Fixing a problem with hald on Ubuntu 8.10
Monday, 16 March 2009
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, Technology, comments closed
Saved for my own reference as much as anything. I was having a problem this morning on my Ubuntu x86-64 where I was getting nothing but a spinning cursor (the busy cursor) where I should have seen gdm. The problem was the HAL daemon (hald) wasn’t starting and I couldn’t figure out why. After digging through several bugs, this gem presented itself, and I tried the changed gdm script. It didn’t fix the problem, but when I ran “lshal” by itself, I got:
lshal: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_regex_unref
This helped me find a reference on slackware-italia.com that helped me solve my problem: my ld.so.conf.d had no reference to /usr/lib, only /usr/local/lib. I added it and all is well.
Save a Lemur: Club Thievey
Monday, 31 December 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, comments closed
Lemurs are beautiful and deeply threatened creatures that are found only in Madagascar. Mike Lee of Delicious Monster is organizing something called Club Thievey in an attempt to encourage people to donate to the Madagascar Fauna Group.
This is a worthy cause. While I still haven’t decided whether I’m participating in Laptop Giving or I’m making a last-minute donation for 2007 to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), I have donated to MFG; my wife did so earlier this year after reading Mike’s excellent Dinosaur Ranch. It’s the right thing to do, and I want to see Mike’s goal of 100 members in the troop reached.
Own Your Words
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, Personal, comments closed
I have approved my last anonymous comment on halostatue.ca. I don’t care if people disagree with me; I do care that people won’t own their words. I happily own my words here—whether you agree with me or not. I expect people who comment on my posts to do the same.
I don’t have a problem with identifiable pseudonyms, like Fake Steve Jobs or Mini-Microsoft or even why the lucky stiff. Those are all people who can be identified. I do have a problem with anonymous cowards, as Slashdot calls them.
If you want to comment on my blog in the future, you must provide either a valid email address that I can verify personally (and I will) or a valid URL to your own blog or public profile page that identifies you in a way that people can see what you’re about—whether you’re a real person or a pseudonymous person. If you don’t do one of the above, your comment will be deleted with no notice.
I also won’t allow abusive comments, toward me or toward others. If you feel that I have been abusive in a post, please post a comment. I will act on it. (See the discussion in last year’s posts with Ola Bini; we worked out our differences.)
My readers, whomever they may be, will be able to know that even if I accept a pseudonym, I have at least been able to find someone who will own up to the words posted here.
Comments on this post are closed.
Changes Coming
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, comments closed
So far, I’ve had two abortive attempts at personal blogging; I still want to blog, but I have to figure out what I want it to be about, and how much I want to talk about work (if at all).
I’m going to be playing with some new themes for WordPress and some new plug-ins while I work with this. In the meantime, I will be disabling new user registrations (at least temporarily, and possibly permanently) and comments on existing posts that aren’t disabled (they should all be, but I haven’t verified). I may take Joel Spolsky’s advice on not having comments enabled, but I’m not sure. I will be deleting all currently registered users, too. There’s been a slow but steady tend of spam-users being created. They can’t do anything, but it’s still annoying.
I’m also looking for a single webhost to give me a reasonable yearly price for good performance (the hosts at OLM and 1&1 have been slowing down, and while I liked Linode, I find that I don’t actually want to manage everything that way) with shell access and compile rights (so I can put Ruby on their system if they haven’t). I might like a Linode-like system where I don’t have to manage everything. I don’t care about email; all of that needs to be directed through my Google Apps account. I’d like to consider running one of the Ruby/Rails blogging packages (and I’m not sure which one, to be honest), but I want it to be reasonably complete and easy to use with plug-ins like I can get for WordPress (I’m going to be adding twitter integration soon, via plug-ins). Any ideas? Email them to austin at zieglers dot ca and let me know.
Oops…
Friday, 27 April 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, comments closed
Sorry, folks. I’ve been so busy lately that I hadn’t even noticed that I had a number of unapproved comments on the Bitwise article that I wrote. They’re all approved now—I have no interest in censoring real comments. My mistake, and apologies.
Wow!
Monday, 6 November 2006
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, Ruby, comments closed
Tom Copeland just reported that there’s a new RubyForge mirror in town. My mirror has had its ups and downs, but we hit on a great approach a while back: I’m just serving the Windows installer (and I’m the only one serving it, for now). I’m serving about a terabyte a month doing that. I’m glad I can do something to help with the growing bandwidth requirements for RubyForge. Right now, RubyForge and its mirrors are serving three and quarter terabytes monthly. Just wow.
(I’m deep in the middle of wedding planning, so more on the Transaction::Simple stuff later.)
A Brief Note
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, comments closed
Some folks complained that they were unable to comment on my blog yesterday. I have purposely disabled anonymous comments at all times on my blog. This means that I will get fewer comments, perhaps, but I don’t even want to start fighting comment spam if at all possible. As such, I am requiring user registration at least until I can figure out how to integrate OpenID or some other federated identifier with my blog.
RTidyCD
Sunday, 1 January 2006
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, Ruby, comments closed
RTidy for CityDesk is no longer supported or available at this site. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
