Since a coming version of LinuxMCE will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 I started thinking about upgrade my home PC. I found this manual explained how to do an upgrade using a package manager. I played a bit with Kubuntu installed under VMware and couldn’t upgrade successful. Adopt manager crashed every time when the text of agreements should be displayed. GNOM update manager didn’t detect a new version. So, finally I have to try the manual upgrade from the command line (highly unrecommended by Ubuntu/Kubuntu developers).
Recently when I started to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10 using Adopt manager I faced with problem. It doesn’t get proxy setting from the system. To solve that a following line should be added into file /etc/apt/apt.conf (you have to create it if it doesn’t exist):
Acquire::http::Proxy “http://user:password@proxy_URL:proxy_Port”;
User name and password can be omitted if you don’t use them.
Today I upgraded my work PC up to Fedora 8 (Werewolf). Unlike previous upgrades I tried to use yum. I run the procedure according to Upgrading Fedora Using Yum. It took about 3 – 4 hours and finished successfully. After rebooting I just install a plug-in to listen MP3
yum update alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
and patched VMWave to build vmnet on post 2.6.23 kernels. That’s it! Enjoying fast system 
P. S. Another workaround. Any Java-based applications crashes with following error:
java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed.
Hack which works for me is following:
sed -i ‘s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g’ /usr/java/jre1.6.0_01/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so
Today I spent some time to setup Xerox Workcenter M123 in the RedHat 9. The difficulty was in the cups version. There is an old one which doesn’t allow to pick up PPD file during configuration. So, everything I did manually. But printer didn’t print test page. It just waited a few seconds and skipped it. I specified a log level as debug and found following row:
D [06/Nov/2007:17:39:31 +0200] [Job 136] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory
After a short googling I found that page which explains how to add foomatic-rip in the RedHat 9 (package foomatic for Fedora 7 already includes that filter). So, the procedure is pretty simple:
Now you can print to Xerox Workcenter M123 from RedHat 9. Note that this driver doesn’t support duplex printing!
Today I moved my blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.3.1. I was afraid a bit to do that immediately right after release. Because the 2.3.1 includes a native support of tags. But I, as many other bloggers, used plug-in “Ultimate Tag Warrior”. So, I’d like to have some tool to import them. I red that post written by Leonid Mamchenkov and decided to upgrade at least my personal blog and see how it’ll be.
Except a few small problems related with out of date plug-ins everything was fine. WP script imported my old tags and linked them with posts. At the first view it was done correctly. If you’ll see something strange or get some error, please, contact me. I’ll be very appreciated for any bug-reports.
Inscription on the car: “Notebook repair”
Today I read in THG.ru about coming version of GMail. It should be much faster, will have advanced contact manager and will be integrated with Picasa. The target of GMail development team is 70% successful users which is a big number for completely free service. IMHO good advantage of GMail might be adding of Google Gears to offer off-line mode.
