Monthly Archives: September 2012

uname -a is returning the right version 3.2.0-30-generic however the vmware tools script is complaining. Solution to create a couple of symlinks ln -s /lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic/build/include/generated/utsrelease.h /lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h ln -s /lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic/build/include/generated/autoconf.h /lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic/build/include/linux/autoconf.h Then run the vmware perl … Read more

Everytime I step away from linux when i get back this LVM stuff always look like chinese to me. So i decided to write this post to remind me of the steps. Hopefully it will … Read more

I just created a partition (/dev/hda3) with fsdisk and here is how things look: when i run vgcreate /dev/hda3 i get the following error: Device /dev/hda3 not found (or ignored by filtering). Now What? After … Read more

Error Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages Solution: 1. Open /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Replace security.ubuntu.com with old-releases.ubuntu.com So the new link looks like the following: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages