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OpenMediaVault 5 to 6 Upgrade Results in grub-pc Error Code

At the very end of an upgrade from version 5 to version 6 of OMV, I received the error Updating workbench configuration files … Restarting engine daemon … Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc W: –force-yes is deprecated, use one … Continue reading

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RAID Array Disappears After Reboot, Power Loss or Failure in OpenMediaVault

I had an unclean shutdown of OMV and when it restarted, all of the shares were no longer accessible. Also when rebooting OMV, you may see a console message related to “a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-label/your-volume-name” that takes … Continue reading

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Internet Connection Sharing Stops After Reboot

When rebooting a Windows 10 system that had ICS enabled, the settings would be lost. Clients that were using the shared connection could no longer access it even though it still showed enabled. The workaround was to disable and re-enable … Continue reading

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Loss of datastore and unable to passthrough after upgrading to ESXi 7

When an X58 + ICH10 based machine (Dell Precision T3500) was upgraded to ESXi 7, the storage adapter and associated datastore was lost.  The ICH10 in this case was not playing well with the native vmw_ahci driver.  In AHCI mode, … Continue reading

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Force Upgrade of VMware ESXi with Unsupported Processor

When trying to upgrade an ESXi host using the console, I received the error below. In this case I was attempting to upgrade to version 7 Update 3k. [HardwareError] Hardware precheck of profile ESXi-7.0U3k-21313628-standard failed with warnings: <CPU_SUPPORT WARNING: The … Continue reading

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RMCARD Firmware Upgrade

These steps can be used to upgrade the firmware and data for an RMCARD205 using Windows 10.  They may also work with an RMCARD305. There are two files used to upgrade the device: cpsrm2scfw_XXX.bin cpsrm2scdata_XXX.bin First make sure FTP is … Continue reading

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IKEv2 VPN Suddenly Stops Working with Authentication Error

Added an alternative solution using ACME. Updated to be compatible with the newer pfSense release (2.7). With a previously working IKEv2 configuration on pfSense, you may suddenly start receiving these messages: iOS: User Authentication Failed Windows 10: IKE authentication credentials … Continue reading

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Remote Desktop Connection Fails for Local Account on Domain Computer

I tried saving an RDP file with a prepopulated username to connect to a remote server using a local account on that server.  The local machine was an Azure AD joined to the same domain as the remote server. Typically … Continue reading

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Rename Windows 10 User Account Username and Profile Folder

This is a quick guide for changing both the login username and profile folder for a user account in Windows 10. Log in with an account that has administrator rights and is not the one you want to modify Computer … Continue reading

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ERROR 1064 (42000) when installing phpMyAdmin

Attempting to install phpMyAdmin 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) from the PPA linked below, I received error 1064. https://launchpad.net/~phpmyadmin/+archive/ubuntu/ppa An error occurred while installing the database: mysql said: ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in … Continue reading

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