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People mostly write about customer support when it’s crappy. This is an exception.

I was getting tired of having smartcard reader that connects to USB, the wire is absolutely annoying and it’s so easy to forget it at home when leaving. So I bought an Omnikey 4040 that connects to PCMCIA. First try was fail, Flex computer shop sold me wrong reader and I didn’t notice until I got home. They were totally fine to replace it though .

Next I tried setting it up. Another fail. There seems to be a kernel driver which didn’t work. I then filed a support request with HID Global Corporation. Two weeks later they sent me driver code that compiles for my kernel (2.6.32) and works too.

I then put it to another test. Tried to sign a document with new still in development phase id-card software from Smartlink. Signing hanged application. Oh, well, it’s not announced stable anyway. However web-based signing actually worked with a website that is known to be tricky.

When you look at the picture you’ll notice that id-card software warns that the site isn’t using up-to-date API when accessing card and you’ll also see that the document signed is wrong, I only signed a local txt file. But, it actually works on linux and quite well, which is awesome!

Edit: Correction: It didn’t really hang, it just takes longer than expected to respond .

Otsisin java koodist viga taga, sest visuaalselt oli näha, et miskit on valesti. Ja mis selgus: arkustangensi võtmisel tuleb veeranditega tähelepanelik olla. Sest see, mis näib nagu I veerandi nurk, võib olla ka III oma, ehk siis arkustangensi argument on sama, aga tulemus ei tohiks olla. Javas realiseeritud atan(x) väljastab tulemust vahemikus -pii/2 kuni pii/2 ja kuidas teisiti saakski, ega see pole kohvipaksult lugemine, et see arctan(1) on 45 kraadi, aga näed järgmine 135 kraadi. Aga loll tunne tuli küll peale, kolme aasta eest poleks küll sellise asjaga alt läinud.

After some weeks I tried to run JBoss again. I was welcomed with the following exception:

Failed to boot JBoss:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create a KernelInitializer based on the specified KernelConfig
at org.jboss.kernel.KernelFactory.createKernelInitializer(KernelFactory.java:156)
at org.jboss.kernel.KernelFactory.assembleNewKernel(KernelFactory.java:99)
at org.jboss.kernel.KernelFactory.newInstance(KernelFactory.java:67)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.bootstrap.AbstractBootstrap.bootstrap(AbstractBootstrap.java:114)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.bootstrap.AbstractBootstrap.run(AbstractBootstrap.java:83)
at org.jboss.bootstrap.microcontainer.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:79)
at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:398)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:209)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:544)
at java.lang.Thread.run(libgcj.so.81)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.MethodInfoImpl.<init>(MethodInfoImpl.java:103)
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.ReflectMethodInfoImpl.<init>(ReflectMethodInfoImpl.java:78)
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl$2.run(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.java:211)
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl$2.run(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(libgcj.so.81)
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.introspection.IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.getMethods(IntrospectionTypeInfoFactoryImpl.java:198)
at org.jboss.reflect.plugins.ClassInfoImpl.getDeclaredMethods(ClassInfoImpl.java:394)
at org.jboss.beans.info.plugins.AbstractBeanInfoFactory.getMethods(AbstractBeanInfoFactory.java:232)
at org.jboss.beans.info.plugins.AbstractBeanInfoFactory.getBeanInfo(AbstractBeanInfoFactory.java:153)
at org.jboss.beans.info.plugins.AbstractBeanInfoFactory.getBeanInfo(AbstractBeanInfoFactory.java:124)
at org.jboss.config.plugins.AbstractConfiguration.getBeanInfo(AbstractConfiguration.java:69)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.AbstractKernelConfig.getBeanInfo(AbstractKernelConfig.java:65)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.property.PropertyKernelConfig.getImplementation(PropertyKernelConfig.java:175)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.property.PropertyKernelConfig.createKernelInitializer(PropertyKernelConfig.java:120)
at org.jboss.kernel.KernelFactory.createKernelInitializer(KernelFactory.java:150)
...9 more

And I know it was working before! Suspected Java update 7 that came recently form Ubuntu repository, but no one else seemed to have a similar issue.

Somehow default java that system uses has been changed. It wasn’t sun-java any more. As soon as I ran:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and choosed sun-java, it started working again.

Perhaps saves some time for someone.

It that what Orkut meant by “You’ve got extraordinary tools to succeed, use them accordingly”?

Thunderbirdi lisa Lightning on nüüd võimalik paigaldada ka eestikeelsena: tõlgitud versiooni saad siit.

It’s rather trivial that you can use the same profile between Windows and Linux by finding the profiles.ini for one or both platforms and editing it so that the profile folder is the same. It’s a bit more difficult with Lightning though as this extension has separate versions for different platforms. So if you have Windows version installed, it looks odd in Linux and vice versa.
At this point, don’t give up! Go to http://lligabirres.com/francesc/00_index/05_net/05.02_EMAIL_CLIENTS/05.02.02_THUNDERBIRD.html and scroll down. Simple instructions that I just followed and it is looking fine from Windows. Haven’t tried from Kubuntu yet, but should be ok, I hope. Not to mention that the profile itself is on ext filesystem so I also installed Ext2IFS which you can get here: http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html.