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Common Problems 118092

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Nginx returns 502 Bad Gateway to upstream

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2022 📖 ~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 Manage Hashes in Redis — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Hashes in Redis

A Redis hash is a data type that represents a mapping between a string field and a string value. A single hash can hold many field-value pairs and are designed to not take up much space, making them ideal for representing data objects. For example, a hash might represent a customer, and include fields like ‘name’, ‘address’, ’email’, or ‘customer_id’. This tutorial will go over how to manage hashes in Redis, from creating them to retrieving and deleting the data held within a hash.

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Common Problems 118006

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – memory pressure triggers OOM kills and random restarts – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 📖 ~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 […]

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Common Problems 117007

Ubuntu 22.04 MySQL Startup Failure After InnoDB Log Size Change

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2022 📖 ~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 Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management on RHEL 9

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open-source platform built on top of Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana that provides deep visibility into MySQL and other database workloads. PMM separates concerns into a centralised Server component (delivered as a Docker image) and a lightweight Client agent that runs on each database host. This guide walks […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — swig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — swig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2021:1755 Upstream summary: The simplified wrapper and interface generator (SWIG) is a software development utility to connect C, C++, and Objective C programs with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is […]

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Debian 11 — python-rtslib-fb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — python-rtslib-fb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 September 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14019 Upstream summary: Open-iSCSI rtslib-fb through 2.1.72 has weak permissions for /etc/target/saveconfig.json because shutil.copyfile (instead of shutil.copy) is used, and thus permissions are not preserved. Table of contents […]

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How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 11 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 11

OpenVPN is a full-featured, open-source Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, you will set up an OpenVPN server on a Debian 11 server and then configure access to it from Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and/or Android devices.

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Debian 11 — systemd-cron — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — systemd-cron — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 September 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9525 Upstream summary: In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks […]

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