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Common Problems 115568

RHEL 7 service Docker Fails to Start After Kernel Update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 October 2019 📖 ~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 Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On CentOS 6

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of Logstash 1.4.2 and Kibana 3, and how to configure them to gather and visualize the syslogs of our systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana 3 is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Install the Latest MySQL on Debian 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install the Latest MySQL on Debian 9

MySQL is a prominent open source database management system used to store and retrieve data for a wide variety of popular applications. MySQL is the M in the LAMP stack, a commonly used set of open source software that also includes Linux, the…

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Oracle Linux 8 — cyrus-imapd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — cyrus-imapd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4655)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 October 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4655 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19783 CVE-2019-18928 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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Arch Linux — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201802-7 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6360 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1:0.27.0-6. Fixed in: 1:0.27.1-1. Group: AVG-605. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Common Problems 118396

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – apt update fails because dpkg lock is held

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 October 2019 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-Convert-ASN1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-Convert-ASN1 — 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-2021:0172-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7488 Upstream summary: perl-Convert-ASN1 (aka the Convert::ASN1 module for Perl) through 0.27 allows remote attackers to cause an infinite loop via unexpected input. Table of […]

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How To Use MySQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use MySQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on Ubuntu 14.04

Ruby on Rails uses sqlite3 as its default database, which works great in many cases, but may not be sufficient for your application. If your application requires the scalability, centralization, and control (or any other feature) that a client/server SQL database, this tutorial will show you how to do just that, with MySQL, on Ubuntu 14.04.

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