Archive for April, 2009

Fixing segfaults in apt-get upgrade

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Recently I got a notification on my Jaunty box that unattended-upgrades had crashed, and eventually trased the problem to apt-get: while I could update my sources I was unable to upgrade, apt would segfault while reading the sources list.
While I still have no idea what the cause was, the solution was a simple `sudo rm [...]

soas’s new friends (in development)

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a great product in development at Sugar Labs which enables children to take the Sugar Learning Environment with them wherever they go. SoaS suffers from deployment issues in some use cases, namely that it can be difficult to manage a school full of them; the maintenance from having to [...]