Fix: (K)ubuntu doesn’t play Audio CD

On Kubuntu 11.10, we have KsCD program installed to play audio CD. The problem I’m having is that some machines could play audio cd and some couldn’t. All machines run Kubuntu 11.10. To fix this issue, check that /dev/cdrom is a sym link to /dev/sr0 (credit [1]). In my case, machines which couldn’t play audio CD don’t have ‘/dev/cdrom’: # ls -l /dev/cd* ls: cannot access /dev/cd*: No such file or directory Let’s create one:...

July 11, 2012 · 1 min · 103 words · kenno

svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97).

It started with… when I tried to start nfs-kernel-server, it just failed. # /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon.... Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsd svcgssd failed! syslogs: Nov 11 23:32:04 nasbox kernel: [ 8106.165582] nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache Nov 11 23:32:05 nasbox kernel: [ 8107.240419] svc: failed to register lockdv1 RPC service (errno 97). Nov 11 23:32:05 nasbox kernel: [ 8107.245528] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 11 23:32:05 nasbox kernel: [ 8107....

November 11, 2011 · 2 min · 222 words · kenno

How to decompress .tar.Z

One way to extract a .tar.Z file: $ zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -

October 6, 2011 · 1 min · 14 words · kenno

Beautify gitk font on Debian/Ubuntu

Install tk8.5, if not yet installed: # apt-get install tk8.5 # update-alternatives --config wish Selection Alternative ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/bin/wish8.4 *+ 2 /usr/bin/wish-default 3 /usr/bin/wish8.5</pre> There are 3 alternatives which provide wish. Type in the number that corresponds to tk8.5 (in my case was 3) then hit enter. Change fonts in ~/.gitk to DejaVu Sans Mono. set mainfont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9} set textfont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9} set uifont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9 bold}

September 4, 2011 · 1 min · 74 words · kenno

How to replace default fonts in MIUI rom

MIUI (1.7.22) uses Arial as the default font. If you hate it as I do, here is how to change it. I assume you have adb working. We are going to replace only 2 fonts - Arial.ttf and Arial-Bold.ttf. First, let’s back up the old fonts just in case thing didn’t go well as we want to. (I learned this the hard way, and keen to avoid it at all cost)...

July 24, 2011 · 1 min · 142 words · kenno