TechFiz on July 7th, 2009

I found that Songbird 1.2 failed to load on Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) for some reason. There were multiple copies of the program found in ps output but no luck.  I ran the program via terminal to see what’s really causing the issue to find the follwing output.
myself@techfiz:# # ./songbird
*** glibc detected *** ././songbird-bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb102e6e0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e6b604]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0×96)[0xb7e6d5b6]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_mem_free+0×21)[0xb0ed0141]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0[0xb0ec7407]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_plugin_get_list+0×73)[0xb0ec75e3]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_init+0×291)[0xb0ed6ec1]
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so[0xb1209273]
/home/techfiz/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb41bcb2a]
/home/techfiz/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_plugin_load_file+0×93f)[0xb41bd6f1]
/home/techfiz/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb41c9ab6]
/home/techfiz/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_registry_scan_path+0×135)[0xb41c9c5b]
/home/techfiz/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb417534f]
This issue can be fixed by removing the package [...]

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TechFiz on April 25th, 2009

Here is the first bug found on my Jaunty Jackalope which I have put on my 2GB thumb drive.

I encountered this error while adding drivers for my Nvidia video card.

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TechFiz on April 23rd, 2009

I am on Ubuntu 9.04 now! Don’t wait any more start grabbing your copy now.. Visit :- http://ubuntu.com
Torrents seem to be faster than normal download. Found many tweets on twitter. More than 100 Ubuntu release party’s organized. I’m celebrating it with a hot cup of coffee here @ my home enjoy!

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TechFiz on April 17th, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate is out for any user who wants to test it before its final release.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Codenamed “Jaunty Jackalope”, 9.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source [...]

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TechFiz on April 16th, 2009

I just tried fixing my Skype on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (Beta). I could get it configured just fine in seconds without much headache this time. www.pulseaudio.org did not really bug me this time.
Here is my skype sound preference on DELL XPS M1210 running on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”.

I’m using internal Mic which comes [...]

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TechFiz on March 31st, 2009

Keep counting days for Jaunty Jackalope release.. I am already on Jaunty beta. Looking for a very stable release this time.
Help spread the word about Ubuntu Release..

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