Lexmark Drivers for Ubuntu/Debian

May 5, 2009 at 02:18 · Filed under Personal

Lexmark provides subpar Linux drivers for any distro, but Ubuntu/Debian is horrible. At work we moved from HP Printers to Lexmark. The situation reminds me of ATI hardware in the late-90’s, great hardware and crappy drivers. I converted the Red Hat RPM for Debian based systems. Attached below:

To install sudo dpkg -i drivers-lexprtdrv_552-2_i386.deb

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Error in Service Module

April 17, 2009 at 17:34 · Filed under Personal

If you are on a OpenSuSE or SuSE SLES/SLED machine and have recently mounted /var to a new parition, you might get the following error:

“Error in service module”
If it keeps you from logging in, boot single user and touch /var/log/lastlog as root

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Fix for Songbird showing songs still on iPod

January 3, 2009 at 19:24 · Filed under Personal

I formatted my iPod recently and noticed that Songbird still thought the Library had media on it. Loading up a factory restore didn’t help. To clear the iPod cache here is the location:

In the profiles directory you will see a db folder. Remove all iPod* folders and restart Songbird. Now the Library will show the blankness that is your iPod.

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Move from Physical to Virtual with CloneZilla

December 17, 2008 at 11:44 · Filed under Techie

Just a side note for when I forget how I fixed this…

When using CloneZilla you can capture server images and redeploy them unless there are hardware differences. To fix issues with hardware changes between physical server hardware and VMware here are my fix actions:

• Windows 2003 Enterprise
  • Change the hard drive to IDE from SCSI. Windows will blue screen when you boot after image deployment since it cannot find the drive to boot from. You will get the error: 0×0000007b
  • After booting windows 2003 you can then install the BusLogic or LSI SCSI drivers
• Red Hat Linux 5
  • Boot with the first CD of the install set and instead of an install, use linux rescue.
  • Once booted chroot /mnt/sysimage
  • Blank out the /etc/modprobe.conf
  • mv /boot/initrd-2.6.18-20.el5.img /boot/initrd-2.6.18-20.el5.img.orig
  • mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-20.el5.img 2.6.18-20.el5
  • reboot
• Windows XP
  • Change the hard drive to IDE from SCSI. Windows XP in the default install does not include the two SCSI adapters VMware supports, BusLogic or LSI Logic.
  • During the CloneZilla restore you are given a few options. The ones to select to ensure a successful MBR restore are:
    • -t1
    • -j1

These settings will allow you to move your physical clonezilla images to vmware.

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NetBackup with RHEL5 – CentOS IPTables

October 24, 2008 at 14:39 · Filed under Techie

First you need to open the iptables firewall settings:

## NetBackup Client Firewall Ports
iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -p tcp –dport bpcd-j ACCEPT –src <ip of master server>

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT –reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

/etc/init.d/iptables restart

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