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Webex is a great tool but unfortunately, it doesn’t work “out of the box” on Ubuntu 14.04 (and also with previous Ubuntu releases). For instance, the webex applet starts but it doesn’t refresh correctly, or the share of desktop/application doesn’t work. Actually, the issue is due to: some libraries required by webex are missing on the Ubuntu installation webex expects to run in i386 (not amd64) platform, so, even if you have the libraries installed, you have to install the i386 version. To find the libraries required, you have to go in $HOME/.webex/1324 and $HOME/.webex/1424 folders and check the libraries with: ldd *.so|grep -i not For all missing libraries (not found), you have to find the package providing the library using: apt-file search xxxxxx.so Once you found the package providing the library, you have to install the package for both x64 (that should be the default if your machine is 64bits) and i386. For instance: aptitude install libpangox-1.0-0aptitude install libpangox-1

Today, I updated my Ubuntu box and a new kernel has been installed (3.0.0-15 x86_64). At boot, my system hangs up just after the /scripts/init-bottom phase. I tried with kernel 3.0.0-14, the behavior is the same. The latest working kernel was 3.0.0-13. After digging, it’s when the init-bottom performs vgchange -a y . The problem is that the script is waiting for the udev device, and starting from kernel 3.0.0-14, it doesn’t work and we raise the timeout. So it means that the startup is not totally stuck, it just takes long long long time 😉 The workaround is to disable the udev support during LVM2 vgchange. To do that, edit the /lib/udev/rules.d/85-lvm2.rules and add the --noudevsync option to vgchange: SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add|change", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="lvm*|LVM*", \ RUN+="watershed sh -c '/sbin/lvm vgscan; /sbin/lvm vgchange --noudevsync -a y'" We have to update the initramfs: update-initramfs -u -k all