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Error “Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On October 26, 2021

After a sudden power outage, unsuccessful update or adding a new disk to /etc/fstab, you may face the problem that your system does not boot, or rather, boots into the console or into a black screen. Sometimes the problem is compounded by the fact that the system administrator cannot even get into the emergency console. Let's see how to solve the...

Gmail does not receive forwarded emails (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 3, 2021

Some Gmail users face the problem that the configured forwarding to the Google mailbox (Gmail) does not work, or is unstable. I faced such a problem when trying to set up forwarding from mail.ru mail to @gmail.com mail. In my case, forwarding from mail.ru was configured correctly and enabled. Moreover, it even worked for some time. Google has shown that...

Error “trid: loadlocale.c:129: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_TIME[0]))' failed” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 1, 2021

When running this or that command, you may encounter an error in which the word “loadlocale.c” appears. You can report this bug to the author so that he can fix it, as it is more of a program bug. However, there are several ways to fix this error. As you can tell from the “locale” string, the error is locale-related....

Error “cannot resolve dependency lib32 (32-bit library)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 1, 2021

When installing a package on Arch Linux or a distro derived from it, for example, by running the following command: sudo pacman -S trid an error may occur stating that dependencies could not be resolved. The name of this dependency can contain the number “32” or the string “lib32”, that is, it is a 32-bit package, for example: resolving dependencies......

Error “Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: mysqli, openssl” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On August 9, 2021

This post explains the causes of the error and how to fix it. When self-installing the web server on Windows, for example, following the guide “How to install Apache web server with PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Windows”, when trying to open the phpMyAdmin address, an error may occur: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the...

How to simulate package installation on Linux (How to create and install a dummy package)

Posted by Alex On June 23, 2021

Sometimes, when installing packages from source code, you may encounter the problem that the required dependency is missing from the system. Usually you need to solve this problem by installing the necessary dependencies from the standard repository, or by compiling them from source. Sometimes the required package is present, but its version is not suitable, a similar example and solution...

Error “Authentication helper program /usr/lib64/squid/basic_ncsa_auth: (2) No such file or directory” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On June 15, 2021

Squid is a popular web proxy server. It has rich functionality and, in addition to changing the IP address, it is often used as a caching proxy for websites, as a result of which the load on the web server is significantly reduced. When used as a proxy server to change IP or bypass restrictions, system administrators usually configure authentication...

PostgreSQL error “An old version of the database format was found” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On June 8, 2021

Warning: The following instructions could cause data loss. Do not run the commands below blindly, without understanding what they do. Backup database first. If, while starting the PostgreSQL service: sudo systemctl start postgresql.service it didn't work and the following message came up: Job for postgresql.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status postgresql.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details....

Redirect to HTTPS not working in WordPress

Posted by Alex On May 21, 2021

This is not an obvious problem, because for some pages the redirect to HTTPS works, but for some it does not. I ran into this problem on WordPress quite by accident. Therefore, if you are a webmaster with WordPress sites, then I would recommend that you check your sites too. Redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS is quite simple, you need...

Error “curl: (1) Received HTTP/0.9 when not allowed” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On May 2, 2021

cURL is a popular command line utility that supports many network protocols. curl supports HTTP with numerous options and variations. It can speak HTTP version 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 2 and 3 depending on build options and the correct command line options. But when the remote host does respond with HTTP/0.9, curl fails with an error that HTTP/0.9 is not allowed,...