Links: February 2007

Droids Corporation -- Rasta Ring 0 Debugguer

Droids Corporation -- Rasta Ring 0 Debugguer
Rr0d ... seems kinda interesting ... should take a look

Zilele Tehnice Studentesti® Timisoara - Informatii

Digital Mars - The D Programming Language

Digital Mars - The D Programming Language: "'Great, just what I need.. another D in programming.' -- Segfault"

The OCaml Summer Project

The OCaml Summer Project: "We’re starting to receive proposals, and they look good so far. It’s worth noting that it’s good to submit early, since if your proposal is promising but needs work, we will give you some suggestions to improve it and make it more likely to be accepted."

Linux.com | Make your own packages for Debian-based systems

Linux.com | Make your own packages for Debian-based systems
a list of tools for debian packaging and a small description of each one.

Robotics Institute: Optimal and Efficient Path Planning for Unknown and Dynamic Environments

Robotics Institute: Optimal and Efficient Path Planning for Unknown and Dynamic Environments
D* - an algorithm for planing trajectories for a robot that has no, or little data about it's environment. Once a major obstacle is discovered the whole global path is recalculated.

Waste some time: Shift Happens - Globalization

syntax error: unknown group 'Debian-exim' in statoverride file

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dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file
Last updated: 24/05/2006 12:34:18

If you get the following error when installing packages in Debian linux:

root@foo:dpkg$ apt-get install amap
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 164kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main amap 4.8-1 [70.0kB]
Fetched 70.0kB in 0s (447kB/s)
dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

This is because Debian seems create a file override but not delete it when you remove exim.

To fix, use the following command:

dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/exim4/passwd.client

This will update /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride

I also had to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride because there was an invalid "postfix" user setup ... changed it with my own username and problem was fixed.