SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
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Fix: vCenter 5.1 startup error 7024
Summary: How to fix vCenter 5.1 startup error 7024.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
We've had several times now that the inventory service wouldn't start anymore, leaving event id 7024 in the eventlog. We do not keep backups of the inventory database, so every time it happens we decide to reset the inventory database, after which some registering needs to be done. What always seems to be needed is to (re)register the inventory service with vCenter, and we also had a few times that it was required to (re)register the inventory service with the Single Sign On (SSO) service.
I find them confusing however because they show fixes for different versions mixed up in each other, so I decided to create my own article.
Fix: Sybase License Error 957
Summary: This fix changes the MAC address for a VMware ESX VM.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 2 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Fix: ASDM: Fail to establish SSH session
Summary: A Fix for a Cisco ASA firewall when you can't login over SSH.
Date: Around 2007
Refactor: 16 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Symptom: Unable to establish a SSH session with a Cisco ASA firewall. After logging in using ASDM you see this error in the log:
fail to establish SSH session because RSA host key retrieval failed
To fix, go to the command line interface:
ASDM → Tools → Command Line Interface
And enter these commands:
conf t crypto key generate rsa general-keys modulus 1024
Now you can establish a connection over SSH.
Fix: Red Hat GSSAPI Error
Summary: A fix for Red Hat server with login problems and GSSAPI errors in the /var/log/messages
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 16 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
If you experience the following errors in the /var/log/messages logfile:
sssd_be: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information (Server not found in Kerberos database) sssd_be: GSSAPI Error: An invalid name was supplied (Success)
As well as long login times and failed login times, and after a successful logon the following message:
cannot find name for group ID XXXXX
Disable this line (if present) in the /etc/sssd/sssd.conf:
ldap_disable_referrals = true
and put this line in the config file:
ldap_referrals = false