dr Hannibal Lecter's questions

I'm trying to run F@H on my Maverick machine. I've downloaded and installed the three .deb files from their official download page (fahclient_7.1.52_i386.deb, fahcontrol_7.1.52-1_all.deb and fahviewer_7.1.52_i386.deb).

Sadly, it seems like FAHClient has some missing dependencies:

$ FAHClient 
FAHClient: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ ldd /usr/bin/FAHClient
/usr/bin/FAHClient: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by /usr/bin/FAHClient)
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb78d4000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb789e000)
    libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found
    libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => not found
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7899000)
    libexpat.so.1 => /lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7872000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb785d000)
    libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb784b000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb775f000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7739000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb771d000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb75c0000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb78d5000)

Is there a way to satisfy these dependencies with minimum impact on the rest of the system (something like this perhaps)? Or is my only alternative to try an older version of the client?

I'm using Ubuntu Maverick on my main PC, and I got the system configured just the way I like it (yay!) a long time ago. Everything was well until the recent Wine releases which are apparently made to use ALSA 1.0.24 which is sadly not available for Maverick. This means I lost all sound in Wine, which is not nearly as funny as it should be!

I found this tutorial on how to build ALSA 1.0.24, but I'm not sure if the procedure is "safe enough" to use. By "safe enough" I mean "will it mess up my system beyond repair". Is the big red-lettered disclaimer in the beginning of the article justified? How dangerous is the procedure described? Should I risk it and give it a shot or just bite the bullet and install Mint from scratch, like I did on my laptop (successfully, it seems)?

UPDATE:

After following Gilles' advice below about trying to install ALSA binaries for Lucid, I had a bit of a problem with sound being blocked for other apps when playing something in Flash. To fix this, I did the following:

Create /etc/asound.conf with the following content:

pcm.pulse { type pulse }
ctl.pulse { type pulse }
pcm.!default { type pulse }
ctl.!default { type pulse }

Then simply restart ALSA with the following command:

sudo alsa reload

I found all this on this forum thread but chose to restart ALSA instead of the whole system, and it worked!

Several symptoms:

• No splash screen, just a console
• No TTYs available (CTRL+ALT+F1 etc..), just random coloured bars

A while ago, I've used a tutorial to fix Plymouth bootsplash resolution and changed settings I don't quite recall now. What is the proper way to reinstall and reset Plymouth and/or GRUB settings to see if removing my modifications will fix the boot to some acceptable level?

NB: I've updated to 11.10-beta hoping it would fix the problem, but this originally happened on 11.04

Edit: I think the tutorial I followed is this one but I'm not 100% sure. Also, I think the things mentioned in the tutorial are not the only ones I've changed, since I've tried to fix this when it first happened, so I may have messed up other stuff too. This is why I'm looking for a "reset all" solution.

When I double click on a video file in Gnome Commander, for some reason it opens in Movie Player (Totem?) instead of VLC, which is set as preferred for all file types. Clicking on the same file from Nautilus opens the file in VLC.

Is there a way to force Gnome Commander to use "standard" gnome mime-type associations?

Update:

Following iamsid's answer below, this is what I did:

Edit the file ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list (if the file does not exist, create it), and add the following:

[Default Applications]
video/x-msvideo=vlc.desktop
video/x-flv=vlc.desktop
video/mp2t=vlc.desktop
video/mp4=vlc.desktop
video/mpeg=vlc.desktop
video/ogg=vlc.desktop
video/x-theora+ogg=vlc.desktop
video/x-ms-wmv=vlc.desktop

You can of course add other mime types as needed. To see a file's mime type, you can right-click on a file in Gnome Commander, go to properties and then the Metadata tab. Expand the "file" item and you will see the mime type under "Format" tag.

vlc.desktop already exists in /local/share/applications, so you can use that, I used a custom .desktop file in my ~/local/share/applications folder, but found out it's not necessary.

Just found something strange after updating from 10.04 to 10.10. I've set up my screensaver to lock the account when activated.

When I log back in, I see my desktop for a second and then the screensaver starts again and I have to re-login. I checked my process list in gnome system monitor, and I have two gnome-screensaver processes(!?), one started as /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver and other simply as gnome-screensaver. And no, I did not start one manually.

Where do I look for a way to switch off one of those (supposing that's the problem)? I did not find anything in my startup applications.

Just did an upgrade on my laptop from 10.04 to 10.10, and audio doesn't work at all anymore. I have the indicator applet, and it seems like everything is working fine. I've even tried installing several mixers in case something is muted, but nothing is (and mixers are showing activity as if everything is working fine).

No application is reporting any errors, they all seem to be playing happily, but no sound comes out. I've tried reinstalling PulseAudio with --purge but that didn't help either.

(If you need any logs or command output please let me know in the comments, I don't know where to look..)

Things tried so far:

• Creating a new user to eliminate any configuration problems
• Creating /etc/asound.conf with these instructions
• sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
• Booted from a live CD (10.04) to eliminate any hardware problems

I'm sharing my PC with my wife and my sister on regular basis. There are several issues when we switch from one user to another, such as the NetworkManager icon being present only on the first account (which is ridiculous).

A similar problem occurs when there is a DVD in the drive. When a second user logs in, the DVD cannot be seen (unmounted, ejected) until you physically eject the disk (i.e. press the button on the drive itself) and reinsert it.

My amateurish guess tells me that automount mounts the disk with the current user's permissions[citation needed] so the other can't unmount it. This is a bit absurd since every user has the "Mount user-space filesystems (FUSE)" and "Use CD-ROM drives" permissions (I am the only sudoer, though).

Is there any way this could be "fixed"? It's only a nuisance, but I can already see my co-users asking questions and being annoyed.. :)