Category Archives: troubleshooting

Lesson Learned: O365 cloud mail nameserver change

Posted on February 15, 2018 by fangstar

Was a little careless today with helping someone transfer their GoDaddy domain and O365 mail to a new server (transferring their nameserver).  When I looked at the GoDaddy domain DNS log, I saw all these entries that looked related to … Continue reading →

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Remote Debugging: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function

Posted on August 21, 2013 by fangstar

Situation: Using QT Creater, trying to debug a program on remote device.  I set the breakpoints on the IDE but the breakpoints are not active and program does not stop. Action: The “Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint” seemed pretty … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox issue with SanDisk ImageMate

Posted on April 3, 2013 by fangstar

Using VirtualBox (arg!) at work and running into issue with SanDisk ImageMate 12-in-1 memory card reader (SDDR-89-A15). I’m running VirtualBox on a Windows 7 machine and it looks like a driver issue. I cannot figure out why VirtualBox cannot take … Continue reading →

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GDB: Remote target error

Posted on February 26, 2013 by fangstar

I was trying to debug a program on an ARM target and the debugger kept giving me this problem: gdb malformed packet Looking online, this error occurs because of a mismatch between the gdb on the host and the gdbserver … Continue reading →

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Git: git push -> No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing

Posted on February 13, 2013 by fangstar

If you see the error message, No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing Perhaps you should specify a branch such as ‘master’. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly It is probably because you cloned an empty repository … Continue reading →

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Using gdb to debug program on target

Posted on December 20, 2012 by fangstar

Man I use to be a pro with gdb and debugging remote programs. I wrote a target-side stub for heaven’s sake. Now I can’t even remember how to do a basic connection. sad. Setup: Host: x86_64 Ubuntu (192.168.1.18) Target: ARM-based … Continue reading →

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Linux Qt: Boxes demo gluPerspective

Posted on September 26, 2012 by fangstar

I was compiling the Linux Qt Demo: Boxes for Qt4.8.1 and ran into these errors. Here’s how I fixed them: /home/mfang/dev/QtSDK/Demos/4.7/boxes/qtbox.cpp:329: error: ‘gluPerspective’ was not declared in this scope In qtbox.cpp and scene.cpp add: #include “GL/glu.h” Explanation: According to the … Continue reading →

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Apigee Usergrid: Getting access token for Application User

Posted on August 17, 2012 by fangstar

I’m using Usergrid for my backend for my app and while I’m working on obtaining the access token for an application(normal) user I noticed an error in their documentation. Usergrid Documentation: http://api.usergrid.com/management/<org-name>/<app-name>/token?grant_type=password&username=<username>&password=<password&gt; Testing it out I realized that it should … Continue reading →

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Crosstool: libraries/packages needed

Posted on July 27, 2012 by fangstar

Not having the libexpat1-dev package sucks. it’s not checked in the install or configure but fails during the make. Lots of pages do not include that one. I wanted to edit the #1 result from a search like this but … Continue reading →

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BusyBox: make menuconfig gives undefined reference lxdialog

Posted on July 27, 2012 by fangstar

Ran into this problem with BusyBox on my Ubuntu 12.04 trying to do make menuconfig. Couldn’t find this information easily so maybe it’ll help someone. Problem: It’s an ncurses library problem. Particularly you need libncurses5-dev so: apt-get install libncurses5-dev

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