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Articles in the Fixes category

Fixing unrecognised usb devices connected to thunderbolt dock after upgrade to Debian bookworm

I upgraded my main machine from Debian Buster (11) to Debian Bookworm (12) this weekend.

Prior to the upgrade I had a Kensington thunderbolt dock connected which connects to an …

x11vnc tips fixes and weirdness

I've encountered a few issues when using x11vnc to remotely connect to and existing runing X session.

Here they are and the fixes for them:

Server crashes with caught XIO …

Fixing input lag when installing OpenBSD on KVM

When installing OpenBSD 7.1 on a KVM virtual machine I had significant keyboard lag and repeated key strokes, to fix this I switched the Display from "Spice server" to …

Installing WSL on Windows inside QEMU/KVM

When installing WSL on a VM inside QEMU/KVM the default CPU configuration causes windows to bail after install with preparing to automatically repair.

The solution, change the CPU to …

Fixing AWS ECS execute-command TargetNotConnectedException when using Fargate

In the past week I've encountered an error when trying to run aws ecs execute-command on a Fargate container running platform 1.4.0.

This worked fine on containers created …

Optional home mount on Debian 11 bullseye

This is one of those weird edge cases that probably few people will ever encounter.

The Problem

In a probably over complicated attempt at simplifying my working life I wanted …

Fixing flickering screen on Lenovo X270 under KDE

I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo X270 and installed Debian testing on it using KDE as the desktop environment.

After logging in the screen brightness flickered, this was most noticeable …

Fix gnucash colours on kde breeze dark theme

Updated for Gnu Cash 4.4 on KUbuntu 21.04

The register input shows as black text on a black background even with the old overrides.

This snippet makes the …

Fix "Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter" on a Mac Book Pro 2015

In Ubuntu 20.04 on some macs (mine is a 2015 MBP), at boot there is the message "Failed to set MokListRT: Invalid Parameter"

To solve it run

apt-get purge …

Fixing SG_IO: bad/missing sense data on a raspberry pi using Seagate USB hard drives

When using hdparm -I on a group of Seagate USB hard drives attached to a raspberry pi 4 the output included the following error:

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb …
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