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We’re running cPanel with MariaDB 10.2 on one of our servers and during a complete database dump we ran into this error: mysqldump: Got error: 1356: “View ‘sys.host_summary’ references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function(s) or definer/invoker of view lack…
A security scan on one of our servers recently revealed that directory listing was enabled for a particular URL: abc.com We have configured our webservers to globally disable directory listing so this stumped us. We revisited our Apache httpd.conf, tweaked…
To mount a Windows share on a Linux machine you’ll need CIFS. To install CIFS, issue the following at shell: yum install cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create an empty folder at the location you want to mount the drive:…
“Windows cannot access drive. You do not have permission to access \share. ” We were stumped by this error on one of the internal machines we had set up as a shared server. We turned off password protected sharing but…
We had to reboot a server we manage which had frozen/crashed during the night. The server rebooted but none of the services would come online. We tried filtering the logs to a new file to drill down the errors at…
One of our production servers started throwing this error whenever we tried to start/stop/restart a service. Heck, even issuing reboot would return a similar error. Failed to stop httpd.service: Failed to activate service ‘org.freedesktop.systemd1’: timed out The only thing that…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment that includes most CLI tools, utilities, and applications. These are run directly from within Windows, unmodified, and without the overhead of a conventional virtual machine or dualboot environment.…
We noticed load on one of our production servers recently and had to enable slow query log for our MariaDB server. Since this was a server in production, we feared that if we tried restarting the MariaDB server that it…
One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…
Ran into this issue on a client’s cPanel hosting account while maintaining their Magento site: An exception was raised while creating “Request”; no instance returned The server returned this error when trying to run maintenance commands via the terminal like…