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AWS EC2 Linux headless Firefox issue: Xvfb: undefined symbol: pixman_glyph_cache_create

I have been using AWS EC2 Linux for a while for a headless Firefox/Selenium task. I built it using the instructions from http://itsallabtamil.blogspot.com/2013/02/setting-up-chrome-firefox-ec2-...
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scp command silently does nothing

I need to copy a file from my local machine to Amazon AWS Ubuntu machine. First I tried just this: scp -i learndeepai.pem sb_code.zip [email protected].*** As soon as I execute this, nothing ...
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Cannot install Nginx on AWS EC2 AMI2 - Topic :topic: is not found

I would like to install Nginx as a reverse proxy on my AWS EC2 (OS: AMI2) instance. When I try to install nginx, I get told that nginx is available in Amazon Linux Extra topics... sudo yum install ...
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How to install let's Encrypt on Amazon Linux

How do I install Let's Encrypt Certificates on amazon Linux I already have a WordPress website hosted. Can anyone tell me the steps how do i start with it and what are the commands and what ...
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How is Amazon Lightsail cheaper than Amazon EC2? [closed]

Okay, I don't really now where to post this question.. It wasn't received well on SO so I am trying here. There is only one apparently abstract upside of using Lightsail, simplicity, or significantly ...
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EC2 ubuntu AMI ssh password default without key

I have a problem getting past the prompt after setting my first EC2 instance. The ubuntu LTS AMI supposed has ubuntu as the default user name. I set up the instance without keypairs when asked during ...
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SSH ProxyCommand with AWS Session Manager - no shell started

I'm trying to setup proxy that connects via AWS Session Manager with ssh command (to be used by ansible). As of right now, I'm able to connect to my vm with AWS CLI command like so aws ssm start-...
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Why does Amazon Video works on Google Chrome but not on chromium (Ubuntu)?

I tried firefox, opera, chromium and google chrome. Why does amazon video only works with google chrome?
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Circular dependencies in AWS Security Groups?

I am unable to delete security groups on AWS. I have zero instances - running or stopped and zero aws volumes. After dozen or more attempts I have verified these messages reflect either: a) ...
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I can't connect to ms sql instance - internal

The Platform and Software versions I am using are as follows : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU3-GDR) (KB4052987) - 14.0.3015.40 (X64) Dec 22 ...
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How to use vagrant box to create AWS EC2 instance

I am developing in Laravel using Laravel Homestead vagrant box bud didn't have any production environment. Now I instructed to use AWS EC2 for production. So is there any convenient way to get an AWS ...
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Amazon Instant video not working because HDCP

I am trying to watch a show on my laptop with Amazon Instant video but it is telling my that my PC does not support HDCP. I'm running windows at 1920x1080 just fine. My laptop has a GTX 470m and a ...
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Allowing multiple users SSH access to Ubuntu instance running on Amazon Web Services

It seems as if similar questions have been asked before, but the issue that I am having hasn't been raised or answered as a part of the answers provided to the other questions. So... I'm using an ...
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Files being created with the wrong owner

I'm using AWS sagemaker and today I went to commit some files and got this error: Bad owner or permissions on /home/sagemaker-user/.ssh/config fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please ...
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Object not found error when deploying via AWS OpsWorks

I get the following error when deploying an app to AWS OpsWorks "HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found: Object not found: /reports/nodes/instancex.localdomain/runs" what does it mean?
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Access AWS S3 via FTP?

Is it possible to access your AWS S3 bucket via ftp? I am currently using the AWS console to upload files but this is rather laborious as you cannot upload entire directories. I note that AWS does ...
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Yum Install software-properties-common on EC2

I'm trying to install software-properties-common on an EC2 micro instance and getting the following error: $ sudo yum install software-properties-common Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, ...
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Why does a double sudo modify permissions?

Context: sshed into an AWS t1.micro instance running Amazon Linux 2013.09, using the default ec2-user. I'm trying to list the contents of the default postgresql directory: What's in there? $ ls /...
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Mounting an Amazon EC2 instance on Mac OS X

I've got public key authentication working between my Mac OS X and an Amazon EC2 instance so that from the command-line I can just type the following and it works: ssh root@[IPAddressOfEC2Instance] ...
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ElasticBeanstalk auto scaling causes 502 Bad Gateway

We're using AWS ElasticBeanstalk to serve our Ruby on Rails application and have recently enabled auto scaling. The auto scaling works as expected but there is a brief period of time where ...
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Local instance of Amazon Neptune or alternative

I think the answer is no, but I was wondering if there is a way to set up a local instance of Amazon Neptune. One of my clients is migrating to Amazon Neptune and I would like to develop locally. ...
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Amazon EC2 Security Group inbound rule with a dynamic IP

I'm just getting started with Amazon AWS and EC2 in particular and I was wondering if someone could clarify what I see as a potential problem with EC2 Security Groups. Right now, I'm in the process of ...
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Listing content of directory with absolute path is not equal to listing with relative path?

I launched Ubuntu 14.01 instance in AWS by using its API (with Python and Boto). I changed properties of the root device - 30GB instead of the default 8gb and used magnetic disk standard instead of ...
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FileZilla FTP to AWS EC2 Windows Server 2012 Instance: Failed to retrieve directory listing

I am running FileZilla FTP Server on an Amazon Web Services EC2 Windows Server 2012 Instance, and want to FTP in from my home PC using FileZilla Client. I followed these instructions, but using user ...
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Add collaborators to AWS Account

Is it possible to add other users to your AWS account? Or do you have to share credentials? We have a business account that has all of the funding information, and I, as the developer, need access to ...
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Transfer file to Amazon S3 from web server

How do I transfer a tarball from my web server (e.g. http://example.com/backup.tar.gz) to an Amazon S3 bucket? Do I have to download it locally and upload it?
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How to activate python virtualenv through shell script?

0 I have to activate the virtual environment (venv) so I running these commands manually in terminal: source .venv/bin/activate # To activate the virtual env. and deactivate ...
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Jenkins: Using multiple docker containers to build and deploy an application

Background: Jenkins is running inside a docker container, which works great, but by design we want all build processes to run inside docker containers to minimize the software installed inside the ...
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Cannot pull from Git repository over HTTP/HTTPS but can with SSH

I have a Debian running Nginx on git.example.com which I use to store git repositories. I can pull/push/clone via SSH by running git clone [email protected]/git/my_repo. (git is a symlink in my home ...
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multiple s3 users in one bucket or per-user buckers

intelligent people, noob here! I am planning on building a multi-user apparatus on s3 for photo/object storage, and I was planning on using s3. I have the whole front-end planned out but I have a ...
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using ZFS and local hard drives as a cache for a remote iSCSI SAN

This is purely theoretical idea, i dont plan on doing this any time soon, but could you use Local hard drives as a kind of Cache to remote drives stored on Amazon EC2, shared to a user via iSCSI? The ...
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Connection blocked because server only allows public key authentication [PuTTY Fatal Error]

I just created an EC2 instance to host my Django project and I'm trying to connect to the instance via PuTTY because I'm using Windows 10 (company PC). I've tried to follow the documentation steps ...
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How to connect to AWS ec2 Instance from Chromebook Pixel

I have a laptop running ChromeOS. I'm looking to do some work with Python on AWS but I'm not entirely certain how to SSH to the box. If anyone can give me details on how to connect I'd be grateful. ...
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Get a fixed dns for an ec2 instance

I want to use an ec2 instance just to do work on some personal programming and text processing projects in the cloud (from an ssh terminal) rather than on a desktop. I don't always need access to the ...
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How to import amazon workmail in the gmail web client?

I want to import amazon workmail in my gmail web client. It seems that gmail requires pop3 access for this and that gmail does not support imap where amazon workmail only supports imap, no pop3. Is ...
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I locked myself out of my AWS machine by changing ssh settings maybe?

I'm not sure exactly what caused the problem but I'll tell you know I know. I created an amazon ec2 instance and was using public/private key authentication to ssh in as the default ubuntu user. ...
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Provide access to another user on EC2 instance.

A friend of mine, wants me to access his ec2 instance. He does not want to share his secret file. I advised him to put my public ssh keys, in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of his ec2 instance. If ...
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Unable to find or install amazon-linux-extras

I am trying to install nginx on AWS EC2 instance. As this is done using amazon-linux-extras as per AWS documentation, I tried that. But I am unable to find the package or install it using yum install(...
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ECS task can't pull container after defining execution role

I have existing task running on ECS cluster top of EC2 and now I would like to use secrets from Secret Manager. Secrets support need execution role which I have defined. Execution role has arn:aws:iam:...
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ARM Docker Image support on AWS CodeBuild

I've been trying to get a few different dockers images I've used for ARM cross-compiling setup in CodeBuild. In my project, if I choose one of the non-custom images it works, so I have narrowed it ...
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Docker with /aufs on AWS EFS volume reports mount error "file too large"

I tried asking this at AWS forum and got no help...hoping someone in stackexchange has a solution. Recently switched my AWS EC2 ubuntu 14.04 instance from using a EBS volume to the newish EFS (...
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Can't connect to new FTP server

I know there are lots of post out there on this but I feel like I've tried everything. I've worked with my IT staff and we're all stumped. So here is all of the possibly useful information I can think ...
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Route53 wildcard issue

I am new to AWS Route53 and I got stuck in a problem and I cant really understand the issue. I have created one hosted zone in Route53. Under that I have created some record sets. I have two private ...
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Is it possible to host a BIND server within the AWS EC2 infrastructure? [closed]

So my question is if it's possible to set up a BIND server within the infrastructure of EC2. I got tired of paying for DNS services and wanted to try my hand at configuring my own BIND server, ...
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EC2 Ubuntu with WordPress can't connect to RDS

I have set up a WordPress website on a Ubuntu 12.04 Amazon ec2 machine by following this tutorial except the fact that I haven't created a MySQL database and I am using an amazon RDS MySQL service. ...
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Convert Amazon .pem key to Putty .ppk key Linux

I have generated and downloaded a private .pem key from AWS. However, to use Putty in order to connect to the virtual machine, I must have that key in .ppk format. The process of conversion is ...
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Using PuTTY private key for new user on AWS EC2 Server

I started an AWS EC2 instance. I can connect to my instance with the user ec2-user using the SSH private key generated by Amazon. I followed the directions at: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/...
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Can you recover ~/.ssh contents on AWS EC2 with an open session and keys?

I am using AWS EC2 with Ubuntu. I accidentally deleted the contents of ~/.ssh but still have my session open and still have my .pem and public keys backed up on my PC. Is there a way to recover my ~/...
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unable to delete RDS DBs on AWS

I'm not able to delete a database on RDS. Deletion protection is not enabled, as per the following screenshot: Despite that the "Delete" option on the menu is grayed out: I've tried it ...
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"Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not ready for guest communication." exception when provisioning an AWS EC2 machine

I have used vagrant up to create a AWS EC2 instance. After I have stopped and restarted this instance, I want to rerun vagrant provision with updated provision clauses in the Vagrantfile. It failed ...
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