A file at /var/run/reboot-required is created that's used at login to tell you a restart is needed in the MOTD. You can check for the presence of this file to know if the updates you just did require a restart To do something with this information…
If you're building packages with pbuilder sometimes you might hit something like the following errors which cause the build to fail because the dependencies can't be found. Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main devscripts i386 2.11.6ubuntu1.2 404 Not Found [IP: 91.…
Following on from my previous post [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2010/11/03/spotify-screensaver-toggle-with-dbus/] about a script to Pause and Play tracks on spotify based on the status of the screensaver as reported by D-Bus on a Linux Desktop, here's an update: With the latest versions of…
When you're using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the 'add-apt-repository' command is missing (it's useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run: sudo apt-get install python-software-properties…
I've recently updated the spotify notifier example I'd previously posted as an example along with my spotify screensaver script [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2010/11/03/spotify-screensaver-toggle-with-dbus/]. First, I made an update to have it listen to the PropertiesChanged signal. Annoyingly for some unknown reason…
Having installed ec2-api-tools under my lucid dev environment I was trying to shut ec2 instances down with ec2stop [instance_id] and I was getting the following exception: $ ec2stop i-XXXXXXXX Unexpected error: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.…
If you're a Google chrome user on Ubuntu you may have noticed apt-get update seems to wait around for two minutes sitting at 99%. The culprit is the google apt repo having issues with http/1.1 pipelining. Fortunately there's a bug for it on Launchpad…
Had a weird issue when setting up an Ubuntu Karmic JEOS VM under VirtualBox. When it was installed it rebooted and then the VM window dissappeared. I tried to boot it a second time and it got to grub and then as soon as I selected the kernel I wanted…