Author Archives: krylon

After upgrading a server from Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) to 24.04 (Noble Numbat), a Nextcloud installation may break with the following error: Internal Server Error  The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Please contact … Continue reading →

After upgrading a server from Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) to 24.04 (Noble Numbat), the Apache installation no longer functioned properly.  WordPress was also installed and would give the error: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which … Continue reading →

Veeam has the ability to backup File Shares and in this case I had an NFS backup that randomly started failing.  The only thing that had changed was a recent upgrade from Veeam 11 (specifically 11.0.1.1261) to Veeam 12 (specifically … Continue reading →

In this situation, the boot drive of ESXi was to be replaced. The existing ESXi installation was version 7.0 U3 and the boot drive also had a local datastore.  First a backup of the ESXi configuration was made and all … Continue reading →

After installing ESXi 7 (specifically Update 3f, Build 20036589) on a 128GB boot device, I found that a datastore had not been created.  When I tried to create a VMFS datastore I found that it was not possible because a … Continue reading →

I had a PC system based on an ASRock Z97 chipset motherboard with a Haswell generation i7 processor and integrated graphics.  Before considering the system stable, I was attempting to do a stress test using the latest version of UBCD … Continue reading →

You may find updating the firmware on an enterprise class Samsung PM863a SSD difficult. In this case I had a specific part number of MZ7LM3T8HMLP-00003. The first step is to check the label on the drive and look for the … Continue reading →

I was attempting to wipe and reinstall MacOS X on an older Intel based Macbook by following this guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102639 To begin this process, the directions have you press and hold Command-R. The Disk Utility to wipe the computer was … Continue reading →

I was replacing a failed drive in an existing array in OMV.  After I connected a replacement disk, I went to Multiple Device -> Recover. However the list of available drives for recovery was blank.  The next step I tried … Continue reading →

When performing a manual apt-get upgrade command from the OMV CLI, I ran into this error when it tried to upgrade the grub-pc package. grub-install: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hostdisk//dev/sdx; safety check can’t be performed. where x … Continue reading →