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This morning, After making some changes, I fail to start the slapd service, and this is the error log: Mar 31 10:20:30 SRVR-UParentLDAP slapd[16175]: hdb_db_open: database "dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com": alock package is unstable.                                          Mar 31 10:20:30 SRVR-UParentLDAP slapd[16175]: backend_startup_one (type=hdb, suffix=" dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com "): bi_db_open failed! (-1)                            Mar 31 10:20:30 SRVR-UParentLDAP slapd[16175]: slapd stopped.  This error's related to the file permission of ldap db in /var/lib/ldap/ . So, I just change the owner of those files to openldap: # cd /var/lib/ldap/ # chown openldap:openldap -R ./* Then, start the slapd service again: # service slapd start It works like a charm! Reference:  http://serverfault...

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ibus-bogo is a Vietnamese input engine targeting IBus, an input method manager in GNU/Linux environments created by a group of talented Vietnamese developers. You can install it in Ubuntu by the following command: $ sudo apt-get install ibus-bogo Its github repo:  https://github.com/BoGoEngine/ibus-bogo-python It works really well in the current release of  xUbuntu (13.10, 14.04) in comparison with ibus-unikey which is buggy. But,  there are still some annoying issues with ibus-bogo. One of them is Vietnamese input in Skype. The official documentations of ibus-bogo instructs us how to solve this problem by adding these lines to ~/.profile : export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT4_IM_MODULE=xim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus Log out and log in again. Then, restart the ibus-daemon: $ ibus-daemon -xdr Notes: In Xubuntu 14.04, I have to do this every time the system startup/reboot or turn off / turn on Skype.

I'm using the djangosaml2 app to add the Single Sign On functionality using  SAML2 to my Django projects. I followed the official manual at  https://bitbucket.org/lgs/djangosaml2/overview  to make my project work with a SimpleSAMLphp instance as an IdP but I got this error: cannot serialize IdpUnspecified('No IdP to send to given the premises',) (type IdpUnspecified) I have no idea why this error showed up?! I have a very little knowledge about SAML2 and the PySAML2 module. The only thing I can think about is to enable logging for the djangosaml2 app. So, I added these following lines in the settings.py of my project: import logging logging.basicConfig() I reloaded the website and a logging message appeared in the console: ERROR:djangosaml2:Unable to know which IdP to use Yessss, that is the problem!

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Right now, March 24, 2014, you can try the Trusty Tahr release of Ubuntu. But, for the Xubuntu distro, I did the do-release-upgrade and found no new release. So, here is the trick to upgrade to Xubuntu 14.04: 1. Open the source list file and change saucy to trusty : $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates mult...