The Danesh Project

Bug in openSUSE xorg security update

I’ve been hit by bug #345131 since updating to the latest xorg-server [7.2-143.9] security update on my openSUSE 10.3 installation. xorg-server version 7.2-143.6 to 7.2-143.9.

VLC, Filezilla and a few other applications stopped working. The bug has something to do with the X Window shared memory (MIT-SHM) overflowing.

My error,

The program ‘Filezilla’ received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was ‘BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)’.
(Details: serial 1072 error_code 11 request_code 147 minor_code 5)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the –sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Few hours of Googling and experimenting later I found my fix. 3  actually.

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How to untar over SSH

I develop quite a few bash scripts to automated backups and dropbox operation in my office. One of the usual requirements is to tar (tar.gz) the files locally and later untar them on the destination server when needed. I have a few simple scripts with interactive menus which help the data center operations team with their daily backup tasks.

One of the challenges during development was the ability to untar files on the backup server over SSH. The command by default will untar to the home directory instead of the target folder output always returned success but the files were nowhere to be found. This apparently is a limitation on the tar command, it did not know where to untar the files to when being executed over SSH. Fortunately the fix was really simple.

Original command,

ssh 127.0.0.1 'tar zxvf ~/test/files.tzr.gz'

The simple fix,

ssh 127.0.0.1 'cd ~/test/ ; tar zxvf files.tar.gz'

or, (thanks Aik)

ssh 127.0.0.1 'tar zxvf files.tar.gz -C ~/test/'

Here’s a video I put together to demonstrate the above. Hopefully I got it right.

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Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8.1 released

A new version of Deluge is out.

Changes added to this release,

Catch various exceptions from possibly corrupted persistent.state
Use pieces wanted instead of total pieces to draw adv progress bar
Properly catch ‘address already in use’ error when trying to use a port that is in use
Attempt to fix issue where all the columns start very small
Change how we handle fastresume – should prevent rechecking
New theme for windows
Performance enhancements by removing needless casts
Search is now a plugin
Browser removed

Download Deluge 0.5.8.1.

I’m going to watch Rambo 4

Won myself a pair of Rambo 4 tickets from AMBP.

The tickets were up for grabs during the recent gathering which was the first bloggers gathering for me. I’ve never had luck with lucky draws my whole life and that did not change this time. One week later, now, I’m chosen as a lucky winner. Guess my luck’s changing….

Gotta pick my tickets up by Tuesday if I want good seats. Only if I find some time to drop by Star’s office.

Hopefully the movie live up to the hype.

Source: AMBP

Where is Sharlinie?

Yet another innocent soul is falls victim to sick perverts. If there were a god, please please spare this innocent soul from being added to the statistics. Please……..

We leave among sick people, really sick bastards. What do they see in an innocent child like this? sigh….

My fix,

Legalize porn and prostitution, ya ya….. bitch all you want. We have politicians walking around in their own porn videos,multiple wife, multiple keeps and the best, girls giving BJs to their boyfriends in public(remember edisi siasat, KLCC park?) but what to we bitch about. No no Pink, Beyonce too much skin, you might teach us the wrong thing. What you call that?

Remember,  there are a lot of sick desperate people out there needing to be satisfied, we must provide a means for them to vent their despration else innocent victims like Sharlinie fall victim. I wonder what’s the rape rate in Amsterdam?

Just my 2cents…….

Source: Delirium