Please have a look at her blog and help if you can.

After a little bit of googling, I found a solution on Ubuntu Forum which resolve the problem by:

1.  Edit /usr/bin/compiz file
   $ sudo vi /usr/bin/compiz
2. Go to line 69 (in vi, just do “:69” and press enter)
3. Comment out line 69, by putting a “#” sign in front of the line.

Then you can logout the current user and login.  You should now be able to set your “Visual Effect”!!

Solution: Simple solution is to do

$ echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config

Solution: The installation steps for those who are interested:

1. Is easier to do everything as root
   $ sudo -i
2. Get the driver from Canon

   # wget http://software.canon-europe.com/files/soft31118/software/CAPTDRV180.tar.gz

3. Untar and install the driver

   # tar xf CAPTDRV180.tar.gz
# cd CANON_UK/Driver/Debian
# dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt_1.80-1_i386.deb cndrvcups-common_1.80-1_i386.deb
# /etc/init.d/cups stop
# mkdir /var/ccpd
# mkdir /var/captmon
# mkfifo /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chmod 777 /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chown root /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chmod -R a+rX /usr/share/cups/model
# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP3300 -m CNCUPSLBP3300CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E
# /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP3300 -o net:192.168.1.200

4. Now apparmour in Ubuntu create a bit of problem for the driver and need to be addressed:

   # vi /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd----- /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd -----
/var/run/cups/ rw,
/var/run/cups/** rw,
/var/spool/cups/ rw,
/var/spool/cups/** rw,
# needed for Canon CAPT driver ### <-----insert
/var/ccpd/** rw, ### <-----insert
# third-party printer drivers; no known structure here
/opt/** rix,
----- /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd -----

5. Start the services which we stopped before

   # /etc/init.d/cups start
# /etc/init.d/ccpd start
# /etc/init.d/apparmor restart

6. You should be fine from here.

Solution: The installation is not very hard:

1. Install CentOS
2. Install the the compat packages (with dependencies):
   yum install compat-gcc-32 compat-gcc-32-c++ compat-libstdc++-296 compat-l
ibstdc++-33
3. Get the Oracle patch p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip, unzip and run it
   unzip p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip
cd 3006854
sh rhel3_pre_install.sh
   • Basically patch 3006854 is to create libwait.so
   • The source code of libwait is:
     #include <errno.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
pid_t
__libc_wait (int *status)
{
int res;
asm volatile ("pushl %%ebx\n\t"
"movl %2, %%ebx\n\t"
"movl %1, %%eax\n\t"
"int \$0x80\n\t"
"popl %%ebx"                : "=a" (res)
: "i" (__NR_wait4), "0" (WAIT_ANY), "c" (status), "d" (0), "S" (
0));
return res;
}
   • To compile a .so, use gcc -O2 -shared -fpic -xc libwait.c -o libcwait.so
   • You need to add the libwait.so into /etc/ld.so.preload
4. Replace gcc with the older gcc (version 3.2):
   cd /usr/bin/
mv gcc gcc34
mv gcc32 gcc
5. Add the following parameters to /etc/sysctl.conf:
   # Oracle parameters
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147783648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
kernel.sim = 256 3200 100 142
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
kernel.msgmni = 2878
kernel.msgmax = 8192
kernel.msgmnb = 65535
6. Issue the command /sbin/sysctl -p
7. Add oracle user:
   groupadd dba
groupadd oinstall
useradd -c "Oracle software owner" -g oinstall -G dba oracle
8. Add the followings to oracle’s ~/.bash_profile:
   # Oracle setting
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.2.0
export ORACLE_SID=p9test
export ORACLE_TERM=xtermexport NLS_LANG=AMERICAN
export ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
9. Now, login as oracle user and run the runInstall
10. You should be able to install Oralce 9i without any problem.

Solution: Might not be the most elegant solution.  However, I chose to go with pkill and su.  So, a sample bash file:

#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pkill -u userid
su - userid -c /path/to/startup

Then, just run the bash in a cron job.

Solution: There is a simple solution for this:
rm ~/.config/totem/state.ini