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September 29, 2021 amida168 0

We have an Ubuntu 20.04 VM running under VMware. The users reported that the root partition is running out of free space. We first deleted […]

June 7, 2021 amida168 0

I setup a PowerEdge server with a Nvidia T4 GPU. The OS is Ubuntu 20.04. User complained that the Matlab benchmark is very slow. The […]

May 20, 2021 amida168 0

We recently had a problem with a hard drive in one server. The drive is part of a RAID. After reseat the drive, the server […]

September 30, 2020 amida168 0

I set up a small web server to let my users run some simple PHP scripts. It was running fine for a few years and […]

April 29, 2020 amida168 0

When I tried to install MySQL-python module on a CentOS 8 machine, I got this error message: On previous distribution, I can add the my_config.h […]

July 8, 2019 amida168 0

There was a vulnerability for Samba 4.3.11 on Ubuntu 16.04. We were asked to update the Samba version to the latest 4.8 or above on […]

March 19, 2019 amida168 0

One user reported his machine did not let him log on after the recent update. I checked several logs to find out the Nvidia driver […]

March 13, 2019 amida168 0

One user updated his Scientific Linux 7 recently. The version of Samba was upgraded from 4.4 to 4.8. The samba service was not running smoothly […]

March 4, 2019 amida168 0

A user reported that a certain PHP script stopped working on the server. The error messages are: Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line […]

September 10, 2018 amida168 0

I helped set up a cluster couple of years ago. The server OS has not been upgraded ever since because it requires rebuilding the whole […]