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If during your apt activity you are getting some errors like this:
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
Try to add the key from keyserver specifying the key id and you should be ok
~# gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 9AA38DCD55BE302B ~# gpg -a --export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | apt-key add -
Recently I bumped in a Debian Lenny locales problem, on some amd64 cluster inside the cloud, during apt-get operations the system complains continuously about wrong or missing locales with messages like this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:LANGUAGE = (unset),LC_ALL = (unset),LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″are supported and installed on your system.
or like this:
manconv: can’t set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
The issue was fixed using this method, reinstalling and regenerating the locales on the system, to avoid dependencies I used the following packages as a “bridge”:
~# apt-get install belocs-locales-bin belocs-locales-data~# locale-gen~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
After issuing the command dpkg-reconfigure locales select the locales you need from the list and you should be done.
If you get this error during the Vmware module compilation:
Unable to make a vsock module that can be loaded in the running kernel:insmod: error inserting ‘/tmp/vmware-config1/vsock.o’: -1 Unknown symbol in module
What you need to do is the following:
untar vmci.tar (in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source)build the module with ‘make’untar vsock.tar and copy the “Modules.symvers” file resulting from the previous compilation into the “vsock-only” directory. Rebuild the vsock.tar file and run “vmware-config.pl”.
Speaking in bash language:
cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/tar xvfp vmci.tartar xvfp vsock.tar cd vmci-only/makecp -av Module.symvers ../vsock-only/cd ..tar -f vsock.tar -cv vsock-only/vmware-config.pl
Now it should compile just fine.Thanks to Javier, I got this solution from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208316
I would like to inform the WPMU users about a strange behavior that drove me crazy some days ago.Upgrading from previous versions to the 2.7.1 version, we got strange random errors, some kind of random “hang on” in the wpmu blogs network.After digging for a while, we found this bug:http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8590The problem totally went away installing php5-curl package, on my debian servers:
apt-get install php5-curl ;/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Hope this can help
How you know how much will pay for the bandwidth used in a server inside the Cloud?Often cloud services give you a calculator but this is based on Giga Bytes per Month of traffic but normally you measure bandwidth throughput on your server in kbps.
So to convert kbps in GB/Month we can simply obtain a constant from the following logic steps:
So the constant will be 3600*24*30/8/1.000.000 = 0.324
For example 150kbps of bandwidth will generate 150*0.324=48.6GB per month trafficor conversely, for example 80GB per Month will be 80/0.324 = 246.91 kbps on average throughtput
Therefore the constant is 0.324 and as a rule of thumb you can remember 0.3 or one/third 😉
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