After a system crash, i decided to install the new version of Ubuntu server 8.10, everything went fine with the installation and so on.
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If theres one thing i hate, its error messages that says absolutly nothing usefull, like this one.
i had ensured that my exports list was correctly set up, actually, i had it tested from my tvix (was able to browse the share) but from another nix server, i got this message.
MDADM screwup
Aug 26
heres a few errors mdadm might give you, which might not be as easy to find an explanation for.(might just be me)
After the crypto bug got fixed in debian (and the system got updated via apt) it would prompt one for regeneration of certificates.
what i forgot all about, was that of course OpenVPN was affected by this aswell, so after the update and a reboot, all my vpn connections died suddenly.
After installing VMware server + console successfully, the client console might bug you with an error message sounding like
VMware Server Console
The Process exited with an error:
End of error message.
I constantly get annoying messages from this ugly person which i would mostly describe as the human version of Peter Griffin from family guy. -> superjoachim.dk
so in order to make it stop, i decided to try and help him with vmware server installation which he fucked up (can’t prove it, but all the evidence points to him)
Anyway, while trying to install it, one might encounter an error message like this
So, here we are again. i finally got fiber, unfortunately its via PPPoE (dont ask).
 At least the client has improved over the years since i last used it, which must have been 7 years ago or something. anyway, my memory isn’t what it used to b…hmm, nevermind. my memory more or less always fails to remember anything at all, so of course i ran into problems again. here’s some output from /var/log/syslog after trying to start pppoe.
 (i actually did compile a new kernel with support for PPP, but i forgot something…)
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppd[3069]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppd[3069]: Serial connection established.
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppd[3069]: Couldn’t set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppoe[3071]: PADS: Service-Name: ”
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppoe[3071]: PPP session is 41216 (0xa100)
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppoe[3071]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session 41216: Input/output error
Oct 26 23:39:16 foo pppoe[3071]: Sent PADT
Oct 26 23:39:46 foo pppd[3069]: Serial connection established.
In short,i forgot to compile support for “PPP support for async serial ports”
It surprises me that there’s a lot of people out there who know about WOL (wake on lan), the ability to
Remotely turn on your pc/server via the network card. But doesnt know that you can do it from the Internet, and not just on your home network.
Heres a small text on how to set up OpenVPN on linux debian, nothing fancy at all, and most likely missing a lot of small things. but that will be updated later on when i got time. Any suggestions are of course welcome. This is however, just as much a little reminder for myself since i got a memory as a goldfish with alzheimer’s.
Lets start with installing OpenVPN. for this we need ->
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The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY xxx
Oct 11
While upgrading Debian, you might experience difficulties like
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_DK
Hit http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny Release
Hit http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny/main Sources/DiffIndex
Fetched 1B in 4s (0B/s)Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://ftp.dk.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY D5642BC86823D007
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems