Published: 29 September 2021

Sometimes, Ubuntu20 would "waste time" at this prompt: "A stop job is running for unattended upgrades shutdown (10s / 30min)"....thus it will wait for the next 30mins before continuing with the installation.

Allow the server to boot, and as root disable unattended upgrades

command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

then select "NO" at the next prompt,

remove unattended upgrades with this command: apt remove unattended-upgrades

then update: apt update

Published: 01 June 2020

I just installed another instance of Ubuntu 16-server and ran into some problems upgrading Python. It turns out, the former mainstay of Python repo has shut it down to protect abuse. Ooops, never knew.

Here is an alternative method tho to get it up and running:

Python 3.6 happens to be in the reverse repository of Ubuntu 16, so you can just run : "sudo apt-get install python3.6" without any issues.

For earlier versions of Ubuntu: 14.04....16.04 these work:

sudo add-apt-repository

Published: 18 May 2020

How to upgrade PHP version from CPANEL:

Login as CPANEL admin, look under the SOFTWARE section and look for PHP Manager / MultiPHP Manager.

Mine is MultiPHP Manager because I'm running several domains.

Click the domain where your Joomla is installed and select PHP 7..... click apply.

I observed then that my Joomla dashboard was still throwing some errors, so here is a code I added to the top of my .htaccess file.

=====8888888===

DOT HTACCESS SETTINGS

# Set the “ea-php73” package as the default

Published: 16 May 2020

This is my very first post in an attempt to re-setup this very site: www.nairabytes.net.... today 16thMay,2020.

I deleted the entire site, yes, deleted the entire site, clean, kaput and I'm setting it up all over and I'll repost all the old articles with BlogDesk.

1) Download blogdesk and install it.

2) Download and install into Joomla 3.1.++ the Movable Type plugin from Joomler.net... link here

- Go to on Extensions >> Plugins, search for the 2-plugins listed below:

• System -

Published: 22 November 2019

My server was unreachable. I stuck a monitor in to troubleshoot and saw the below: BusyBox (initramfs) prompt.

After sometime of googling around, I came across

this tutorial(https://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox) on askubuntu.com and the procedure actually solved my issue: for keeps, I'm posting the solution:

Commands used are in Bold.

1) Exit from initramfs console
2) At second initramfs prompt, replace your partition path correctly

Published: 25 September 2019

I recently installed Ubuntu desktop: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS bionic:

root@UBUNTU-DESKTOP:/home/tokunbo# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

I gathered that the method of configuring/setting up manual IPs on Ubuntu 18.04 has changed / is very different from other Ubuntu versions. Here is a sample tutorial: how to configure IP-address in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I decided instead to configure manual

Published: 17 July 2019

I got below error after trying to import a Kali-Linux appliance downloaded from the Kali Linux Virtual Images page

Error reading OVA '<dir here>/kali-linux-2019.2-vbox-i386.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS).

Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
ApplianceWrap
Interface:
IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

vbox-error-appliance-wrap

To fix this, first extract the .ova content and then compress again as follows:

1) command: tar xvf filename.ova ....... where

Published: 27 February 2019

Got this error while trying to do an RDP into a Windows Server 2012, R2.

A google search and information found led me to install a below Microsoft Update on my server.

URL: 2018-05 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4103725)

Published: 05 November 2018

I was looking to split my Debian desktop screen, tile my windows the way I want. Here is how I got it done.

Launch Windows Manager, click on Keyboard-Tab,

Scroll down via the 'Action' column to the "Tile Window" settings.

To set the "ShortCut setting", double click on each Action and Press your shortcut key-combination.

Window Manager(before)

Windows Manager (after)

Note: Control+Super+Left....where Super is the Windows-Key

Here is my desktop view: firefox on the left and chrome on

Published: 25 October 2018

After installing a Guest-OS, I tried to increase the screen-resolution(using the arrow key at the lower-right corner of the virtual-box guest OS screen)... to fit into my host. Here is a screenshot of the error I got:

A little googling around and I found a nifty command that solved the issue:

Log into the Guest-OS, and as root, use this:

command: apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms