Author Archives: krylon

Brand new install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) running as a virtual machine on ESXi was generating a lot of errors in syslog like the below multipathd[711]: sda: failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument multipathd[711]: sda: failed to … Continue reading →

Mopidy 3.0.2 was installed on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) using the apt.mopidy.com method. All attempts to connect to a known working Icecast2 server would not work and the Icecast server would not log any errors. However the Mopidy log would … Continue reading →

These are the steps taken from my notes to reset/change an administrator password on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard install. I used Ubuntu and chntpw and the Windows partition was not encrypted. Boot from Ubuntu live disk Switch to … Continue reading →

This affects the minimum and maximum speeds allowed for throttling of reshaping and checking activities of mdadm. To monitor the current speed sudo cat /proc/mdstat To temporarily adjust the speed use the commands below. They will reset to defaults on … Continue reading →

When trying to perform apt-get update on OMV 4.1.27-1 (Arrakis), I received the following error Hit:10 https://packages.openmediavault.org/public arrakis InRelease Exception ignored in: <function WeakValueDictionary.__init__.<locals>.remove at 0x7fd4ea277598> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python3.5/weakref.py”, line 117, in remove TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object … Continue reading →

When reviewing the share permissions on a printer added to Windows Server 2019, it had a principal present with the following name: S-1-15-3-1024-4044835139-2658482041-3127973164-329287231-3865880861-1938685643-461067658-1087000422 This SID was present on two different servers and permissions allowed were set for Print and Manage … Continue reading →

This was a Windows Server 2019 that would log the following error every hour: The atc service failed to start due to the following error: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file. A recent hardware or software change … Continue reading →

When trying to perform a File Backup job using Veeam Backup and Replication (specifically version 10.0.0.4461) it would randomly fail with An unexpected network error occurred. This backup job was configured to backup a local NFS File Share to a … Continue reading →

If you forgot the login credentials for the web account, here is how to perform the reset. Access the VM appliance console Stop the PowerChute service /etc/init.d/PowerChute stop Edit the configuration file vi /opt/APC/PowerChute/group1/pcnsconfig.ini  In the [NetworkManagementCard] section of the … Continue reading →

A CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD unit originally came with two batteries, B.B. Battery HR1234W with dimensions 6.00 x 2.60 x 3.70 in. (LxWxH).  If you replaced them and forgot how to wire them back up, you can refer to the below diagram: