Mount error (12) after upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04

I recently upgrade an Ubuntu server from 10.04 to 12.04 and I encountered this error when trying to mount a cifs folder on a Windows 7 machine. mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) I suspected it was related to the recent upgrade but it turns out that the …

Setting up permalinks on WordPress

This site runs on a Ubuntu 12.04 LAMP server behind another Ubuntu Apache proxy using a virtual host. When I tried to set up the permalinks it didn’t work straight away. The .htaccess file was correct and mod_rewrite was enabled. It was the virtual host that had some issue. The website has been configured under …

Ubuntu release upgrade

After my previous problem trying to update my Ubuntu server running 10.04 I tried to do a release upgrade. Before I was able to do this I had to change the sources.list again, this time I used the mirror schema as recommended here. Old: deb http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted deb-src http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted New: …

Ubuntu repository Singapore failures

I just notice that when trying to update some of the Ubuntu server I have running that they can not find the archives. This is the error I get: Err http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg Could not connect to sg.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (111.90.255.252). – connect (111: Connection refused) I found some info about archives being hosted on the Amazon …