Edgy to Fiesty – truecrypt, virginblue

Had some various stability issues with a few apps in Ubuntu Edgy recently, so took the lunge and proceeded with the Fiesty update via the very easy to use ‘Update Manager’.

Anyway, it all went flawlessly, except for one thing – truecrypt. Whenever I attempted to mount my encrypted disks, I was getting an error:

failed to load truecrypt kernel module

Did a few google searches, and found a few solutions regarding recompiling truecrypt, etc, none of which seemed to be a quick fix, or those that were (i.e. modprobe -f) didn’t seem to work.

I was using 4.2a prior to today, and there had been two updates since then ( now 4.3a). Anyway, the easy fix was just to uninstall the old version, and then install the new version.

dpkg -r truecrypt
dpkg -i truecrypt_4.3a-0_i386.deb

Who would of thought!

Also, another bit of news, Virgin Blue (a cheap airline for flying domestic through Australia, and to the pacific) started an airfare sale yesterday, so I was able to grab $137 tickets (each way) to Melbourne (from Perth), for the next Linux Conference. The only downside is, they’re at abnormal times of the day, i.e. 6am and 7am takeoff’s.. normally this wouldn’t be that bad a think, but the day we leave is the 27th’s – which for non-Australians, this is the day after Australia Day (our version of Independence Day).. so no getting trashed that night..