Month: April 2016
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vmware tools install (or vmware-config-tools.pl) hangs after X config
I was updating vmware-tools on some old Linux installations of ours, using a tarball I downloaded from VMware. Once I unzipped the tarball, I ran the installer and told it to take the defaults: ./vmware-install.pl -d Got to one machine in particular and it hung right after this text: “X is running fine with the […]
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Changing WordPress permalinks from default to postname
Had an issue on a WordPress site after I changed the permalinks to “%postname%” from the default. Immediately after the change, all my wonderful posts gave 404 when I clicked on them. So I researched it a bit and found some good recommendations (make sure mod_rewrite is present, check permissions on .htaccess). Initially it looked […]