for you, this is a cosmetic error and should vanish if you manually force the status with the command below… Read More »
God Mode has been around since Windows 7 and one of the best way to quicky get to “under the hood” features quickly and efficiently. The concept to get into God Mode is the same as it always had – you basically need to create an empty folder with a certain text string to create… Read More »
When trying to load a java “jar” (.jnlp) file from Java Web browser plugin hang at x% and never complete. This is a common issue and require clearing the IcedTea Web cache. 1. Clear your Web browser cache and close it ; 2. Clear the IcedTea cache using the following command : rm -rf ~/.cache/icedtea-web/cache/*… Read More »
You probably noticed a similar output after running “apt-get update” on your Debian Linux based system: N: Repository ‘http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease ‘ changed its ‘Version’ value from ‘10.9’ to ‘10.11’ E: Repository ‘http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease ‘ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’ […] This means that the major and minor version you are… Read More »