Diagnose and fix ‘SELinux is preventing mysqld (mysqld_t)’

The full title of this blog should really be ‘SELinux is preventing mysqld (mysqld_t) “search” to ./tmp (public_content_rw_t)’ as that is the problem I’ve been having with CentOS recently (and hence my searches on the web for a solution). The cause of the problem I use SugarCRM for customer and project management data – and [...]

Fedora 11 – still struggling with KDE?

Working with a few idiosynchrasies in KDE 4

Adding source repositories to CentOS

A list of CentOS 5 source package repositories.

Install Zend Studio 5 on Fedora 11

/lib/ld-linux.so.2 missing? libXext.so.6 can’t be found? I recently installed Fedora 11 on a test machine, to see how the development desktop build of my favourite Linux distribution is doing – and it’s very nice indeed. I tried to install Zend Studio 5.5 and soon came across problems, which I found out related to not having [...]

How to recover that encrypted, ext4-formatted logical volume you allowed Fedora to create!

Here’s the deal: 1)You have no time and you want to try the latest Fedora release because it looks pretty darn good. 2) You accept the default disk partitioning scheme which the kind people at Red Hat / Fedora project set up for you, because they only have your best interests at heart, right? 3) [...]

How to do a disk check in Linux

*** UPDATED VERSION COVERING EXT4 HERE: http://blog.warpgeek.co.uk/2012/01/how-to-do-disk-check-in-linux.html *** We’re all used to doing a disk check in Windows XP.  It’s easy.  Just double-click on “My Computer”, then select the drive you want to run the check on.  Right-click, Properties, Tools tab, then select “Check Now…” in the Error-checking section.  In almost every instance you’ll be [...]