Slightly strange ZFS problem on a FreeBSD 7.3 box recently – booted up to find the ZPOOL degraded complaining about an unavailable drive – but yet still reading and writing to it. The error message was; One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. Sufficient replicas exist… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Fixes
Upgrading Ubuntu to 11.10
It seems the normally so reliable Ubuntu linux based operating system is becoming more and more unstable, looks nice but I have had a few problems recently. One such problem being the recently released upgrade to 11.10 which brings in quite a few changes, both with the Unity GUI and backend stuff including kernel version… Read more »
Why I am not using FreeNAS 8 just yet
Recently the drive containing the operating system for my home NAS server died (thats 2 drives in 2 months !) and so I thought it was a good opportunity to upgrade to the new (few months old) FreeNAS v8 – it lasted less than 24 hours because its just not release ready in my opinion…. Read more »
Install VMware Server 2 on Ubutu 11.04 with 2.6.38 kernel
Skip to instructions Update: Due to more bugs found with VMware Server and the unlikely event that they will be resolved I have since switched to VMware Player on Ubuntu. Instructions here for installing Server are still valid at the time of writing this (June 2011). Recently, to my mistake, I saw Ubuntu 11.04 was… Read more »
How to attach USB devices on Ubuntu to VMs
If you are running a VMware product on Ubuntu (or another Linux host I suspect) then you may encounter a problem when trying to mount/attach a USB device plugged into your host, to one of your virtual machines. The error message I was getting was “Remote USB device error: Remote device disconnected: an error occured… Read more »
How to start VMware Remote console plug-in on Ubuntu
Have just installed VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 10 and the Remote console plug-in doesn’t work. VMware Server 2 is all web-based which is great as you dont need to install much but to get to the console screen of your VMs you need a browser plug-in which should download and start automatically but… Read more »
How to recover data on Lacie storage device
A few years ago a relative bought the then equivalent of this Lacie network attached storage device and configured RAID1 on the internal drives and we all thought the data was nice and safe; not strictly true (even ignoring the physical factors fire, theft, etc). Recently the whole device failed to power up and seemed… Read more »
MS09-055 (KB973525) breaks MS Office Visio Viewer
Having been very busy recently deploying a record number of Microsoft security patches this month, one of the few problems has been MS09-055 (KB973525) which is a cumulative update of ActiveX killbits. But this does seem to kill a legitimate ActiveX control used by Microsoft Office Visio Viewer which opens any Visio diagrams in IE…. Read more »
Firefox hanging when refreshing page?
I’ve recently been having a nightmare with Firefox (3.0.latest) and refreshing a webpage running an AJAX application I am developing. This was driving me crazy, I was checking my code, checking the server but with a normal refresh Firefox would just hang. It worked in IE(!) and hitting Ctrl-F5 would work and but otherwise Firefox… Read more »
ITMU Scan component failing – SMS 2003
After deploying the last round of Microsoft patches using Systems Management Server 2003 with the ITMU scan tool I noticed lots of the same error: Scan component failed(type= Microsoft Update); Error while trying to execute SmsWsusHandler.exe along with other related errors in the SMS Client logs. Running the scan on its own failed with the… Read more »
