Today I redeemed Digital Ocean’s offer from the GitHub student pack, which gave me 100$ worth of credit for the next one year, which will be enough for me to learn self-hosting. I created a basic droplet using a non-root user and generated an ssh-key for login; however, I was getting an error “root@ipaddress: Permission denied (publickey).” After reading a lot of blogs yet, I was not able to find the solution.

After installing the VMware workstation, when I tried starting my VM, it showed me an error “Errors- vmware unable to install all modules vmmon vmnet”. As the StackOverflow solutions were not working, I found this article after searching for answers for a couple of hours. As my vmware workstation was already installed, I followed ” Errors- VMware unable to install all modules vmmon vmnet”. In my case, GCC and build tools were installed, i Downloaded the latest vmware-host-modules – VMMON and VMNET from github .

I faced a strange problem i went to college in the morning and when i came back in the evening my laptop was booting up to grub 2 command shell. And the reason was not known to me then i started looking for solutions. To my surprise there were no specific solutions available for Debian, However i thought i should try maybe they can work. The solutions were correct however somehow confusing so i thought i should write a blog about that so that if someone goes through same problem he can refer this blog.