adding a user

useradd username mkdir /home/username usermod -g users username chown username:users /home/username usermod -G wheel,floppy,cron,audio,cdrom,video,games,usb,users,portage username

got an error that crashed gnucash. process 8521: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. after i ran dbus-uuidgen --ensure as root, dbus-uuidgen --get successfully returned the id (it failed previously). now gnucash is happy.

had some problems streaming dynamically downsampled audio through ampache to xine. the first song played fine, but when it went on to the next one in the playlist, it would start downloading the mp3 at the max rate without playing. if i hit 'stop' and 'play', or if i skipped a track either way, it would start over and stream okay. when it did this, it would give the error, 'AFD changed from -2 to -1'. i think i fixed this once, but i can't remember how.