admin on October 13th, 2009

If during your apt activity you are getting some errors like this:
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
Try to add the key from keyserver specifying the key id and you should be ok

~# gpg –keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu –recv-key  9AA38DCD55BE302B
~# gpg -a –export 9AA38DCD55BE302B [...]

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admin on June 25th, 2009

Recently I bumped in a Debian Lenny locales problem,  on some amd64 cluster inside the cloud, during apt-get operations the system complains continuously about wrong or missing locales with messages like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″
are supported and installed on your system.
or [...]

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admin on June 4th, 2009

If you get this error during the Vmware module compilation:
Unable to make a vsock module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting ‘/tmp/vmware-config1/vsock.o’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
What you need to do is the following:
untar vmci.tar (in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source)
build the module with ‘make’
untar vsock.tar and copy the “Modules.symvers” file resulting from the previous [...]

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admin on May 21st, 2009

I would like to inform the WPMU users about a strange behavior that drove me crazy some days ago.
Upgrading from previous versions to the 2.7.1 version, we got strange random errors, some kind of random “hang on” in the wpmu blogs network.
After digging for a while, we found this bug:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8590
The problem totally went away installing [...]

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admin on May 7th, 2009

How you know how much will pay for the bandwidth used in a server inside the Cloud?
Often cloud services give you a calculator but this is based on Giga Bytes per Month of traffic but normally you measure bandwidth throughput on your server in kbps.

Install some graphical tool for collection of bandwidth data in your [...]

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