greg haygood

I recently needed to upgrade a client's servers from Debian Sarge to Lenny.  The client is not in the US, and has a low bandwidth (yet still high cost!) connection for their servers.  So running the netinst upgrade isn't a viable option since it will take so long and eat up so much of their quota.  On the other hand, Lenny is now up to 3 DVDs.  Even if most of what is needed is on the first disc, the hassle of configuring the CD repos is a big pain, considering that these are servers with a very tightly controlled set of packages already installed.  So I didn't want

I came across ezPublish as a possible nice CMS for use in a couple projects I'm working on, but stumbled when it required PHP4. Rather than downgrading my full Apache2 instance just to test the app, I decided to get both 4 and 5 working on my Ubuntu laptop. Seem to be various ways to do it, but the best (er, first) I found was Windows-specific, so in the interests of fair-n-balanced, here's how I did it on my machine.

The sound on my laptop has always been muted after a suspend/resume cycle. I had hope Edgy would resolve that, but it didn't. The various posts (1, 2) I could find on the issue suggested a combination of toggling KDE's KMix setting "Restore volumes on login" (which would logically only apply on startup, anyway) and the alsa-utils save/restore.

OK, so my problem isn't unique: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=470495But at least there's an easy workaround until Edgy & VMware get back on the same page. No need for the vmware-any-any patch, and it works with Workstations 5.5.2 and Server 1.0.1. Just prepend the following LD_PRELOAD setting to the command invocation:<br /><blockquote># LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 vmware</blockquote><br />

Took the plunge and upgraded the laptop just 2 days after Edgy was released. Between my DSL acting slow and the servers likely getting pounded, it took a full day to download the 1.2GB of packages. Eventually got it all upgraded, though, and all was good in Ubuntu land .... except for Vmware Workstation. The modules recompile and load fine, but the program hangs on startup. No useful info via strace.Just discovered that vmware-server-console has the same issue.....