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>> Goodbye Jessie

Mon, Apr 21st 10:44am 2008 >> Family

The Zorro-dog is no more. Other than a bit of arthritis that developed as a result of years of jumping off high things she was perfectly healthy and happy until just a month or two ago, when a very aggressive tumor developed on the side of her mouth. We thought she'd be able to go on for quite some time but it grew really fast and we didn't want her to deteriorate to the point where her life ended in suffering so on Friday we had to do the heart-breaking task of taking her to the vet one last time. Jessie the Zorro-dog Goodbye, Jessie. I hope you knew how much you were loved and how much joy you gave.

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>> Removing PHP4 from Dapper boxes

Wed, Apr 9th 10:35am 2008 >> Linux

This is the second time I've run into this problem this week, and being rather thick in the head I couldn't remember how I fixed it the first time a whole, oh, 48 hours ago. Hence this data insertion into my externalised long-term memory to bypass my buggy wetware. An Ubuntu Dapper server had originally been running Apache/PHP4 (libapache-mod-php4) and at some point was switched to Apache2/PHP5 (libapache2-mod-php5). Doing some cleaning up I tried to remove ye olde PHP4 and got this: root@web160:~# aptitude remove libapache-mod-php4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libapache-mod-php4 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 45 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3187kB will be freed. Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 28126 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libapache-mod-php4 ... Error: mod_php.so does not have a corresponding .info file. The above errors might cause apache to not work properly or start Please refer to the documentation on how to fix it or report it to Debian Apache Mailing List <debian-apache@lists.debian.org> if in doubt on how to proceed dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-php4 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 20 Errors were encountered while processing: libapache-mod-php4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: root@web160:~# Boom. The fix? Simple once you know. Just do: echo "LoadModule: php_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_php.so" > /usr/lib/apache/1.3/501mod_php.info Then try again. Bye bye PHP4!

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