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After changing harddrives I needed to transfer some files from the old harddrive which had an encrypted home directory. The command sudo ecryptfs-recover-private did not work: sudo ecryptfs-recover-private /home/.ecryptfs/user/.ecryptfs/ INFO: Found [/home/.ecryptfs/user/.ecryptfs/]. Try to recover this directory? [Y/n]: INFO: Found your wrapped-passphrase Do you know your LOGIN passphrase? [Y/n] INFO: Enter your LOGIN passphrase... Passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [f7402d552edaa194] into the user session keyring mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory ERROR: Failed to mount private data at [/tmp/ecryptfs....

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout 'close,maximize,minimize,close:'

After upgrading several Gnome 3 (and other) packages and rebooting I was unable to get to the gdm3 login screen. It crashed instantly with the message “Oh no! Something has gone wrong”. After checking various log files and consulting the internet I found a bug report which provided a (very simple) solution: sudo adduser Debian-gdm video That’s it.

If you’re runing the latest version of seafile-cli (4.3.2) on Debian you might encounter the following error in your seafile.log: http-tx-mgr.c(653): libcurl failed to GET https://domain.tld/seafhttp/protocol-version: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?). This is because the client is built on CentOS where the CA certificates reside in a different location. Luckily there is an easy fix available (see https://seacloud.cc/group/3/wiki/seafile-cli-manual/) : sudo mkdir -p /etc/pki/tls/certs sudo cp /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle....

When upgrading to Gnome 3.16 you might find yourself in the situtation that your mouse pointer speed has changed. To revert this run the following command: /usr/bin/xset m default

When upgrading Apache to version 2.4 some of your config files need to be changed. Allow from all needs to be changed to Require all granted Otherwise your virtualhost config is not correct and Apache won’t work correctly.

When all mail clients are working fine with dovecot – Outlook won’t. The first thing you might want to check resides in the following file: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf The default value for disable_plaintext_auth is “yes” – change it to “no”: disable_plaintext_auth = no

After upgrading to Debian 8.0 (jessie) Skype stopped working with the following error message: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory There is a really simple fix available: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ Done.

When creating a new Laravel project and running composer update you might get the following error: Writing lock file Generating autoload files PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Foundation\Application::getCachedCompilePath() in /tmp/foo/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/ClearCompiledCommand.php on line 28 [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException] Call to undefined method Illuminate\Foundation\Application::getCachedCompilePath() Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an error [RuntimeException] Error Output: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Foundation\Application::getCachedCompilePath() in /tmp/foo/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/ClearCompiledCommand .php on line 28 update [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--lock] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-autoloader] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--with-dependencies] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [packages1] ....

Today I released a new version of SQLgreyGUI . It’s a web interface for SQLgrey using the Laravel 5 PHP framework. Installation is pretty straight forward – check the README on GitHub.