Tag: troubleshooting

“Unable to expire password for root” – Debian 9 in vCloud Director

 

Debian 9 was released on 17th of June 2017, and for me, it was not only the information about the arriving upgrades. Also, it was the sign of the new vCloud Director template. I started making it on Monday, and I faced the problem with customization. Of course, I used Open-VM-Tools because I try to use them everywhere. I had many problems with customization, but it was the first time when I had a problem with password customization on a Linux guest OS – I got “unable to expire password for root” error. Fortunately, I took one look at the Continue reading

Jenkins has stopped working after upgrade to 2.54

 

Jenkins upgrade is very easy – you just need to use the package manager and run one command. After the update, Jenkins processes are restarted and the system is ready to use. Since version 2.54 you may face some problems with the update. Jenkins can be resistant to restart and returns the 503 error when you try to access web UI. It is caused by the Java (yes, I know, “it’s always Java!”). Jenkins has been using Java 8 since the 2.54 version, hence you may have problems if you still use Java 7. And it’s more than likely that Continue reading

Terraform spec.identity.hostName error with vSphere provider

 

Today I’ve got a short post. It is especially dedicated to the new Terraform users, who use this tool for automation vSphere virtual machines. It is simply a matter of time till you face this problem. I mean, Terraform spec.identity.hostName error when you try to deploy your vSphere infrastructure. Why? Let me explain. What is the problem? At first I’ll show you the problem. After applying Terraform build, virtual machine is cloning and when a customization operation should start, you see something like this: When does Terraform spec.identity.hostName error appear? I met this problem once and it was caused by my habit and Continue reading

ESXi upgrade permission denied

 

There are many bad things which can happen during the infrastructure upgrade. Sometimes it is caused by a sysadmin mistake, sometimes it may be a software bug, but it really does not matter what the main reason is. You must fix it. Nowadays we have much easier job than – for instance – twenty years ago. Now we have Google, lots of blogs and other pages with millions of information. However, we should follow the way created on our own. Take a look on this scenario: