Debian Buster: Enable TTY inside KVM guests
When spinning up a new Debian VM using KVM virsh console <vm> does not work. The VM needs a running TTY for this:systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.servicesystemctl start serial-getty@ttyS0.service
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Chrome 56: Install and use Extensions
Starting with Chrome 56 on Debian you might end up having no Extensions. To re-enable them again you have to start Chrome with –enable-remote-extensions To make this a default add this flag to the default flags in /etc/chromium.d/default-flags: # Enable … Continue reading
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Waiting for server to accept SSH connections
Sometimes you need to wait for a just booted server to accept SSH connections. This can be solved with a one-line bash script: until nc -w 10 -z $SERVER_IP 22; do echo “SSH not available” && sleep 5; done
npm install fails with “npm ERR! tar.unpack untar error”
Problem npm failed randomly while installing packages. It didn’t matter which packages or if running on Debian itself or inside virtual machines using Ubuntu (vagrant). Upgrading npm to the latest version (sudo npm install -g npm@latest ) and clearing npm’s cache … Continue reading
Simulate the environment of Cron Jobs
Often you will find yourself in the situation that one of your cron jobs works perfectly if you execute it manually but fails as soon as is gets executed by cron. The root cause might be the different environment. To … Continue reading