Free Software Help Pages

At R.F. Bevan & Co. Ltd we use a number of free software packages and operating systems. Unfortunately, we are poison when it comes to IT, and end up breaking virtually every system we so much as look at.

Therefore, it is a good idea to document what we do, so that when we break something we know how to put it back together so that we can break it again in future.

Here are some of the instructions that we use to help us rebuild things after a calamity happens.

Warning

Due to the constantly changing nature of the Funtoo operating system, these instructions are very likely to be out of date.

Funtoo Linux

Setting up Funtoo Linux

Setting up a cluster virtual machine

Pitfalls and Problems

Using sshfs with autofs: Cannot mount sshfs directories — 'No such file or directory'

When using autofs, sshfs will look for the ssh config file and any private keys in /root/.ssh, so make sure that the needed files are in there.

Clicking on the nautilus icon does nothing

Edit the /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop file and change the line:

Exec=nautilus --no-desktop

Exec=nautilus --no-desktop .

How To Clean Up / Repair Nautilus File Associations (Open With Entries)?

Remove the unwanted entries in ${HOME}/.local/share/applications/

Using atftpd

sudo atftpd	--user <username>.<groupname> \
		--daemon --no-fork /tftpboot

To push changes to a (non-bare) remote git repository:

Create a branch on the remote repository:

git branch <remote-branch>

Push the changes from the local repository:

git push <repository> <local-branch>:<remote-branch>

git pull . <remote-branch>

Gstreamer-based applications will not output sound

It may be necessary to include a simple ${HOME}/.asound file to enable gstreamer applications to output sound.

Cannot administer CUPS remotely: bad request

Modify the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file from 'Listen localhost:631' to 'Listen 631', remove any references to required encryption and add the lines: 'ServerAlias *' and 'DefaultEncryption Never'.

This document was last modified on Sunday, 18-Mar-2012 12:33:52 GMT