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Android / Eclipse Error generating final archive: Debug Certificate expired

Rowan — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:02:22 +0000

It appears the android SDK / debugger generates a certificate in .android/debug-keystore only valid for a year. You may come to generate a new project in Eclipse, go to run the debug / android emulator and find it won’t run.

To fix this, delete the keystore file from your home directory, then run Project [...]

Eclipse: new Android project. Can’t select Build Type / Target

Rowan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:13:58 +0000

This caused a good 30 mins head scratching. When creating a new Android project in Eclipse it is not possible to progress past the initial screen as it complains “an SDK target must be specified”. In the window you will see “Build Target” but no box listing your installed Android Versions. The area of the [...]

yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Rowan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:49:06 +0000

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies--> Running transaction checkTraceback (most [...]

Windows Vista fails to copy large files to network share

Rowan — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:03:04 +0000

Encountered a rather odd error, two HP Vista laptops failing to copy large files to network shares, these would error out complaining about being able to access the source file on the local disk, which was a rather confusing way of reporting the error as there was no problem with the local disk. On network [...]