Failed to delete VM - VMware Server

April 22, 2008

Right clicked the VM to delete and it removed from the Inventory but showed the following message:

Failed to delete VM
Reason: Failed to unregister the VM after it was deleted.

Another VMware error where Google showed nothing. :(

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Unable to find the answer LIBDIR - VMware Server

April 17, 2008

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

[root@memcached ~]# rpm -ivh –force VMwareTools-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
Unable to find the answer LIBDIR in the installer database
(/etc/vmware-tools/locations). You may want to re-install VMware
Tools.\n\nExecution aborted.

error: %pre(VMwareTools-6533-80187.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareTools-6533-80187

I cancelled (CTRL+C) in the middle of the installation of the rpm and now I can’t run the installer or reinstall the rpm.

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Posted by Emerson Takahashi

“Song” was not copied to the iPod “iPod’s name” because it could not be found

April 6, 2008

I ran into this problem and found many solutions involving opening the iTunes Music Library.xml file and deleting the song that caused the error message. I simply looked the music library and didn’t find it. So I searched where it was still referencing and found it in one of the playlists. I unchecked the song and synced again without the error message.

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Which file does HP-UX keep the number of past passwords

April 3, 2008

The parameter PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH in the /etc/default/security file controls how many past passwords HP-UX will remember the password to prevent the user from using the same old passwords he uses. Set the number as you like.

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Can’t login HP-UX

April 3, 2008

This time is a tip to enable a user account if your system uses password aging or the user was locked out due to the unsuccessful login attempts.

login: user
Password:
Account is disabled - see Account Administrator

To enable a locked or disabled HP-UX account, run the command:

/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -k <username>

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