February 2024 • $bLOG

Counter Strike: Source won’t start on NixOS

After the latest update of my NixOS machine, Counter Strike: Source wont start. Starting Steam from console shows the following error message

[...]
src/tcmalloc.cc:278] Attempt to free invalid pointer 0x94d1af0 
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Source/hl2.sh: line 73: 14550 Aborted                 (core dumped) ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@

I could fixed the problem by

copy the libmimalloc.so from Half-Life 2 bin-folder (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/bin/libmimalloc.so) to Conter-Strike: Source bin-folder
Rename existing libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 to libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4~ or similar
rename libmimalloc.so to ibtcmalloc_minimal.so.4

The game now starts 🙂

Synology HyperBackup to Hetzner Storage Box

Its possible to use Hetzner Storage Box as HyperBackup target with the following settings.

Preparations

Log in to StorageBox Administration from Hetzner
Select StorageBox
Create SubAccount (Optional)
- Activate: Allow SSH
- Activate: Allow external accessibility
- User name and password will be displayed after saving (ONLY ONCE!)

Setup

Install HyperBackup package
Backup destination > File server > rsync
- ServerType: rsync-compatible server
- Server name: <uXXXX.your-storagebox.de>
- Transmission encryption: On
- Port: 23
- Username: uXXX-subXXX
- Password: XXX
- Backup module: /home/
- Directory: <backup name>

Logging from PHP to Docker logs (stdout)

If you run your PHP application inside a docker container, you could write (debug) output to the docker log. This is useful if you want to see the output of your application in the docker logs.

Commands

$out = fopen('php://stdout', 'w'); //output handler
fputs($out, "Output goes here...."); //writing output operation
fclose($out); //closing handler

Example

function _log($msg) {
    $msg = "myApp - " . date("c") . ": " . $msg."\n";
    $out = fopen('php://stdout', 'w');
    fputs($out, $msg);
    fclose($out);
}

Fixing Windows Hello PIN on Windows 11 (0x80090016)

This is the second time, my Lenovo X13s (Windows-on-ARM) machine wont boot and ask for the BitLocker key. After using the recovery key, and login with password, i can't set a new Windows PIN which is needed for biometric (fingerprint or face recognition) login. I get the error message Something went wrong. Try again later (0x80090016).

tl;dr

To fix this, you need to delete the folder C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\NGC and reboot the system. After that, i was able to set a new PIN.

Steps

takeown /f C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\NGC /r /d y

icacls C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\NGC /grant administrators:F /t

Delete C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft\NGC
Reboot