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"upgrades have been deferred due to phasing"

10 May 2024 1 min 13 sec(s) 1362 visits.

"The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing" message in Ubuntu 24.04

18 Dec 2020 1 min 49 sec(s) 89 visits.

A simple article providing steps on how to convert an existing VM disk from qcow2 to raw format.

22 Apr 2021 2 min(s) 14 sec(s) 4036 visits.

Under Lubuntu 20.04, I could not get libreoffice to print the text of any documents and created PDFs produce blank documents.

9 Nov 2019 2 min(s) 30 sec(s) 1930 visits.

Whilst its an annoyance, this message is harmless. Here we show three examples of how you can overcome this issue.

18 Feb 2022 2 min(s) 7 sec(s) 2217 visits.

By default "hammer" prompts for a password each time the command is invoked (updated to include Satellite 6.3).

13 Aug 2017 57 sec(s) 3239 visits.

A simple article on how to create a failover SSH server on a Ubuntu system, allowing you to connect on an alternative port of the original SSHD fails

2 Jul 2017 2 min(s) 36 sec(s) 847 visits.

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation.

29 Aug 2016 3 min(s) 10 sec(s) 937 visits.

Every Linux system has three options when clearing cache without interrupting any processes or application services.

11 Jan 2016 1 min 22 sec(s) 2453 visits.

By default, RHEL doesn't prompt for a password and we are given root shell directly, as usually Single User mode can be used to reset root password.

12 Dec 2015 55 sec(s) 2569 visits.

During a test build of Ubuntu 15.10 I suddenly received the following error when refreshing the packages from the repository.