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Absolute Path Error:
cvs [checkout aborted]: absolute pathnames invalid for server (specified `/path/drupalsite/’)
Ok, I got the error above when I performed Drupal CVS update on our Debian server (newly installed CVS 1.12.13). The same command works on other server with older CVS installation. The issue is the reference to local cvs directory [...]

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Lately, we installed additional memory on our Debian (lenny) servers and installed ‘bigmem’ kernel for our 32-bit systems to recognize more than 3GB of ram. Bigmem kernel installations went fine on servers with Grub as their boot loader – most of them uses Grub. But on one machine with Lilo as boot loader, [...]

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If you are using a shared server, or just have a limited account on your company servers, you might not have access to your php configuration file php.ini (this is usually found under /etc/php.ini in rhel/centos and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini in debian/ubuntu). Still, in many situations it might be needed to enable php errors in the browser [...]

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Problem: I got this error when installing hpacucli on Lenny and i can’t find it on my default repo.  Others have similar problem.
Solution: I just installed a package directly from packages.debian.org and this worked fine for my hpacucli in Lenny.
Any idea why this library is not included anymore?

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Running apt-get update gives an error message:
W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
A check for this missing key tells [...]

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