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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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