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Backblaze may cause VMware fail to start

I’ve been using VMware Workstation 16 for a long time. Recently, I realize that sometimes my vmware virtual machines cannot start/resume.

The error message is:

Power on failure messages: The operation was cancelled by the user
Cannot open the disk 'X:\VMS\xxxxx\xxxxx-cl1.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Module 'Disk' power on failed.
Failed to start the virtual machine.

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Upgrade Mysql 5.7 to 8 “The following signatures were invalid” solution

If you are running Mysql 5.7 and would like to upgrade it to Mysql 8, here is a guide that actually WORKS for Ubuntu 18.04

wget https://repo.mysql.com//mysql-apt-config_0.8.10-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.10-1_all.deb

Choose mysql server and select mysql 8.0

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

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