The pre-install is not inside a chroot environment, so whatever variables you set or export are only available for use outside of a chroot. And that’s the problem with the post install section, by default anyway.

f you’re mounting a file system via custom udev rules, hal does not populate /media/.hal-mtab. When a desktop user attempts to unmount the file system, hal complains that it doesn’t know anything about that file system and gives you a friendly message about console users that may have mounted it.

What if there’s no open file to be found, then what? If you were looking for some sort of media file, it might be easy to use a memory based distro with tools like photorec

You’ve probably found an endless supply of URLs where people complain that they can’t get anything to boot with qemu-system-ppc and many supposed guides to follow that work. It’s almost impossible to find functional examples of how to run qemu-system-ppc without a kernel panic, core dump, or ending up in bios limbo. So here’s one way I came up with that works for me.

You’ve added a whole directory to get checked into subversion, and then realized you forgot to remove the binaries, or perhaps you had some hidden files, .nfs0001 or thumbs.db or something else you just don’t want to commit. There’s two ways to undo this situation.

I just logged into my gmail to find “buzz”, a new feature integrated into my gmail. I’m not quite sure what to think of it. Other than google, I don’t think anyone wants status updates in their gmail, but perhaps I’m wrong? I’d rather see Wave integrated, once it stops hiccuping of course.

Death by Dynamically linked libraries. The binary file was compiled with the dependency of one or more shared libraries. The libraries needed by the application you’re trying to execute are not included in the binary itself, they have to reside on your system.

Until now, only password surveys have been analyzed, and I knew the results would be almost useless when compared to a real dataset of passwords because who in their right mind would donate one of their own passwords, or anything like it, to a survey about password statistics?

Rpmbuild’s RPATH feature is used to search libraries outside of standard paths. They are given to the linker at buildtime. If the developers of the code you’re trying to turn into an RPM did not take any of these considerations into account when they write their programs then you may be forced to skip check-rpath.

The Craigavon Task Forc, established shortly after an iBurst tower was built just north of Johannesburg in Fourways Memorial Park on 12 August 2009, has battled with iBurst to get the tower relocated elsewhere due to concerns over radiation from the tower causing a long list of health problems. Little did residents know, the tower was shut off more than six weeks ago.