Hints

Short fixes, snippets, and troubleshooting notes worth keeping for later.

16 posts in Hints.
Apr 25, 2022
Live Wireshark diameter capturing from K8s container (in Google Kubernetes Engine)
Handy command to remotely capture tcpdump from a K8s container located in Google Kubernetes Engine and then display it (live!) in Wireshark …
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Mar 23, 2022
How to fix Permission “artifactregistry.repositories.downloadArtifacts” denied on resource on Ubuntu when pulling from Google Artifact repository
Easiest way to install Docker in Ubuntu is to use snap. But then when you try to pull/push any images from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) …
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Aug 25, 2020
How to enable R environment in Golden Cheetah on Mac?
Somehow I couldn’t find a complete guide how to install R and configure it properly in Golden Cheetah (I’m using v3.5). There is a good …
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Oct 21, 2019
OUI issue NGINST-64002: Error occurred in validation of: “Host Name”
When installing an Oracle application using OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) sometimes it verifies if a given host is reachable. …
Oracle
Mar 22, 2019
Prometheus Node Exporter /lib/init/init-d-script: /usr/bin/daemon: not found
After Ubuntu upgrade 18.04 -> 18.10, Prometheus Node Exporter started to complain: root@grafana:~# /etc/init.d/prometheus-node-exporter …
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Oct 10, 2018
Oracle Coherence – description of federation member states
States of Oracle Coherence federation are not very well described in the documentation. So I thought it would be good to ask at the source. …
Oracle
Sep 30, 2018
Shrinking VirtualBox VMs
This article is note to self, as I just gather information from other sites: …
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May 3, 2018
Chef resources failing with wrong constant name
When trying to add a custom resource, no matter what, I always got a wrong constant name error, for example: resolving cookbooks for run …
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Apr 24, 2018
Oracle 12c 32-bit client and direct GOT relocation R_386_GOT32 against `lxecerr’
Edit 12/09/2018 As Ivan commented below: with binutils release 27.28 it seems to be solved. But see the workaround below in case it’s not… …
Oracle
Jan 25, 2017
Belkin KVM: Falied to validate certificate
After one of JVM updates, my Belkin KVM (Remote IP Manager) has started refusing to start with “Falied to validate certificate” error …
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Dec 11, 2016
NoSQL: Exiting inner Replica loop with exception com.sleepycat.je.rep.RollbackProhibitedException
$ cd /opt/ece/data/nosql/storage2/kvroot/ECEStore/log $ (for i in $(ls rg*-rn*_0.log); do tail -200 $i | grep "Originally thrown by HA …
Oracle
Dec 10, 2016
Disable and remove the usbecm2 device on Solaris 11
After a fresh Solaris 11 install on a T4‑1 server, I noticed an unexpected network interface: usbecm2. root@slc:/# ifconfig -a lo0: …
Oracle
Dec 10, 2016
Half‑Life (1998) on Wine
Nearly 20 years after release, I wanted to replay it and see if it still felt the same. Since I’m on macOS, the obvious choice was to use …
Hints
May 11, 2014
PHP Startup: unable to load /usr/lib/php5/20100525/snmp.so
If you see this error on Ubuntu: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20100525/snmp.so' - …
Oracle
Nov 18, 2011
Wireshark 1.6.1 fails to start on Solaris 10
On a fresh Solaris 10 install, Wireshark (from sunfreeware.com) just wouldn’t start: root@am1slc01 # wireshark No fonts found; this probably …
Oracle
Jan 4, 2011
JavaPoint
Are you a coffee fan? Are you an engineer? Then you’ll appreciate this kind of coffee machine: Not sure about you, but I was impressed 🙂
Oracle
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