ruby-dbus 0.3.0 Works on Ubuntu

ruby-dbus has for a long time not worked on the default Ubuntu desktop. I thought I had fixed it in 0.2.12 but that was only for the server side. In fact, clients had another bug and I have released version 0.3.0 today to fix it.

NEWS:

Bug fixes:

• Fixed "undefined method `get_node' for nil:NilClass" on Ubuntu Karmic (Ticket#34).
• Get the session bus address even if unset in ENV (Issue#4).
• Improved exceptions a bit: UndefinedInterface, InvalidMethodName, NoMethodError, no RuntimeException

These are by Klaus Kaempf:

• Make the signal dispatcher call all handlers (Issue#3).
• Run on Ruby < 1.8.7 (Issue#2).
• Avoid needless DBus::IncompleteBufferException (Ticket#33).
  
• Don't ignore DBus Errors in request_service, raise them (Ticket#32).
  

Features:

• Automatic signature inference for variants.
  
• Introduced FormalParameter where a plain pair had been used.
  

RPMs can be found via Webpin.

Cultural Exchange 2

Gnome would crash before the panel would show up. Also, the text console did not work (graphic artifacts instead). Failsafe Gnome did work, which does not have Compiz, so I took a hint to change the graphics driver. System / Management / Hardware drivers offered me to install the non-free xorg-driver-fglrx and now it works.

command-not-found is enabled out of the box and it rules. openSUSE should have it by default too.

dpkg phrasebook:

rpm -ql foo

dpkg -L foo

rpm -qa "foo*bar"

dpkg -l "foo*bar" (and it also shows packages that are not installed)

Cultural Exchange: First Blood

I decided to expand my horizons and install Ubuntu on my main work computer. So today I offer you the first notes from my observations.

mutt somehow stopped tracking new mails. Fortunately :set check_mbox_size on works around that.

My subversion working copy from openSUSE was created with svn 1.5 but Hardy has only 1.4. So I manually got debs from the coming Intrepid release, and luckily 3 of them were enough: dpkg -i {subversion,libsvn1,libneon27-gnutls}*.deb from here and here.