VNC Server: RDB protocol error
We recently setup a new installation of Pop OS (Version 21.10), and were in the middle of setting up remote desktop sharing with VNC when we ran into a snag. We were prompted by this error: VNC is great and…
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NGINX Version Mismatch
We were in the process of upgrading an old server from NGINX version 1.16 to the latest and got a slew of errors: This issue occured because when Nginx was updated, it did not update it’s modules along side it.…
Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 0 “Internal error/check (Not system error)” – MariaDB / MySQL
If you get this error when trying to connect to a remote MariaDB or MySQL server then don’t fret. The MySQL log file doesn’t provide any help either, we had the following in ours: The solution to the problem is…
Fix “wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server”
We got this error on a fresh installation of CentOS when trying to convert webpages to pdf’s using wkhtmltopdf: We’re getting this error because we do not have any sort of GUI environment installed (e.g. GNOME, KDE). To fix this…
Fix “error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process – Thread died in Berkeley DB library | rpmdb open failed” – CentOS 7
We prematurely killed a yum process after which we started getting this error: The fix is fairly straight forward, you need to move or remove the db files for yum and run yum again. To do this, type the following…
Fix “ModSecurity: Output filter: Response body too large (over limit of 524288, total not specified)”
We recently moved a wordpress site to a new server where certain pages would throw this error. Since this was a cPanel account we started looking at the error logs in public_html, the logs folder on the main but we…
CentOS / RHEL: Exclude kernel from yum update
We recently needed to exclude the kernel from being updated on a VPS server. While this may not sound or seem ideal but there are certain scenarios where you don’t want to update the kernel every time you update packages…
Fix “PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress”
We recently saw this error on a newly migrated site, we were sure we had the mysql extension loaded correctly as a bunch of other wordpress sites were using the same PHP version without issue. We started by downgrading the…
Force recalculate / refresh cPanel disk space usage
Today we’ll look at how to force recalculate / refresh your cPanel’s accounts disk space usage. This can be quite annoying, at times the usage does not update even though you’ve freed up space and it should. There is a…
Fix “Unable to locate adb” – Android Studio
Today we’ll be fixing the dreaded and annoying Unable to locate adb error message when trying to launch an emulator or when trying to run an app in Android Studio. The issue occurs, apparently starting Android Studio versions 4 and…