subj. don’t mix – just upgraded a simple Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 and it failed to boot. After careful examination, it looks that something replaced the munt line of my NTFS partition in the /etc/fstab and claimed that it is a VFAT partition and ‘mountall’ that is run during boot gets very, very confused [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The following is an invitation to the Latvian Ubuntu Bug Jam (in Latvian) sent for a bit of a wider circulation to catch people that monitor Planet Debian, but not Planet Ubuntu.lv. 27. martā LU Linux centrā notiks divi pasākumi vienā – Ubuntu Global Bug Jam Latvijas daļa un installfests. Global Bug Jam ir pasākums, [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Want a sound card? Want a cleared sound that is not contaminated by electromagnetic interference in you computer’s case? Want that all to work in Linux? I did. So I got me one of theseUSB sound cards. It arrived today in a tiny padded envelope. And it works with Linux. Just plug and play. PulseAudio [...]
Want a definition of a paper cut bug? Here it is. And here and here are two more side effects of the same bug. The original bug report will be 6 years old in a month. Can we do something to prevent this bug surviving that long?
From http://159.18.52.69/raw/983493 Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “test.py”, line 12, in module from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib ImportError: No module named ext.reader Fix/workaround: + sys.path.append(‘/usr/lib/python%s/site-packages/oldxml’ % sys.version[:3]) from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib I had an old Python script doing some XML work and after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 I started getting the above error message [...]
Everyone knows that Webmin is nasty – it does things in wrong way on a pure and nice Debian (and Ubuntu) systems and for some reason is not included in Debian (post-sarge) or Ubuntu. That does not inspire confidence in a root-running web based software to say the least. I have a need to have [...]
If you are playing World of Warcraft on a Debian or Ubuntu system with newest Wine packages from WineHQ, then you might run into a problem – WoW-2.1.2.6803-to-2.1.3.6898-enUS-patch.exe files will crash on Wine 0.9.40 with some nastygrams sent in the direction of its mshtml implementation. Downgrade to 0.9.33 (like the version in feisty) and the [...]
With great help from Ouattara Oumar Aziz an new version of SBackup is shaping up in the svn repo and a day ago I created a public beta version – 0.10.4~beta10 which can be downloaded here. Please report any bugs or regressions to Sourceforge bug tracker. Also an update for translations and new translations can [...]
Sunday, September 3, 2006
More and more early adopters choose to use Ubuntu instead of Debian. Ubuntu has newer versions of the software that matters (XOrg, FF, OOO, Gnome,…) than the stable Debian or, sometimes than even the unstable Debian. Early adopters are the users that are most eager to try new shiny things, do not scream too much [...]
“Oh, gnome-screensaver, I hate you!” – © Simon Law Oh, and so do I for breaking working software, like mplayer, because known and working xscreensaver interfaces are simply not supported. P.S. It feels so great to see people use the Debian Debconf6 pool photo in their Slashdotted presentations
