Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message: [Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC] [Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921 Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: <strong>The database disk image is malformed</strong> database disk image is malformed at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Reset (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000] at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Step (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000] at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000] at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand:ExecuteNonQuery () at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace --- I think this is how it happened. My computer hanged while Banshee was running, and I had to force reboot it. Hence, the Banshee database file was corrupted. Thanks to boombox1387 from Ubuntu forum, this problem can be fixed as the following: ...

$ mplayer -ass -sub subtitle.ass file.avi

Ever since I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 9.04 to 10.4, I have been having problems with Amarok dropping sound randomly. For example, if Amarok is playing the music and another program requires to use sound, Amarok will become silence. One solution to restore sound in Amarok is to kill pulseaudio and restart Amarok. It works, but very annoying. Fortunately, installing libxine1-gnome and configure Amarok to use Esound (ESD) instead of PulseAudio fixed the problem. ...

# update-alternatives --config editor` There are 7 alternatives which provide \`editor`. Selection Alternative 1 /bin/ed + 2 /bin/nano 3 /usr/bin/vim.tiny * 4 /usr/bin/vim.basic 5 /usr/bin/nedit 6 /usr/bin/emacs21 7 /usr/bin/xemacs21 Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 6

$ sudo visudo Look for line begins with Defaults, and append insults to the end. Defaults env_reset,insults Save it, and clear the sudo session (sudo -K), and try sudo with a wrong password. 🙂 Source: Enable sudo insults for some laughs