Category Archives: Operating Systems

Windows : Symantec Ghost Application error 437

Getting this error while attempting to restore a Symantec Ghost image from DVD (or any optical media) under WinPE? Ghost Error Application error 437 cannot read from file The main causes are the following : – Image integrity check failed due to corrupted image and/or drive read error – Source image was created using compression… Read More »

Linux : Could not get shadow information for user

Having problems connecting to your server with SSH and get this error messages in the system logs? sshd[0000]: input_userauth_request: invalid user <user> sshd[0000]: error: Could not get shadow information for <user> sshd[0000]: Failed password for invalid user <user> from 0.0.0.0 port 00000 ssh2 This mean you are missing “UsePAM” directive and/or the directive is set… Read More »

Mac : MacPorts selfupdate failed on OSX Mavericks

Upgraded to Mac OSX Mavericks lately? Well, you’ll need to update MacPorts once you’re done to keep it working. To update MacPorts, just do the following command in Terminal : sudo port -v selfupdate The terminal will keep working running a bunch of scripts by itself, then you end up with the following output error… Read More »

Linux : How to reallocate swap into memory

Use the following script if you want to reallocate the content of your swap area back to RAM. Before doing this, make sure you have enough free memory. #!/bin/bash echo -e “\nOutput of free before:” free swapoff -a ; swapon -a echo -e “\nOutput of free after:” free echo “”

Linux : Call Trace security_ops_task_setrlimit

Did you noticed the following message booting up CentOS/RHEL 5.9? You need to implement a remote task_setrlimit in your security module and call it directly from this functionWARNING: at security/security.c:51 security_ops_task_setrlimit() Call Trace: [<ffffffff8012f117>] security_ops_task_setrlimit+0x87/0x96 [<ffffffff8009dcd6>] do_prlimit+0xd7/0x1d2 [<ffffffff8009ee1f>] sys_setrlimit+0x36/0x43 [<ffffffff8005d29e>] tracesys+0xd5/0xdf According to RedHat, this message is harmless and can be safely ignored unless you’re defining… Read More »

Linux : How to show boot progress on CentOS6/RHEL6

Since CentOS6/RHEL6, boot messages are hidden behind a splash screen that display a progress bar. To show the boot progression, simply press the “arrow up“ key. To make the change permanently, edit the Grub configuration file : /boot/grub/grub.conf And remove the following : rhgb quiet