pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Failed to activate service ‘org.freedesktop.login1’: timed out

April 16, 2019 Leave a comment

Problem:

1. Slow ssh connections
2. System seems slow when trying to su to another user

/var/log/secure contains the following errors:

pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Failed to activate
service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

Solution:

1. Restart systemd-logind service

# systemctl restart systemd-logind

2. Restart server

# reboot

Note that the mentioned solutions are considered as temporary solutions (Frankly, I’ve never seen this error after restart. The problem happened with our two customers, who changed sshd_config file and did “something” after that, so the problem was caused by humman error in my all cases), for more information about this problem please see article at redhat site
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3536621 .

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How to display certain line from a text file in Linux?

March 9, 2019 Leave a comment

Sometimes script fails and error mentiones the line number, where there is a mistake. One option is to open a file and go to the mentioned line.

I am going to show you how to use SED to print only the certain line from the script file:

# sed -n ’80p’ /u01/app/18.3.0/grid/crs/script/mount-dbfs.sh

“My 80th line”

Where 80 is the line number and p “print[s] the current pattern space”

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Check if a port on a remote system is reachable (without telnet)

February 4, 2019 2 Comments

Problem:

I wanted to check if our customer had an issue with network access. I asked him to run telnet command, but because of their security reasons, telnet rpm was not installed at all.

Solution:

One of the solution would be to run nc 🙂 but of course nc was not installed. 🙂

The following command helped me in that situation:

cat < /dev/tcp/192.168.3.4/3260

The port is open if there is no output, but if you receive the following, then the port is closed:

-bash: connect: Connection refused
-bash: /dev/tcp/192.168.3.4/3261: Connection refused

 

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Install blobfuse on RHEL7 fails

December 19, 2018 Leave a comment

Problem: 

Not able to install blobfuse on RHEL7.

Error:

Error: Package: blobfuse-1.0.2-1.x86_64 (packages-microsoft-com-prod)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit)
Error: Package: blobfuse-1.0.2-1.x86_64 (packages-microsoft-com-prod)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_2_10)(64bit)
Error: Package: blobfuse-1.0.2-1.x86_64 (packages-microsoft-com-prod)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

Solution:

sudo yum remove packages-microsoft-prod-1.0-1.el7.noarch

sudo yum clean all

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum

sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

sudo yum install blobfuse fuse -y

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vncserver fails to start

December 18, 2018 Leave a comment

VNC is useful when you want to run DBCA or some other tool in GUI mode. If the connection between your computer and server fails, running application in VNC continues working and you can reconnect to your previous session.

I have noticed very strange behavior of VNC on my Linux 7.5, it maybe the same on other versions.

Problem:

Start VNC:

$ vncserver -geometry 1024×1024

New ‘stbyracq.example.com:1 (oracle)’ desktop is stbyracq.example.com:1

Starting applications specified in /home/oracle/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/oracle/.vnc/stbyracq.example.com:1.log

Check VNC process:

$ ps -ef|grep vnc
root 20629 2570 0 16:36 pts/1 00:00:00 grep –color=auto vnc

Shows only GREP process.

Let’s check the log file:

$ cat /home/oracle/.vnc/stbyracq.example.com:1.log

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 – built Aug 31 2018 12:04:07
Copyright (C) 1999-2017 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
Underlying X server release 12001000, The X.Org Foundation

Tue Dec 18 16:38:05 2018
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font ‘-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed–13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1’
Killing Xvnc process ID 21100
XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server “:1”
after 90 requests (90 known processed) with 4 events remaining.

Solution:

Check xstartup script:

$ cat /home/oracle/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
vncserver -kill $DISPLAY

The line at the end is killing vncserver (which is trange), remove that line:

$ cat /home/oracle/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh

unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Start VNC:

$ vncserver -geometry 1024×1024

New ‘stbyracq.example.com:1 (oracle)’ desktop is stbyracq.example.com:1

Starting applications specified in /home/oracle/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/oracle/.vnc/stbyracq.example.com:1.log

Check VNC process:

ps -ef|grep vnc
oracle 22690 1 0 16:40 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/Xvnc :1 -auth /home/oracle/.Xauthority -desktop stbyracq.example.com:1 (oracle) -fp catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d -geometry 1024×1024 -pn -rfbauth /home/oracle/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -rfbwait 30000
oracle 23106 20841 0 16:41 pts/1 00:00:00 grep –color=auto vnc

Now you can connect to VNC server.

 

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VNC Server stops working – /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font ‘-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed–13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1’

December 10, 2018 Leave a comment

Problem:

VNC server starts successfully, but then stops immediately.

# vncserver

New ‘primrac1.example.com:1 (root)’ desktop is primrac1.example.com:1

Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/primrac1.example.com:1.log

The following output is empty:

# ps -ef|grep vnc|grep -v grep

Troubleshooting

Check the log file for more information:

# cat /root/.vnc/primrac1.example.com:1.log

…
/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font ‘-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed–13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1’

Solution:

# yum install xorg-x11-fonts* -y

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Azure: yum install returns [Errno 14] curl#58 – “SSL peer rejected your certificate as expired.”

November 27, 2018 1 Comment

Action:

I have deleted tigervnc rpm and was trying to reinstall it but got the following error:

yum install tigervnc*

https://rhui-3.microsoft.com...x86_64/dotnet/1/debug/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#58 - "SSL peer rejected your certificate as expired."
Trying other mirror.

Actually, the problem is not related to tigervnc only, it is global. During this time I was not able to run yum update or any installation using yum.

Causes:

Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) certificate has expired and it needs to be updated.

Solution:

Update RHUI certificate using the following rpm:

For RHEL 7:

# curl -o azureclient.rpm https://rhui-1.microsoft.com/pulp/repos/microsoft-azure-rhel7/rhui-azure-rhel7-2.2-74.noarch.rpm
# sudo rpm -U azureclient.rpm

For RHEL 6:

# curl -o azureclient.rpm https://rhui-1.microsoft.com/pulp/repos/microsoft-azure-rhel6/rhui-azure-rhel6-2.2-74.noarch.rpm
# sudo rpm -U azureclient.rpm

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