All posts tagged server

Grub2 can’t load stage2

A week ago, my file server didn’t start anymore. After attaching screen and keyboard, the following message appread: error: file not found. grub rescue> After trying to reinstall grub by booting from a live cd, the problem still existed. It wouldn’t boot. Since everybody fixes his grub by reinstalling and reconfiguring it, I missed an [...]

Xampp Apache Doesn’t Start

On a xampp installation on windows, you can start the apache web server per control panel. If it stops after a short period indicating the status “starting…” you may have the same problem I had: Port 80 is occupied by another service. In my case it was Skype which per default binds to port 80. [...]

Cant Mount Samba Share More Than Once

On my samba server I had the problem, that just one user at the time could access the share. I had security=user activated. The log file under /var/log/samba/log.smbd said at the last line: smbd_open_once_socket: open_socket_in: Address already in use (Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet) I googled it and stumbled over a very different topic describing [...]

Mounting Failure Because of 32bit Limit

Recently I set up a Debian Squeeze on a 20TB RAID5 fileserver. When I tried to set up the xfs file system with partman, the following message appeared: Der Versuch, ein Dateisystem vom Typ xfs auf /dev/sda als /srv einzubinden, ist fehlgeschlagen. or in english: The attempt to mount a file system with type xfs [...]