When trying to access the serial console on AWS, I got the following error: Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked Since I had edited /etc/fstab, the host would not boot. The only way to fix this problem is to unmount the root volume from the affected instance, mount it on another […]
In the macOS Terminal, my mouse scroll wheel would magically start scrolling the command line history instead of the window buffer scroll bar on the right to show window history. This happened when an SSH session was disconnected or timed out. The fix is to run the reset command.
I was unable to login from my old iMac running Yosemite to my new iMac running Ventura using RSA keys. It turns out that RSA key support was disabled in Ventura. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side:
I have been using RSA SSH keys forever to login to my various AWS EC2 instances. With macOS Ventura 13.3.1 ssh failed with the “Permission Denied” error. Using ssh -vvv, I saw that the RSA key was now being rejected. After much research, I decided to implement new keys on the client (Ventura) side using […]
In order to get rsync to have access to the hard drive in macOS Ventura, you need to add rsync and other programs to the Full Disk Access panel under Privacy […]
First, use the AWS Console to modify the volume to the desired size, in our example we want to go from 10GB to 25GB for the root filesystem For a Xen ext4 root volume
PROBLEM: I was seeing the following error when trying to do a plugin update, and an error in my WordPress logs: Update failed: 504 Gateway Timeout Gateway Timeout The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application. [Tue Apr 11 22:12:01.373709 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 26878] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: […]
SSH login from older hosts running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to macOS Ventura 13.2.1 was not working. SSH failed with a “No hostkey alg” error. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side: