Tag: software errors / problem solutions

Output encoding issues in PowerShell and third-party utilities running in PowerShell (SOLVED)

What encoding is used in PowerShell by default. How to change the default output encoding to UTF-8 in PowerShell If you run the following command in PowerShell 5: "Testing" > test.file And check the encoding in the newly created test.file, it turns out that it is UTF-16LE. If you run the following command in PowerShell 7: "Testing" > test.file And...

Windows stopped booting in Virtual Machine after upgrading to VirtualBox 7 (SOLVED)

After upgrading to VirtualBox 7 (more precisely, to VirtualBox 7.0.2), the Windows 11 guest OS stopped booting. Windows 11 guest boot starts as usual, no errors are displayed. Moreover, you can hear the Windows logon sound, but the desktop is not shown. Boot freezes on the initial screen with UEFI messages. As a host (main) OS, I use Linux, namely...

phpMyAdmin error “Error: Undefined constant “SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_KEYBYTES”” (SOLVED)

On Arch Linux, when trying to use the phpMyAdmin 5.3 pre-release, I encountered an error: Error: Undefined constant "SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_KEYBYTES" Checking in Debian showed that there is no such problem with phpMyAdmin 5.3. The reason for the error is that sodium support is not enabled. How to enable sodium on Arch Linux (Manjaro, BlackArch) To enable sodium support in Arch Linux...

Error “error: GPGME error: No data. error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)” (SOLVED)

When updating the package cache with the pacman package manager, for example, when running the following command to update package information and update the system: sudo pacman -Syu An error may occur: error: GPGME error: No data :: Synchronizing package databases... core 155.5 KiB 444 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra is up to date community is up to date multilib...

How to downgrade to a previous kernel version in Arch Linux. How to install and switch to linux-lts

New Linux kernels bring support for new hardware and new features. But sometimes the kernel causes problems: it is completely or partially incompatible with existing software, especially video drivers suffer from this, but this can also apply to any other software, for example, VirtualBox. At the time of the release of the linux 5.9 kernel, NVIDIA drivers were partially incompatible...

Analogue of Add-Computer in PowerShell 7

=========================================================== UPDATE: Testing with PowerShell 7.3.0-preview.5 shows that Add-Computer is back! Command Get-Command -module Microsoft.PowerShell.Management outputs the following: CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Function Add-Computer 1.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management …………………. …………………. That is, Add-Computer is present, it is a function (not a cmdlet), the version is indicated as 1.0. The status of Add-Computer is not completely clear: is it...

error: blackarch: signature from “Levon ‘noptrix’ Kayan (BlackArch Developer) ” is invalid (SOLVED)

When trying to update Arch Linux with BlackArch repositories with the command sudo pacman -Syu an error occurred: error: blackarch: signature from "Levon 'noptrix' Kayan (BlackArch Developer) <noptrix@nullsecurity.net>" is invalid The error message says that the signature of one of the BlackArch developers is not valid. Method #1 To solve this error, just delete the /var/lib/pacman/sync/blackarch.db.sig file: sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/blackarch.db.sig...

VirtualBox Error “NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)” (SOLVED)

After updating VirtualBox, all virtual machines stopped working, regardless of the guest operating system and their settings. The situation is complicated by the fact that instead of an exact indication of the problem, when trying to start the virtual machine, only a general message is displayed that the session was terminated, as well as an error number, which is common...

magick and convert troubleshooting (ImageMagick package)

The magick (convert) utilities from the ImageMagick package are used to convert and modify images. The magick (convert) commands have many options, although in their basic use, for example, to convert from one format to another, you can do without options at all. Despite the seeming ease of using the magick (convert) utilities, when using them, I encountered a variety...

Error “convert: delegate failed `’potrace’ --svg --output ‘%o’ ‘%i” @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1911” (SOLVED)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999. SVG images are defined in a vector graphics format and stored in XML text files. SVG images can thus be scaled in size...
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