Monthly Archives: March 2009

kernel: [16610.569459] hda: drive not ready for command kernel: [16610.569505] hda: status error: status=0×48 { DriveReady DataRequest } kernel: [16610.569511] ide: failed opcode was: unknown The above error messages were omnipresent in my HP DL380 running Debian Lenny. /dev/hda is … Continue reading →

I recently attempted to install VMWare’s Perl API on Debian Lenny and received the following error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl A quick dpkg -l revealed I had openssl installed. It turns out I needed to also install libssl-dev in order … Continue reading →