diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
index 0d5086a333..41e01af77f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class RBWriter(object):
         out_stream.write(struct.pack('<I', total_size))
 
     def _text(self, oeb_book):
-        rbmlizer = RBMLizer(log, name_map=self.name_map)
+        rbmlizer = RBMLizer(self.log, name_map=self.name_map)
         text = rbmlizer.extract_content(oeb_book, self.opts).encode('cp1252', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
         size = len(text)
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
index b948dccc74..58c3e8ad6a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
+++ b/src/calibre/trac/plugins/templates/linux.html
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.
                             </pre>
                             <h4>Note</h4>
                             <ul>
+                                <li>On some linux distributions, you have to install the
+                                    libphonon (may be called libphonon4) package for calibre
+                                    to work.
+                                </li>
                                 <li>
                                     When running the command line utilities,
                                     they will segfault after completion. This can