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Failed to start up WiredTiger under any compatibility version. This may be due to an unsupported upgrade or downgrade

When you upgrade a standalone mongodb instance you can end up having the issue described below. When you have a version oldest than 4.4 in mongodb you should first upgrade to version 4.2 and then to version 4.4. During those steps however you must not forget to change the featureCompatibilityVersion. If you do not change this property mongodb will stop working.

"ctx":"initandlisten","msg":"Failed to start up WiredTiger under any compatibility version. This may be due to an unsupported upgrade or downgrade."}

Upgrade a Standalone to 4.4 — MongoDB Manual

You can get your current compatibility Version by using the mongo shell.

db.adminCommand( { getParameter: 1, featureCompatibilityVersion: 1 } )

In this end you should change your compatibility to 4.2 before upgrading to 4.4 in order for the upgrade to be performed successfully. 

db.adminCommand( { setFeatureCompatibilityVersion: "4.2" } )
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Downgrade docker by installing an older version on linux

Sometimes the latest version of software may include bugs that have not been fixed.This is the case for docker on Ubuntu 22.04. The buildkit version prints on stderr instead of stdout and this causes some issues on teamcity. As a solution I wanted to downgrade docker on a previous version. First you will need to delete the existing docker installation. You can do this with the below commands:

sudo apt-get purge -y docker-engine docker docker.io docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-compose-plugin
sudo apt-get autoremove -y --purge docker-engine docker docker.io docker-ce docker-compose-plugin

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker /etc/docker
sudo rm /etc/apparmor.d/docker
sudo groupdel docker
sudo rm -rf /var/run/docker.sock

Based on your OS version you can go under docker downloads and find a specific version. Some older docker version exist for older OS versions but you can install them on later versions also.

Index of linux/ubuntu/dists/ (docker.com)

There could be a case when you have jammy (22.04) but you want to install binaries that were available on bionic version (18.04). In order to install an older version of docker you will need to download the old binaries by navigating inside the specific version then selecting pool and finally stable. Inside the last folder you can find all the architectures that are supported and you should select the appropriate one. For x64 you can select amd64 and then you can find a specific version of the binary.

In order to install specific version you will need to download all the packages that you need (some of them are dependencies of docker-ce) with wget and then install them.

Download:

wget https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/dists/bionic/pool/stable/amd64/docker-scan-plugin_0.17.0~ubuntu-bionic_amd64.deb

Install:

dpkg -i docker-scan-plugin_0.17.0~ubuntu-bionic_amd64.deb
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Query servers disk size – Azure Log Analytics

Log Analytics can be a powerful monitoring tool for your infrastructure as you can query various metrics that are important for your servers availability like disk space.

The below query can be used to get free space for your Linux VM disks. 

 InsightsMetrics
| where Origin == "vm.azm.ms"
    and Namespace == "LogicalDisk"  
    and Name == "FreeSpaceMB"
| extend Disk=tostring(todynamic(Tags)["vm.azm.ms/mountId"]),
    Disk_Size_GB=(todynamic(Tags)["vm.azm.ms/diskSizeMB"]) / (1024)
| summarize Disk_Free_Space_GB = avg(Val) / (1024)
    by Computer,
    Disk, Disk_Size_GB, _ResourceId
| where Disk in ('sda1', 'sdb1', 'sdc1', 'sdd1','/')
| project Computer, Disk, Disk_Size_GB, Disk_Free_Space_GB

You can also select the scope of the query in order to get results for specific resources/resource groups.

The result will bring all disks size and free space that their name is included in the list 

('sda1', 'sdb1', 'sdc1', 'sdd1','/')

The same query with a small change can be applied also for windows vms in order to get the available space for your C: drive.

 InsightsMetrics
| where Origin == "vm.azm.ms"
    and Namespace == "LogicalDisk"  
    and Name == "FreeSpaceMB"
| extend Disk=tostring(todynamic(Tags)["vm.azm.ms/mountId"]),
    Disk_Size_GB=(todynamic(Tags)["vm.azm.ms/diskSizeMB"]) / (1024)
| summarize Disk_Free_Space_GB = avg(Val) / (1024)
    by Computer,
    Disk, Disk_Size_GB, _ResourceId
| where Disk in ('C:')
| project Computer, Disk, Disk_Size_GB, Disk_Free_Space_GB

Finally you can pin this result inside an Azure dashboard by clicking pin and select the specific dashboard.

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error NU1202: Package PowerShell 7.3.0 is not compatible with net6.0

When you use pwsh or powershell core (the newest version of powershell) you may face a problem regarding the compatibility with .NET 6.

Installing PowerShell on Windows – PowerShell | Microsoft Learn

PowerShell 7.3 installs to a new directory and runs side-by-side with Windows PowerShell 5.1. PowerShell 7.3 is an in-place upgrade that replaces PowerShell 7.0 and lower.

Error:

error NU1202: Package PowerShell 7.3.0 is not compatible with net6.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0) / any. Package PowerShell 7.3.0 supports: net7.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v7.0) / any
The tool package could not be restored.
Tool ‘powershell’ failed to install. This failure may have been caused by:

* You are attempting to install a preview release and did not use the –version option to specify the version.
* A package by this name was found, but it was not a .NET tool.
* The required NuGet feed cannot be accessed, perhaps because of an Internet connection problem.
* You mistyped the name of the tool.

Solution:

In order to resolve the error you should install .NET 7.

Download .NET 7.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) (microsoft.com)