Errors and Solutions 🤬➡️🥳

Common error messages, along with their solutions.
Saves me having to figure the same thing out twice.

Categories

• Linux
• Web Development
• Misc

Linux

❌ Error running a shell script with systemd: Failed to execute command: Exec format error
✅ Solution:

• Caused by missing shebang at the start of the sh script
• Add the correct hash band identifier, e.g. #!/bin/bash

❌ Error: -bash: '\r': command not founxd
✅ Solution:

• Caused by Windows-style newline character
• Run dos2unix over the file

❌ Error with pakepkg: Cannot find the fakeroot binary
✅ Install the base-devel package group: sudo pacman -S base-devel

❌ Yarn Error: There are no scenarios; must have at least one.
✅ Caused by the wrong yarn being installed, lol. Just remove it and reinstall it

• sudo apt remove yarn
• curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
• echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
• sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn

ℹ️ Sources:

• https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
• https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2821

❌ FAILED (unknown public key XXXXX) - One or more PGP signatures could not be verified
✅ Solution: Add the PGP public key to your keychain, gpg --recv-key [key ID]

❌ Docker, Service failed to build: cgroups: cgroup mountpoint does not exist: unknown
✅ Temporary workaround:

• sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
• sudo mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd

❌ Cargo: Failed to parse lock file at: path/to/Cargo.lock

✅ This is often caused by using an older version of Cargo. rustup can be used to update both Cargo and Rust to their latest versions. So just run: rustup update stable

❌ Go: package build constraints exclude all Go files in...
✅ Caused by packages being incorrectly cached, just run: go clean -modcache

❌ Pacman: [package-name]: [/usr/share/path/to/pakage@latest/file.compiled] exists in filesystem

This is caused by a file already existing, and Pacman not being intended to replace files. It usually happens when you've installed something manually, or using a third-party package manager, and hence it is not being tracked by Pacman.

✅ Solutions:

Update Mirrors
Sometimes this can be fixed by simply updating the mirrors, with:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu

Move / Remove Conflicting File
If not, then you can identify which packages owns the offending file, with:
pacman -Qo /path/to/file.

• If the package is managed by Pacman, then you can move is with pacman -R.
• Or if it's not linked to anything then either move or remove the file manually (renaming the file to *.backup will enable you to roll back if needed).

Overwrite Files
Alternatively there's also an --overwrite option, that will force Pacman to replace any conflicting files. E.g. sudo pacman -S [package-name] --overwrite '*'. This is useful when your local database has been "lost", causing every single installed package to throw a "conflicts" error.

ℹ️ For more information, see:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373
• https://forum.manjaro.org/t/update-or-package-installation-returns-failed-to-commit-transaction-conflicting-files-filename-exists-in-filesystem/3598

A note for preventing this in the future: When using a third-party installer, always specify an alternative installation location, e.g. /home, /opt or /usr/local/. But never install directly under / or /usr.

❌ Pacman error: failed retrieving file '_' from _ Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds

✅ Update mirrors: sudo pacman-mirrors --country United_Kingdom

❌ Warning: High IOWait. Raspberry Pi 4, booted from a USB running incredibly slowly

✅ Run lsusb -t if it shows usb-storage, then UAS is not supported out of the box and you need to either enable it with quirks mode, or use a UAS-compatible drive.

ℹ️ More Info:

• https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=245931
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bcm2711_bootloader_config.md

❌ Error: Using Powerlevel10k in ZSH on R Pi: gitstatus failed to initialize

✅ Solution:

• Caused by the binary for the gitstatusd module (used to show git into by P10K) not being available for the current architecture
• There are two solutions:
  • Either manually compile the binary, and set GITSTATUS_DAEMON=/path/to/gitstatusd in ~/.zshrc. See: https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/blob/master/README.md#compiling
  • Or, if you don't need git display, then just comment out POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS from the vcs section in ~/.p10k.zsh

ℹ️ More Info:

• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/73#issuecomment-548046415
• https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/issues/246#issuecomment-765509082

❌ wget: WGETRC points to /home/user/.config/wget/wgetrc, which couldn't be accessed because of error: No such file or directory.
✅ Caused my missing config file, just: mkdir -p ~/.config/wget/ && touch ~/.config/wget/wgetrc

❌ ".": Permission denied (os error 13)

✅ sudo chown -R $(whoami) ./

❌ /usr/lib/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.34' not found`

✅ pacman -S glibc lib32-glibc

❌ Running ssh-add shows: Error connecting to agent: Connection refused

✅ Start the SSH Agent, by running: eval "$(ssh-agent)"

❌ Git error: only one config file at a time

✅ unset GIT_CONFIG

❌ Vercel site behind Cloudflare: err_too_many_redirects

✅ In Cloudflare dashboard, select your site, and under SSL/TLS, set encryption to "Full"

Web Development

❌ Flutter Web: No devices detected.
✅ Run which [browser-name], then store the path in CHROME_EXECUTABLE environmental variable
E.g. in .zshrc: export CHROME_EXECUTABLE="/opt/brave.com/brave/brave-browser"

❌ Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: Windows 64-bit with Unsupported runtime (88)
✅ Solution:

• Caused by node-sass's binaries being built for a for a different architecture
• To fix this, just run: npm rebuild node-sass

❌ TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'exports' of object '#' error
✅ Solution:

• Caused by using CommonJS syntax instead of ES Modules
• To fix it, just replace module.exports = myFunc; with export default myFunc;

❌ Error: Cannot find module './_baseValues'

✅ Solution:

• Clearing the cache fixed this: yarn cache clean
• If the issue persists, remove (rm -rf node_modules\ yarn.lock) and reinstall (yarn) node_modules

❌ Error: Gatsby.js randomly decides that it cannot find a certain dependency
- e.g.: No files matching '\x\x\x\node_modules\@gatsbyjs\x\x\x.js' were found.
✅ Solution: Remove the cache and restart. rm -rf .cache && yarn develop

❌ 'React' was used before it was defined
✅ Solution: Within .eslintrc under rules, disable the base rule, and add a TypeScript specific rule
- "no-use-before-define": "off",
- "@typescript-eslint/no-use-before-define": ["error"]

❌ Error: Delete '␍' prettier/prettier
✅ Solution:
- Either change VS Codes end of line sequence from LF to CRLF
- Or add endOfLine: 'auto' into .prettierrc

❌ JSX not allowed in files with extension '.tsx'
✅ In eslintrc, under the rules section, add:
- 'react/jsx-filename-extension': [2, { 'extensions': ['.js', '.jsx', '.ts', '.tsx'] }]

❌ Start/ end value has mixed support, consider using flex-end instead
✅ When using flexbox layout, replace align-items: end; with align-items: flex-end;

❌ Project published to GitHub pages using GitHub actions shows as a 404 (even though code is correct)
✅ This seems to be a known reliability issues for new sites, and the following things (for some reason) help:

• Ensure that none of your files and sub-folders begin with an _, as GitHub / Jekyll ignores these
• If you're not using Jekyll, then place a file called .nojekyll in your projects root
• Remember that URLs are case-sensitive, ensure it's typed correctly, and that you're using https
• Check an older version is not cached, try clearing your site data, appending a string after ? in the URL, or use a different browser
• Double check that GitHub pages is enabled, pointing to the correct branch, and that there are no errors in the Actions logs
• Ensure your index.html is valid, has a doctype, e.g. <!DOCTYPE html>, and doesn't include any non UTF-8 special characters
• Push an empty commit to trigger a rebuild: git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger rebuild" && git push origin master
• If you bound your domain, before GH pages was deployed, then GitHub caches the broken domain, try removing and re-adding your domain
• Try deleting and re-creating GH Pages branch: git checkout gh-pages && git push origin --delete gh-pages && git push origin
• Wait for a few hours... Sometimes this issue just fixes itself
• If nothing worked, then open a support ticket. This is a known issue with GitHub pages, and is usually quickly resolved by customer support from their end

❌ Npm Install global modules fails: Missing write access in mac to /usr/local/lib/nodemodules
✅ Just update the permissions of global nodemodules
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.npm
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/lib/nodemodules
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/lib/nodemodules

❌ npm ERR! code UNABLETOGETISSUERCERT_LOCALLY
✅ Run: npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

❌ Yarn Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
✅ yarn config set "strict-ssl" false -g

❌ go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory
✅ Run: go env -w GO111MODULE=off

Misc

❌ Cargo error no such subcommand: 'make'
✅ Just install cargo make: cargo install --no-default-features --force cargo-make

❌ Error on Windows: error during connect: This error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running.: Get http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdockerengine/v1.24/containers/json: open //./pipe/dockerengine: The system cannot find the file specified.
✅ Solution:

• Update the security permissions for the docker.exe file, to include "Users" (Right click --> Properties --> Security). This file is usually located in C:\Program Files/Docker/Docker/
• Then restart Docker: As admin, run Net stop com.docker.service and Net start com.docker.service

Also, ensure that you have the latest version of Docker installed, and WSL is set to version 2 (with wsl --set-default-version 2)

❌ Docker inspect throws error on Windows: Template parsing error: template: :1: unclosed action
✅ Double quotes are required for the JSON keys, e.g. docker inspect --format="{{json .State.Health}}" my-container

❌ VirtualBox in Windows shows error: VERR_CPUM_RAISE_GP_0 with WSL2
✅ Solution:

• As admin, run: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
• Then shutdown and restart the PC with shutdown -s -t 2

❌ Ngrok throws an error with react dev server: Invalid Host Header
✅ Add the -host-header flag, e.g. ngrok http 8080 -host-header="localhost:8080"

❌ Gimp: Unable to apply Rounded Corners (Filters --> Décor --> xx)
✅ Solution:
- Some filters cannot be used with an alpha layer.
- Right-click on the current layer, and "Remove Alpha Channel"

❌ Ledger: Stuck on "Touch Security Key" using MetaMask on Windows with Ledger Nano X
✅ Solution:
- First, allow contract data in transactions (within the Eth app on the Ledger device)
- Disable Bluetooth, in order confirm transactions over USB (on Ledger's device Settings)

❌ Ledger: On Linux, cannot detect device
✅ Solution: Install udev rules
- wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LedgerHQ/udev-rules/master/add_udev_rules.sh | sudo bash

❌ Listed.to - Custom domain does not work, even when DNS records are all correct
✅ Ensure that DNS records are not proxied through Cloudflare's servers

❌ Standard Notes Linux - Unable to login, incorrect email and password even when correct
✅ Manually update the app to the latest version

❌ Flutter Web - No devices found

✅ If you don't have Chrome installed, then you can use Chromium or any other Chromium-based browser instead. You'll need to set the CHROME_EXECUTABLE environmental variable to point to it's executable so that Flutter can launch it.
E.g. export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/brave