Nix pkg unable to install or delete packages
OS: Arch Linux Tags:linuxnixpackages
Description: Error: this derivation has bad ‘meta.outputsToInstall/Uninstall’ References: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/error-this-derivation-has-bad-meta-outputstoinstall/20019
Reproduce:
After trying to install or uninstall a package:
nix-env -e calibre
or trying to upgrade a package:
nix-env -u --always calibre
would see this error
Error: this derivation has bad 'meta.outputsToInstall/Uninstall
Solution:
save list of packages with nix-env -q > cur.gen
switch to pretty old generation like 1 month ago nix-env --list-generations and nix-env --switch-generation 50
run nix-channel --update and nix-env -u uninstall the packages that no longer needed and install the packages that saved at start.
Unable to Update CentOS7
OS: CentOS 7 or 8 Tags:linuxCentOSUpdateYUM Description: Cant Update system References: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70963985/error-failed-to-download-metadata-for-repo-appstream-cannot-prepare-internal
yum update -y
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist
Solution:
Go to /etc/yum.repos.d/
Run:
sudo sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*`
sudo sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
`sudo yum update -y
Communicate different pods using Podman
OS: Arch Linux Tags:podmanDockernetwork References: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71141056/communicate-different-pods-using-podman
Description: I am deploying several Pods using podman-compose. To do so, each pod has its own definition in a podman-compose.yaml file that I execute in rootless mode (so all containers in a Pod coexist in the same host/IP). However, I would like to make able a container in a Pod to reach a service exposed by a container in another pod.
Solution:
podman network create $NETWORK_NAME
podman pod create --name $POD1 --network $NETWORK_NAME
podman pod create --name $POD2 --network $NETWORK_NAME
podman run -it --detach --pod $POD1 --name $CONTAINER1 --network $NETWORK_NAME image_name
podman run -it --detach --pod $POD2 --name $CONTAINER2 --network $NETWORK_NAME image_name
Unable to Connect to EC2 instance with RDP
Type: Fixed RDP EC2 Instance cert error OS: Amazon Linux (Fedora base) Tags:AWS,cloud,EC2,RDP
Description:
While trying to run GUI EC2 instance (MATE Desktop Enviroment) I got this certificate error while checking log with
systemctl status xrdp
.... /etc/xrdp/cert.pem and key.pem not found ⇐ Something like this
Solution:
so we should generate the keys for them.
just login with ssh or ec2-connect from gui
and run this command
sudo openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout /etc/xrdp/key.pem -out /etc/xrdp/cert.pem -days 365
and reload the RDP service
systemctl restart xrdp
Extra Notes: -
The application was unable to connect to display 0.
**Verify the display name by running the who command in your terminal
Update the DISPLAY variable
export DISPLAY=“:0”
Disable access control
xhost +