Errors related to applications, code (PHP, Ruby, etc.), hardware, drivers, etc.
I ran into an annoying problem today. I normally use Firefox for all my pentesting needs and I use google chrome as my default browser for everything else. I was setting up a new Backtrack image for myself and I installed the .deb archive for google chrome which is available on the google web site. When I went to…
While running a configure script before compiling an application on CentOS Linux I received an error regarding libdaemon which caused the configure script to fail. Using YUM I was able to list the available packages that included libdaemon in the name, install one, and then move past that error in the configure script. Below I…
While running a configure script before compiling an application on CentOS Linux I received an error noting that libgdbm could not be found. Below I display the actual error output that interrupted the configure script, how the correct RPM package to resolve the error was located, and the output of installing the new package on…
While running a configure script to eventually compile an application during testing on CentOS Linux I received an error stating that libexpat and/or libbsdxml could not be found. On CentOS you will only need to install libexpat-devel as shown in the below example following the output of the configure error and how we located what…
As noted in a previous article I was tasked by a client with figuring out why their Retrospect Backup software for Windows was not working properly. Since I was not familiar with Retrospect I had to troubleshoot from the beginning. I started troubleshooting on the Windows 2003 R2 server running Retrospect and was able to…
Earlier today after restoring a MySQL database I was attempting to grant a specific user access to a specific database but was receiving an error. I ended up being able to resolve the issue easily by flushing privileges but I wanted to note in case I ran into this again or so others could find…
Earlier today I was working on some packages for Backtrack 5 and I ran into this java error. I was attempting to run a new reporting tool called Magic Tree which is a java application, but every time I opened it, it would crash with the following error.
I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 awhile back on the site where the below issue was noticed and in fact am running WordPress 3.1 on the site now. Today when attempting to block a new page from showing in the navigation bar via the Mandigo theme Theme Options screen I received an error complaining about permissions.…
Tonight I was downloading some packages from a community FTP server I am a member of and noticed that the transfer speeds were not showing after I started to process the FileZilla FTP transfer queue. Initially I figured I must have unchecked a toolbar or accidentally modified a view setting without knowing it. After reviewing the…