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How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Step 1 — Configure SLES for SAP zypper install -y patterns-sap-hana Step […]

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Common Problems 118576

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – SSH public key authentication fails

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04.7 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention […]

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FreeBSD 12 — upp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — upp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SQLite — Corrupt DB can cause a NULL pointer dereference Related CVEs: CVE-2018-8740 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: SQLite databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could […]

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Common Problems 117995

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – GRUB prompt appears after kernel update

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libevent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libevent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1283-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-6272 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 2.0.x before 2.0.22, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5-beta allow context-dependent attackers […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript7-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript7-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — denial of service (crash) via crafted Postscript files Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3228 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier […]

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FreeBSD 12 — gedit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — gedit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gedit — format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CAN-2005-1686 Upstream summary: Yan Feng reports a format string vulnerability in gedit. This vulnerability could cause a denial of service with a binary […]

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Common Problems 114896

RHEL 8 dnf Metadata Sync Fails With Mirror Timeout

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Install and Use tmux on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use tmux on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up install and use tmux on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py35-urllib — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py35-urllib — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: urllib3 — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20060 CVE-2019-11236 CVE-2019-11324 Upstream summary: NIST reports: (by search in the range 2018/01/01 – 2019/11/10): urllib3 before version 1.23 does not remove the Authorization […]

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