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enable promiscuous mode on adapter error in VMWare Workstation
Hi am testing out VMWare Workstation and have come across the below error when trying to run a Palo Alto OVA. “The virtual machine’s operating system has attempted to enable promiscuous mode on adapter ‘adapter_name’. This is not allowed for security reasons.” The below video shows the error and how to resolve it. If you don’t want to watch the video then please find the steps below the video. Some googling brought me to the below article: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/287 In short, on your host system and if you are the only user on it, and if you are using Linux, as I have not tested this on Windows: Open a terminal…
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Frigate won’t start [Errno 111] Connection refused
I updated my Debian server and noticed that Frigate won’t start up. My Frigate NVR is running on a Docker container and checking the logs I found that predominantly the error [Errno 111] Connection refused popped up. I also received an error about unable to connect to MQTT and then realised that I need to check MQTT. I am using Home Assistant as my MQTT broker and found that after updating Home Assistant the MQTT service did not start and was set to not start at boot. I managed to run and connect to Frigate after the MQTT service on Home Assistant was started and set to start at boot.…
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You must specify packages by their own names error in dpkg when trying to remove an installed deb package
I tried to remove an installed deb package using dpkg -P the_deb_name but received the error “you must specify packages by their own names, not by quoting the names of the files they come in“ Follow the below steps to correctly uninstall an application (deb package) that you installed using dpkg or eddy: get the correct name of the package: dpkg –get-selections | grep part_of_the_name Remove the application: sudo dpkg -P application_name_as_per_above_output (-P removes the package and config files) Below is a video showing the steps:
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anydesk error while loading shared libraries libpangox-1.0.so.0
You receive the error “error while loading shared libraries libpangox-1.0.so.0” when trying to run anydesk on an Ubuntu 22.04 based distro. To resolve the issue run the below few steps as found on this forum post: Open your terminal. Paste: wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pangox-compat/libpangox-1.0-0_0.0.2-5.1_amd64.deb (you might need to add sudo to the start of the line if you get access denied) Install the package: sudo apt install ./libpangox-1.0-0_0.0.2-5.1_amd64.deb Now open anydesk by just typing anydesk in your terminal or launching it from your applications menu. The below video shows you the steps:
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and modprobe vboxdrv
I created a new VM in Virtualbox on my Pop_OS! machine to install Rocky Linux but received the below error when trying to start the virtual machine: A quick search on the internet took me to the solution in this post. Thanks to Ali Razmdideh for the answer. I’m posting the steps here in case I need to find it again quickly. From terminal: sudo apt update sudo apt install –reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms sudo modprobe vboxdrv I did not reboot and managed to start the virtual server.
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end Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block
Yesterday I booted up Kali Linux on my laptop only to find the error “end Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block” after selecting the latest kernel. I rebooted, chose “Advanced Options for Kali GNU/Linux” as per below, then chose an older kernel and managed to boot in to Kali Linux. To resolve the issue I had to run the below steps to list and delete the oldest kernel installed. In the end, the cause of the error was that boot did not have enough disk space left thus…
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Unable to browse samba shares when internet connection is down
We’ve been having a lot of outages on our internet connection and I noticed that we are unable to browse the samba shares on our CentOS 7 server. After some searching on the internet I saw a few comments around adding the server’s host name and IP in it’s own hosts file. I proceeded to open /hosts/etc and added the IP and server name to the hosts file. Sure enough I could now browse my samba shares on the server with our internet being down.
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Installing Manjaro
I started using Manjaro on my laptop and found that installing applications and using it differs quite a bit from the Ubuntu distributions that I am used to. I started this mini series to show how to use it, install the OS, install applications and show off some features I found that works great. The below video shows the installation and some features of Manjaro using the Gnome desktop environment.
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Unable to run Securstick from USB disk
I recently found Securstick which encrypts a folder on a USB stick and supports Linux, MacOS and Windows. The application runs from the USB stick and opens a browser where you type the password to decrypt the contents. Unfortunately the application would not run from my USB disk on Pop!_OS but i found this post and followed the steps from the user GopherBaroque which resolved the issue for me. Just in case the steps are also below: Open your terminal Determine the UUID of the drives with the command “sudo blkid“ Create a mount point using the command “sudo mkdir / media / USB-Stick“ Enter the stick in the fstab…
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Error Installing CentOS 7
I received the error “This program has encountered an unknown error.” When installing CentOS. At the end of the report it had details about RAID and I remembered that the disk was part of a RAID. To get rid of the RAID config: Restart the server. At the menu choose Troubleshooting Choose Rescue a CentOS system. You will be asked to make a selection, type in 1 and press enter. You will see a prompt “Please press return to get a shell. Press the enter key Under “Rescue Mount” check which disk you need to configure i.e. sdb Now type: dmraid -E -r /dev/yourDisk i.e. (dmraid -E -r /dev/sda1) You…
