Tag fix

Apple OS X

Fix Mac Pro Shutdowns / Crashes – Google Keystone Update Damaging File System

Today we’ll attempt to fix Mac Pro’s shutting down on their own or damage/corruption to the Mac OS X file system, if it started happening around the 24-25th of Sept 2019, you might be in luck. This is only happening…

theshell
September 25, 2019

CentOS, General Linux, Kali Linux, Ubuntu

SSH connection takes too long to respond/connect

Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse DNS lookups on SSH connections on the target machine. Edit…

theshell
August 23, 2019

Kali Linux

Failed to Detect and Mount CD-ROM – Kali Linux 2018.3a

Kali Linux threw this error message during the installation procedure. Troubleshooting this was frustrating as none of the fixes, which were about mounting the USB drive to /cdrom, worked for us. We then decided to play with the options in…

theshell
October 22, 2018

Varnish

503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable – Varnish

503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable ugh. This error is the worst, it could mean so many things. Luckily in our case, we were getting this error when we tried to upload a large file. Bypassing Varnish and uploading…

theshell
December 26, 2016

CentOS

connect: Network is unreachable

This was a mighty screw up, I don’t exactly remember how I did this, but I messed with the routing table and deleted the default gateway entry. So whenever I tried to ping a IP I’d get the following: [[email protected]…

theshell
January 21, 2016

CentOS

[proxy_fcgi:error] The timeout specified has expired – Apache 2.4

Spent two hours trying to troubleshoot this. [proxy_fcgi:error] The timeout specified has expired The fix turns out to be pretty simple, add the following variables to and tune them according to your requirement Timeout 600 ProxyTimeout 600

theshell
January 20, 2016