Troubleshooting


Limiting the width of Linux man command output

How to limit the width of the man command output so that the text does not wrap over to the next line? The solution is surprisingly simple.

Starting a network server after communication interface is up

Sometimes we need to start a server program during the post-boot system initialization after the network has become available. On Linux systems using the Upstart init daemon, this can be done as described here.

md5sum: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found

Although md5sum checksum file is a text file, it has a special format. If the checksum file is not as per this format, we get the error, md5sum: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found.

Remote Display With the X - Window System

In the X-Window system, the terms client and server are somewhat changed. The X-server running on an host and managing the display is the server, whereas an application running on the same host or some other host on the network is the client. Here, we look at the problem of a local application, the client, using the display, or the X-server, of a remote host.

JRobin: Not able to save graph as a PNG file.

JRobin is a Java port of the famous RRDTool package. While trying to save a graph as a PNG file, we run into problems as the saveAsPNG gives a compile time error. But there is a solution as described, here.

Watermarking images using GIMP

There are requirements of watermarking images, especially for protecting the copyright. Watermarking an image is easily done using Gimp.

Making a logo using GIMP

It is easy to make a logo using Gimp, as described here.

kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

A newly compiled kernel halted during boot with the message, kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0).

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

While running a GTK+ based C program under Cygwin, the following runtime error is observed, Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

cygwin1.dll not found

A C program was compiled under Cygwin and run directly under Windows. The following runtime error was observed, cygwin1.dll not found

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