debian

Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘appstream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist

I am using CentOS Stream for one of my VMs and encountered this error. I have not updated my Stream in a while, but this is really annoying thing to deal with. It is not hard to fix, but very inconvient. The commands below are what worked for me. For some articles online you will […]

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NFS on Debian

I just noticed this recently. Unlike in CentOS, Debian mountd ports are dynamic and they will keep changing every reboot. Therefore, if the host firewall is enabled, the allowed ports may require constant modification due to mountd ports are not hardcoded. To install NFS on Debian You can find the mountd ports via the following

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Cockpit Unmanage Interfaces

When you installed Cockpit in Debian system and some of your interfaces are showing under the Unmanage interfaces section, the solution is to comment out the intefaces in /etc/network/interfaces. This will make the network-manager manage the interfaces; therefore, Cockpit will be able to manage the interfaces. Comment out the physical interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces. Restart the

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Migrating data from an old Nextcloud server to a new Nextcloud server

A short back story why I am posting this. I switched my Nextcloud instance from a Docker container to TKL Nextcloud LXC on Proxmox. The reason behind this switch was, I could not get the Linuxserver Nextcloud upgraded and if I spin up a new Docker container, I might encounter the same problem. The TKL

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