ERROR - VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND

This probably started happening to VBox after I let through a kernel update – usually I did “keep current menu.lst” when asked by Update Manager.  The driver it complained about is the network, which caused it to be unable to attach to eth3 in bridged mode.  The good thing is, after following the very helpful suggestion in the error message – run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root – it resolved itself in about a minute.  That’s much easier to do than VMWare Server, which requires a complete reconfigure.

 

I don’t remember this happening to my VBox before though, when it’s still Sun Virtual Box and it was running on Jaunty.  I always let kernel update to be applied then.

SCIM Chinese input method not showing

It only brought up US Keyboard, English/European, and Raw Code. Before my laptop was upgraded to Lucid, I think it was working fine. I checked Language settings and all necessary languages are installed. So I sought suggestion from Canonical support, and they asked me to try installing scim-chinese package. That did it. As usual, a spot-on solution. I have to say Canonical's support, along with Fonality's, are the best teams I've ever encountered (Dell's a close third) among the dozens I had experience with. Both are open-source vendors. What did that tell you? ;)