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[SOLVED] ‘Error at offset’ error in unserialize()

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:32:30 +0000

I came across this weird error in unserialize() where it refused to unserialize the serialized data. After hours of trying different things to solve it, finally converting the encoding worked. The solution to the problem is to use the following function instead of unserialize(): function safe_unserialize($str){ return unserialize( trim( mb_convert_encoding( $str,'auto','UTF-8' ) ) ); } [...] Related posts:

[Solved] apt-get “is to be installed” errors in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:27:28 +0000

This class of error means the dependency is of different version than required. I tried to install deluge-console but it gave me the following error: deluge-console : Depends: deluge-common (= 1.3.0-0ubuntu1) but 1.3.0-1~getdeb1 is to be installed The error is not that self-explanatory. Here the deluge-common version required by deluge-console is 1.3.0-0 but 1.3.0-1 is [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Error ‘dpkg: error processing (--unpack) trying to overwrite…

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:08:11 +0000

Recently I got this error after installing VLC on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Not really remembering what caused the error to be triggered in the first place, it became very difficult to find a solution for it. When I executed sudo apt-get upgrade to upgrade my packages, it told me there was some issues and [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Media Playing issues in VLC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:30:35 +0000

I had problems with playing media files in VLC in Maverick Meerkat. Other players (SMPlayer) seemed to work fine. VLC gave errors like: “No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format “XVID”. VLC Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.” And “No suitable decoder module: VLC does [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Unable to boot due to GNOME Power Manager error

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:55:16 +0000

If you are getting the following error while booting into ubuntu, its most likely due to low disk space in root drive: “The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.” Behavior: After you enter the password on login screen, it takes you back to login screen [...] Related posts:

[Solved] “Error saving media attachment.” error in WordPress

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:12:03 +0000

WordPress might give this error on uploading an image from media library. It means that wordpress isn’t able to save your file. It is really easy to fix. However, this may not work for all: Go to Settings->Media. Change the path in ‘Store uploads in this folder’ option to ‘wp-content/uploads’ (without the quotes). If this [...] Related posts: