I was asked to repair a dead chop box PC for an associate and it turns out a heat sink on the north bridge was not fastened properly and now I know it is dead for sure. She asked me to pick up an off lease IBM on the cheap so I did – complete with Windows XP “Professional”. So as Microsoft suggests, I spent a few hours updating the system only to see a Windows Genuine validation error – bear in mind this is the OS that shipped with this unit.
I have not worked with Windows in a while however I thought I could get this thing rolling quickly and out the door – unfortunately now I have to resolve another issue, see screenshot below.
What the hell? Windows can not connect to the Time Server because my Date is not set properly! The whole reason for connecting to the damn time server is to automatically adjust the time… guhh.
I could be wrong, maybe time servers only adjust time and not date but this is still very annoying.
At this point I have had it with this software. It is just bad, the world needs to stop using it.
Let’s say you just dumped an entire database and are looking to import it elsewhere, possibly on a new host. As soon as you install mysql-server on the new box a new password is set for user debian-sys-maint.
# mysqldump –all-databases -u root -p > dump.sql
Once you import this database on the new host there is a good chance you will not be able to restart mysql as the debian-sys-maint user account passwords will not match.
# mysql -u root -p < dump.sql
So the easiest way to fix this issue is to :
web:~# cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
# Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH!
[client]
host = localhost
user = debian-sys-maint
password = PASSWORD
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
[mysql_upgrade]
user = debian-sys-maint
password = PASSWORD
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
basedir = /usr
So often after installing VMWare on my Debian based hosts I get this error :
desktop gregory # vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
You have probably seen this yourself if running any Ubuntu flavored distributions, heres my fix :
desktop gregory # rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
desktop gregory # ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
Now I wil never forget…
