Errors related to applications, code (PHP, Ruby, etc.), hardware, drivers, etc.
Recently I needed to modify a MySQL database from a latin1 character set to a utf8 character set which I may write an article on later however when importing the MySQL dumped data back into a new database I received an error complaining about the packet size. This can easily be worked around using the…
When attempting to remove a user role from PostgreSQL it is possible to get an error. This error will be received if the role attempting to be removed still has access privileges for instance SELECT privileges on specific tables. Below I describe the error as well as how to remove access privileges for each table…
Earlier today while looking into an issue on a CentOS Linux server I noticed an error message in the maillog file. The mail server running on this Linux server is Postfix and it appeared to have been complaining of the size of root’s mailbox located at /var/mail/root. When I first started investigating I figured I…
The irecovery.exe application is used to communicate with iPhone or iPod Touch devices that are stuck in DFU mode or recovery mode. One thing that needs to be installed for the iRecovery application to work properly is LibUSB-Win32 which can be downloaded and installed for free. The error noted below will be resolved when LibUSB-Win32…
While working on a project unrelated to Postfix on a CentOS server I noticed an error in the mail logs that indicated an issue with the root users mailbox. I have yet to locate the root cause of the problem however I was able to resolve the problem easily. Below I explain the error in…
A couple days ago I was working on the network at the computer shop and ran into an issue configuring the Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch we have on part of the network. The goal was to set up three VLAN’s to segregate traffic on three segments of the network that each have their own purpose.…
While working on a customers computer this past Sunday afternoon I ran into an issue with Windows Live Essentials while attempting to update all of his programs. The error relates to updating Windows Live Essentials only and can be resolved by either skipping the specified update or really by uninstalling Windows Live Essentials and then…
A client of mine contacted me earlier because he was unable to add products to his Zen Cart store. I recently installed a couple modules for him and was thinking that the issue may be related to one of the modules however this did not end up being the case. After some investigation I was…
Earlier today I was configuring VSFTPD on a new server. After installing via the yum package manager on a CentOS server and copying the configuration from another server to mimic its behavior I attempted to start VSFTD and it failed with the error noted in detail below. After the error details there is information on…
When attempting to create a new database on a PostgreSQL server running walmgr, which is part of SkyTools by Skype Developers, for real time failover I received an error. Initially I was a bit baffled by the error however I remembered after racking my brain for a little bit that you must stop walmgr’s syncdaemon…