Re: gnome-2 libraries

2005-09-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 05:31 +, randhir phagura wrote: Hi, Simon Geard wrote on Sat, 03 Sep 2005: Of the optional packages, the last three are the ones it considers to be part of gnome. I'd suggest though, that you need all of them to get useful functionality. All the packages

ATK 1.10.3

2005-09-06 Thread Simon Geard
To anyone who was having problems with the atk 1.10.2 release last week, they've just released 1.10.3. According to the changelog, it fixes the libtool issues I and others encountered, though I've not tried installing it yet. ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/atk/1.10/ Simon. signature.asc

No Thunderbird RSS Feed Menu Option - SOLVED

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
I noticed a number of old posts on this problem, namely, that there is no option to create an RSS or Movemail account in Thunderbird after installing it, even though there is one in the source tree. The problem is that for some reason the files that provide these options are not copied to

Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension manager, click install, locate the extension and click open, nothing happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens both as root and as a regular user. Extensions that were already installed from a

Re: No Thunderbird RSS Feed Menu Option - SOLVED

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 08:55 CST: I noticed a number of old posts on this problem, namely, that there is no option to create an RSS or Movemail account in Thunderbird after installing it, even though there is one in the source tree. I never saw a bug about this, however,

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 09:37 CST: I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension manager, click install, locate the extension and click open, nothing happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens both as root and as a regular

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST: That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root. I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install Thunderbird? Meaning, the way the BLFS

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
Randy McMurchy wrote: Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST: That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root. I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install Thunderbird?

Re: ATK 1.10.3

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 09/06/05 14:15 CST: Hmm, any idea on what the criteria for promoting releases of gtk+, glib, atk and pango to ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/ are? That's the only place I regularly check for new releases of said packages...maybe I need to change that,

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/6/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the .mozconfig file, then runs configure and make

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Doug Reich
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 9/6/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that if you use a .mozconfig file, then you must build Mozilla using the client.mk system (this might be wrong syntax, but essentially it is the Moz method that reads the .mozconfig file, then runs

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 16:27 CDT: There is a difference between running make -f client.mk build and ./configure make I realize. While the configure script reads the configure instructions, it does not read the make options, and so you miss out on those variables. So, not

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I hope your TBird build is as successful as the one I did today. I'm sending this message from a freshly built TBird. And we all know now why you're so keen to learn so much about TBird, Randy, don't we? *cough*

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not obvious to me. I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution. This commands are on the book lfs. I apologize for my question. When I add a new user, there is the following message: -sh: /dev/null: Permission denied I put

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:24 CDT: It is not obvious to me. I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution. This commands are on the book lfs. I apologize for my question. I would like to publicly apologize to you for my previous comments. *I* am the one that

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: Judge remarks No, his stupid comments will be retained in the archives so that everyone for several generations will be able to see what a stupid idiot he is. /me too. Again, I've got an existing lfs user on all my boxes. But, -k /dev/null has

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:36:46AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: appears to violate what the man page says. Seems to work here, so now we can treat this as before LFS and ask mlij if we haven't scared you away, what are the permissions on /dev/null, and what host distro are you building from ?

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread mlij
What are the permissions on /dev/null? Perhaps your message is coming from the fact that you can't read /dev/null? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null crw--- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-09-06 15:49 /dev/null And which user are you logged into when running this command. (Never

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread mlij
Randy, Don't worry, be happy! Thanks for your help. It is working after chmod 666 /dev/null mlij '' ''[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 19:24 CDT: '' '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null '' crw--- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-09-06 15:49 /dev/null '' ''And

X/gdm overwrites some environment variables

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
Hi everyone, I've seen some remarks on this issue, but I'm hoping that someone can help me put them all together here. It seems that using a display manager like xdm or gdm, or even just running X, overwrites important variables set for a login shell. I don't like this behavior at all, and

Re: X/gdm overwrites some environment variables

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
Randy McMurchy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ cat .profile if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi == [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ cat .bashrc . /etc/profile [snip everything else that I want for me] I agree that that works, and that's probably what I'm going to