So you're trying to browse to a properly configured Samba share but you get this error:

Unable to mount location
Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection timed out
 

If your config is right, it can be due to a protocol miss-match where your client has not enabled SMB3 but by default the other side (server) has enabled it.

You can test this out to see with the smbclient tool

smbclient -L YourIP
protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
 

If you got the above error it is likely a protocol error that can be fixed and solved like this:

Just edit your smb.conf file on the client side

#add this to globals in /etc/samba/smb.conf
client max protocol = smb3
 

After that you should be able to view the share successfully.

This is a common issue when e-mailing or uploading video files.

One note is that you should make the filesize you choose below about 20% smaller than you need.  For example I took a 219MB video and told it to be 20M.  The resulting file was still about 21.9M but it was OK when I said 18M and was barely below the 20M size.

ffmpeg is our friend here, just use this command:

1. Change the -fs 100M to the size you want eg. 20M, 500M
2. Change the -i TheLargeVideo.mp4 to the name of your video
3. Change the TheLargeVideo-resize.mp4

ffmpeg -i TheLargeVideo.mp4 -fs 100M TheLargeVideo-resize.mp4

1.) gg and dG

The easiest way is to type "gg" to bring yourself to the first line of the file and the "dG" clears the contents.

2.) :1,$d

Hit Escape and colon and then type: 1,$d and all contents / lines of the file will be cleared.

If you are using the stock 5.4 kernel this is normal but I can confirm it is fixed in newer 5.8 kernels.

To fix it just install the 5.8 kernel and reboot:

sudo apt install linux-headers-5.8.0-64-generic linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-64-generic linux-image-5.8.0-64-generic

Usually if you get the grub boot loader and it doesn't show any boot options, it's because grub was not installed correctly and/or the partition that it is supposed to be on has changed or does not exist.  It can also happen if you install Linux to one drive, but the boot loader to another by accident, whether EFI or MBR/Legacy mode.

You can normally fix it by chrooting into your root partition:

#become root

sudo su

#make a directory called target where we will mount your root partition
mkdir /target

#mount /dev/sda3 to target (change to match your root partition)
mount /dev/sda3 /target

#if you are using EFI mount your EFI partition to /target/boot/efi (assume here it is /dev/sda1)
mount /dev/sda1 /target/boot/efi


#we need to mount dev proc and sys for the chroot to work like it was booted normally so we can fix it

for mount in dev proc sys; do
  mount -o bind /$mount /target/$mount
done


#now chroot
chroot /target

#run grub install on the drive that you installed Linux to
grub-install /dev/sda

Just a quick note and warning is that if you are testing to see if EFI PXE booting works on a VM, MAKE SURE it actually works.  For example I initially tested using my Distro's QEMU 2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.46 and ovmf BIOS firmware (OVMF supports EFI). However, I found on old versions of QEMU (like 2.5), EFI booting with GRUB NEVER works so it may appear that you have made a mistake when everything is fine when you boot a physical machine.  But it does work fine with QEMU 4.2.0 that I compiled.

So if you've followed this guide and verified your firewall is not blocking things, that your tftp server IP is correct, and your DHCP is configured correctly, and your tftp server is configured correctly, then consider trying a physical machine or newer version of whatever emulation you are using to test via VM.

The only way I could get this to work was to use my own compiled grub 2.04 (some previous versions of grub are said to be buggy and don't work with EFI apparently).

Step 1 - Compile grub 2.04 and create your EFI image to be served from your tftp server

Download grub 2.04 source: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.02.tar.gz

Make sure you run ./configure --with-platform=efi otherwise there will be no EFI built.

Enter your compiled grub 2.04 directory and execute this:

./grub-mkimage -d grub-core --format=x86_64-efi -p "/" --output=BOOTx64.EFI  `ls grub-core | sed -n 's/.mod$//gp'`
 

We use our own grub 2.04 compiled mkimage: ./grub-mkimage

We tell it to make a 64-bit EFI grub2 boot image: --format=x86_64-efi

We tell it where to look for the grub.cfg file which we declare to be the root of the tftp server: -p "/"

*eg if your tftp is in /tftpboot then grub.cfg is /tftpboot/grub.cfg, or if it's /srv/tftp then it will search for grub.cfg in /srv/tftp/grub.cfg

We declare the output file to be called "BOOTx64.EFI" but in theory it could be output anywhere and called anything: --output=BOOTx64.EFI

We compile ALL grub modules into the .EFI image so there is no issues with grub trying to find or load modules in x86_64-efi directory: `ls grub-core | sed -n 's/.mod$//gp'`

grub-core is relative to your manually compiled grub2.04 directory and the command finds all grub modules (by searching for anything ending in .mod) and including them.  There is little penalty for doing this as a normal tftp and efi module include would make an image about 232K and including all modules makes it about 2.5M.

Step 2 - Install and configure your tftpd-hpa server

apt install tftpd-hpa

If you install the tftpd-hpa server in a newer Debian, the default serving directory is /srv/tftp. 

You can edit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa and restart the service to change this TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"

I recommend editing the above config file to add -v to the options so you can see a log in /var/log/daemon.log of what if any files are being requested for troubleshooting purposes: TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure -v"
 

Copy the BOOTx64.EFI created in the previous step to /srv/tftp

*do not use a pre-existing one from your distro or ISO as it will probably NOT work and only give you the plain grub screen without any menu)

Create grub.cfg in /srv/tftp

Example (modify to suite your needs/distro you are serving):

if loadfont /boot/grub/font.pf2 ; then
        set gfxmode=auto
        insmod efi_gop
        insmod efi_uga
        insmod gfxterm
        terminal_output gfxterm
fi

set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray

menuentry "Start Linux Mint 20.1 MATE 64-bit" --class linuxmint {
        set gfxpayload=keep
        linux   images/mint20/casper/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.250:/srv/tftp/images/mint20
        initrd  images/mint20/casper/initrd.lz
}
 

Step 3- Now you need to configure your DHCP server to tell clients where to find your tftp server:

Linux ISC DHCP server/dhcpd:

I assume your tftp server is 10.10.10.200 in this example and that your IP range for clients is the same /24

Be sure to change the IPs + ranges to match your needs. 

next-server= the IP of your tftp server

vi /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

allow booting;
allow bootp;
option option-128 code 128 = string;
option option-129 code 129 = text;
#filename "/pxelinux.0";
#filename "pxelinux.0";
filename "BOOTx64.EFI";
option option-209 code 209 = string;
next-server 10.10.10.200;
authoritative;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 10.10.10.2 10.10.10.200;
  #deny unknown-clients;
  option routers 10.10.10.1;
  option domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222;
  filename "BOOTx64.EFI";

}

 

In Juniper's JunOS you will do something like this

Enter config mode and enter these commands:

#create DHCP pool with your range

set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24

#set your default gateway as 10.10.10.1

set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24 router 10.10.10.1

# set the dns servers that clients use to be OpenDNS's servers

set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24 name-server 208.67.222.222                  
set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24 name-server 208.67.220.220  

#tell the DHCP clients to use the BOOTx64.EFI file for grub

set system services dhcp boot-file BOOTx64.EFI

#set tftp and next server to be the tftp server .200 (without next-server the client may try to retrieve the files from the dhcp server instead.


set system services dhcp boot-server 10.10.10.200
set system services dhcp next-server 10.10.10.200

#set the range of IPs to be given out eg. .2 to .200  
set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24 address-range low 10.10.10.2 high 10.10.10.200

#an example of how to exclude certain addresses if they are within the range you define to be given out (if possible just leave them out of the range and then there's no need to exclude)

set system services dhcp pool 10.10.10.0/24 exclude-address 10.10.10.50


Step 4 - Test It

If all went well you should be able to see the proper grub screen and menu on your client.  If not check your config above and work backwards (eg. does the client get a proper DHCP IP. is it hitting your tftp server at all?).

Aruba has a very traditional "admin" for user and password by default for many of its appliances.  If you've reset or just got some new units this will be the default password that you should change immediately for security reasons.

If you want to start fresh a lot of people falsely assume that an apt remove and then reinstall or apt --reinstall install package will start you off fresh.  To be sure and remove all associated config files do the below with the example of ssh server (don't remove it though if you actually use it!)

The key below is using the --purge flag or apt-get purge proftpd (eg sudo apt --purge remove packagename)

apt purge proftpd; apt install proftpd

Traditionally kernels were numbered starting from 0 but by default the "new style" of grub boot loading considers each subkernel item to be different so if you have 3 entries for 4.40-148 rather than counting for 1.

To get the expected behavior let's show this example and how we can boot it

We do a grep on menuentry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to see all of the bootable kernels rather than scrolling through loads of extra entries we don't care about (though grub does care and won't boot without them so don't mess things up here if you are editing grub.cfg!)

grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
  menuentry_id_option=""
export menuentry_id_option
menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
submenu 'Advanced options for Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-148-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-148-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-148-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-148-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-134-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-134-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-134-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-134-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-108-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-108-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-108-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-108-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-98-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-98-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-98-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-98-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-64-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-64-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 4.4.0-64-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.4.0-64-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 3.19.0-80-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.19.0-80-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 3.19.0-80-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.19.0-80-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 3.16.0-38-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.16.0-38-generic-advanced-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
    menuentry 'Linux Mint 17.2 MATE 64-bit, with Linux 3.16.0-38-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.16.0-38-generic-recovery-61f69d26-da8e-4317-a5cb-834402b90501' {
menuentry 'Memory test (memtest86+)' {
menuentry 'Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)' {
 

Say we want to boot 3.19.0-80

If we look at all the unique kernels listed (not duplicates) and count from 0 then 3.19 is #5

Let's edit the default grub file to tell it to boot 3.19 or menu entry #5

sudo vi /etc/default/grub


GRUB_DEFAULT=5
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y

*Note we need the GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y above or things won't work as expected and won't restore the good old "legacy" days of how grub handles kernel entries.

Update grub so the changes take effect

sudo update-grub


After rebooting you should boot into the desired kernel and don't have to rely on the normally correct assumption that the latest and newest kernel is the one you should boot by default/automatically.

 

It seems that QEMU/KVM's default PS2 mouse and keyboard doesn't work right in most cases.  I have especially observed issues using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and in Linux you may see repeated key presses in the terminal and you will wonder why you copied something and it's not in the clipboard when you try to paste.  The way to temporarily fix it is to press the key that is repeating once (works in Linux but not really in Windows).

Sometimes when moving your mouse it will also select everything on the screen or click something on it's own (possible click repetition similar to the repeating key issue).

The way around this is to NEVER use the default QEMU PS2 mouse and keyboard (if you run qemu-system-x86_64 without specifying a USB keyboard and mouse, it gives you the bad / buggy PS2 by default).

The solution.

When starting QEMU just pass these flags to give yourself a USB keyboard and mouse:

-usb -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd  -device usb-tablet

One simple flag to configure will create a makefile that statically links all the shared objects and embeds them instead the binary execute.  This means as long as you have the same architecture that things should run.

Eg. if you have an old version of Debian with a different version of glibc, then this will solve that problem.

./configure LDFLAGS="-static"

To test that it is really statically linked run ldd:

ldd src/wget
    not a dynamic executable


Whereas the standard dynamic binary will be linked to a bunch of .so shared object files which is obviously a pain if making your own Linux distro or needing portability between distros.

 ldd /usr/bin/wget
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffe59ded000)
    libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f8d3b786000)
    libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f8d3b581000)
    libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f8d3b319000)
    libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f8d3aed4000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8d3acba000)
    libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn.so.11 (0x00007f8d3aa87000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8d3a6bd000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8d3a4a0000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8d3bc70000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8d3a29c000)


If you get this error, you were probably compiling some sort of binary or package and got this error.  It is normally solved by installing the "gettext" package.

On Debian/Ubuntu just apt-get it:

apt-get install gettext

After that you should be able to configure and make (compile) properly.

Many people may not be aware that you can turn commodity hardware into a Mikrotik OS and there are various options which is "CHR" (Cloud Hosted Router) which is a VM image meant for Virtualization only (seriously, I've tried to dd the image to a physical server and it just crashed as it does not contain any drivers for physical).

One note as well if you are trying to do a baremetal install you may get an error "Error Loading Operating System" or the normal "No OS drive detected" from your computer/server's BIOS.  This is a nice way of letting you know that your BIOS sucks/is not compatible with what I believe is syslinux that is installed as the boot loader.  One particular notorious problem vendor is HP's server line (eg. HP DL360e) will just not boot it.

You can download from here: https://mikrotik.com/download

Recommended CHR image: https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/7.1beta6/chr-7.1beta6.img.zip

Recommended iso (for bare metal):  https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/7.1beta6/mikrotik-7.1beta6.iso

Also be warned that not having the right license will mean a speed limitation of just 1mbit on CHR.  You can also get a free 60-day trial which will remove the speed limit for that time.

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/RouterOS+license+keys

Mikrotik Quick Setup CHR/Router OS Guide

You should set the new password first, before putting the router online, because the default is blank and you should have a secure password.

Set a new password:

/password


List All NICs

This is essential so you don't mess up your routing especially if you have more than one NIC.

The command below will print the interface name along with the MAC address.

/interface/ethernet
print

Add IP Address

Replace ether2 with the interface # and /30 with your subnet mask.

/ip/address add address 172.16.52.20/30 interface=ether2
 

Add Gateway

/ip/route add gateway 172.16.52.19
 

Add DNS

/ip/dns  set servers=4.2.2.1

Ping

/tool/ping 192.168.1.1

Beyond this it is fairly simple as you can just go to / and type ? and for any area such as /tool just type ? and you can see a list of possible commands.  You can even break it down and keep typing ? to see what parameters the tool/command takes.

These work well for me:

sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev

./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-opengl --enable-gtk --enable-kvm --enable-guest-agent --enable-spice --audio-drv-list="oss pa" --enable-libusb
make


make install

The problem seems to be that whatever kernel and initrd you have is tied to an old version of CentOS 7 that is no longer in the current repos of most mirrors.

If you were previously able to PXEboot and install CentOS and you are sure your network and tftp are good the problem is that you have an outdated kernel and initramfs that point to a defunct version.

Solution

To fix this you need to download the most current version of CentOS's NetInstall ISO, mount it and extract the intird and vmlinuz files.

Mount the .iso

mount -o loop CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-2009.iso mount/
 

Copy the initramfs and kernel to whereever the old versions are stored and overwrite them (be sure NOT to wipe out your current versions inside /boot!)

#cd to the location of your Centos 7 PXE boot images

cd /tftpd/images/centos7

#copy initramfs and kernel
cp -a mount/isolinux/vmlinuz .
cp -a mount/isolinux/initrd.img .

 

yum update

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Install Process
Determining fastest mirrors
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
 Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
 

Quick and easy 1 second fix solution

#backup your original repos just in case

cp -a /etc/yum.repos.d/ ~

sed -i s#mirror.centos.org#vault.centos.org#g /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
sed -i s/mirrorlist=/#mirrorlist=/g /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
sed -i s/#baseurl=/baseurl=/g /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

To disable selinux temporarily and immediately:

setenforce 0

To make it permanent edit /etc/selinux/config:

vi /etc/selinux/config

It is different than other Wordpress templates.

You have to edit the following file:

wp-content/themes/hueman/parts/single-heading.php

Add the following PHP code to the bottom:

<?php if( has_post_thumbnail()) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?>
 

kdenlive is VERY finicky especially if using an older or newer version it can cause crashes, menus not to work, features not to work, things not to work properly.

A good example is that I could NOT get automask to work, there would be no box to control it until I did this full reset.

One caution is that your backup project files will be erased when doing this:

How to Reset kdenlive entirely

rm ~/.config/kdenlive-layoutsrc
rm -rf ~/.cache/kdenlive
rm -rf ~/.config/session/kdenlive_*
rm ~/.config/kdenlive-appimagerc
rm -rf ~/.kdenlive/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/kdenlive/profiles/*

After this a lot of problems went away.  You should do this if features aren't working or if changing your version of kdenlive.  Eg running different appimages or changing your version.

The below appears at first to be a bad mirror DNS error, but if you've ruled that out you just need to clear your broken yum cache and things will be good.

yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.01link.hk
 * extras: centos.01link.hk
 * updates: centos.01link.hk
http://mirror.worria.com/centos/7.8.2003/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article

https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors

If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please use https://bugs.centos.org/.

Solution
 

Delete yum cache and it will be OK

/var/cache/yum/*
 

Teams for Linux is horribly broken, especially because the calendar doesn't show any meetings so unless you are in the right Team and Channel at the right time, you cannot join your meeting or know there is one.

As you can see there is an orange bar to represent the meeting but you cannot click it or it makes a new meeting.  For some reason this bug is only present in the Linux app but not in the Android App or from the web calendar.

This is a horrible design flaw that can easily make you miss your meetings.

I have a Canon MF642c and the scanner wouldn't work.  I tried to use saned but it didn't work with the BJNP like it did for some other Canon models.

Introducing sane-airscan with packages for the most common distributions: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Apzz&package=sane-airscan

https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan

Just install the package and you should be able to use normal Linux based tools to scan like SimpleScan, it allows me to use my Canon over the network to scan without doing any extra configuration.

How To Use:

After installing just run airscan-discover:

 airscan-discover
[devices]
  Canon MF642C/643C/644C (d0:e9:68) (d0:e9:68) = http://10.10.1.170:80/eSCL/, eSCL
  Canon MF642C/643C/644C (d0:e9:68) (d0:e9:68) = http://10.10.1.170/active/msu/scan, WSD
 

Then tools like SimpleScan should just work.  I can scan from the tray or have the sheetfed scanner work by choosing "Scan All Pages from Feeder".

sane-airscan is a real hero to those of us with somewhat newer scanners that xsane doesn't support or that don't have a Linux driver from the vendor.

Interestingly enough Windows 2000 works fine on QEMU 64-bit but you have to specify Pentium as your CPU otherwise it doesn't complete the install (it will not pass the detecting/setting up devices phase).

-vga cirrus is wise because it is supported by Windows 2000 and allows higher resolutions and 24-bit color.

-cpu Pentium emulates an old computer and is necessary for install to complete

-device rtl8139 is important as this oldschool Realtek 8139 NIC is supported by Windows 2000 (unless you don't need a NIC).

qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu pentium -bios /usr/share/seabios/bios.bin -enable-kvm -m 128 -cdrom ~/Downloads/"Windows2000 .iso" -drive file=Windows2000.qcow2 -netdev user,id=n0 -device rtl8139,netdev=n0 -vga cirrus

Also keep in mind Windows 2000 has long been unsupported and has a myriad of vulnerabilities.  You should only be running it for "the memories" or because you have a Legacy system or data to migrate/test etc..

Windows 2000 runs amazingly well on QEMU and it is a nice reminder of how unbloated Windows was back then, performing lightning fast with just 128MB of RAM and 5GB of HDD being more than enough space to install Windows.  I also like how it looks like Windows 95 but has the NT kernel and NTFS of course.

$ ./test.sh
bash: ./test.sh: Permission denied

This happens normally because you are on a partition that was mounted as "user" and without the exec option.  Also be sure to add exec at the end so no other options set noexec.

Change your fstab or add exec to your mount options:

/dev/md127 /mnt/md127 ext4 auto,nofail,noatime,rw,user,exec 0 0
 

It took a lot of fiddling to make a Huion Kamvas 13 Pro work in Linux but it simple once you know what to do.  Don't bother searching as it is unlkely there is a guide out there that will actually make your tablet work.

It mainly comes down to the fact that the hid_uclogic kernel module is buggy or doesn't support MANY of these wacom based/Huion tablets properly.

What was happening with me is that I had the Kamvas 13 Huion setup as a secondary screen/monitor.  If I tried to draw it would control the mouse on the original screen so there was a HUGE offset and it was impossible to make it work and draw.

A lot of blogs will say use "xsetwacom" but this will not work if your driver (hid_uclogic.ko) is buggy like me.  The solution is to make and install the updated kernel module and then use xsetwacom to map the stylus so it is tied to our tablet and not our main screen.

1. First of all identify your device using lsusb (which will probably not show you the name but you will know by the identifier).


lsusb


Bus 002 Device 019: ID 256c:006d 

If it starts with 256c you've probably found your device ID which is important for the X11 conf file that will be added to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

2.) Now we need the digimend drivers that will provide a proper working driver

Download the latest from here: https://github.com/DIGImend/digimend-kernel-drivers/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd digimend-kernel-drivers

make; make install

3.) Make sure that your tablet was correctly added or list here:

If your ID is not there you can always try to add it manually by adding a | and then your ID like the example in bold which represents my Kamvas 13.  

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Huion tablets with Wacom driver"
    MatchUSBID "5543:006e|256c:006e|256c:006d"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    MatchIsKeyboard "false"
    Driver "wacom"
EndSection

vi /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-digimend.conf

4.) Remove the bad driver and insert the new one

sudo rmmod hid-uclogic


sudo modprobe hid-uclogic

5.) Use xsetwacom so the stylus works only on our tablet:

Remember HEAD is specifying which monitor ID so it's important to choose the right one.

Remember that 11 is the ID in xsetwacom of your stylus. 

How to find your stylus ID

We can see below the ID is 11

 xsetwacom list
Tablet Monitor Pen stylus           id: 11    type: STYLUS   
Tablet Monitor Pad pad              id: 12    type: PAD      
Tablet Monitor Touch Strip pad      id: 13    type: PAD

*Note that each time you unplug or replug the tablet that its ID will change and increase.  Generally the highest number ID is going to be the correct one. 

HEAD-1 = monitor 2 (if you wanted monitor 3 it would be HEAD-2 or if you wanted monitor 1 it would be HEAD-0)

This command maps the stylus to your tablet.  The advantage here is that there is no need to get or set area, the command below does it for us so there's no math involved to make our tablet work!

xsetwacom --verbose set 11 MapToOutput HEAD-1

... 'set' requested for '11'.
... Checking device 'Virtual core pointer' (2).
... Checking device 'Virtual core keyboard' (3).
... Checking device 'Virtual core XTEST pointer' (4).
... Checking device 'Virtual core XTEST keyboard' (5).
... Checking device 'Power Button' (6).
... Checking device 'Power Button' (7).
... Checking device 'PixArt Lenovo USB Optical Mouse' (8).
... Checking device 'Logitech USB Keyboard' (9).
... Checking device 'Logitech USB Keyboard' (10).
... Checking device 'Tablet Monitor Pen stylus' (11).
... Checking device 'Tablet Monitor Pad pad' (12).
... Checking device 'Tablet Monitor Touch Strip pad' (13).
... Checking device 'Tablet Monitor Dial' (14).
... Device 'Tablet Monitor Pen stylus' (11) found.
... RandR extension not found, too old, or NV-CONTROL extension is also present.
... Setting xinerama head 1
... Remapping to output area 1024x768 @ 1600,0.
... Transformation matrix:
...     [ 0.390244 0.000000 0.609756 ]
...     [ 0.000000 0.853333 0.000000 ]
...     [ 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 ]


With ffmpeg it literally takes out what you want so you can use it later. Eg. below -ss means starting time is 16 minutes and 30 seconds and -to means extract until 17 minutes and 23 seconds

-i = the input file

output file = CCME-flash-and-2-phone-setup-final.mp4


ffmpeg -i CCME-flash-and-2-phone-setup.mp4 -ss 00:16:30 -to 00:17:23 -c copy CCME-flash-and-2-phone-setup-final.mp4

 How to specify until the end without specifying the time?

If we don't specify a -to then it will take everything from the start until the end and you don't have to specify when that is.

ffmpeg -i CCME-flash-and-2-phone-setup.mp4 -ss 00:16:30 -c copy CCME-flash-and-2-phone-setup-final.mp4

This normally works but if not use my mencoder solution if the output video does not play past the joined time.

the contents of list.txt need to look like this:

file somefile.mp4


file somefile2.mp4

then run ffmpeg

ffmpeg -f concat -i list.txt -c copy CME-2-router-dial-peer-final.mp4

The result is almost instant joining since there is no video processing since we are copying the video codec as is

The problem for me is that I had two videos with different types of audio streams.  ffmpeg would join them but they would not play past the point of the join.

So I used mencoder like below and it joined the audio and made them both mp3 streams and it worked!

-oac mp3lame specifies the audio to be convered into an mp3 stream using the lame codec.

after the oac the two files are the ones to be joined.

the -o is the name of the output file

mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame CME-2-router-dial-peer-part1.mp4 CME-2-router-dial-peer-part2-edited-audio.mp4 -o CME-dial-peer.mp4
 

When you automount a drive in /etc/fstab even if it's not important like an external drive that you only use sometimes and is not required for booting, it will prevent a successfuly boot.

If you disable quiet mode for booting you will see something like below "A start job is running for dev-disk ...."

How do we fix an fstab entry from preventing our boot?

The drive in question is mounted to /mnt/vdb1

All we have to do is add ",nofail" after defaults on that line entry and it will continue to boot normally if the drive is not found or cannot be mounted.

A very common use case is that you don't want to waste time using a video editor that requires you to open it up and manually import the video clip and audio clip, then manually delete the old audio track and import the video and new audio.  That's too much work and time since we don't want to go through the hassle.

ffmpeg is our solution, all we have to do is specify 3 variables and we're done!

-i Windows2019-Server-Noaudio.mp4 is our input / source file

-i Windows2019-Server-NoAudio.wav is our new audio file that we want to replace.

Windows2019-Server-NoAudio-audio-fix.mp4 is our final output file that will have our updated audio file

ffmpeg -i Windows2019-Server-NoAudio.mp4 -i Windows2019-Server-NoAudio.wav -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 Windows2019-Server-NoAudio-audio-fix.mp4


ffmpeg version 2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12) 20160609
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv
  WARNING: library configuration mismatch
  avcodec     configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv --enable-version3 --disable-doc --disable-programs --disable-avdevice --disable-avfilter --disable-avformat --disable-avresample --disable-postproc --disable-swscale --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libvo_aacenc --enable-libvo_amrwbenc
  libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
  libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
  libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Windows2019-Server-NoAudio.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: mp42mp41isomiso2
    creation_time   : 2020-10-05 16:14:56
    encoder         : x264
  Duration: 00:02:28.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 258 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High 4:4:4 Predictive) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv444p, 1282x958 [SAR 1:1 DAR 641:479], 127 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1500 tbn, 30 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2020-10-05 16:14:56
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: mp3 (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, s16p, 127 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2020-10-05 16:14:56
      handler_name    : SoundHandler
Guessed Channel Layout for  Input Stream #1.0 : mono
Input #1, wav, from 'Windows2019-Server-NoAudio.wav':
  Duration: 00:02:28.56, bitrate: 705 kb/s
    Stream #1:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 44100 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 705 kb/s
[mp4 @ 0x1702ca0] Codec for stream 0 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers
Output #0, mp4, to 'Windows2019-Server-NoAudio-audio-fix.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: mp42mp41isomiso2
    encoder         : Lavf56.40.101
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv444p, 1282x958 [SAR 1:1 DAR 641:479], q=2-31, 127 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 12k tbn, 1500 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2020-10-05 16:14:56
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (libvo_aacenc) ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 44100 Hz, mono, s16, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc56.60.100 libvo_aacenc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #1:0 -> #0:1 (pcm_s16le (native) -> aac (libvo_aacenc))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame= 2229 fps=1183 q=-1.0 Lsize=    4701kB time=00:02:28.57 bitrate= 259.2kbits/s    
video:2320kB audio:2322kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.275361%
 

qemu-img can convert many formats.

Here is an example

-f raw = this means the format of the source image (instead of raw it could be vdi, vmdi, qcow2 etc..)

-O vdi = the output format that you are converting to (instead of vdi it could be vmdk or qcow2)

windows2019.img = the source file

windows2019.vdi = the output file (you should give it the extension of the format you converted to

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vdi windows2019.img windows2019.vdi

The problem is that Linux uses UTC and Windows uses the local time from the RTC.

This results in very annoying issues when booting between the two because the clock is set based on the different standards once you boot.

The easiest solution is to change your Linux to use RTC this way:


timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

To change it back to UTC:

timedatectl set-local-rtc 0 --adjust-system-clock

The idlepc value is very important to dynamips and it is both image and often CPU dependent.  There is no "magic" value that will work for all images and all CPUs so this is why I'll show you a quick and handy way.

Also don't be disappointed, some values do not work well but idlepc gives you several.  For example in my example below #6 didn't help at all but #7 got me down to about 6% CPU from 99-100%.

1.) Make sure your dynagen config file has no idlepc value set or comment it out with a #

2.) Start dynagen

dynagen yourconf.conf

3.) Calculate the idlepc value:

From the dynagen console type:

idlepc get r1

*I assume r1 is the name of the router you want to set idlepc on, if not change it

After a few seconds it will say "Please wait while gather statistics" and show you a list of values.  Generally the ones with the * in front will be the best.  Copy the full value for #7 below you would copy "0xffffffff8000aa40" (without the quotes).

I find that it will say it will set and apply the value but that is not true (it never seems to be able to apply it since dynamips is running), you should kill dynagen, edit your config with the idlepc value and then start it again.

4.) Set the idlepc value. 

Now copy the value above for example "0xffffffff8000aa40"and put it into your conf file:

idlepc = 0xffffffff8000aa40

5.) Enjoy low CPU utilization :)

Startup dynagen again and restart your router.  You should see the CPU utilization is nice and low now.  If not then try another idlepc value.

Below you can see that dynamips is just 6.6% and before that it was 98-100%

1.) Install dynagen and dynamips

2.) Also configure your bridge or br0

If you don't have a br0 on your Linux machine then follow this guide or video for Debian:

Alternatively you can use NIO_linux_eth:eth0 for f0/0 below but remember the host machine cannot talk to the router then.

3.) Create your dynagen config

Save the file below to something.conf

#Example config:

 autostart = False
[127.0.0.1:2000]
workingdir = /home/mint/router
udp = 10100
[[7200]]
image = c7200-adventerprisek9-mz.151-4.M.bin
disk0 = 256
#idlepc = 0x60be916c
[[ROUTER r1]]
model = 7200
console = 2521
aux = 2119
#wic0/0 = WIC-1T
#wic0/1 = WIC-1T
#wic0/2 = WIC-1T

#instead youcould use f0/0=NIO_linux_eth:eth0 but your host would not have communication with the router


f0/0 = nio_tap:tap1
x = 22.0
y = -351.0

4.) Start dynamips

sudo dynamips -H 2000&

5.) Start your router

dynagen yourconffromstep3.conf

6.) Connect to your router and configure

telnet localhost 2521

enable
conf t
int fa0/0
ip address 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0
no shut


7.) Test connectivity

Make sure you put your tap1 on the bridge and put up tap1.  After this you should be able to ping your router but remember your host's br0:0 should be created and be on the same subnet to work.

sudo brctl addif br0 tap1


sudo ifconfig tap1 up

Performance Tuning

I recommend you set calculate and set idlepc, as a wrong value or no value will guarantee it will use at least ~100% of the CPU core dynamips is on.  Check this guide here to set idlepc for dynamips with dynagen

Helpful Dynagen and Dynamips Startup Script

This script as it is will get your r1 and r2 router up without typing any commands.  All you have to do is change the .conf file name to your own and make sure to save the contents of the script to an "something.sh", chmod +x something.sh and then ./something.sh and it will automatically get you going.  It also kills any other instances of dynamips or dynagen to avoid conflicts.  The only thing it does need is sudo so it will ask for your sudo password.

Remember that you need "expect" installed or this script will not work (use apt install expect or yum install expect).

The script makes a few assumptions but you can of course change it.

1.) Dynamips is to be started on port 2000 if not change it!

2.) That you want to create two tap devices "tap1" and "tap2" and add them to your bridge br0

3.) It also assumes you are in the directory of "yourconffile.conf" in bold in the script below.  Change that name to the name of yours

4.) Finally it also assumes that you have routers r1 and r2 that you want to be started automatically in the send "start r1n" area.  You can add more lines for more routers or change the names according to your needs.

#!/bin/bash
sudo killall dynamips dynagen
sudo dynamips -H 2000 &

sudo ip tuntap add tap1 mode tap
sudo ip tuntap add tap2 mode tap
sudo brctl addif br0 tap1
sudo brctl addif br0 tap2

sudo ifconfig tap1 up
sudo ifconfig tap2 up

expect <(cat <<'EOD'
spawn dynagen yourconffile.conf
expect "Dynagen management console for Dynamips"
send "start r1n"
send "start r2n"
interact
exit
EOD
)



The best way to avoid this problem is to understand how your BIOS is setup to boot.

Often newer machines will default to U(EFI) which is different than the traditional MBR/Legacy mode.

The problem is that this may not be apparent, often a BIOS Boot Menu will show a Legacy Boot Option and EFI Option without defining it.

A good example of this is if your USB is called "Kingston" you may see in your Boot Menu "Kingston" and also "Ubuntu".

Choosing the name of your USB will mean it is booting and installing as Legacy/BIOS mode.  This will normally result in you being unable to boot after installing depending on your BIOS.

The best way forward would be to choose the EFI boot option which is "Ubuntu" to avoid this problem.

Alternatively some BIOS give you the option to have Auto/Dual mode (Legacy and UEFI) but for many that only have one you should be aware of the above.

This assumes your system is a fresh and normally working install.

What often happens is that many new devices have multiple audio outputs which are generally analog and HDMI/Digital out.  Sometimes the OS defaults to the wrong one that you didn't want.

For example if your sound is supposed to play over the HDMI, perhaps the output is set to analog or vice versa.

This happens to a lot of Nvidia users especially users of newer cards like the RTX series.  If for example you are trying to boot and install Linux and you get a black and white grub2 screen instead of a nice graphical welcome installer, you probably suffer from this bug.  It is normally followed by the user booting and finding they just have a blank/black screen.

Here is the quick flow of steps to fix it:

If you get a black grub screen when booting Linux Mint install instead of the graphical Mint you probably have a newer graphics card especially an Nvidia RTX etc...

The problem is that sometimes the kernel and card do not play nicely and the video card is not able to set a resolution.

Solution - By using nomodeset it bypasses this issue.

1.) On the grub screen hit "e" over top of the default kernel that grub will boot (normally indicated with a star).  Example below.

2.) Navigate with the arrows to the end of the line that starts with "linux".
3.) At the end add "nomodeset" (without quotes). Example screenshot below

4.) Then hit Ctrl + X or F10 to boot, it should no longer just be a black screen and you should boot to the installer or Live Desktop.
5.) Install Linux normally
6.) Once again before booting you will have to perform the steps above by hitting e and adding the nomodeset to the linux line.
7.) After booting into your install do this to make the fix permanent otherwise you have to do the steps above each time you boot.

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

add "nomodeset" to the this GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable so it looks something like below:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

8.)  Apply the changes permanently.

You need to update your grub boot files to make it happen each time you boot.

sudo update-grub

If you are RHEL based like Centos, Fedora then you would run this instead:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Before you try to install and dual boot it is very important to understand the concept of "what boot mode your BIOS is in" and "what mode you booted the installer to".

Then follow the example of Linux Mint (but most Linux installers are very similar) to carefully understand WHERE you are installing your Boot Loader to whether that be MBR or EFI.

How Am I Booted?

First it's important to check your BIOS to see if it is in UEFI mode or Auto, or both (some BIOS can boot Legacy and UEFI side by side).

The real question inside Linux before you install is to make sure you booted to the right mode.  If your BIOS is set to UEFI you want to check from the installer to make sure which mode you have booted into.

How You Boot The Installer Matters!

When you boot from your USB or CD you will normally be given two choices for it (assuming you have an UEFI supported BIOS):

Here are some examples of what you might see:

As you can see in the first example the first option "USD HDD" would obviously boot Legacy/MBR and the second option would boot EFI "USB HDD EFI"

USB HDD


USB HDD EFI

Below you will see some BIOS' will name your USB so often if your USB stick is made by Kingston it may say "Kingston" or "Kingston USB".  The point it is that once again it is usually easy to understand which is EFI or Legacy/MBR booting mode.

Kingston


Kingston EFI


Sometimes another clue to EFI is that instead of the above the EFI option may say something like "USB (Ubuntu)" and anything that specifies an actual OS name is ALWAYS going to be EFI.

How To Check If You Booted As EFI or Legacy/MBR?

Check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi/

ls /sys/firmware/efi

If it is present like you see below that means you are using EFI.  If it's not present it means you are in Legacy/MBR mode.

Choose Your Path MBR or EFI?

If you've followed above you can avoid disaster by following along.

MBR Install Guide

EFI Install Guide

MBR/Legacy BIOS/CSM Booting Mode

This a potential problem in any case that you have more than one drive attached to your computer whether by USB, SATA or SAS.  The problem is that by default even though you may tell the Linux Mint installer to install to "/dev/whatever" it will by default install the MBR (Master Boot Record) to your main drive.

In many cases your "main drive" will be running Windows or any OS and this will cause your main OS/drive not to be bootable since the MBR will be pointing to the "other drive" you are installing to.  This would cause a breakage on the target drive and the main drive.

So for example if you are installing Linux Mint to /dev/sdb, the MBR would be installed to /dev/sda.

To avoid this watch below how you can choose "Something Else" to manually choose the drive to install the boot loader to the same drive you are installing Linux Mint to.

Choose the same device you are installing to undet hte drop down for "Device for boot loader installation" below.

All is not lost especially on Windows if you accidentally installed the MBR/Bootloader to your main drive, you can use a standard MBR and restore it by following the link below.

If you do wipe our your MBR you can use this from the LiveCD of Linux Mint:

EFI Install Guide

Installing into EFI is not really much different than MBR except that we DO NOT tell it to put the boot loader on the root of the drive as this is not possible.  You will end up with an empty EFI partition that cannot boot if you install this way.

When installing you still have to choose "Something else" to manually partition:

As you can see below with EFI you will also need to create an "efi" partitin when installing.

The key difference between MBR is that for Boot Loader you want to choose partition 1 which is going to be your EFI to install the boot loader.

In the example below my destination if "/dev/vda", you should change that to the device you are installing to.

For example if you are installing to an external or other internal SSD and it is named "/dev/sdb" then you would choose "/dev/sdb1" as your boot loader destination below.

If you don't do the above then the install will successfully complete but not really, if you chose the wrong drive or the wrong partition it won't have installed the EFI boot files.  If you reboot and cannot see any entry for "Ubuntu" on your destination drive you have probably made this mistake.

The process of creating your EFI boot partition

After that your partition setup should be something like below and notice that "Device for boot loader installation: is /dev/vda1" where /dev/vda is the destination (but your drive will probably be /dev/sdb or something else, be aware that it must match your destination install).

In QEMU 4 or higher you can no longer use the normal "-soundhw ac97" flag and it is much more complicated but here is a simple copy and paste on Linux that will just work:

-audiodev you have to use -audiodev to specify the driver and id

driver=pa


id=someid

-device you have to specify the same audiodev id you used in -audiodev and driver

-audiodev driver=pa,id=pa1 -device AC97,audiodev=pa1

Below creates the audio device based off of your host's pulse audio driver and an id that is "pa1"  the -device AC97 is the AC97 hardware that the guest gets and the audiodev (device) is the same one we specified earlier with id "pa1".
 

Cannot register the hard disk '/some/path/windows-marking.vdi' {f54def00-2252-43f5-9178-0998636cad61} because a hard disk '/other-path/windows-marking.vdi' with UUID {f54def00-2252-43f5-9178-0998636cad61} already exists.

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
Component:
VirtualBoxWrap
Interface:
IVirtualBox {0169423f-46b4-cde9-91af-1e9d5b6cd945}
Callee RC:
VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)


What causes the error?

This is common if you are restoring a virtualbox VM or let's say you had the .vdi file on a certain partition whether remote share or just another partition.  For example I wanted to move my .vdi from HDD to my SSD partition and got the error above.
 

And no, removing the original .vdi from VBOX won't fix it.  It stores the UUID in the .vbox config file and it cannot be edited directly because VirtualBox will just overwrite any change (I tried to just remove the UUID of the old HDD but the change got overwritten).
 

How to solve the error?

Virtualbox has a command that can assign your .vdi a new UUID which will fix the problem:

VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid /some/path/windows-marking.vdi
UUID changed to: 4a8debca-b235-4478-8264-c2667a053930

Just change the path to the file in bold above to yours and it will create a new UUID.  When you go back into Virtualbox to add the Virtual Disk it will work.
 

 kernel: [549267.368859] mate-terminal[7871]: segfault at 2000000101 ip 00007f5d0a9548f0 sp 00007fff7012c610 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.4800.2[7f5d0a920000+52000]

This seems to be a long-time bug in Mint mate-terminal where you sometimes move or detach a terminal and it crashes losing all of the other open terminal sessions.

It really seems limited in that it can mainly give you the things you would see on the physical unit such as load etc..

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/apcupsd/apcupsd%20-%20Stable/3.14.14/apcupsd-3.14.14.tar.gz?r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fapcupsd%2Ffiles%2Flatest%2Fdownload&ts=1598115866

 tar -zxvf apcupsd-3.14.14.tar.gz
 cd apcupsd-3.14.14
[root@somebox apcupsd-3.14.14]#
./configure --enable-usb

onfig.status: creating platforms/redhat/awkhaltprog
config.status: creating include/apcconfig.h


Configuration on Sat Aug 22 10:06:14 PDT 2020:

  Host:                       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -- redhat
  Apcupsd version:            3.14.14 (31 May 2016)
  Source code location:       .
  Install binaries:           /sbin
  Install config files:       /etc/apcupsd
  Install man files:          ${prefix}/share/man
  Nologin file in:            /etc
  PID directory:              /var/run
  LOG dir (events, status)    /var/log
  LOCK dir (for serial port)  /var/lock
  Power Fail dir              /etc/apcupsd
  Compiler:                   g++ 4.4.7
  Preprocessor flags:          -I/usr/local/include
  Compiler flags:             -g -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -Wall -Wno-unused-result
  Linker:                     gcc
  Linker flags:                -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib
  Host and version:           redhat
  Shutdown Program:           /sbin/shutdown
  Port/Device:                /dev/ttyS0
  Network Info Port (CGI):    3551
  UPSTYPE                     apcsmart
  UPSCABLE                    smart

  drivers (no-* are disabled): apcsmart dumb net no-usb snmp pcnet modbus no-modbus-usb no-test

  enable-nis:                 yes
  with-nisip:                 0.0.0.0
  enable-cgi:                 no
  with-cgi-bin:               /etc/apcupsd
  with-libwrap:              
  enable-pthreads:            yes
  enable-dist-install:        yes
  enable-gapcmon:             no
  enable-apcagent:            no
 
Configuration complete: Run 'make' to build apcuspd.


make




  AR    src/drivers/apcsmart/libapcsmartdrv.a
        src/drivers/dumb
  CXX   src/drivers/dumb/dumboper.c
  CXX   src/drivers/dumb/dumbsetup.c
  AR    src/drivers/dumb/libdumbdrv.a
        src/drivers/net
  CXX   src/drivers/net/net.c
  AR    src/drivers/net/libnetdrv.a
        src/drivers/pcnet
  CXX   src/drivers/pcnet/pcnet.c
  AR    src/drivers/pcnet/libpcnetdrv.a
        src/drivers/snmplite
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/apc-mib.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/asn.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/mge-mib.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/mibs.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/rfc1628-mib.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/snmp.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/snmplite/snmplite.cpp
  AR    src/drivers/snmplite/libsnmplitedrv.a
        src/drivers/modbus
  CXX   src/drivers/modbus/mapping.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/modbus/modbus.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/modbus/ModbusComm.cpp
  CXX   src/drivers/modbus/ModbusRs232Comm.cpp
  AR    src/drivers/modbus/libmodbusdrv.a
  CXX   src/drivers/drivers.c
  AR    src/drivers/libdrivers.a
  CXX   src/options.c
  CXX   src/device.c
  CXX   src/reports.c
  CXX   src/action.c
  CXX   src/apcupsd.c
  CXX   src/apcnis.c
  LD    src/apcupsd
  CXX   src/apcaccess.c
  LD    src/apcaccess
  CXX   src/apctest.c
  LD    src/apctest
  CXX   src/smtp.c
  LD    src/smtp
        platforms
        platforms/etc
        platforms/redhat
        doc
  MAN   apcupsd.8 -> apcupsd.man.txt
  MAN   apcaccess.8 -> apcaccess.man.txt
  MAN   apctest.8 -> apctest.man.txt
  MAN   apccontrol.8 -> apccontrol.man.txt
  MAN   apcupsd.conf.5 -> apcupsd.conf.man.txt


mkdir -p /etc/apcupsd/;vi /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

UPSCABLE smart

UPSTYPE smartups

DEVICE /dev/ttyS0



 ./apcupsd
./apcupsd: Warning: old configuration file found.

./apcupsd: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
./apcupsd: Found:    "
"

./apcupsd: Please check new file format and
./apcupsd: modify accordingly the first line
./apcupsd: of config file.

./apcupsd: Processing config file anyway.
./apcupsd: Bogus configuration value (*invalid-ups-type*)
apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcconfig.c at line 672
Terminating due to configuration file errors.
[root@somebox src]# vi /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
[root@somebox src]# ./apcupsd
./apcupsd: Warning: old configuration file found.

./apcupsd: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
./apcupsd: Found:    "UPSCABLE smart
"

./apcupsd: Please check new file format and
./apcupsd: modify accordingly the first line
./apcupsd: of config file.

./apcupsd: Processing config file anyway.
./apcupsd: Bogus configuration value (*invalid-ups-type*)
apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcconfig.c at line 672
Terminating due to configuration file errors.


#change to this

UPSCABLE usb

UPSTYPE usb
# For USB UPSes, leave the DEVICE directive blank.
DEVICE




 ./apcupsd
./apcupsd: Warning: old configuration file found.

./apcupsd: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
./apcupsd: Found:    "UPSCABLE smart
"

./apcupsd: Please check new file format and
./apcupsd: modify accordingly the first line
./apcupsd: of config file.

./apcupsd: Processing config file anyway.
./apcupsd: Bogus configuration value (*invalid-ups-type*)
apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcconfig.c at line 672
Terminating due to configuration file errors.
[root@somebox src]# vi /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
[root@somebox src]# ./apcupsd
./apcupsd: Warning: old configuration file found.

./apcupsd: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
./apcupsd: Found:    "UPSCABLE usb
"

./apcupsd: Please check new file format and
./apcupsd: modify accordingly the first line
./apcupsd: of config file.

./apcupsd: Processing config file anyway.

Apcupsd driver usb not found.
The available apcupsd drivers are:
dumb
apcsmart
net
snmplite
pcnet
modbus

Most likely, you need to add --enable-usb to your ./configure options.

apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcupsd.c at line 196
Apcupsd cannot continue without a valid driver.





#recompile

./src/apcupsd: Warning: old configuration file found.

./src/apcupsd: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
./src/apcupsd: Found:    "UPSCABLE usb
"

./src/apcupsd: Please check new file format and
./src/apcupsd: modify accordingly the first line
./src/apcupsd: of config file.

./src/apcupsd: Processing config file anyway.



./src/apcaccess
: Warning: old configuration file found.

: Expected: "## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##"
: Found:    "UPSCABLE usb
"

: Please check new file format and
: modify accordingly the first line
: of config file.

: Processing config file anyway.
APC      : 001,037,0887
DATE     : 2020-08-22 10:11:18 -0700 
HOSTNAME : somebox.home
VERSION  : 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) redhat
UPSNAME  : somebox.home
CABLE    : USB Cable
DRIVER   : USB UPS Driver
UPSMODE  :
STARTTIME: 2020-08-22 10:11:16 -0700 
SHARE    :
MODEL    : Back-UPS NS 1500M2
STATUS   : ONLINE
LINEV    : 120.0 Volts
LOADPCT  : 4.0 Percent
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 131.9 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 10 Percent
MINTIMEL : 5 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
SENSE    : Medium
LOTRANS  : 88.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 142.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : No alarm
BATTV    : 27.3 Volts
LASTXFER : Unacceptable line voltage changes
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 Seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 Seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x05000008
SERIALNO : 3B1938X20056 
BATTDATE : 2019-09-16
NOMINV   : 120 Volts
NOMBATTV : 24.0 Volts
NOMPOWER : 900 Watts
FIRMWARE : 957.e3 .D USB FW:e3
END APC  : 2020-08-22 10:11:51 -0700 
 

If you've come here, don't be embarraassed, working in IT, this is the MOST common computer problem that almost everyone will encounter.  The reason why I'm doing this post is because I've seen an increase from colleagues and admins having this problem and many times it's not even your fault.  A common scenario is that someone acquires a new or used computer which they weren't given the password for.  Fortunately I have a detailed list of all the options whether free or paid to get you back in and save you time and stress!  Especially during COVID-19 or other stressful times, this is bound to happen whether you are a full time worker, student, parent, etc.. it happens to ALL of us at some point.

Whether you're using a laptop, server, VM, Cloud, VPS, workstation, Desktop on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP etc.. and any version of Windows Server such as 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 or even NT this article still applies to you.  For the majority who are using Windows 2019 server or Windows 10, please read this article before anything else so you don't waste your time on solutions that don't work due to Microsoft patching against them. 

I've used these very same options on thousands of computers before whether at work or for friends.  This is why I'm making this post now because they don't know there are simple and quick options rather than wasting time on Youtube or random blogs and then mess up their system or data.  Then they end up spending more time and money with someone like me to undo their mistake.  Rather than spending hundreds of dollars on someone like me or a computer store, just use the Windows Geeks software that I use to reset your password or I'll charge much more to use the same solution when you call me.  I'd rather have people stay safe than call over someone into their office or home during COVID-19 that they don't have to.  With recession looming and everyone depending more on their computer, this is no time to lose data or get locked out when there are very simple and quick solutions anyone can use.

When it comes to Windows passwords a lot has changed, even though the general way that the SAM and SECURITY files located in c:windowssystem32config has not really changed in terms of functionality.

Important Notes Before Researching Windows Password Solutions

Be careful what sites you go to, some sites have been known to offer free downloads which are actually trojans to get access to your computer.  The more common issue is that there is a lot of bad and outdated advice, especially when it comes to Windows 10 and Windows 2019 Server.  I've tried some sites that had trojans after friends complained and also was shocked to see that many blogs claim they have working solutions that don't work anymore including the methods I address below from my own personal experience.

What has changed is the fact that many oldschool tricks and backdoors such as using the Recovery Mode in Windows 10/2019 has been patched (you cannot break in that way anymore, it will ask for the password of the user).  Also the hack that you use to change the screensaver or magnifier to cmd.exe doesn't work anymore (Windows will detect it and copy this back).

Windows Password Free and Paid Solutions That Work

I recommend this resource because it has a more comprehensive list of what to do.  There are even free solutions that they offer and explain but what I like is that they are honest and straight forward and have proper information and what works and what doesn't even for free solutions (source/credit part of the information about the oldschool hacks being closed comes from them and my own experience).

Possible Solutions free and paid to Reset Windows 10,8,7 Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT Server Accounts

I often send friends to the above link because it doesn't waste your time.  It talks about what free methods and solutions will work.  In general almost all free solutions involve some advanced or ability to learn advanced computer and administration skills.  If you are not confident I don't recommend trying free solutions as you could type one wrong command that may wipe your your partition or data altogether.  If your data is not backed up, time is not of the essence and the data is not important to you then by all means give the free shots a whirl.

What Are My Options To Get Back Into Windows?

The easiest one is if another person has admin access to the computer you can simply just have them login and reset your password.

My Recommended Paid Solution

This is where I tell even my non-tech savvy friends and family when I am too busy or unable to go and help them.  The reason I like it even as an Admin is that "it is automatic".  Once you boot it, it does it all for you, no commands, it just detects your Windows partition, mounts it, backs up your SAM file (which other software doesn't), just in case and then removes all passwords without typing any command, clicking, or even choosing the users.  Then it lists all users and unlocks all accounts including the Administrator account.  To me this is the true way of "resetting", "unlocking", and "bypassing" Windows passwords including for the Admin account.  The key thing is "unlocking" because some software will "reset" or "remove" the password but won't unlock the account, the chances are that your account is probably locked from too many wrong passwords so "unlocking" is required to actually allow you to login again.

I've also been told by a friend who said he already heard of them and apparently someone at Microsoft recommended them too which I was thought was interesting because you would think they would have their own solution!

Where I've personally used solutions like Windows Geeks on the job on laptops, servers, workstations and even VMs to get the job done because it is all automated (even though I have the ability I don't want to remember steps, commands etc.. or even risk the small chance I mess something up).  For $17 a license or the unlimited for $299 it's not worth my hassle or time.

The other advantage is that there is no "password reset disk" from Microsoft or original install disc required.

Windows Geeks has been around since 2006 and unlike the majority of "OTHER" sites is from Canada and not registered overseas.  In fact many of the largest looking competitors like iSunshare, sPower are actually from China so there's no local support and English is often an issue and in my experience, below, that the other solutions don't support as much hardware as Windows Geek does.  The few times out of thousands of uses that I found an old laptop or server that had an issue, their Windows Geeks devs resolved it quite fast.

This is also because other paid solutions I've tried have not been as successful.  For example some other software won't work on KVM/Virtio because they don't have the drivers.  Most other software won't work on a lot of high end workstations, some newer laptops and a lot of servers because the RAID/SCSI/SAS/SATA controller support is not very good on the majority of software.

And so I admit I recommend the Windows Geeks because their solution is Linux based and supports virtually every machine I've thrown at it.  There was one case recently where an ancient PII computer wouldn't boot their software but they sent a patch (using an old patched Kernel for OLD computers).  And another thing is that a lot of other software is FAR too big to boot on lowend machines or old machines.  If you are an IT professional you will be surprised at how many crappy/old systems you come across that run important or mission critical.

Windows Geeks Windows 10, 8, 7 Password Reset and Unlock Solution

This seems to happen on most if not all Nvidia cards but the good news is that if you are using any of the Linux drivers and have the nvidia-settings tool installed it is just a simple command.

Solution:

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"

Enter the above command in your terminal and the screentearing will be fixed which is like enabling Tear Free on AMD cards.  What it does is Force Full Composition Pipeline which means that it won't show any video frames that aren't completely processed, thus eliminating the annoying to the eye screen tearing.

This of course works on all Linux versions whether Debian based Ubuntu, Mint etc.. or even Centos, Fedora, RHEL if using the Nvidia and not Nouveau drivers.

You can make this permanent or automatic by the following:

vi ~/.config/autostart/nvidia-settings.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
Hidden=false
X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_CA]=nvidia startup realtechtalk.com
Name=nvidia startup realtechtalk.com
Comment[en_CA]=
Comment=
 

This makes the command from our solution above execute each time you login into your Desktop session on Ubuntu/Debian/Gnome based OS's. 

You can also accomplish the same using the GUI like so by going to  Menu -> Preferences -> Startup Applications

Then click on "Add" and create a new entry like this:

You can't see it but just copy the command from above "nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }" into the "Command" field and click "Add"

-??????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? shadow
----------.  1 root root  748 Jul 10 04:35 shadow-


cat: shadow: Input/output error

If you see this you are probably in big trouble, it could be a physical error or if it's a VM image that it is corrupted due to a physical error on the underlying disk/array/NAS or it could also be that somehow the image was accessed and mounted more than once concurrently.  This is almost always impossible to fix but you can always try to fsck anyway!

fsck /dev/mapper/loop5p1
fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
e2fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
/dev/mapper/loop5p1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 11383 has zero dtime.  Fix<y>? yes
Deleted inode 11387 has zero dtime.  Fix<y>? yes
Deleted inode 11388 has zero dtime.  Fix<y>? yes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry 'shadow' in /etc (13) has deleted/unused inode 11390.  Clear<y>? yes
Entry 'shadow-202007141594765348' in /etc (13) has deleted/unused inode 11386.  Clear<y>? yes
Entry 'shadow-202007141594770924' in /etc (13) has deleted/unused inode 11386.  Clear<y>? yes
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Inode 11328 ref count is 1, should be 3.  Fix<y>? yes
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences:  -(45056--47103) -(68608--70172) -(71680--73727) -(77824--77828) -(83968--84460)
Fix<y>? yes
Free blocks count wrong for group #1 (10183, counted=12231).
Fix<y>? yes
Free blocks count wrong for group #2 (11477, counted=15588).
Fix<y>? yes
Free blocks count wrong (675912, counted=682073).
Fix<y>? yes
Inode bitmap differences:  -11340 -11383 -(11387--11388)
Fix<y>? yes
Free inodes count wrong for group #1 (4671, counted=4675).
Fix<y>? yes
Free inodes count wrong (242659, counted=242665).
Fix<y>? yes

/dev/mapper/loop5p1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/mapper/loop5p1: 39015/281680 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 442791/1124864 blocks
 

Is a mdadm check on your trusty software RAID array happening at the worst time and slowing down your server or NAS?

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10]
md127 : active raid10 sdb4[0] sda4[1]
      897500672 blocks super 1.2 2 near-copies [2/2] [UU]
      [==========>..........]  check = 50.4% (452485504/897500672) finish=15500.3min speed=478K/sec
      bitmap: 5/7 pages [20KB], 65536KB chunk

Solution

Just tell it to idle"

echo idle >  /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127/md/sync_action
 

After that check again and you'll see it has stopped.

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10]
md127 : active raid10 sdb4[0] sda4[1]
      897500672 blocks super 1.2 2 near-copies [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 5/7 pages [20KB], 65536KB chunk

 

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -boot order=cd,once=dc -vga cirrus -m 4096 -drive file=~/23815135.img,if=virtio -usbdevice tablet -net nic,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:D4:AB -netdev bridge,br=br0,id=net0
qemu-kvm: -usbdevice tablet: '-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use '-device usb-...' instead
access denied by acl file
qemu-kvm: bridge helper failed
[root@CentOS-82-64-minimal 23815135]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -boot order=cd,once=dc -vga cirrus -m 4096 -drive file=/root/kvmguests/23815135/23815135.img,if=virtio -usbdevice tablet -net nic,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:D4:AB -netdev bridge,br=br0,id=net0
 

So you're trying to use a bridge are told you are being denied.  Make sure you create a bridge.conf file and allow br0 or whatever your bridge device in that file and it will work after.

Solution:

mkdir -p /etc/qemu
echo "allow br0" >> /etc/qemu-kvm/bridge.conf
 

I was using a small box as a router and one of the ports started going off and coming back at 100M.  I truly believe it is simply that it was a case of overheating.  Although CPU temps were only about 67 degrees, the physical box itself was almost burning hot.  I solved the cooling issue and never had the issue again.

Jul 28 15:09:27 swithbox kernel: e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx
Jul 28 15:09:28 swithbox kernel: e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Down
Jul 28 15:09:30 swithbox kernel: e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx
Jul 28 15:09:31 swithbox kernel: e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Down
Jul 28 15:09:33 swithbox kernel: e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx
Jul 28 15:09:33 swithbox kernel: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: eth1: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO

I just want to shed light that sometimes we may assume the port is just bad or the cable is bad, sometimes this can happen because of overheating.  It has never happened again since I fixed the cooling where the CPU and physical box reached scorching temperatures that have never been seen.

On that note, it probably signals it is time to apply some new thermal paste onto the bridges and CPU, as it has probably dried out especially if your load is almost non-existent.

You should only get this if you are using a Pentium II or something really old.  The problem here is that newer kernels than 2.6 don't have true i386 support even if you tell it to compile as i386.  It will still include features like cmov that break older computers from being able to work.

Generally for very old computers like above, you need to use a 2.6.x kernel and of course make sure it is i386 and all the binaries are as well.

http://vault.centos.org/5.9/os/i386/repodata/filelists.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum


yum clean all
yum makecache
yum update

This is very frustrating but the fix is usually easy once you read this blog. It's very frustrating when you find that your Linux / Ubuntu laptop's wifi will NEVER work unless it is plugged into the power.  The wifi menu may say "Wifi disabled by hardware switch".  You may find that your laptop has no switch or has a function wifi button on the keyboard but this does not work or have any effect.

The cause is usual a "wmi" kernel module and simply doing an rmmod / unloading this module will instantly allow your wifi to work.

Go to your terminal and type:

lsmod|grep wmi

If you see something like "acer_wmi"

type:

sudo rmmod acer_wmi

To make the fix permanent type this:

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

#add a new line

blacklist acer_wmi

Of course be sure to replace acer_wmi with whatever your wmi is

Now you can finally enjoy true wireless wifi without having your laptop plugged into the AC power socket.

yum -y install gcc make gperf genisoimage flex bison ncurses ncurses-devel pcre-devel augeas-devel augeas readline-devel
 
checking for cpio... cpio
checking for gperf... no
configure: error: gperf must be installed

configure: error: Package requirements (augeas >= 1.2.0) were not met:

Requested 'augeas >= 1.2.0' but version of augeas is 1.0.0

yum remove augeas augeas-libs augeas-devel
wget http://download.augeas.net/augeas-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf augeas-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd augeas-1.2.0
yum -y install readline-devel
./configure
make
make install


configure: error: Package requirements (augeas >= 1.2.0) were not met:

No package 'augeas' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables AUGEAS_CFLAGS
and AUGEAS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-conf

#fix
#recompile augeas like this:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make;make install

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/bin/


#
find /usr|grep aug|grep -v share
/usr/bin/augparse
/usr/bin/augtool
/usr/local/bin/augparse
/usr/local/bin/augtool
/usr/local/lib/libaugeas.la
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/augeas.pc
/usr/local/lib/libaugeas.so.0.18.0
/usr/local/lib/libaugeas.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libaugeas.a
/usr/local/lib/libaugeas.so
/usr/local/include/augeas.h
/usr/lib/libaugeas.la
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/augeas.pc
/usr/lib/libaugeas.so.0.18.0
/usr/lib/libaugeas.so.0
/usr/lib/libaugeas.a
/usr/lib/libaugeas.so
/usr/include/augeas.h

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig/


configure: error: libmagic (part of the "file" command) is required.
                   Please install the file devel package

yum install file-devel

yum install jansson-devel hivex-devel.x86_64


checking for supermin... no
checking for --with-supermin-packager-config option... not set
checking for --with-supermin-extra-options option... not set
configure: error: supermin >= 5.1 must be installed


#yum -y install febootstrap-*

yum -y install ocaml ocaml-findlib

http://download.libguestfs.org/supermin/5.2-stable/supermin-5.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf supermin-5.2.0.tar.gz
cd supermin-5.2.0
./configure
make

ocamlfind ocamlopt -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVXYZ-3  -package unix,str -c format_ext2_initrd.ml -o format_ext2_initrd.cmx
ocamlfind ocamlopt -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVXYZ-3  -package unix,str -c format_ext2_kernel.ml -o format_ext2_kernel.cmx
File "format_ext2_kernel.ml", line 293, characters 12-24:
Error: Unbound value Bytes.create
make[3]: *** [format_ext2_kernel.cmx] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2


checking for EXT2FS... no
configure: error: Package requirements (ext2fs) were not met:

No package 'ext2fs' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EXT2FS_CFLAGS
and EXT2FS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.


yum -y install e2fsprogs-devel

make
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [init] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0/init'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2


yum install glibc-static

ocamlfind ocamlopt -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVXYZ-3  -package unix,str -c format_ext2_kernel.ml -o format_ext2_kernel.cmx
File "format_ext2_kernel.ml", line 293, characters 12-24:
Error: Unbound value Bytes.create
make[3]: *** [format_ext2_kernel.cmx] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/supermin-5.2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2


 

chroot /root/kvmguests/4591915/mount
FATAL: kernel too old

This happens for example if you are in Centos 6 and trying to chroot into a system based on a newer kernel like 4.x+

You'll have to use a newer OS/kernel system to chroot into the environment or a VM running a newer kernel.

apt install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt update
apt install python3-pip
apt install python3.7 curl gnupg python3.7-dev git
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3
pip3 install numpy keras_preprocessing
curl https://bazel.build/bazel-release.pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list
apt update
apt install bazel-3.1.0
wget https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd tensorflow-master

#be warned it takes forever and a lot of HDD space to compile tensorflow!
bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install gpt-2-simple

/usr/env/python: 'python': No such file or directory
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python

Here is a lot of the hacking and slashing that I did to get it going to make the above:

root@gpt2:/# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
root@gpt2:/# ^Cadd-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
root@gpt2:/# apt-cache search apt-add-repository
root@gpt2:/# ^Ct-cache search apt-add-repository
root@gpt2:/# ^C
root@gpt2:/# apta install^C
root@gpt2:/# apt install software-properties-common
Reading package lists... Done
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E: Unable to locate package software-properties-common
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root@gpt2:/# apt install software-properties-common
Reading package lists... Done
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The following additional packages will be installed:
  apt apt-utils gir1.2-glib-2.0 iso-codes libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libcurl3-gnutls libdbus-glib-1-2 libgirepository-1.0-1 librtmp1 powermgmt-base
  python-apt-common python3-apt python3-dbus python3-gi python3-pycurl python3-software-properties unattended-upgrades
Suggested packages:
  aptitude | synaptic | wajig dpkg-dev apt-doc python-apt isoquery python3-apt-dbg python-apt-doc python-dbus-doc python3-dbus-dbg libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  python-pycurl-doc python3-pycurl-dbg needrestart
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  python3-pycurl python3-software-properties software-properties-common unattended-upgrades
The following packages will be upgraded:
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root@gpt2:/# add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
 This PPA contains more recent Python versions packaged for Ubuntu.

Disclaimer: there's no guarantee of timely updates in case of security problems or other issues. If you want to use them in a security-or-otherwise-critical environment (say, on a production server), you do so at your own risk.

Update Note
===========
Please use this repository instead of ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes.

Reporting Issues
================

Issues can be reported in the master issue tracker at:
https://github.com/deadsnakes/issues/issues

Supported Ubuntu and Python Versions
====================================

- Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) Python 2.3 - Python 2.6, Python 3.1 - Python3.4, Python 3.6 - Python3.9
- Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) Python2.3 - Python 2.6, Python 3.1 - Python 3.5, Python3.7 - Python3.9
- Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) Python3.5 - Python3.7, Python3.9
- Note: Python2.7 (all), Python 3.5 (xenial), Python 3.6 (bionic), Python 3.8 (focal) are not provided by deadsnakes as upstream ubuntu provides those packages.
- Note: for focal, older python versions require libssl1.0.x so they are not currently built

The packages may also work on other versions of Ubuntu or Debian, but that is not tested or supported.

Packages
========

The packages provided here are loosely based on the debian upstream packages with some modifications to make them more usable as non-default pythons and on ubuntu.  As such, the packages follow debian's patterns and often do not include a full python distribution with just `apt install python#.#`.  Here is a list of packages that may be useful along with the default install:

- `python#.#-dev`: includes development headers for building C extensions
- `python#.#-venv`: provides the standard library `venv` module
- `python#.#-distutils`: provides the standard library `distutils` module
- `python#.#-lib2to3`: provides the `2to3-#.#` utility as well as the standard library `lib2to3` module
- `python#.#-gdbm`: provides the standard library `dbm.gnu` module
- `python#.#-tk`: provides the standard library `tkinter` module

Third-Party Python Modules
==========================

Python modules in the official Ubuntu repositories are packaged to work with the Python interpreters from the official repositories. Accordingly, they generally won't work with the Python interpreters from this PPA. As an exception, pure-Python modules for Python 3 will work, but any compiled extension modules won't.

To install 3rd-party Python modules, you should use the common Python packaging tools.  For an introduction into the Python packaging ecosystem and its tools, refer to the Python Packaging User Guide:
https://packaging.python.org/installing/

Sources
=======
The package sources are available at:
https://github.com/deadsnakes/

Nightly Builds
==============

For nightly builds, see ppa:deadsnakes/nightly https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/nightly
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

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  libpython3.7-minimal libpython3.7-stdlib python3.7-distutils python3.7-lib2to3 python3.7-minimal
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apt install python3-pip
ln --force -s /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3


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import gpt_2_simple as gpt2
from datetime import datetime
from google.colab import files

sess=gpt2.start_tf_sess()
gpt2.finetune(sess,
dataset=file_name,
model_name='124M',
steps=1000,
restore_from='fresh',
run_name='run1',
print_every=10,
sample_every=200,
save_every=500
)

vi gpt2.py
root@gpt2:~# pyhon3 gpt2.py
-bash: pyhon3: command not found
root@gpt2:~# python3 gpt2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
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    import gpt_2_simple as gpt2
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gpt_2_simple/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .gpt_2 import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gpt_2_simple/gpt_2.py", line 10, in <module>
    import tensorflow as tf
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tensorflow'

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WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly.
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python3 gpt2.py
Illegal instruction


#it is something weird with tensorflow 2.2.0
#downgrade!
pip3 install tensorflow==1.13.1

#nope
pip3 install tensorflow==1.15.3 
#nope same error

#apparently any Tensorflow newer than 1.5 won't work if your computer does not have AVX CPU extensions

#compile from source
wget https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/archive/master.zip
 cd tensorflow-master

 ./configure
Cannot find bazel. Please install bazel.



apt install curl gnupg
curl https://bazel.build/bazel-release.pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list

apt update
apt install bazel

Reading package lists... Done                    
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
E: Failed to fetch https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt/dists/stable/InRelease 
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

#edit and change https to http
 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list
deb [arch=amd64] https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8

apt install bazel

#back to tensorflow
./configure

./configure
WARNING: current bazel installation is not a release version.
Make sure you are running at least bazel 3.1.0
Please specify the location of python. [Default is /usr/bin/python3]:


Found possible Python library paths:
  /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
  /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages
Please input the desired Python library path to use.  Default is [/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages]

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with OpenCL SYCL support? [y/N]: n
No OpenCL SYCL support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with ROCm support? [y/N]: n
No ROCm support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to build TensorFlow with CUDA support? [y/N]: n
No CUDA support will be enabled for TensorFlow.

Do you wish to download a fresh release of clang? (Experimental) [y/N]: n
Clang will not be downloaded.

Please specify optimization flags to use during compilation when bazel option "--config=opt" is specified [Default is -march=native -Wno-sign-compare]:


Would you like to interactively configure ./WORKSPACE for Android builds? [y/N]: n
Not configuring the WORKSPACE for Android builds.

Preconfigured Bazel build configs. You can use any of the below by adding "--config=<>" to your build command. See .bazelrc for more details.
    --config=mkl             # Build with MKL support.
    --config=monolithic      # Config for mostly static monolithic build.
    --config=ngraph          # Build with Intel nGraph support.
    --config=numa            # Build with NUMA support.
    --config=dynamic_kernels    # (Experimental) Build kernels into separate shared objects.
    --config=v2              # Build TensorFlow 2.x instead of 1.x.
Preconfigured Bazel build configs to DISABLE default on features:
    --config=noaws           # Disable AWS S3 filesystem support.
    --config=nogcp           # Disable GCP support.
    --config=nohdfs          # Disable HDFS support.
    --config=nonccl          # Disable NVIDIA NCCL support.
Configuration finished


#ok weird I have bazel 3.4 what is the issue?

bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
ERROR: The project you're trying to build requires Bazel 3.1.0 (specified in /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelversion), but it wasn't found in /usr/bin.

You can install the required Bazel version via apt:
  sudo apt update && sudo apt install bazel-3.1.0

If this doesn't work, check Bazel's installation instructions for help:
  https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install-ubuntu.html
root@gpt2:~/tensorflow/tensorflow-master# dpkg -l|grep bazel
ii  bazel                         3.4.1                              amd64        Bazel is a tool that automates software builds and tests.


apt install bazel-3.1.0

bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package


apt install bazel-3.1.0
Reading package lists... Done
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Suggested packages:
  google-jdk | java8-sdk-headless | java8-jdk | java8-sdk | oracle-java8-installer bash-completion
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bazel-3.1.0
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root@gpt2:~/tensorflow/tensorflow-master# bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
Extracting Bazel installation...
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Options provided by the client:
  Inherited 'common' options: --isatty=1 --terminal_columns=166
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  Inherited 'common' options: --experimental_repo_remote_exec
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --apple_platform_type=macos --define framework_shared_object=true --define open_source_build=true --java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --host_java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true --define=allow_oversize_protos=true --spawn_strategy=standalone -c opt --announce_rc --define=grpc_no_ares=true --noincompatible_remove_legacy_whole_archive --noincompatible_prohibit_aapt1 --enable_platform_specific_config --config=v2
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.tf_configure.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --action_env PYTHON_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin/python3 --action_env PYTHON_LIB_PATH=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages --python_path=/usr/bin/python3 --config=xla --action_env TF_CONFIGURE_IOS=0
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:v2 in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=tf_api_version=2 --action_env=TF2_BEHAVIOR=1
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:xla in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --action_env=TF_ENABLE_XLA=1 --define=with_xla_support=true
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:linux in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --copt=-w --define=PREFIX=/usr --define=LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib --define=INCLUDEDIR=$(PREFIX)/include --cxxopt=-std=c++14 --host_cxxopt=-std=c++14 --config=dynamic_kernels
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:dynamic_kernels in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=dynamic_loaded_kernels=true --copt=-DAUTOLOAD_DYNAMIC_KERNELS
INFO: Repository local_execution_config_python instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule local_python_configure defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl:275:26: in <toplevel>
ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'local_execution_config_python':
   Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 214
        _symlink_genrule_for_dir(<4 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 66, in _symlink_genrule_for_dir
        "n".join(<1 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 66, in "n".join
        read_dir(repository_ctx, <1 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/remote_config/common.bzl", line 101, in read_dir
        execute(repository_ctx, <2 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/remote_config/common.bzl", line 208, in execute
        fail(<1 more arguments>)
Repository command failed
find: '/usr/include/python3.7m': No such file or directory
INFO: Repository sobol_data instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule third_party_http_archive defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/repo.bzl:216:28: in <toplevel>
INFO: Repository absl_py instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule tf_http_archive defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/repo.bzl:131:19: in <toplevel>
INFO: Repository rules_proto instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule http_archive defined at:
  /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/http.bzl:336:16: in <toplevel>
INFO: Repository rules_java instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule http_archive defined at:
  /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/http.bzl:336:16: in <toplevel>
ERROR: Analysis of target '//tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package' failed; build aborted: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 214
        _symlink_genrule_for_dir(<4 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 66, in _symlink_genrule_for_dir
        "n".join(<1 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/py/python_configure.bzl", line 66, in "n".join
        read_dir(repository_ctx, <1 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/remote_config/common.bzl", line 101, in read_dir
        execute(repository_ctx, <2 more arguments>)
    File "/root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/remote_config/common.bzl", line 208, in execute
        fail(<1 more arguments>)
Repository command failed
find: '/usr/include/python3.7m': No such file or directory
INFO: Elapsed time: 37.338s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (150 packages loaded, 3343 targets configured)
    currently loading: @bazel_tools//tools/jdk ... (2 packages)



#find: '/usr/include/python3.7m': No such file or directory

apt install python3.7-dev

#ok new error

 bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
INFO: Options provided by the client:
  Inherited 'common' options: --isatty=1 --terminal_columns=166
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  Inherited 'common' options: --experimental_repo_remote_exec
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --apple_platform_type=macos --define framework_shared_object=true --define open_source_build=true --java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --host_java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true --define=allow_oversize_protos=true --spawn_strategy=standalone -c opt --announce_rc --define=grpc_no_ares=true --noincompatible_remove_legacy_whole_archive --noincompatible_prohibit_aapt1 --enable_platform_specific_config --config=v2
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.tf_configure.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --action_env PYTHON_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin/python3 --action_env PYTHON_LIB_PATH=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages --python_path=/usr/bin/python3 --config=xla --action_env TF_CONFIGURE_IOS=0
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:v2 in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=tf_api_version=2 --action_env=TF2_BEHAVIOR=1
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:xla in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --action_env=TF_ENABLE_XLA=1 --define=with_xla_support=true
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:linux in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --copt=-w --define=PREFIX=/usr --define=LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib --define=INCLUDEDIR=$(PREFIX)/include --cxxopt=-std=c++14 --host_cxxopt=-std=c++14 --config=dynamic_kernels
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:dynamic_kernels in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=dynamic_loaded_kernels=true --copt=-DAUTOLOAD_DYNAMIC_KERNELS
INFO: Repository io_bazel_rules_docker instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule git_repository defined at:
  /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl:195:18: in <toplevel>
ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'io_bazel_rules_docker':
   Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl", line 177
        _clone_or_update(ctx)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl", line 36, in _clone_or_update
        git_repo(ctx, directory)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 91, in git_repo
        _update(ctx, git_repo)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 101, in _update
        init(ctx, git_repo)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 115, in init
        _error(ctx.name, cl, st.stderr)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 181, in _error
        fail(<1 more arguments>)
error running 'git init /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/io_bazel_rules_docker' while working with @io_bazel_rules_docker:
src/main/tools/process-wrapper-legacy.cc:58: "execvp(git, ...)": No such file or directory
INFO: Repository absl_py instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule tf_http_archive defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/repo.bzl:131:19: in <toplevel>
INFO: Repository wrapt instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule tf_http_archive defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/repo.bzl:131:19: in <toplevel>
INFO: Repository rules_python instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule tf_http_archive defined at:
  /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/third_party/repo.bzl:131:19: in <toplevel>
ERROR: Analysis of target '//tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package' failed; build aborted: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl", line 177
        _clone_or_update(ctx)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl", line 36, in _clone_or_update
        git_repo(ctx, directory)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 91, in git_repo
        _update(ctx, git_repo)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 101, in _update
        init(ctx, git_repo)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 115, in init
        _error(ctx.name, cl, st.stderr)
    File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git_worker.bzl", line 181, in _error
        fail(<1 more arguments>)
error running 'git init /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/io_bazel_rules_docker' while working with @io_bazel_rules_docker:
src/main/tools/process-wrapper-legacy.cc:58: "execvp(git, ...)": No such file or directory
INFO: Elapsed time: 1.038s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (7 packages loaded, 108 targets configured)
    Fetching @local_config_python; fetching

#oh it needs git!
apt install git

#another compile error ! :(

bazel build //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
INFO: Options provided by the client:
  Inherited 'common' options: --isatty=1 --terminal_columns=166
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  Inherited 'common' options: --experimental_repo_remote_exec
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --apple_platform_type=macos --define framework_shared_object=true --define open_source_build=true --java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --host_java_toolchain=//third_party/toolchains/java:tf_java_toolchain --define=use_fast_cpp_protos=true --define=allow_oversize_protos=true --spawn_strategy=standalone -c opt --announce_rc --define=grpc_no_ares=true --noincompatible_remove_legacy_whole_archive --noincompatible_prohibit_aapt1 --enable_platform_specific_config --config=v2
INFO: Reading rc options for 'build' from /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.tf_configure.bazelrc:
  'build' options: --action_env PYTHON_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin/python3 --action_env PYTHON_LIB_PATH=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages --python_path=/usr/bin/python3 --config=xla --action_env TF_CONFIGURE_IOS=0
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:v2 in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=tf_api_version=2 --action_env=TF2_BEHAVIOR=1
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:xla in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --action_env=TF_ENABLE_XLA=1 --define=with_xla_support=true
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:linux in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --copt=-w --define=PREFIX=/usr --define=LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib --define=INCLUDEDIR=$(PREFIX)/include --cxxopt=-std=c++14 --host_cxxopt=-std=c++14 --config=dynamic_kernels
INFO: Found applicable config definition build:dynamic_kernels in file /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/.bazelrc: --define=dynamic_loaded_kernels=true --copt=-DAUTOLOAD_DYNAMIC_KERNELS
DEBUG: Rule 'io_bazel_rules_docker' indicated that a canonical reproducible form can be obtained by modifying arguments shallow_since = "1556410077 -0400"
DEBUG: Repository io_bazel_rules_docker instantiated at:
  no stack (--record_rule_instantiation_callstack not enabled)
Repository rule git_repository defined at:
  /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/git.bzl:195:18: in <toplevel>
WARNING: Download from https://storage.googleapis.com/mirror.tensorflow.org/github.com/google/ruy/archive/d492ac890d982d7a153a326922f362b10de8d2ad.zip failed: class com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.downloader.UnrecoverableHttpException GET returned 404 Not Found
WARNING: Download from https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp/archive/1.7.336.tar.gz failed: class com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.downloader.UnrecoverableHttpException GET returned 404 Not Found
WARNING: /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/tensorflow/core/BUILD:1720:1: in linkstatic attribute of cc_library rule //tensorflow/core:lib_internal: setting 'linkstatic=1' is recommended if there are no object files. Since this rule was created by the macro 'cc_library', the error might have been caused by the macro implementation
WARNING: /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/tensorflow/core/BUILD:2132:1: in linkstatic attribute of cc_library rule //tensorflow/core:framework_internal: setting 'linkstatic=1' is recommended if there are no object files. Since this rule was created by the macro 'tf_cuda_library', the error might have been caused by the macro implementation
WARNING: /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/tensorflow/core/BUILD:1745:1: in linkstatic attribute of cc_library rule //tensorflow/core:lib_headers_for_pybind: setting 'linkstatic=1' is recommended if there are no object files. Since this rule was created by the macro 'cc_library', the error might have been caused by the macro implementation
WARNING: Download from https://storage.googleapis.com/mirror.tensorflow.org/github.com/llvm/llvm-project/archive/cf5df40c4cf1a53a02ab1d56a488642e3dda8f6d.tar.gz failed: class com.google.devtools.build.lib.bazel.repository.downloader.UnrecoverableHttpException GET returned 404 Not Found
WARNING: /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/tensorflow/python/BUILD:4666:1: in py_library rule //tensorflow/python:standard_ops: target '//tensorflow/python:standard_ops' depends on deprecated target '//tensorflow/python/ops/distributions:distributions': TensorFlow Distributions has migrated to TensorFlow Probability (https://github.com/tensorflow/probability). Deprecated copies remaining in tf.distributions will not receive new features, and will be removed by early 2019. You should update all usage of `tf.distributions` to `tfp.distributions`.
WARNING: /root/tensorflow/tensorflow-master/tensorflow/python/BUILD:115:1: in py_library rule //tensorflow/python:no_contrib: target '//tensorflow/python:no_contrib' depends on deprecated target '//tensorflow/python/ops/distributions:distributions': TensorFlow Distributions has migrated to TensorFlow Probability (https://github.com/tensorflow/probability). Deprecated copies remaining in tf.distributions will not receive new features, and will be removed by early 2019. You should update all usage of `tf.distributions` to `tfp.distributions`.
INFO: Analyzed target //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package (230 packages loaded, 27544 targets configured).
INFO: Found 1 target...
ERROR: /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/7ec620ba27478531320be669b1ca3db4/external/com_google_absl/absl/time/BUILD.bazel:29:1: C++ compilation of rule '@com_google_absl//absl/time:time' failed (Exit 1)

cc1plus: out of memory allocating 236976 bytes after a total of 77238272 bytes
Target //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 62.789s, Critical Path: 3.15s
INFO: 103 processes: 103 local.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully

#cc1plus: out of memory allocating 236976 bytes after a total of 77238272 bytes


ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tensorflow.core'
 

Unless you are using OpenStack, AWS etc then cloud-init is just some bloat that slows down the booting of your VM and can actually halt it from booting if it doesn't have a proper working IP (not good!).

#remove cloud init!

Debian based Ubuntu / Mint

sudo apt remove cloud-init

RHEL / CentOS based

yum remove cloud-init

I am going to build this based on a series of small posts I've made as I feel much of the information is actually hard to find and piece together from the rest of the web.

What I'm going to focus on is how to use virtio as the NIC because if you don't you get very slow NIC speeds but with the virtio NIC model you basically get host speeds.

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -smp 8 -m 16000 -net user -net nic,model=virtio -drive file=ubuntu-gpt2large.img,if=virtio
 

How do I specify local NAT network only? 

By default if you don't specify "-net" as network type it defaults to user mode networking.  Basically you get a standard NAT IP that allows the VM to surf the net, download etc.. but it's not possible to remotely access the VM.

How do specify my NIC as being virtio?

-net nic,model=virtio

Most newer distros inexplicably cause your NIC to have what I call "random" non-standard name conventions because of systemd.

This is a big problem for many people and especially those running servers.  Imagine that you have a static IP configured for ens33 but then the hard disk is moved to a newer system, the NIC could be anything from ens33 to enp0s1, meaning that manual intervention is required to go and update the NIC config file (eg. /etc/network/interfaces /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens33).

But there is a solution and it just takes a few seconds to solve and it works on virtually all Linux OS's whether Ubuntu, Linux Mint, CentOS, RHEL/Fedora etc.., Debian

enp0s25

#Edit /etc/grub/default

Step 1. ) Add this to the line below "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

Step 2.) Update GRUB

This depends on your OS.

Debian based Ubuntu/Mint:

update-grub

Centos/RHEL

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

After that just reboot and from now on you will have predictable and normal/standard NIC devices!

Below is an example of editing the default grub file on Debian/Ubuntu

Here is what CentOS 8 looks like:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=UUID=bbed66de-8c71-44e3-aa82-da7830ccc98e net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

This is caused because the user is running as qemu for virt-resize and if qemu does not have privileges to read from the source and write to the destination, it will fail with the below.  So either change the uid of qemu or change the ownership of the source and target.

Solution:

export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct

virt-resize --expand /dev/sda2 /root/kvmtemplates/windows2019-eval-template.img /root/kvmguests/kvmkvmuser451511/kvmkvmuser451511.img
[   0.0] Examining /root/kvmtemplates/windows2019-eval-template.img
virt-resize: error: libguestfs error: could not create appliance through
libvirt.

Try running qemu directly without libvirt using this environment variable:
export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct

Original error from libvirt: Cannot access backing file
'/root/kvmtemplates/windows2019-eval-template.img' of storage file
'/tmp/libguestfsFNamzn/overlay1.qcow2' (as uid:107, gid:107): Permission
denied [code=38 int1=13]

If reporting bugs, run virt-resize with debugging enabled and include the
complete output:

  virt-resize -v -x [...]


When authentication times out that is one thing, but when it just fails like below Asterisk by default will not re-register until you the admin reload the sip or asterisk server:

voipserver*CLI> sip show registry
Host                           dnsmgr Username       Refresh State                Reg.Time                
remote.voipservice.com:5060          N      151113             105 No Authentication    Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:20:08
1 SIP registrations.

Now reload and it will re-register

voipserver*CLI> sip reload
voipserver*CLI> sip show registry
Host                           dnsmgr Username       Refresh State                Reg.Time                
remote.voipservice.com:5060          N      151113             105 Registered           Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:22:09
1 SIP registrations.
 

How do we fix this so it retries when authentication fails?

under /etc/asterisk/sip.conf where you have your trunk peer add this:

register_retry_403=yes
 

Then restart asterisk or reload it and the above setting should sort it out and make Asterisk keep retrying

Note that the setting registerattempts=0 (which is unlimited retries) does not fix the problem shown above, but only register_retry_403=yes fixes it.

Just run this apt install command

sudo apt install pepperflashplugin-nonfree browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
 

After this restart your browser and check Adobe's site to verify if your Pepper flash is working and showing at least version 32.

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html

As you'll see below it will download the latest version which is currently 32 and this was not possible with the old/crappy deprecated adobe-flash plugin.

sudo apt install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  chromium-browser ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pepperflashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 310 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,620 B of archives.
After this operation, 30.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 pepperflashplugin-nonfree amd64 1.8.2ubuntu1.1 [5,620 B]
Fetched 5,620 B in 0s (15.1 kB/s)                   
Selecting previously unselected package pepperflashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 323899 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../pepperflashplugin-nonfree_1.8.2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.2ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.2ubuntu1.1) ...
--2020-05-07 13:02:47--  https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.363/flash_player_ppapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.adobe.com (fpdownload.adobe.com)... 2.22.72.174, 2001:569:139:193::11e2, 2001:569:139:198::11e2
Connecting to fpdownload.adobe.com (fpdownload.adobe.com)|2.22.72.174|:443... connected.
 

I used to believe that for Desktops especially that the "ondemand" CPU frequency changing that kernels included with Ubuntu and Debian based distros have would be sufficient for snappy performance.

However, you can feel the lack of performance on the fastest computer if you have ondemand.  A lot of times even under high load 100% of your CPU frequency in MHz will not be used.

For example a 2.8Ghz CPU may only run at 1.8MHz or even .9GHz.  Now the frequency will scale up under high load but you can feel things in the OS aren't as snappy while you wait for the ondemand governor to increase the performance.  This can especially cause choppy sound and video if you are conferencing.

The solution is to change the governor to "performance" so the cores always run at the highest frequency.

How To Check Your CPU Performance Governor Settings

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

ondemand

In this case it is already set to ondemand which is generally the default slow performance mode.

If you do this you will see your CPU is set lower in frequency:

cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep MHz
cpu MHz        : 900.000
cpu MHz        : 1200.000
cpu MHz        : 1400.000
cpu MHz        : 1100.000
cpu MHz        : 1000.000
cpu MHz        : 980.000
cpu MHz        : 1112.000
cpu MHz        : 1484.000
 

How Do We Fix CPU Performance

The below will set up to 100 CPU cores to performance mode.  Just change the 99 to higher number if you have more cores than 100.

for i in {0..99}; do echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/cpufreq/scaling_governor; done

Conclusion

Setting CPU governor to performance makes a huge difference in the responsiveness of your computer.

A lot of times you may falsely believe your CPU is underutilized when checking the current CPU frequency or top but it is kind of like "auto" settings on your GPU.  By the time the frequencies are adapted you may have usage issues such as audio cutting out and lag in video conferencing due to CPU throttling

After doing this I observed apps that were using 150% CPU go down to 85% CPU

So a lot of times the lack of optimized governor that doesn't scale to the highest frequency will make it seem like your PC is not powerful enough when that's not the case.

base64 has legitimate uses too and can be an easy way to store a file or data within actual code for developers to keep things in a single file.

For example let's take an image we'll see for an application's background:

base64 -w 0 some.jpg > some.jpg-base64

-w 0 makes it output to a single line which makes it easy to store in a variable.  Without the -w 0 it will wrap over multiple lines.

radeon_dp_aux_transfer_native: 158 callbacks suppressed

The simple answer is that radeon driver sucks and is a remnant of typical AMD/ATI issues.

Use AMDGPU if you support it: 

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sdb1 missing --metadata=0.90
mdadm: super0.90 cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is not suitable for this array.
mdadm: create aborted


Sometimes running "partprobe" can fix this.  Other times it requires a reboot.

One other manual thing that can be done is the following to fix it (if dm is using and blocking it):

dmsetup table

Then remove the entry that is using /dev/sdb1

dmsetup remove [the device id from above]

If the above doesn't work could it be that you used -f to fail a partition to test or by accident?

md3 : active raid10 sdb3[2](F) sda3[0]
      436343808 blocks 512K chunks 2 far-copies [2/1] [U_]
      bitmap: 4/4 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk


mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb3: Device or resource busy
 

Fix it by removing the device from the mdadm array

mdadm --manage /dev/md3 -r /dev/sdb3
mdadm: hot removed /dev/sdb3 from /dev/md3

Now we can readd it without any error:

mdadm --manage /dev/md3 -a /dev/sdb3
mdadm: re-added /dev/sdb3

yum -y install wget unzip
wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-18.0.2.zip
unzip nextcloud-18.0.2.zip



yum -y install php php-mysqlnd php-json php-zip php-dom php-xml php-libxml php-mbstring php-gd mysql mysql-server

Last metadata expiration check: 0:58:02 ago on Fri 13 Mar 2020 02:12:49 PM EDT.
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 php-mysqlnd                       x86_64                7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff                    AppStream                190 k
Installing dependencies:
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 centos-logos-httpd                noarch                80.5-2.el8                                              AppStream                 24 k
 httpd                             x86_64                2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463                   AppStream                1.7 M
 httpd-filesystem                  noarch                2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463                   AppStream                 35 k
 httpd-tools                       x86_64                2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463                   AppStream                103 k
 mod_http2                         x86_64                1.11.3-3.module_el8.1.0+213+acce2796                    AppStream                158 k
 nginx-filesystem                  noarch                1:1.14.1-9.module_el8.0.0+184+e34fea82                  AppStream                 24 k
 php-cli                           x86_64                7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff                    AppStream                3.1 M
 php-common                        x86_64                7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff                    AppStream                655 k
 php-pdo                           x86_64                7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff                    AppStream                122 k
 mailcap                           noarch                2.1.48-3.el8                                            BaseOS                    39 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 apr-util-bdb                      x86_64                1.6.1-6.el8                                             AppStream                 25 k
 apr-util-openssl                  x86_64                1.6.1-6.el8                                             AppStream                 27 k
 php-fpm                           x86_64                7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff                    AppStream                1.6 M
Enabling module streams:
 httpd                                                   2.4                                                                                  
 nginx                                                   1.14                                                                                 
 php                                                     7.2                                                                                  

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(13/17): php-mysqlnd-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64.rpm                                            3.0 MB/s | 190 kB     00:00   
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  Installing       : php-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                      16/17
  Installing       : php-mysqlnd-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                              17/17
  Running scriptlet: httpd-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.x86_64                                                                   17/17
  Running scriptlet: php-mysqlnd-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                              17/17
  Running scriptlet: php-fpm-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                  17/17
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  Verifying        : apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-6.el8.x86_64                                                                                   4/17
  Verifying        : centos-logos-httpd-80.5-2.el8.noarch                                                                                  5/17
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  Verifying        : httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.noarch                                                         7/17
  Verifying        : httpd-tools-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.x86_64                                                              8/17
  Verifying        : mod_http2-1.11.3-3.module_el8.1.0+213+acce2796.x86_64                                                                 9/17
  Verifying        : nginx-filesystem-1:1.14.1-9.module_el8.0.0+184+e34fea82.noarch                                                       10/17
  Verifying        : php-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                      11/17
  Verifying        : php-cli-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                  12/17
  Verifying        : php-common-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                               13/17
  Verifying        : php-fpm-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                  14/17
  Verifying        : php-mysqlnd-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                              15/17
  Verifying        : php-pdo-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                                                                  16/17
  Verifying        : mailcap-2.1.48-3.el8.noarch                                                                                          17/17

Installed:
  php-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                         php-mysqlnd-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64              
  apr-util-bdb-1.6.1-6.el8.x86_64                                         apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-6.el8.x86_64                                  
  php-fpm-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                     apr-1.6.3-9.el8.x86_64                                               
  apr-util-1.6.1-6.el8.x86_64                                             centos-logos-httpd-80.5-2.el8.noarch                                 
  httpd-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.x86_64                      httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.noarch        
  httpd-tools-2.4.37-16.module_el8.1.0+256+ae790463.x86_64                mod_http2-1.11.3-3.module_el8.1.0+213+acce2796.x86_64                
  nginx-filesystem-1:1.14.1-9.module_el8.0.0+184+e34fea82.noarch          php-cli-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                  
  php-common-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                  php-pdo-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64                  
  mailcap-2.1.48-3.el8.noarch                                           

Complete!


systemctl start httpd;systemctl enable httpd
systemctl stop firewalld; systemctl disable firewalld

vi /etc/php.ini

short_open_tag = On

systemctl restart httpd

#whitescreen

php index.php
PHP Fatal error:  Interface 'JsonSerializable' not found in /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/L10N/L10NString.php on line 33
<div class="error error-wide">

yum install php-json





Internal Server Error

The server was unable to complete your request.

If this happens again, please send the technical details below to the server administrator.

More details can be found in the server log.
Technical details

    Remote Address: 192.168.1.1
    Request ID: XmvgGqSGy9gldimeYXhtgAAAAAA



chown apache.apache -R nextcloud/





    PHP module zip not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module dom not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module XMLWriter not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module XMLReader not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module libxml not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module mbstring not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module GD not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP module SimpleXML not installed.

    Please ask your server administrator to install the module.

    PHP modules have been installed, but they are still listed as missing?

    Please ask your server administrator to restart the web server.


yum install php-zip php-dom php-XMLWriter php-XMLReader php-libxml php-mbstring php-gd php-SimpleXML
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:48 ago on Fri 13 Mar 2020 03:33:26 PM EDT.
No match for argument: php-XMLWriter
No match for argument: php-XMLReader
Package php-common-7.2.11-2.module_el8.1.0+209+03b9a8ff.x86_64 is already installed.
No match for argument: php-SimpleXML
Error: Unable to find a match: php-XMLWriter php-XMLReader php-SimpleXML


yum install php-zip php-dom php-xml php-libxml php-mbstring php-gd


systemctl enable mysqld;systemctl start mysqld


mysql> create database nextclouddb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.22 sec


mysql> CREATE USER nextclouduser@localhost IDENTIFIED by "somepass";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.20 sec)


mysql> grant all privileges on nextclouddb.* to nextclouduser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.18 sec)


Gateway Timeout

The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.


nextadmin/somepass

This happens when upgrading to Apache 2.4 from 2.2 or just because you don't have the right permissions set which we'll get into.

You need this in the <Directory part of your vhost or httpd.conf

<Directory "/your/vhost/path.com>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted


</Directory>

pip install PIL
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for PIL


The import name is PIL but the actual pip package is called "Pillow"

pip install Pillow

unable to connect to camera.  Camera has been disabled becaue of security policies or is being used by other apps

They say to do a factory reset but in some cases it doesn't work and the camera mysteriously just won't work so it appears to be a hardware error if that happens.

It's as simple as below where you just specify the dev device of the CDROM which is usually /dev/sr0.  You can boot actual bootable discs like Windows, Linux, etc straight from a physical drive this way.

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /dev/sr0 -m 4096
 

There are a few caveats that may not be obvious to everyone so I am going to cover them here but keep this in mind before starting.
 

Before starting install epel or you will be missing tesseract:

yum -y install epel-release

#1) When you specify your SSL certificate with a full path, it really needs to exist where you tell it to (including the default location of /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/certs/private).

Also note to make a cert there is a quick shell script in /etc/ssl/certs called "make-dummy-cert" that you can run to make the cert.

#2) server/hostname where you enter the fqdn of www.yourdomain.com is an actual vhost that gets created.  This means if you want the public to easily access the domain that you must control it and point it to your OpenProject server.

Here is where the vhost conf is and what it looks like (in case you want to change the vhost domain)

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/openproject.conf


Include /etc/openproject/addons/apache2/includes/server/*.conf


  ServerName areebopenproject.com
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}:443/$1 [R,L]



  ServerName areebopenproject.com
  DocumentRoot /opt/openproject/public

  ProxyRequests off

  Include /etc/openproject/addons/apache2/includes/vhost/*.conf

  # Can't use Location block since it would overshadow all the other proxypass directives on CentOS
  ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:6000/ retry=0
  ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:6000/


If not you can use your hosts file in linux or Windows to hardcode the IP to the FQDN.

Step - 1 Add Repo and install openproject:

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/openproject.repo https://dl.packager.io/srv/opf/openproject/stable/11/installer/el/7.repo

yum -y install openproject
openproject configure

*Note if the wget fails you are probably using an old repo so you will need to find the latest by visiting here:

https://docs.openproject.org/installation-and-operations/installation/packaged/#el-7

Step - 2 Curses Config

Note below that you are saying the cert is located exactly where the installer has it by default.

You can change it or leave it as is if you plan to copy the exact same cert there.

 The same issue goes for below, take a note of where the prviate key should be located.

Also note to make a cert there is a quick shell script in /etc/ssl/certs called "make-dummy-cert" that you can run to make the cert.

After that visit your domain to access OpenProject:

*Note that for a few minutes you may get this "Service Unavailable" message as OpenProject starts (this happens each time you start it such as after reboots).

The default login is admin/admin

If you've ever gotten errors like this the solution is simple, you need i386 enabled on your 64-bit install because wine depends on some 32-bit x86 libraries:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install wine

After that it will install just fine.

apt install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


apt install wine1.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14.2) but it is not installable
           Recommends: cups-bsd but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer but it is not going to be installed or
                       kde-runtime but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-droid but it is not installable
           Recommends: fonts-liberation but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not installable
           Recommends: fonts-horai-umefont but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-unfonts-core but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-wqy-microhei
           Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: xdg-utils but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


root@geekspython:~# apt install wine1.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.4 : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

This is sure simple if you follow the guide but it took a lot of hacking around to make this work on Debian/Ubuntu!
Now before you ask why bother running wine and python, the reason is because Python executables are NOT cross-platform.  If you run pyinstaller in Linux, that binary will only run on Linux and the same if you do it in Windows.  So it is preferable if you have a single environment that you can create Linux and Windows binaries from rather than running 2 separate ones.  The best way to do that is wine if you have the patience to make it work!

python 3.5 and up doesn't install properly in wine 2.4.  It doesn't even show the install button
#but it seems OK if you installed vcrun2015 and just click in the middle of the installer it seems to complete (if it doesn't complete and gives an error this is because you didn't install vcrun2015 with winetricks).

#1 Use Wine 2.4
apt install add-apt-repository
add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel

#2 Use winetricks (a newer one that what is available in the repo)
wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
./winetricks -q win10
./winetricks vcrun2015

#how to install like pip

wine python -m pip install pyinstaller

Some of the hacking around I did to figure this out: :)

err:module:import_dll Library api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\root\VCRUNTIME140.dll") not found
apt install winetricks
winetricks vcrun2015

winetricks vcrun2015
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You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Unknown arg vcrun2015
Usage: /usr/bin/winetricks [options] [command|verb|path-to-verb] ...
Executes given verbs.  Each verb installs an application or changes a setting.

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wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks

bash winetricks vcrun2015
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Running Wine/winetricks as root is highly discouraged. See https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_run_Wine_as_root.3F
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Your version of wine 1.6.2 is no longer supported upstream. You should upgrade to 4.x
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^C^C------------------------------------------------------
WINEPREFIX INFO:
Drive C: total 24
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 Mar 25 00:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Mar 25 14:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Mar 25 00:28 Program Files
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Mar 25 00:29 Program Files (x86)
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Mar 25 00:28 users
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Mar 25 14:54 windows

Registry info:
/root/.wine/system.reg:#arch=win64
/root/.wine/user.reg:#arch=win64
/root/.wine/userdef.reg:#arch=win64
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cat: /tmp/winetricks.82XQNcAN/early_wine.err.txt: No such file or directory
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string, error message ""
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root@geekspython:~# bash winetricks vcrun2015
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Running Wine/winetricks as root is highly discouraged. See https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_run_Wine_as_root.3F
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Your version of wine 1.6.2 is no longer supported upstream. You should upgrade to 4.x
------------------------------------------------------
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You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
------------------------------------------------------
Using winetricks 20191224-next - sha256sum: 3a11b9c07e2d7f5b6c21a5e7ef35c70cbc9344bd9a8e068d74b34793dfee6484 with wine-1.6.2 and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call vcrun2015
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You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Executing load_vcrun2015
Executing mkdir -p /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Downloading https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/3/F/93FCF1E7-E6A4-478B-96E7-D4B285925B00/vc_redist.x86.exe to /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
--2020-03-25 14:57:45--  https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/3/F/93FCF1E7-E6A4-478B-96E7-D4B285925B00/vc_redist.x86.exe
Resolving download.microsoft.com (download.microsoft.com)... 104.88.156.140, 2001:4958:304:288::e59, 2001:4958:304:290::e59
Connecting to download.microsoft.com (download.microsoft.com)|104.88.156.140|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13767776 (13M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'vc_redist.x86.exe'

vc_redist.x86.exe                                           100%[=========================================================================================================================================>]  13.13M  11.2MB/s    in 1.2s   

2020-03-25 14:57:46 (11.2 MB/s) - 'vc_redist.x86.exe' saved [13767776/13767776]

Executing cd /root
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Working around wine bug 37781
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------------------------------------------------------
This may fail in non-XP mode, see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37781
------------------------------------------------------
Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0 atl140 concrt140 msvcp140 msvcr140 ucrtbase vcomp140 vcruntime140
Executing wine regedit C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg
Executing wine64 regedit C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg
ADD - HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlProductOptions ProductType 0 (null) WinNT 1
The operation completed successfully
Setting Windows version to winxp
Executing wine regedit C:windowsTempset-winver.reg
Executing wine64 regedit C:windowsTempset-winver.reg
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Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/root/.wine terminate
------------------------------------------------------
Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Executing wine vc_redist.x86.exe
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileW (L"C:\users\root\Temp\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\", 00000000): stub


#

./winetricks vcrun2015
------------------------------------------------------
Running Wine/winetricks as root is highly discouraged. See https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_run_Wine_as_root.3F
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
Your version of wine 1.6.2 is no longer supported upstream. You should upgrade to 4.x
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
------------------------------------------------------
Using winetricks 20191224-next - sha256sum: 3a11b9c07e2d7f5b6c21a5e7ef35c70cbc9344bd9a8e068d74b34793dfee6484 with wine-1.6.2 and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call vcrun2015
------------------------------------------------------
You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
------------------------------------------------------
Executing load_vcrun2015
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Working around wine bug 37781
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
This may fail in non-XP mode, see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37781
------------------------------------------------------
Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0 atl140 concrt140 msvcp140 msvcr140 ucrtbase vcomp140 vcruntime140
Executing wine regedit C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg
Executing wine64 regedit C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg
ADD - HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlProductOptions ProductType 0 (null) WinNT 1
The operation completed successfully
Setting Windows version to winxp
Executing wine regedit C:windowsTempset-winver.reg
Executing wine64 regedit C:windowsTempset-winver.reg
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Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/root/.wine terminate
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Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Executing wine vc_redist.x86.exe
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileW (L"C:\users\root\Temp\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\", 00000000): stub
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Note: command wine vc_redist.x86.exe returned status 109. Aborting.
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WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-msxml-test WINEARCH=win32 ./winetricks -q vcrun2015


apt install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
apt update
apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-msxml-test WINEARCH=win32 ./winetricks -q vcrun2015
------------------------------------------------------
Running Wine/winetricks as root is highly discouraged. See https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_run_Wine_as_root.3F
------------------------------------------------------
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Your version of wine 2.4 is no longer supported upstream. You should upgrade to 4.x
------------------------------------------------------
Using winetricks 20191224-next - sha256sum: 3a11b9c07e2d7f5b6c21a5e7ef35c70cbc9344bd9a8e068d74b34793dfee6484 with wine-2.4 and WINEARCH=win32
Executing w_do_call vcrun2015
Executing load_vcrun2015
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Working around wine bug 37781
------------------------------------------------------
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This may fail in non-XP mode, see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37781
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Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0 atl140 concrt140 msvcp140 msvcr140 ucrtbase vcomp140 vcruntime140
Executing wine regedit /S C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg
Setting Windows version to winxp
Executing wine regedit /S C:windowsTempset-winver.reg
------------------------------------------------------
Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/root/.wine-msxml-test terminate
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Executing cd /root/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Executing wine vc_redist.x86.exe /q
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileW (L"C:\users\root\Temp\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\", 00000000): stub
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileW (L"C:\users\root\Temp\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\", 00000000): stub
fixme:wuapi:automatic_updates_Pause
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
fixme:wuapi:automatic_updates_Resume


wine python.exe -m pip install pyinstaller
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:ntdll:EtwEventRegister ({5eec90ab-c022-44b2-a5dd-fd716a222a15}, 0x100027f0, 0x10010030, 0x10010048) stub.
fixme:ntdll:EtwEventSetInformation (deadbeef, 2, 0x10002560, 43) stub
fixme:msvcrt:_configure_wide_argv (1) stub
fixme:msvcrt:_initialize_wide_environment stub
Z:rootpython.exe: No module named pip
fixme:ntdll:EtwEventUnregister (deadbeef) stub.


wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.1/python-3.5.1.exe


apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
apt install winehq-devel






actually python3.4.4. works

wine pyinstaller
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
PyInstaller requires at least Python 2.7 or 3.5+.
 

Install xvfb

apt install xvfb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libxfont1 libxkbfile1 x11-xkb-utils xauth xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xserver-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxfont1 libxkbfile1 x11-xkb-utils xauth xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xserver-common
  xvfb
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Configure and run xvfb

First start the Xvfb server:

Xvfb&

Then use the xvfb-run command to start any program that needs graphical capabilities

xvfb-run someprogram

If you are getting this error it is usually caused by having more than 5 keys in your ".ssh" directory.  It is a bit of a bug and this is how it manifests itself.

You will find at this point that you are not given any chance to enter a password, or if you are using key based auth that the same thing happens.  You'll also find that this is happening with ALL servers you try connecting to.

The solution is to move away key pairs from .ssh so that there are no more than 5 in there.

Another way to confirm it is that you'll see auth succeeded if usuing -v for verbose mode with ssh:

debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to 10.10.5.1 ([10.10.5.1]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to 10.10.5.1 closed by remote host.
Connection to 10.10.5.1 closed.
Transferred: sent 5484, received 2076 bytes, in 0.0 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 3504199.1, received 1326534.9
debug1: Exit status -1

Mar 22 13:46:14 box named[31767]:  validating @0x7f51bc001550: . DNSKEY: unable to find a DNSKEY which verifies the DNSKEY RRset and also matches a trusted key for '.'
Mar 22 13:46:14 box named[31767]:  validating @0x7f51bc001550: . DNSKEY: please check the 'trusted-keys' for '.' in named.conf.
Mar 22 13:46:14 box named[31767]: error (broken trust chain) resolving './NS/IN': 192.36.148.17#53


One possibility is sometimes that your time is out of sync.  Check it and fix it, but if your time is correct and you get th error, it probably is the issue mentioned below.

This happened on a new install in CentOS 7 and a default install at that.  bind had the old keys, so the easy solution was just to update bind with:

yum -y update bind

It is unfortunate that LXC's dir mode is completely insecure and allows way too much information from the host to be seen.  I wonder if there will eventually be a way to break into the host filesystem or other container's storage?

OpenVZ better security:

[root@ev ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
cat: /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory

/dev/simfs      843G  740G   61G  93% /


LXC exposes too much:

If the host has a RAID array you can see the full details.  If you do a df -h you can see the usage of the partition that your VM is stored on.  This seems extremely insecure.

 cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid10] [raid1]
md1 : active raid10 sda2[2] sdb2[0]
      31439872 blocks super 1.2 2 near-copies [2/2] [UU]
     
md0 : active raid1 sda1[1] sdb1[0]
      1048512 blocks [2/2] [UU]
     
md2 : active raid10 sda3[2] sdb3[0]
      455747584 blocks super 1.2 2 near-copies [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 1/4 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices: <none>

root@first:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2        427G  5.9G  400G   2% /
none            492K  4.0K  488K   1% /dev
devtmpfs        3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/tty
tmpfs           100K     0  100K   0% /dev/lxd
tmpfs           100K     0  100K   0% /dev/.lxd-mounts
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.8G  172K  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           777M     0  777M   0% /run/user/0

 

httpd: Syntax error on line 221 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: Cannot load modules/libphp5.so into server: /lib64/libresolv.so.2: symbol __h_errno, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

This is usually caused by a mismatch in OpenSSL version.  Interestingly enough a lot of times if it has happened during an update of your system, or after, usually just restarting httpd/apache fixes it.

Occasionally my whole screen locks up and I cannot even swith to the console and I find this in my syslog:

  *-display              
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mullins [Radeon R3 Graphics]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
       version: 45
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:37 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0c00000-f0c3ffff memory:f0c80000-f0c9ffff



Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636805] INFO: task Xorg:1501 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636819]       Tainted: G        W  OE   4.4.0-173-generic #203-Ubuntu
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636823] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636829] Xorg            D ffff880214f1fb78     0  1501   1471 0x00000004
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636841]  ffff880214f1fb78 0000000000000000 ffff880139987000 ffff880035021c00
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636850]  ffff880214f20000 ffff880035021c00 ffff880035360030 ffffffff00000000
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636858]  fffffffe00000001 ffff880214f1fb90 ffffffff818629d5 ffff880035360018
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636866] Call Trace:
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636885]  [<ffffffff818629d5>] schedule+0x35/0x80
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636895]  [<ffffffff81865a43>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x203/0x3b0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636909]  [<ffffffff8141bb13>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636918]  [<ffffffff8186524d>] ? down_write+0x2d/0x40
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.636980]  [<ffffffffc0281cbb>] radeon_gpu_reset+0x3b/0x350 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637035]  [<ffffffffc029a990>] ? radeon_fence_default_wait+0x160/0x160 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637047]  [<ffffffff815d45c6>] ? fence_wait_timeout+0x86/0x170
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637108]  [<ffffffffc02b1c3e>] radeon_gem_handle_lockup.part.3+0xe/0x20 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637169]  [<ffffffffc02b2b65>] radeon_gem_wait_idle_ioctl+0xe5/0x130 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637216]  [<ffffffffc005f8fd>] drm_ioctl+0x16d/0x5b0 [drm]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637227]  [<ffffffff810942e1>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x41/0xa0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637288]  [<ffffffffc02b2a80>] ? radeon_gem_busy_ioctl+0xe0/0xe0 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637298]  [<ffffffff8102e5d7>] ? do_signal+0x1b7/0x6f0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637347]  [<ffffffffc027f04c>] radeon_drm_ioctl+0x4c/0x80 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637358]  [<ffffffff8123268f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2af/0x4b0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637366]  [<ffffffff81232909>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637375]  [<ffffffff8186735b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x22/0xcb
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637578] INFO: task kworker/u8:1:15955 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637585]       Tainted: G        W  OE   4.4.0-173-generic #203-Ubuntu
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637589] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637593] kworker/u8:1    D ffff8800235b7a18     0 15955      2 0x00000000
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637661] Workqueue: radeon-crtc radeon_flip_work_func [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637667]  ffff8800235b7a18 0000000000000001 ffff88021625aa00 ffff880139986200
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637675]  ffff8800235b8000 ffff8800235b7b68 ffff880035360000 ffff8800235b7b00
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637682]  ffff880035361498 ffff8800235b7a30 ffffffff818629d5 7fffffffffffffff
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637690] Call Trace:
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637700]  [<ffffffff818629d5>] schedule+0x35/0x80
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637707]  [<ffffffff81865f94>] schedule_timeout+0x1b4/0x270
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637767]  [<ffffffffc029b172>] ? radeon_fence_process+0x12/0x30 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637822]  [<ffffffffc029b446>] radeon_fence_wait_seq_timeout.constprop.8+0x236/0x330 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637832]  [<ffffffff810cbcf0>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x60/0x60
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637887]  [<ffffffffc029b81f>] radeon_fence_wait+0x9f/0xe0 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.637964]  [<ffffffffc031b55b>] cik_ib_test+0xfb/0x2a0 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638044]  [<ffffffffc035c8de>] radeon_ib_ring_tests+0x5e/0xc0 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638094]  [<ffffffffc0281ed2>] radeon_gpu_reset+0x252/0x350 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638154]  [<ffffffffc02acaf3>] radeon_flip_work_func+0x283/0x330 [radeon]
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638162]  [<ffffffff8186249d>] ? __schedule+0x30d/0x810
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638169]  [<ffffffff81862491>] ? __schedule+0x301/0x810
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638175]  [<ffffffff8186249d>] ? __schedule+0x30d/0x810
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638184]  [<ffffffff810a0d0b>] process_one_work+0x16b/0x4e0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638190]  [<ffffffff810a10ce>] worker_thread+0x4e/0x590
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638197]  [<ffffffff810a1080>] ? process_one_work+0x4e0/0x4e0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638205]  [<ffffffff810a77b7>] kthread+0xe7/0x100
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638212]  [<ffffffff81862491>] ? __schedule+0x301/0x810
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638220]  [<ffffffff810a76d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1e0/0x1e0
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638228]  [<ffffffff818677d2>] ret_from_fork+0x42/0x80
Mar 10 12:30:12  kernel: [13319.638235]  [<ffffffff810a76d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1e0/0x1e0
 

MySQL on Debian versions is configured differently than the native local MySQL plugin so you will be disappointed when your password on the mysql client fails by default.

Here is how you reset the MySQL root password the proper and "working way"

#first we gracefully stop mysql

sudo systemctl stop mysql;

#then we forcefully kill any mysqld process just in case

sudo killall -9 mysqld mysqld_safe;

# we need to make this dir otherwise you'll get an error "mysqld_safe Directory '/var/run/mysqld' for UNIX socket file don't exists."

sudo mkdir -p /var/run/mysqld;

#chown /var/run/mysqld to mysql.mysql or you'll get errors still "mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended"

sudo chown mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld;

#now start mysqld_safe with skip-grant-tables so you can login as root with no password to reset the root password or any account

sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &

Now that we're in, let's reset the root password!

But before we do this let's see what type of auth our root account uses, as this explains why you need to change the plugin to native mysql otherwise you won't be able to login normally:

mysql -u root

use mysql;

mysql> select User,Host,authentication_string,plugin from user;
+------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| User             | Host      | authentication_string                     | plugin                |
+------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| root             | localhost | *7E877F388401BAB948632B9B213C144C24756EC6 | auth_socket           |
| mysql.session    | localhost | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password |
| mysql.sys        | localhost | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password |
| debian-sys-maint | localhost | *13CC8C41C8677DD6F22E91C2E10647FA20B05C56 | mysql_native_password |
+------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+

As we can see above the method for root is "auth_socket".  We need to change the plugin to "mysql_native_password".

use mysql;
update user set authentication_string=PASSWORD('newpassword'),plugin='mysql_native_password' where User='root';
flush privileges;

You need to switch the auth plugin to "mysql_native_password' by adding the ,plugin='mysql_native_password' option to the query above.

Change "newpassword" to what you want the password to be above.

Now we need to kill mysqld and restart it normally:

sudo killall -9 mysqld_safe mysqld


sudo systemctl start mysql

Now you should be able to login with your root password.

A big problem over ssh and especially sshfs is that your connection will often timeout and disconnect after inactivity.

To fix this you can modify the server but it may not be practical or you may not have access.  Why not send keep alives fom your end (client side)?

Just edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config (not to be confused with sshd_config as that is the server side):

Find the line that says "Host *" and change it like this:

ServerAliveInterval 30


ServerAliveCountMax 2

The first line means send a keep alive every 30 seconds (you can change it)

The second line means after 2 failures of keep alive, it will disconnect.

sudo usermod -a -G groupname username


It's really simple like above, the -a is for append so that you are not changing their main group, but adding them to another additonal group.  Just change "groupname" to your group and "username" to the user you want to be added to "groupname".

A common task these days is getting your user access to kvm for virtualization so the KVM/QEMU process doesn't have to run as root.

An example of adding a user to the kvm group:

sudo usermod -a -G kvm username

For KVM you'd also have to add access to /dev/kvm:

chown root.kvm /dev/kvm

This is only really necessary in the case you don't want DHCP.  If you are dealing with an encrypted LUKS server on the internet, you will often want to have a static IP so you know which IP to connect to (or if you have a semi-static IP assigned by DHCP).

SET IP Address by /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf

IP Address=192.168.1.27
Gateway=192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Hostname=myhome.com

IP=192.168.1.27::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:myhost.com

The format is below, note the "double colon" :: after the IP.  If you don't do that, things won't work properly including being unable to set the gateway and/or hostname errors.
**Double note that the kernel documentation states otherwise that a single color is to be used for all field separation, but at least in most newer Debian's this does not work.

Set IP for certain NIC

You could also add another ":" after hostname which would indicate which NIC device the IP would be applied to.  Otherwise by default it is the first NIC.

#eg if you wanted to have it use ens3 then change the line by adding another colon and the device eg. :ens3
IP=192.168.1.27::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:myhost.com:ens3

Final Step

Make sure you update initramfs or this will not be applied or work until you do.

sudo update-initramfs -u

The reason for doing this is that the installer doesn't seem to work properly for LUKS and the server installer doesn't even support LUKS anymore.  When you use the GUI install on Desktop for LUKS it won't boot and will just hang after you enter your password.  So the only reliable way is to do it ourselves.

1.) Make a default minimal install of Ubuntu

2.) Have a secondary disk on the server or VM.

3.) Create the following on the secondary disk (we assume it is /dev/sdb)
/dev/sdb1 = /boot 1G
/dev/sdb2 = / (rest of free space)

Use fdisk or gdisk

4.) Create LUKS for root on /dev/sdb2

cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb2

WARNING!
========
This will overwrite data on /dev/sdb2 irrevocably.

Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
Enter passphrase for /dev/sdb2:
Verify passphrase:
Command successful.


5.) Open your LUKS partition now

#note when we say LUKSroot below that becomes the LUKS device we can mount and use in /dev/mapper/LUKSroot (LUKSroot is the name that it will be given)

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 LUKSroot
Enter passphrase for /dev/sdb2:

6.) Create Partitions on your LUKS partition

mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/LUKSroot

#let's setup our boot as well while we're at it

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

7.) Let's prepare our target for migration (target is our new LUKS enabled drive)

mkdir /target
mount /dev/mapper/LUKSroot /target
mkdir /target/boot
mount /dev/sdb1 /target/boot

8.) rsync our current OS to the new LUKS partition (target)

rsync -Pha --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/media/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* / /target
 

9.) Prepare to chroot into our new LUKS environment


for mount in dev proc sys; do
  mount -o bind /$mount /target/$mount
done

#enter our new LUKS environment
chroot /target
 

10.) Setup our LUKS environment to boot properly (update fstab, crypttab, initramfs and grub)

We need to update /etc/fstab with the new blkid's

# blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: UUID="e0e4d4b6-c45d-4749-81b9-a46bdc66f7c5" TYPE="ext4"


#blkid /dev/mapper/LUKSroot
/dev/mapper/LUKSroot: UUID="ba6af9a2-6ea1-49d9-95f1-df521cbd384b" TYPE="ext4"

#fstab should now look like this:

UUID=e0e4d4b6-c45d-4749-81b9-a46bdc66f7c5 /boot ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/LUKSroot / ext4 defaults 0 0
/swap.img       none    swap    sw      0       0



#We need to also set /etc/crypttab
#it should be the UUID of /dev/sdb2

# blkid /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2: UUID="00321fcc-6ebc-4440-b62c-06b79f0aed96" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"

#crypttab should now look like this
LUKSroot UUID=00321fcc-6ebc-4440-b62c-06b79f0aed96 none luks,discard


#update our grub, initramfs and install grub to our secondary grub

update-grub
update-initramfs -k all -c
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-88-generic

grub-install /dev/sdb
#if your primary boot drive is /dev/sda you should install it into /dev/sda too
grub-install /dev/sda

#now reboot

Create your netplan file

vi /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml

network:

    version: 2

    renderer: networkd

    ethernets:

       ens3:

           dhcp4: no

           addresses: [192.50.1.157/24]

           gateway4: 192.50.1.1

           nameservers:

              addresses: [8.8.4.4,8.8.8.8]

Check our file to see if it is correct:

sudo netplan try

if you have an error in the file it will tell you.

Eg. formatting is important if you have the below you will get an error because all of the options under ens3n

/etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml:9:13: Error in network definition: expected mapping (check indentation)
       ens3:
            ^

Notice that under ens3 below that there is no indentation of dhcp4, addresses etc.. and that is incorrect (whereas the old interfaces file didn't care)

network:

    version: 2

    renderer: networkd

    ethernets:

       ens3:

       dhcp4: no

       addresses: [192.50.1.157/24]

       gateway4: 192.50.1.1

       nameservers:

          addresses: [8.8.4.4,8.8.8.8]

apply the new plan once try above succeeds (it means it will apply the network settings in the yaml file you created)

sudo netplan apply

Yes you have that right, the network service in CentOS 8 no longer exists.  So there is no more systemctl restart network

You can restart NetworkManager but it doesn't have the same effect or ifup/ifdown on all interfaces. 

To replicate that the best you can do is type the following commands to nmcli

nmcli networking off; nmcli networking on
 

*Don't forget the semi-colon otherwise you'll go offline if you are connecting to a remote Virtual or Dedicated Server

If you added new IPs/aliases just do this (replace eth0 with your NIC name):

ifdown eth0;ifup eth0

The cool thing here is that we only need 1 drive to make a RAID 10 or RAID 1 array, we just tell the Linux mdadm utility that the other drive is "missing" and we can then add our original drive to the array after booting into our new RAID array.

Step#1 Install tools we need

yum -y install mdadm rsync

Step #2 Create your partitions on the drive that will be our RAID array

Here I assume it is /dev/sdb

fdisk /dev/sdb

#I find that mdadm works fine with the default partition type Linux although the fd flag will make them easier to find (fd means Software RAID)

/dev/sdb1 (md0) = Partition #1=/boot size=1G
/dev/sdb2 (md1) = Partition #2=swap size=30G (or whatever is suitable for your RAM and disk space)
/dev/sdb3 (md2) = Partition #3=/ size = the remainder of the disk (unless you have other plans/requirements).

Step #3 - Make our RAID arrays

To make sure your RAID array is bootable we need to ALWAYS make our md0 or /boot this way.

#md0 /boot
#we use level = 1 and metadata=0.90 to ensure /boot is readable by grub otherwise boot will fail
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sdb1 missing --metadata=0.90

#md1 swap
mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level 10 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sdb2 missing

#md2 /
mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 10 --raid-devices 2 /dev/sdb3 missing

Notice that we specified the second drive as "missing". We will re-add it after we are all done and have rebooted into our RAID array.  Still, with the degraded array and only a single drive you can convert a live system into RAID without reinstalling anything.

Step #4 - Make filesystems on RAID arrays

mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0

mkswap /dev/md1

mkfs.ext4 /dev/md2

Step #5 - Mount and stage our current system into new mdadm RAID arrays

We will use /mnt/md2 as out staging point but it could be anything technically.

#make our staging point
mkdir /mnt/md2


# mount our root into our staging point
mount /dev/md2 /mnt/md2

#we need to make our boot inside our staging point before we copy things over
mkdir /mnt/md2/boot

# mount our boot into our staging point
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/md2/boot

Step #6 - Copy our current environment to our new RAID

#we exclude /mnt/so we don't double copy what is in /mnt including our staging environment
# we also exclude the contents of proc, sys because it slows things down and proc and sys will be populated once our new array environment actually gets booted from
rsync -Phaz --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/proc/* / /mnt/md2

Step #7 - chroot into and configure our new environment

Here is how we chroot properly:
#remember I assume your staging point ins in /mnt/md2 change that part if yours is different
for mount in dev sys proc; do
 mount -o bind /$mount /mnt/md2/$mount
done

#now let's chroot

chroot /mnt/md2

Step #8 - Disable SELinux

#1 Let's disable selinux it causes lots of problems and if you don't update the selinux attributes you will not be able to login after you boot!
#you would get this error "Failed to create session: Start job for unit user@0.service failed with 'failed'"



sed -i s#SELINUX=enforcing#SELINUX=disabled#  /etc/selinux/config

#double check that /etc/selinux/config has SELINUX=disabled just to be sure

Step #9 - Modify grub default config

#2 Let's fix our default grub config, it will often have references to lvm and other hard coded partitions that we no longer have.  We also have to add "rd.auto" or grub will not assemble and boot from our array

vi /etc/default/grub

Find this line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/cl-swap rd.lvm.lv=cl/root rd.lvm.lv=cl/swap rhgb quiet"

change to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.auto rhgb quiet"

rd.auto will automatically assemble our raid array otherwise if it's not assembled we can't mount and boot from it.

update grub

grub2-mkconfig > /etc/grub2.cfg

Make sure your grub entries are correct:

Centos grub would not boot because it was relative to /boot but that is wrong since we changed to an actual partition for /boot

cd /boot/loader/entries


ls


02bcb1988e6940a1bed64c61df98716a-0-rescue.conf
02bcb1988e6940a1bed64c61df98716a-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64.conf
02bcb1988e6940a1bed64c61df98716a-4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64.conf


[root@localhost entries]# vi 02bcb1988e6940a1bed64c61df98716a-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64.conf
title CentOS Linux (4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64) 8 (Core)
version 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
initrd /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64.img $tuned_initrd
options $kernelopts $tuned_params
id centos-20200205020746-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel
 

Fix the lines in bold and remove the /boot because that will cause your system not to boot.  If you have the /boot above it means that your current system has no separate boot partition.

Fixing them would like this:


title CentOS Linux (4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64) 8 (Core)
version 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
linux /vmlinuz-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
initrd /initramfs-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64.img $tuned_initrd
options $kernelopts $tuned_params
id centos-20200205020746-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel


Step #10 - Update /etc/fstab

Modify /etc/fstab and give the UUID for /, boot and swap of your md devices.
md0=/boot
md1=swap
md2=/

#Let's get their block IDs/UUID

blkid /dev/md0
/dev/md0: UUID="f4dc88f5-90ea-4916-97d7-8d627935118" TYPE="ext4"
blkid /dev/md1
/dev/md1: UUID="3adf88f5-90ea-4916-97d7-8d6279871f18" TYPE="swap"
blkid /dev/md2
/dev/md2: UUID="45aa90ea-4916-97d7-8d6279871f18" TYPE="ext4"

vi /etc/fstab
It should look something like this with ONLY the RAID arrays we have and the old stuff commented out

UUID=45aa90ea-4916-97d7-8d6279871f18    /                       ext4     defaults        0 0
UUID=f4dc88f5-90ea-4916-97d7-8d627935118 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=3adf88f5-90ea-4916-97d7-8d6279871f18     swap                    swap    defaults        0 0


Step #11 - Use dracut to update our initramfs otherwise we don't be able to boot still!

#the first part below after -f is the full path name to the initramfs that you will be booting.  The second part is just the raw kernel version
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64.img 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64

dracut -f alone will work IF you are on the same OS and kernel that is installed

Step#12 - Install grub to all bootable drives

This depends on how many drives you have but let's assume 2 then they are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

grub2-install /dev/sda

grub2-install /dev/sdb

Step#13 - Cross fingers and reboot

It would be a good idea to go back through the steps and make sure everything is right, including your grub default conf, UUIDs in /etc/fstab etc..

I also recommend NOT doing this on a production machine and at least not without backups.  If you want to practice it is best to run through the steps on a Virtual Machine first to identify any mistakes you've made.

reboot

This is the reason that I don't like the new ADATA USB drives such as the UV128/64GB or 128GB drives and other ones that look to be the same style (the green sliding USB connector).

They just don't work well from new and never work properly at any point.

[  788.242463] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[  788.339816] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=db8a
[  788.339830] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  788.339838] usb 1-1.2: Product: ADATA USB Flash Drive
[  788.339845] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ADATA
[  788.339852] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 2982115170220001
[  788.341255] usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  788.341835] scsi host3: usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0
[  790.261722] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ADATA    USB Flash Drive  1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[  790.262888] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[  790.265307] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 121241600 512-byte logical blocks: (62.1 GB/57.8 GiB)
[  790.266032] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  790.266045] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[  790.266783] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  820.959391] usb 1-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[  826.047462] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  841.223952] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[  841.399957] usb 1-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[  841.511860] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  841.727931] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  841.907980] usb 1-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[  842.331920] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 16, error -71
[  842.407950] usb 1-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci
[  842.831989] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 16, error -71
[  842.832383] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 16
[  842.843999] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  842.844013] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[  842.844019] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[  842.844027] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read
[  842.844129] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
[  842.844207] Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0
[  842.844300]  sdb: unable to read partition table
[  842.844721] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  842.844729] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available.
[  842.844786] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  842.995906] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 17 using ehci-pci
[  843.107911] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  843.323899] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  843.499946] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 18 using ehci-pci
[  843.611984] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  843.827907] usb 1-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[  843.932047] usb 1-1-port2: attempt power cycle
[  844.515938] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 19 using ehci-pci
[  844.939941] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 19, error -71
[  845.011953] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci-pci
[  845.435949] usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 20, error -71
[  845.436120] usb 1-1-port2: unable to enumerate USB device

the exact same error on another computer (in both cases one is a laptop plugged into the motherboard and the other is a desktop plugged into the motherboard).  All other brands of USB drives work fine on these computers.  The same thing happens on several other computers and this has happened since the drive was new.

Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.178631] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.311774] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=db8a
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.311780] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.311785] usb 1-2: Product: ADATA USB Flash Drive
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.311790] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: ADATA
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.311794] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 2982115170220001
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 3: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-2"
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 3 was not an MTP device
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.365746] usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.365969] scsi host9: usb-storage 1-2:1.0
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.366146] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Feb 12 07:45:15 devtest kernel: [519601.370666] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.287058] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ADATA    USB Flash Drive  1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.287818] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.288783] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 121241600 512-byte logical blocks: (62.1 GB/57.8 GiB)
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.290281] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.290288] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
Feb 12 07:45:17 devtest kernel: [519603.291293] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 12 07:45:48 devtest kernel: [519634.413045] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:09 devtest kernel: [519654.958540] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:10 devtest kernel: [519655.686587] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:10 devtest kernel: [519656.150613] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -71
Feb 12 07:46:10 devtest kernel: [519656.262628] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.726661] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -71
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.726903] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 3
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.734710] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.734724] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.734729] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 0
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.734890] Buffer I/O error on dev sdc, logical block 0, async page read
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735065] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735096] Dev sdc: unable to read RDB block 0
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735223]  sdc: unable to read partition table
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735560] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735567] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available.
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.735627] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519656.906670] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:11 devtest kernel: [519657.634720] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:12 devtest kernel: [519658.250781] usb usb1-port2: attempt power cycle
Feb 12 07:46:13 devtest kernel: [519658.670801] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:13 devtest kernel: [519659.134820] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 6, error -71
Feb 12 07:46:13 devtest kernel: [519659.246830] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:14 devtest kernel: [519659.710862] usb 1-2: device not accepting address 7, error -71
Feb 12 07:46:14 devtest kernel: [519659.711041] usb usb1-port2: unable to enumerate USB device
Feb 12 07:46:14 devtest systemd-udevd[27309]: inotify_add_watch(9, /dev/sdc, 10) failed: No such file or directory
Feb 12 07:46:14 devtest kernel: [519660.026890] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:15 devtest kernel: [519660.774945] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:15 devtest kernel: [519661.343029] usb usb2-port2: attempt power cycle
Feb 12 07:46:16 devtest kernel: [519661.827031] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:16 devtest kernel: [519662.235058] usb 2-2: device not accepting address 5, error -62
Feb 12 07:46:16 devtest kernel: [519662.411069] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci
Feb 12 07:46:17 devtest kernel: [519662.819101] usb 2-2: device not accepting address 6, error -62
Feb 12 07:46:17 devtest kernel: [519662.819242] usb usb2-port2: unable to enumerate USB device



This should work but the key thing is having the "-cpu host" flag.

Once you add the correct -cpu host flag then it should boot just fine on KVM.

qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 8 -m 8192 -drive format=raw,file=the-file.img

Examples can be found here on how to boot Windows properly with KVM.

sudo vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/70-linuxmint.conf
 

Change this:

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=mate
allow-guest=false

To this:

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=mate
allow-guest=false
greeter-hide-users=true
greeter-show-manual-login=true

To see and apply your changes just restart lightdm:

sudo systemctl restart lightdm

If you want it to hide your username when the screen is locked (which you probably do since otherwise if you are away from your computer with a locked screen, it would display your username) then follow this guide to disable lock-screen usernames from showing in Linux Mint

The problem is that by default ssh-keygen loves to generate an easy to crack 2048 bit key (RSA).  Supposedly having a larger keysize helps such as 4096 or 8096 but it is thought to be useless still against Quantum computing.

How can I check my existing keysize and type?

ssh-keygen -lf /path/to/your/id_rsa.pub

The output will be something like below followed by the hash.  The first number is the key size and the second part will be the type eg RSA, SHA256 etc..

2048 RSA

How can I create an ssh key?

-t = the type of key

-b = the key size (you probably shouldn't use that many 9s!)

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -b 9999999999999

How can I see what types of keys my ssh version supports?

Don't use dsa it is weak and now deprecated in the latest ssh versions and many recommend ed25519 (EdDSA)

ssh-keygen -t
option requires an argument -- t
usage: ssh-keygen [-q] [-b bits] [-t dsa | ecdsa | ed25519 | rsa | rsa1]


A lot of times this is actually caused by simply not having Firefox installed at all.

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service geckodriver

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/270

In this case I am executing using "python3" but what you find in cases like this can be surprising.

The most common issues are that someone has a module for python 2 "pip" and doesn't realize they need "pip3" to install it for python3, but this is not one of those cases.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bs4'

OK maybe we didn't install it for python3?

[user@host]# pip3 install bs4

No, we did install it for python3 because below it says it is already installed "Requirement already satisfied"

Requirement already satisfied: bs4 in /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages (0.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages (from bs4) (4.6.3)
You are using pip version 18.1, however version 19.1.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

But wait look carefully that it is installed for "python3.4".  Let's see what python3 actually refers to (since python3 is really a symlink to a specific 3.x version).

python3: /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3.6m /usr/bin/python3.4m /usr/bin/python3.4m-config /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python3.4m-x86_64-config /usr/bin/python3.4 /usr/bin/python3.4-config /usr/lib/python3.6 /usr/lib/python3.4 /usr/lib64/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.4 /usr/include/python3.6m /usr/include/python3.4m /usr/share/man/man1/python3.1.gz

[user@host]# ls -al /usr/bin/python3

OK so we see that python3 really points to python3.6


lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 12 11:33 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6

There are a few ways to resolve this, one of the easiest ones may be to symlnk python3 back to python3.4 or to uninstall python3.6

In my case of Centos there is no pip3.6 installed nor is it available as a package so I am electing to remove python3.6 to solve this issue.

In my case here is what you need to type:

yum remove python36-*


ln -s --force /usr/bin/python3.4m /usr/bin/python3

This is not about using ssh as a proxy, but rather, using a proxy when you are SSHing to another host and using ProxyCommand (where we normally use nc as our proxy tool).

In newer versions of nc the syntax has changed to the following:

ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc  -x 127.0.0.1:1234" %h %p user@host

The format must be like above in newer nc versions.

Just be sure to change the 1234 to the port of your SOCKS server and also 127.0.0.1 to the IP of the socks server

And of course user@host to the right info (eg. the username of your server and host = hostname or IP of your server)

If you try the old format you will get an ssh exchange identification error:

ssh -o ProxyCommand='nc --proxy-type socks5 --proxy 127.0.0.1:3000 %h %p' user@someserver.com
nc: invalid option -- '-'
This is nc from the netcat-openbsd package. An alternative nc is available
in the netcat-traditional package.
usage: nc [-46bCDdhjklnrStUuvZz] [-I length] [-i interval] [-O length]
      [-P proxy_username] [-p source_port] [-q seconds] [-s source]
      [-T toskeyword] [-V rtable] [-w timeout] [-X proxy_protocol]
      [-x proxy_address[:port]] [destination] [port]
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
 

To enable amdgpu we have to set special kernel boot parameters.  The easiest way is to make it permanent and apply to all kernels (no messing around with grub.cfg) so we'll edit those defaults in /etc/default/grub by changing the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT parameter.  After that don't forget to run "update-grub" to apply it (otherwise amdgpu will never be enabled).

Requirements

No clue really as it really depends. But for example this does not work on older 4.4 kernels.  I tested this on a newer kernel such as 4.15 and it worked fine.  So if you follow this and it doesn't work, try updating to the latest possible kernel for your distro.

1. Edit /etc/default/grub

vi /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.cik_support=1 amdgpu.si_support=1 radeon.si_support=0 radeon.cik_support=0"

sudo update-grub

2. Remove any old radeon.conf files otherwise Xorg will not start

sudo mv /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf ~/

3. Now put in an amdgpu conf file

sudo vi /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "AMDgpu"
    MatchDriver "amdgpu"
    Driver "amdgpu"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "amdgpu"
    Option "TearFree" "on"
    Option "DRI3" "1"
EndSection

4. Now reboot and cross your fingers!

and check to see if amdgpu is enabled

Notice one card is using amdgpu because it supports it (Kabini based SI Radeon HD 8330E) but the other card (Radeon E6460) is using radeon.  This is because that card isn't supported by the amdgpu driver.

sudo lshw -c video

  *-display              
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Kabini [Radeon HD 8330E]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
       resources: irq:37 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0a00000-f0a3ffff memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Seymour [Radeon E6460]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f0900000-f091ffff ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0940000-f095ffff

Other Performance Tuning Tweaks

You can set the dpm performance level to push the memory and GPU frequency to the highest levels (maximum performance).  I find this is much more desirable than auto on any video card where you get some 2D lag at some points while the GPU ramps up performance.

By default the performance of the card is set to 'auto' if you want high performance or max performance do this:

echo "high" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level

Check clockspeed and other info:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info
Clock Gating Flags Mask: 0x0
    Graphics Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Graphics Medium Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
    Graphics Coarse Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Graphics Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
    Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Clock Gating: Off
    Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Light Sleep: Off
    Graphics Command Processor Light Sleep: Off
    Graphics Run List Controller Light Sleep: Off
    Graphics 3D Coarse Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Graphics 3D Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
    Memory Controller Light Sleep: Off
    Memory Controller Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    System Direct Memory Access Light Sleep: Off
    System Direct Memory Access Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Bus Interface Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Bus Interface Light Sleep: Off
    Unified Video Decoder Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Video Compression Engine Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Host Data Path Light Sleep: Off
    Host Data Path Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Digital Right Management Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Digital Right Management Light Sleep: Off
    Rom Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
    Data Fabric Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off

uvd    disabled
vce    disabled
power level 4    sclk: 49656 vddc: 3800

 

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /path/httpdocs/news.html

There are a few reasons that can cause this message and this is for people who have ruled out the basics, eg. your symlinks are enabled and the right permissions are applied (but read on to learn about ownership requirements above the directory in question).

So there are a few key things here that cause Apache not to follow symlinks:

1. One directory up for your vhost eg if you have /var/www/html/vhost then html MUST be owned by the httpd/apache user who runs the process.  Otherwise even though access is technically allowed, it will be denied. (even if the files and dirs involved have the right ownership).
2. Make sure you actually have Options +Symlinks in your vhost and/or htaccess
3. Make sure the permissions are correct, you will need read and execute permissions on the file/dir of the symlink or you could get that message

The other solution is to use this option in your vhost or htaccess:

Options -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

#but be warned the above doesn't seem to work sometimes

 

If you just do a normal chown user.user somedir it won't work.  You will see the ownership is still the previous owner.

How To Change Ownership Of Symlink:

The simplest part is just adding the -h which means no dereference so it applies the ownership on the symlink and does not try (and fail) to change ownership of the dereferenced symlink destination.

chown -h user.user somedir

It is fairly simple to use once you know how to use it.  However, the tricky thing is that by default it doesn't seem to be active or listen on any interface on manually specified.

How To Install ifplugd

First we install ifplugd

sudo apt install ifplugd

Let's enable it on our desired device(s)

vi /etc/default/ifplugd

set this line as so:


INTERFACES="enp0s8"
 

*Obviously change enp0s8 to the name of the NIC you want ifplugd to be active on, you can also enable it on multiple NICs by specifying a space. eg:

INTERFACES="eth0 eth1"

Let's create a sample script at first which is always placed in /etc/ifplugd/action.d/


touch /etc/ifplugd/action.d/yourscript.sh
chmod +x /etc/ifplugd/action.d/yourscript.sh
 

Remove /etc/ifplugd/action.d/ifupdown

I find this script can break other things you are trying to do so I recommend moving or removing it.  A good example is that it ended up interferring with my script below, where to make a NIC work it had to be brought up and down.  But then the ifupdown script would run and bring the NIC up again or down again.

So use the command below to move ifupdown into /etc/ifplugd so it doesn't get executed but you could always put it back into action.d if you wanted it again.

sudo mv /etc/ifplugd/action.d/ifupdown /etc/ifplugd/

An example of what yourscript.sh can be

In Unix/Linux there are often weird situations or even bugs in NICs that prevent them from working properly.  I have encountered some NICs that give you an uplink light and also show in ethttool that a 1gbit link is established.

Even ethttool looks good:

Settings for enp1s0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: No
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: Unknown
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                   drv probe ifdown ifup
    Link detected: yes

However it is often the case that an ifdown and ifup is required to make the NIC work even though it is already configured with an IP (due to a driver bug especially in some NVIDIA based NICs):

Here is a script "yourscript.sh" that fixes that:


#!/bin/bash

#echo "in ifplugd" >> /tmp/ifplugd.txt
if [ "$2" == "up" ]; then
 /sbin/ifdown $1
 /sbin/ifup $1
 echo "executing state $2 ifdown ifup on :: $1 :: `date`" >> /tmp/ifplugdlog.txt
fi
 

dd is a very handy tool and there are some more practical things we can do.  For example if we want to dump a 3TB drive and want to preserve it and only 200GB are being used on the 3TB we can save a lot of space with gzip.

Backing Stuff up with dd

How to Use dd to backup a raw hard drive and tar gzip at once

• Change /dev/sda to the drive you want to backup
• Change /mnt/extraspace to the path you want to backup to

sudo dd if=/dev/sda bs=20M| gzip -c > /mnt/extraspace/backup.img.gz
 

How to use dd to backup a raw hard drive WITHOUT compression:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/extraspace/backup.img.gz bs=20M

Restoring Stuff with dd

Restoring is just the opposite.

How to restore a raw image with dd with compression:

change the /dev/sdX to the drive you want to restore to (be careful and understand /dev/sdX will be totally wiped out and erased with this operation or at least as much data as the image contains)

gunzip -c /mnt/yourddimage.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX

How to restore a raw image with dd WITHOUT compression:

change the /dev/sdX to the drive you want to restore to (be careful and understand /dev/sdX will be totally wiped out and erased with this operation or at least as much data as the image contains)

sudo dd if=/mnt/yourddimage.img of=/dev/sdX bs=10M

The easiest way to know if your videos are playing with GPU acceleration are to watch the process of xplayer, mpv or whatever you are playing.  The CPU usage should be no more than 10% for that process/program if it is using acceleration.

Let's manually play with vdpau to make sure it works before we make it permanent:

First make sure you have libvdpau installed:

sudo apt install vdpau-driver-all

If you run mpv and get an error like this it means you are missing libvdpau:

Playing: MVI_0822.MP4
 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_radeonsi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vo/vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
Video: no video
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
A: 00:00:08 / 00:01:17 (11%)

 

To enable AMD VDPAU acceleration in mpv (the successor to mplayer) just add this file to make it permanent:

After making changes to the conf below if you open a video with mpv and only hear sound it means there is an issue with your config.  To see any error you can just manually run "mpv video.mp4"

vi ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

hwdec=vdpau
vo=vdpau                   # OR vo=vdpau
 

#you can also add this to the config file which may produce better quality/looking playback above but be warned it does not seem to work for some older cards like Kabini 8400:

profile=gpu-hq

vdpauinfo is a great way to see what is supported by your GPU acceleration:


sudo apt install vdpauinfo

vdpauinfo
display: :0   screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0

Video surface:

name   width height types
-------------------------------------------
420    16384 16384  NV12 YV12
422    16384 16384  UYVY YUYV
444    16384 16384  Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8

Decoder capabilities:

name                        level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1                          --- not supported ---
MPEG2_SIMPLE                    3  9216  2048  1152
MPEG2_MAIN                      3  9216  2048  1152
H264_BASELINE                  41  9216  2048  1152
H264_MAIN                      41  9216  2048  1152
H264_HIGH                      41  9216  2048  1152
VC1_SIMPLE                      1  9216  2048  1152
VC1_MAIN                        2  9216  2048  1152
VC1_ADVANCED                    4  9216  2048  1152
MPEG4_PART2_SP                  3  9216  2048  1152
MPEG4_PART2_ASP                 5  9216  2048  1152
DIVX4_QMOBILE                  --- not supported ---
DIVX4_MOBILE                   --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER             --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HD_1080P                 --- not supported ---
DIVX5_QMOBILE                  --- not supported ---
DIVX5_MOBILE                   --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER             --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HD_1080P                 --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE       0  9216  2048  1152
H264_EXTENDED                  --- not supported ---
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH          --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH          --- not supported ---
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE       --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN                      --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_10                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_STILL                --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444                  --- not supported ---

Output surface:

name              width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A8I8 I8A8
R8G8B8A8         16384 16384    y  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A8I8 I8A8
R10G10B10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A8I8 I8A8
B10G10R10A2      16384 16384    y  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A8I8 I8A8

Bitmap surface:

name              width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8         16384 16384
R8G8B8A8         16384 16384
R10G10B10A2      16384 16384
B10G10R10A2      16384 16384
A8               16384 16384

Video mixer:

feature name                    sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL             y
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL     -
INVERSE_TELECINE                 -
NOISE_REDUCTION                  y
SHARPNESS                        y
LUMA_KEY                         y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1        y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9        -

parameter name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH              y        48     2048
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT             y        48     1152
CHROMA_TYPE                      y 
LAYERS                           y         0        4

attribute name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR                 y 
CSC_MATRIX                       y 
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL            y      0.00     1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL                  y     -1.00     1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA                y 
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA                y 

Useful resources:

https://ultra-technology.org/software_settings/mpv-nvidia-driver-with-high-quality/

The reason we use the command below is because we need the md5sum value hash of the password.  This means that we cannot use the md5sum

Change "yournewpass" to the pass you want to set

echo -n "yournewpass" | md5sum

Then you get the md5sum hash of whatever you entered eg. in this case "yournewpass"


5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913  -

*Do not copy the " - " part just the md5sum sequence:

5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913

If you don't mind your pass being set to "yournewpass" you could just copy the md5 hash as shown above and insert into the MySQL query further on below.

Copy the output above "5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913"

Use MySQL To Change Your Password

You can connect with the root/admin user or just the user of your Wordpress database.

yourwordpressdbuser = The MySQL Database User for your Wordpress

yourwordpressdbname = The database name that you use for your Wordpress

5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913 = The md5sum hash equivalent of "yournewpass"

mysql -u yourwordpressdbuser -p

use yourwordpressdbname;

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass= "5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913" WHERE user_login = "yourwordpressusername";