Matejunkie » gnome http://www.matejunkie.com "Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!" Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:26:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 To get Songbird 1.2 up and running under Ubuntu 9.04 http://www.matejunkie.com/to-get-songbird-1-2-up-and-running-under-ubuntu-9-04/ http://www.matejunkie.com/to-get-songbird-1-2-up-and-running-under-ubuntu-9-04/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:44:04 +0000 Mike Adolphs http://www.matejunkie.com/?p=1171 Get SongbirdFor those about to rock: Songbird is an Open Source iTunes alternative which aims to be interoperable between Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

When I checked out Songbird 1.1 a few weeks ago I was quite astonished in the first place. It comes with a nice and shiny interface, it’s fast and quite stable as well and, of course, there’re various web-services like Shoutcast or Last.fm integrated. The only thing that Songbird 1.1 really lacked off was the non-existing equalizer, which is indispensable in my opinion. Therefore, I switched back to Amarok 1.4 on my Ubuntu desktop (Gnome) and to audacious on my Gentoo desktop (wmii).

Yesterday Songbird 1.2 has been released and besides a lot of other improvements… hell yes, it now has an equalizer onboard which works well at least for my sense of hearing.

To get it running under Ubuntu simply download the tar.gz from the Songbird website, extract it and remove two libvisual plugins that otherwise prevent Songbird from starting up.

user@host: ~ $ sudo aptitude remove libvisual-0.4-plugins libvisual-projectm

If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a go!

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But fear not mighty roadwarrior! Here’s a fix to let the NetworkManager get back to work.

Needless to say that this is just a temporary solution (a fix is in the making), but the only thing you have to do is to add an at_console policy to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-openvpn-service.conf right between the two already existing policies.

	<policy user="at_console">
		<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc"/>
		<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc"/>
	</policy>

Then the file should look like the following:

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
	<policy user="root">
		<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"/>
		<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"/>
	</policy>
	<policy user="at_console">
		<allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc"/>
		<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc"/>
	</policy>
	<policy context="default">
		<deny own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"/>
		<deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"/>
	</policy>
</busconfig>

Afterwards simply restart the NetworkManager via “sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart” and it’ll work. For Solutions for other VPN technologies you may also consider Ubuntu’s Launchpad.

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