• Oct
    27
    2009

    MySQL, Ubuntu, Temporary Tables and AppArmor

    I was trying to install CiviCRM on Wikimedia Australia’s server, and I came across this fun error:
    ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can’t create table ‘/tmp/#sql7013_9_0.frm’ (errno: -1)
    Turned out, Ubuntu’s AppArmor was breaking the creation of temporary tables in /tmp.
    The way around this was to add a new line to the apparmor profile for mysqld
    /tmp/** rwk

  • Oct
    20
    2009

    Sex Offender Registration: The Facts

    In an internet argument, I recently posted this response, built mostly from facts culled from Human Rights Watch’s report, “No Easy Answer“, on sex offender registration. It’s got lots of fun facts in it that might be handy, so I thought I’d post it here.
    You can speculate and reason all you like (”once a pedophile, [...]

  • Oct
    14
    2009

    Fun with MacPorts and phpize

    One of the plethora of problems I’ve had with MacPorts after installing Snow Leopard was the following error:
    /opt/local/bin/phpize: line 159: 13947 Segmentation fault      $PHP_AUTOCONF
    Turned out, this meant that my autoconf was out of date (line 159 of phpize is autoconf). The way to resolve this is with:
    $ sudo port upgrade –force autoconf
    After this, things seemed [...]

 
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