Author: gheja

5853:0001 is a XEN HVM virtual SCSI adapter. Source: https://code.ticketmaster.com/trac/browser/spine/trunk/lib/Spine/Plugin/SystemInfo.pm?rev=123#L225

I was trying to load database from an RMAN backup (duplicate database until …), and the restore process died after some time, and gave me the following error messages (I have tried it several times, with different backups, these repeated randomly): ORA-19502: write error on file “/path/to/datafile.dbf”, blockno 1669073 (blocksize=8192) ORA-27072: File I/O error Linux

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Although the Bootsplash has been superseded by Splashy many of us liked Bootsplash. I was unable to find a patch for 2.6.32, so I made one from the patch for 2.6.30. http://dev.kakaopor.hu/stuffs/bootsplash-3.1.6a-2.6.32.diff

I assume you have a working Apache 2 installation with PHP4 modules installed, if not run the following and you will have: sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-mod-php4 Note: you can also have PHP5 installed as module and PHP4 as CGI, everything works the same way with swapping the versions in commands. First of all you

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If you have accidentaly locked out yourself, or just forgot your password for the admin (root) user of the MySQL, here is a quick-and-dirty solution. First you have to shut down the MySQL server, next you need to start it in safe mode with no priviliges table loaded, update the password to a new one,

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I have updated the early-ssh to version 0.2. This includes just a few bugfixes and new features, including scp support. You can download the new version from http://dev.kakaopor.hu/early-ssh/

Early-ssh is a simple initramfs-tools hook script which provides an SSH server at boottime (in the initramfs) before the root filesystem gets mounted, so you will be able to do a numerous things, such as: unlocking crypto devices – even your root can be an encrypted filesystem assembling/altering mdadm RAID arrays checking the root filesystem

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I was unable to find a place where all these things are collected, so I have decided I will write it down here. So I am currently working on a little project where I need to have SSH access during the boot (on the initrd system). The following things are needed to create a working

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Today I have faced with a crashed SQLite database. Actually, I am not totally sure it was crashed, but the sqlite process had not shut down properly, and (after this) to select anything from it has taken more than an hour, anyway it was damn slow, and has eaten a lot of CPU time, and

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Today I have run into an error with fdisk under busybox. I am currently building a really small system with basic stuffs, and I need to run fdisk in the initramfs. Unfortunately when I try to run fdisk interactively, I get the following error: fdisk[…]: segfault at 8117dc4 ip 080ff478 sp bffee994 error 7 in

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