Gentoo maintenance: libpng12 blues

 Desktop Media Center Server

To get through “libpng12″ errors on latest [emerge world] (it apears that libpng14 went stable before its time :0)…

gcc-config -l
gcc-config (pick most recent number)
lafilefixer --justfixit
revdep-rebuild -i (a bunch of times, unemerging old blockers)
emerge --unmerge libpng
emerge libpng
emerge libpng:1.2 (see here for the whole ugly story)
lafilefixer --justfixit
etc....

Still working on this… Note that one way to find all the libraries that need libpng12 is…

grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`

… but that’s a LOT OF SHIT. :>

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments | Saturday, July 24, 2010

Sharepoint must die

 Chatter

Microsoft, striking terror in the hearts of corporate America every day with its inane monopoly. Someone please interpret this frightening insanely cryptic Sharepoint/Word warning when I try to save my document! No one else is editing it, I have the only checkout! My head is ringing, make it stop…

Sharepoint WTF

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments | Wednesday, June 30, 2010

MythTV video hangs at “Please wait…”: SOLVED

 Media Center MythTV

I have been fighting with MythTV, trying to get it to play my videos for over a month. I have played with my MythTV compilation settings, tried turning off OpenGL, changing the video profile to “Slim”, recompiling my ATI video drivers, and messing with my X configuration. I finally solved it by deleting the installation and reinstalling:

su -
rm /usr/lib64/libmyth*
rm /usr/bin/myth*
(reinstall mythtv)

This messy post brought to you by the iPhone’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking app thank you very much…

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments | Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Gentoo daily pain: samba

 Media Center Server

Gentoo has been messing with samba packages (again). I guess we are supposed to use just samba now, no more samba-server, samba-client, mount-cifs, blah blah blah. OK, fine. I switched over one machine and everything fell apart. Why? Apparently when you remove mount-cifs (which properly blocks the samba upgrade), YOUR SAMBA USERS GET WIPED OUT. Fun stuff. Best part is, if you browse to your samba shares your machine will totally hang! Seriously! How often do you get to see that in linux? Readd them and you’ll be good to go… hope you don’t have a lot of them!

su -
smbpasswd -a yourusername

I’m starting to see a fork in the road of my life: accept this level of noise (a given in any open source environment) and deal with it (mostly like through use of several machines, one poor bastard that is updated regularly, and others that get updated when things look good); or give up and switch to a different environment (what though? nothing better exists..)…

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments | Monday, May 10, 2010

Gentoo lost my dvd drive

 Desktop

From udev post-install notes in elogviewer:

If after the udev update removable devices or CD/DVD drives stop working,
try re-emerging HAL before filling a bug report

Done. No luck. From HAL post-install notes in elogviewer:

If you have problems discovering/configuring hardware,
try adding yourself to plugdev.

OK…

gpasswd -a m plugdev
reboot

Whew, aifol.

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati

Comments | Saturday, May 1, 2010

« Older entries