Monday, December 8th, 2008
PHP/Recode fail
I use PHP on FreeBSD servers, compiled from the ports system. It works very well, except that sometimes… well… sometimes… segfaults happen. Yes random, bizarre, “how did this working system suddenly become non-working wtf” errors happen.
Here’s an example of what happened to me today. This is a snip from my lighttpd error log
(mod_fastcgi.c.2722) child signaled: [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
ISC DHCPD duplicate uid lease
Ever see this?
dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24
or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log and making it harder to find what might be [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Security Update Breaks SSH on OS X
If you installed Security Update 002 for leopard and suddenly ssh tells you “bus error”, the answer lies here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6863360#6863360
Apparently the guys at rogue amoeba have some work to do – we need instant hijack!
If you are too lazy to read that thread, the fix is:
sudo /usr/local/hermes/bin/hermesctl unload
thereby uninstalling instant hijack and fixing the problem. Somehow…
… [...]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Not bad meaning bad but…
Bad meaning… good! Haha I got this error while messing around with VMWare on my Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) system. I have Windows XP running as a guest OS and this “Error success” window popped up when I was trying to use Windows from within VMWare to format my iPod. It didn’t work (I found [...]