OpenSuse Chinese Input Issue with SCIM
Issue: Using SCIM happily to input Chinese characters with my previous Linux distribution - Ubuntu, but using SCIM in my current OpenSuse is painful as the screen refeashing always crawls…
Operating Systems
OSX 10.9 Upgrade Issue
Issue: Get error message: "This copy of the Install OS X Mavericks application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Then it could not…
Yum – Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum … killed
Issue: Yum cannot proceed even though the Transaction Testing is passed. but after seeing a message: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum then waited for a while, it showed: killed.…
Bootable USB with UNetbootin
Issue: Worked with UNetbootin to make bootable USB to install new OS or rescue OS several times happily, but didn't work anymore for OpenSuse. UNetbootin silently could not successfully Extracting…
unable to set superblock flags
Issue: System hang, then reboot but unable to boot up! system suggested "e2fsck". after fixing/ cleaning some files, "unable to set superblock flags" on /user/local Solution: execute: e2fsck -b 32768…
Solaris boot issue
Issue: sometimes boot process hang in the middle due to previous power down or system hang. Solution: Boot under "Solaris failsafe" run: fsck /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 reboot to normal multi-user mode
yum quited unexpectedly
Issue: Run: Yum install postgreSQL for SQL-Ledger, but appear: unable to find pid then the shell running yum as root quited unexpectedly Solution: Run: rpm --rebuilddb; yum clean all Tricks:…
Using Scanner
Issue: install application for scanning images in Linux Solution: install sane-backends, xsane, Tricks: also install xsane-gimp if having xsane as a plugin of gimp (instead of ln -s /usr/bin/xsane ~/.gimp*/plug-ins…
Print Problem Firefox
Issue: Can't print using firefox while no such problem appear in other applications like Openoffice, etc. Solution: Modify print command in firefox to "lpr -P [printer_name]" where [printer_name] is the…
Mount NTFS
Issue: Use Windows NTFS file systems in Linux. It can be access by linux as Read Only volume. Solution: Install ntfs driver. either from webmin by choosing: System -> Disk…