On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:59 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> I've never had a desire to build this, but I'm messing around with the
> beta xfce and it has it as an optional dep. The stable xfce does, too,
> but I've never used it. From what I can tell, it simply allows xfce to
> use svg icons instead of png
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:11 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:07:52PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, that's what I meant. BTW, I get a big grin on my face when I
> > think about you installing HAL on your carefully crafted system and
> > having it hijack your devices.
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:29 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 5/22/06, linux23dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone tried out DBus-0.61 and HAL-0.5.7 yet?
>
> Yes. They work fine for me, but beware that HAL-0.5.7 requires kernel
> 2.6.15, I think. So, if you want to run new HAL and
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:06 -0600, Archaic wrote:
> I've found a few different things that allow you to put application
> icons on the desktop. However, this isn't what I want. I want to put
> files/dirs on my desktop. It's the one sinful little desire ;) where I
> actually like the flash and dash
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 22:02 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Ah, thanks. Have you ever used pmount, or know any details about it?
> It seems to be the preferred solution for automounting with the debian
> crowd.
I'm using it with HAL/g-v-m... what do you want to know? Basically, it's
an suid-wrapper
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 06:10 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> I was a little confused there. I was thinking that pmount provided
> the full daemon, HAL listener, etc. Basically, I'm wondering, what
> does g-v-m's job on the text console? Alexander answered that one.
> Ivman appears to do that job.
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 23:53 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> Nope, I'm still sticking with gcc 3.x until 4.x no longer requires
> patching the source (of target applications) to build stuff.
It's been long enough now that if a program is going to be updated, it
has been by now - anything that stil
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:50 +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having difficulties with getting gnome-speech to accept my installation
> of freetts.
>
> I followed the instruction for access-bridge support with gnome-speech and
> the configure didn't see the freetts. So I specified it:
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 15:48 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 5/28/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that DRI is not always appropriate. If using the
> > Nvidia proprietary drivers, the DRI line in the module section needes
> > to be removed or commented out.
> >
> >
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 08:11 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> They fooled me. I have:
>
> $ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0 screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> ...
>
> It appears that they fool xorg too. Do we really have a terminology
> p
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 06:20 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Simon Geard wrote these words on 05/29/06 04:00 CST:
>
> > --with-jab-dir? Is that a typo, meant to be --with-jar-dir?
>
> No. The book is corrrect.
>
> jab-dir = java access bridge directory
>
> (Th
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 11:18 +0100, bvol wrote:
> 2) When I insert a usb-memory stick and equivalent dialog pops p in suse and
> fedora linuxes but not in my blfs build. I would like to have the feature as
> in the current versions of suse and fedora linuxes so advice will be much
> appreciated
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:26 +0100, bvol wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 12:25, Simon Geard wrote:
> > Install HAL and gnome-volume-manager, as described in BLFS. Or if you're
> > a KDE user, HAL and whatever KDE package provides the equivalent to
> > g-v-m (kdebase, I
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:08 +, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm on my way through BLFS-svn-2006-05-28 and Xorg7.1. I have an nvidia
> GeForce 6200 graphics card. On my previous built (~March 2005) with
> Xorg7.0 the proprietary driver from nvidia worked fine. Now, I get a
> WARNING mes
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 15:35 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> It's trying to decide whether you're using an external xplc or you're
> going to use the one bundled with wvstreams. Attached is a patch that
> seems to work. Also, you could probably work around this bug with a
> `touch /usr/bin/pkg-confi
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> If you don't mind a gui, then NetworkManager can do what you want. It
> requires dbus, hal, dhcdbd and a slew of gnome libraries, though. As
> far as non-gui, I couldn't tell you. Someone else might know, though.
NM's not exactly easy to
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 08:01 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> If you put together a patch, they may accept it upstream. They did for paldo.
>
> http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-0.6.2-paldo-2.patch.bz2
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/initscript/paldo/
Tha
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 13:26 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 6/4/06, Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I check google and see reports of this cam working as mass storage
> > devices on
> > linux, so i wonder why this does not work on my lfs. I also see that
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That's my intention, although I want to test it a little more thoroughly
> > first. Possibly a hint for LFS might be a good start, if anyone here
>
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:00 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> To make a long story short (too late!) what I finally realized after
> blowing the weekend on this project was that for whatever reason,
> Evolution (and possibly the Gnome panel) doesn't like having libexec
> processes in the /bin folder
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 21:13 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:08 +, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm on my way through BLFS-svn-2006-05-28 and Xorg7.1. I have an nvidia
> > GeForce 6200 graphics card. On my previous built (~M
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Good point. Wireless networking is certainly more useful than just
> for laptops. However, on my single PC wired LAN, I can't test any of
> the wireless tools. But I'll keep you posted if I ever get around to
> setting up wireless access.
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:48 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Filip Bartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In appendix is two patches from Fedora, which resolve this problem.
>
> Thanks for looking into this, Filip. These patches are already in
> libxklavier-2.2. We should get that in th
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:02 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> Now all the icons appear correctly, but yet again my contacts list is
> gone! I cleaned out my test user's entire /home directory so there
> would not be any previous config files in place, started up again so
> Gnome could build whateve
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:24 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 22:45 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, do you have similar problems with the various
> > calendaring functions?
>
> Absolutely - Any attempt to go into the calendar functi
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:53 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> When I launch X with an alternative wm like fluxbox, are there other
> services I need to launch manually so Gnome applications can find their
> respective icons?
Just as a guess, does anything start gnome-settings-daemon
automatically?
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:37 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> > Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the
> > nvidia driver (version 8762). Switching back to the slower nv that comes
> > with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts were visibl
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:05 +, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> Simon, could you please advise re what option enables sub-pixel
> antialiasing?
>
Running Gnome, it's an option from the font config panel. I'd guess it
can also be done via fontconfig settings files, but that's the way I
know.
Note
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 10:34 +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm almost sure, that there should be the answer to my question
> already, but I couldn't find it. Please direct me to it.
>
> So, I have a laptop. At work I'm connected to LAN via eth0, at home I
> connect thru eth1 to WLAN.
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:00 +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> The instructions for building Xorg in the BLFS book from 2006-05-31 say to
> sun the following commands as the root user:
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 &&
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 &&
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /u
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 23:07 -0400, rblythe wrote:
> I have recently install XMMS folowing the BLFS instructions. Everything
> seems peachy. However, when I want to try to play an audio cd, I can't
> pull up a playlist from anywhere. The SYMLINKs appear to work properly
> (when I look at them
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Still, I would build it because there might be some code in Mesa or X
> that isn't built if libdrm isn't there. This is just a guess. I
> actually don't know all the gory details.
I *suspect* that xorg-server needs Mesa in order to provide
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 10:37 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> I'm not familiar with kdm, but it's pretty simple to wrap the session
> with dbus-launch with gdm.
What's the preferred approach for gdm? A few months back, I raised a bug
on gdm asking them to modify their Xsession file to invoke
dbus-laun
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:42 +0200, David BOURIAUD wrote:
> Hi all !
> As far as I know, the linux kernel no more searches for devices plugged
> before
> powering up the machine.
Untrue, otherwise it wouldn't find things like disks and input devices.
Current behaviour (in LFS, at least) is that h
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:01 +0200, David BOURIAUD wrote:
> I think that both of you, I mean Dan and montassar pointed out what was wrong
> with my install. When I re-installed my machine, I went through lfs6.1 point
> by point, and so I'm running udev-0.56, blfs-bootscripts-20060430 and
> hotplu
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:08 +0100, Mark Priestley wrote:
> hardware." But I couldn't see any appropriate settings for my hardware,
> and I only got it to work by building the snd-hda-intel module from the
> alsa-driver source. Did I miss something here? I was quite surprised
> that the book h
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 21:31 +0200, YvesPub wrote:
> Note : I read recently on this mailing list that there were some bugs in
> old releases of udev (I run the udev of LFS 6.1 ie 056) so I installed
> udev-096 and linux 2.6.16.26 but it generated so many error messages at
> boot from udevd that I
Hi all..
Attempting to use the latest g-v-m version (2.15.0), which was released
today. Unfortunately, it terminates immediately after start, limiting
it's use somewhat.
I've traced this to their method for determining whether the user is
logged in locally to the machine (which in 1.15.0 was cove
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Do you have the X utility sessreg? It's run by gdm (if it's found) and
> I believe it updates /var/run/utmp. I'm remote right now, so I can't
> check. Look at /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default. Also look at
> ~/.xsession-errors.
Ah, right. No I d
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Thanks. Didn't know about that. Hopefully sometime in the near future
> their will be a clean, unified solution to this local_user_at_console
> mess. The next version of HAL will use PolicyKit which adds another
> "solution" with its own PAM
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:40 -0500, Arnie Stender wrote:
> Simon Geard wrote:
>
> >I can't help you with 64-bit issues or CLFS, since I don't own a 64-bit
> >system. But I can tell you you're heading down completely the wrong
> >track looking for dlopen
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:07 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> The problem with editing resolv.conf is that the DHCP client is going
> to overwrite it every time. The proper solution shouldn't require any
> extra configuration unless it can't find the DHCP server on the
> router. AFAIK, dhcp should find
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:25 -0700, Jay Mazzetta wrote:
> I'm afraid that I'm missing something obvious, but I
> cannot mount sda1 as a user.
> my fstab is the same as my Gentoo box (which works)
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0
Try change 'users' to 'user'.
Simon.
sign
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:20 -0700, Henry christenson wrote:
> Severe issues with xfce4.4RC1 and dbus not being in LFS or BLFS
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/dbus.html
D-Bus has been in BLFS for some time now, although only in the
development version (i.e what will be 6.2).
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 15:56 -0700, Henry christenson wrote:
> Ahh the reason i ask is cause the dbus site says they were removed
> from the main install
This is a fairly recent change, splitting the language bindings out from
the core. The book doesn't cover the newer DBus releases where this is
t
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 07:20 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> You really need compiz or some other window manager that does
> compositing to use Xgl. Otherwise, you're getting none of the benefits
> of using it. You could certainly use KDE with compiz, but you wouldn't
> get the native look and feel of
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:55 -0500, Arnie Stender wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> popt aside for a moment, when I go to the first link you provided I get
> the following. Am I missing some sort of plugin or XML support for
> SeaMonkey? This doesn't look particularly useful to me.
No, what you're seeing is
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 16:18 -0500, Arnie Stender wrote:
> Or is glib-2.X a whole different package than glib-1.X?
That's correct. Glib (and Gtk+) 2.x are essentially a new library from
1.x - they're completely incompatible. Fortunately, there aren't too
many programs still using the older version,
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:03 -0700, Arden wrote:
> Help! I need some advice. I have just gotten into the blfs-book, so far
> I have X running, and a friend gave me a video card, EVGA GeForceMX
> 4000. Can I get this working? without much trouble?
>
> Do I have to recompile the kernel and Xorg-6.
Hi all...
Since the future of HAL seems to involve the PolicyKit module, I'm
attempting to install it for HAL 0.5.8.1. Among other things, it
installs a new PAM configuration, which basically amounts to:
# /etc/pam.d/policy-kit
auth include system-auth
accountinclude system-au
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 12:33 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> system-auth is just a grouping of policies. I can't remember if I
> copied this directly from Fedora or Paldo.
I'll give that a go then.
Have you done anything with PolicyKit, by the way? I know you follow the
HAL mailing list, but not sur
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:43 +0100, Alan Lord wrote:
> The build failed several times with an "Undefined Reference to
> XFreePixmap..." message. After playing about with a few settings in my
> mozconfig I did a bit more digging. It turns out there is a problem with
> the build process finding and
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 08:25 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> No, sorry. I'm really excited about what's going on over there, but
> I've been keeping HAL-0.5.7 until we can get the BLFS release put
> together. Soon, though. There's a ton of good stuff in there.
>
> I've seen the PolicyKit conf files a
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 06:30 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Only for X, huh? That's unfortunate.
Easily patched, though - one short function checks if a tty is local,
and it's just a matter of adding an extra conditional case. Seems to
work, though my testing is limited to the command line tools tha
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:37 +0100, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> So I built a 6.2 LFS on another partition, and want to experiment on it
> before moving everythinng to this new platform. So I'd like to know : are
> there any packages (and especially X) that don't support being built in a
> chrooted env
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:00 +1100, jeeva suresh wrote:
> After doing even more research, I believe the problem is the error
>"File descriptor in bad state" when I run the command.
> cat /usr/local/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > pcmC0D2p
That trick works with OSS, but not ALSA - you can't
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:37 -0800, Arden wrote:
> I am wondering what I really need to install for security on my new
> LFS system.
> I am the only user,
> connected behind a router to the internet,
> will be used for graphics, email, web,
> and connect to my local network.
>
> Is PAM necessary?
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 15:59 -0600, Arnie Stender wrote:
> I have been out of the loop for a while but I'm back at it. One of the
> things I have been wanting to run on my Linux machines is some sort of
> bible study program. The only ones I have all run on Windoz so I have
> been forced to ke
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:53 -0500, john q public wrote:
> not that this helps but I think a "generic" X setup will restrict you to
> "vga" type graphics. That said there is a generic "vga"
> X server and tho I saw nothing in the kernel configuration menu about
> generic vga support I suspect that
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 20:15 -0500, Lupine wrote:
> It is a DBUS issue. Since, DBUS is installed to /usr, you have to tell
> DBUS about the Gnome services that are installed in /opt/gnome.
> Strange, how I saw no documentation about this before, but I guess it's
> just something with newer DBUS ver
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 14:26 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> So, long story short is that this shouldn't be an issue for the
> current book, but we always need to check that anything using a dbus
> service script installs it to a location that dbus knows about.
It's going to be more and more importan
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 23:28 +, Kevin Annies wrote:
> May I ask what the limitations would be if I followed this method?
>
> Reffering to the VGA method
The biggest problem with the VGA driver is just that - it's VGA-standard
graphics, meaning very limited resolution and colour depth. It will
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:59 +0100, Leo Peschier wrote:
> Hello all,
> This package (in the svn-book) isn't available at debian-ftp anymore. From
> the
> debian-website:
> Stable0.44-1
> Testing 0.58-1
> Unstable 1.0-1
> These are the versions available. I've googled a b
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 00:06 +0530, shanmuga prakashvb wrote:
>
> hai sir i have building the blfs system ...
> during my fontconfig installation i have the following errormsg ...
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/fontconfig-2.4.2# make
What version of freetype are you using? Recent versions o
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 22:01 +, blfsuser wrote:
> And I've been thinking about this for a few minutes; my solution seems
> to be a bit of a bodge job so I might try to install shadow-4.0.15 over
> 4.0.18.1 and see what happens. If things go wrong I'll start again!
From personal experience, you
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 17:41 +0100, Amadeus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone is using gnome 2.16 as
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/ refers to 2.14.
>
> I was intending to try to build gnome 2.16 just following the above
> instructions for 2.14 and hoping not to come
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 21:08 +0100, michael lang wrote:
> I had succesfully build gnome-2.17 in /opt on my 32 bit system, and
> apart from having some trouble with D-BUS(had to get the D-BUS QT3
> bindings from CVS)
Eh? You needed Qt bindings for D-Bus to build Gnome 2.17? That sounds
odd...
Simon
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:53 +0100, michael lang wrote:
> I might've been confusing the QT- bindings with the KDE4 dependancies.
> But then again, I just read that poppler requires QT4 bindings.
> Anyways, disregard that, and if you ever need the bindings, you can
> mail again :P
Short version - b
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:09 +0200, Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> In that case maybe it's better to use one of the native kde/gnome
> pdf frontends to poppler.
> I heard some good things about evince and I know that a lot of patches from
> the kpdf maintainer found their way into poppler.
Yeah, the col
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:36 -0500, Galaxy Travel wrote:
> Im a newbie and im trying to figure out hos to do this:
>
> I want each user to have a directory like /home/public_html and
> /home/cgi-bin
>
> Now in doc root in httpd.conf what do I put that as? I know I have to
> use the userdir_mod b
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 07:57 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > This simple loop should do the job,checked in bash/zsh.
> > ===
> > for filename in $(find . -type f);do
> > if [[ -n $(file $fil
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:54 +0200, Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> Do you want to find files in dos format and with an empty line at the
> end?
> Do you want the opposite? (without an empty line)
> Do you want to append an empty line at the end to the converted files?
> Do you want to delete (if any) the
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:27 +0100, Barius Drubeck wrote:
> On any Unix-like system, you have to make special effort to create
> such a file, e.g.
> echo -n "last line" >> my_file
I don't know about 'special effort'. Yes, the standard command-line
tools and editors will generally ensure that the
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:41 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 3/16/07, Lupine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gnome just celebrated the release of Gnome-2.18, however I still see,
> > even the SVN book is still only up to old Gnome-2.14. The KDE section
> > however, is up to date with version 3.5.6.
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:43 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One correction to that - I'd forgotten about libgnomekbd, which is now a
> > prerequisite to control-center and gnome-applets. Trivial enough,
> > req
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 01:02 +, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Is there any problem with the X11R6 symlink approach? Seems a simple
> enough workaround (specially because I already build python and I'm
> building stuff depending on it :))
No problem... the only objections are simply to the fact that it
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:50 +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> id gcj relly needed if you install JDK and dont want to compile java
> to machine code?
Not at all. Unless you have a specific need for something other than C
or C++, there's no reason to rebuild GCC from the BLFS book - the one in
LFS is per
For anyone interested, Shadow 4.0.18.1 (just gone into LFS) has an
annoying little feature I've just discovered. If built with PAM, it
installs default configs into /etc/pam.d, which do things like *require*
pam_selinux.so. Basically, it'll break the PAM installation, giving you
a system without a
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:23 +0200, Tijnema ! wrote:
> I took the command located on the SourceForge page, and it does use
> -z3 :P
> I don't know if it is finished yet, because i'm on school now and VNC
> is blocked at school. But when i'm at home again i will see, i think
> it still hangs so i wi
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 09:49 +0100, Kevin Annies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert grub hard drive definitions (as part of an
> installation script)
>
> There a several issues. Below is a section of the code:
> --
> echo "please enter t
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 21:57 +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> i was surprised to see the size of the /proc partition.this was around
> 850mb.Is this what we expect?
Looking at the size of /proc or /sys is meaningless, since they're not
real filesystems. They're nothing more than data structures presente
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:51 +0100, Kevin Annies wrote:
> I now wish to use the $NODE variable in a sed command to modify the
> word 'DRIVE' in menu.lst,
> I used the following command:
> sed "s/DRIVE/$NODE/" /etc/install/lfsmenu.lst
> > /home/TEMP/boot/grub/menu.lst
...
> I used a similar command
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 18:46 +0200, Wilco Beekhuizen wrote:
> Besides the good info provided by Ken you can ultimately (if nothing
> seems to work) recompile konqueror with the g++ option "-g" to include
> debug information and run konqueror through a memory debugger, such as
> valgrind. The exact c
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 00:08 -0700, Scott Czepiel wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestions. I installed all the dependencies, but
> on make I have run into a problem:
>
> "Package xft not found in pkg-config search path." It suggests adding
> the path to "xft.pc" to PKG_CONFIG_PATH, but I can't fi
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 01:34 +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> i do not not have the disk space to build all of the "not found"
> libs.Will creating symlinks to them in /usr/lib be good enough?or will
> it screw up the system later?
It *might* work. On the other hand, it might not - you might get
probl
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:09 +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> thanks simon,
> tried your suggestion.This was the output
>
> /home/hackmanbash-3.1# vi /etc/ld.so.conf
> /home/hackmanbash-3.1# /sbin/ldconfig
> bash-3.1# /mnt/sda3/usr/bin/evince
> /mnt/sda3/usr/bin/evince: error while loading shared libra
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:48 -0400, Michael Shell wrote:
> I also have often wanted cp to be able to do something
> like:
>
> cp *.txt *.tex
>
> to make copies of all .txt files with the same name, but ending with
> .tex. That is, I'd like cp to have some or all of the functionality
> of the "to"
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 03:28 -0400, Jeffrey Bush wrote:
> Luckily I made sure to keep the other kernel around and am now dual
> booting the two. Is it alright to have their System.map-2.6.x.x,
> config-2.6.x.x and kernel images in the same boot folder?
Yes, this should be perfectly fine - that's th
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:48 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> This would be the simplest way. You can use tune2fs to set a label for
> the volume if it's ext2/3.
>
> # /sbin/tune2fs -L MyLabel /dev/thepartition
Yes, that's what I did. Most of the other filesystems presumably have
some similar command
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:48 +0200, Warren Head wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm not sure how to google on this, its probably something simple but
> I don't know how to call it.
> I have a ssh connection to my machine and am thus connected to a tty.
> If I connect again I have a different tty, so two in t
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:30 +0100, Tijnema ! wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it normal when using -shared to create binaries that they are a segfault.
>
> This is what i did for example
> /# echo "main(){}" > dummy.c
> /# gcc -shared dummy.c -o dummy
> /# ./dummy
> Segmentation fault
Yes. The -shared option
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:24 +0200, Tijnema ! wrote:
> Just wondering that there was no error telling me it shouldn't be used
> on binaries.
>
> Tijnema
There's no error, because what you told it to do was perfectly valid -
just not what you thought you'd told it to do. There's not that much
diffe
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 14:49 +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> hi dan,
> it was what you said
> $ pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0
> gives
> -I/opt/GEHC/include/libxml2
> seems a program i installed somehow changed the package-config
> settings for libxml2
In that case, you need to remove references to /op
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:34 +0200, michael lang wrote:
> I've been missing LFS ever since I installed the SVN version, did
> someone disable it? If not, which package contains it?
The 'ps' command is provided by the procps package, version 3.2.7 of
which is currently in the LFS book. You must have
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 06:41 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 5/10/07, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > While building firefox-2.0.0.3, as per the book, i get the error:
> > '/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lX11'.
> > XF86 has been installed at the default prefix /usr/X11R6.
> 'ld.so.
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:47 +0200, Olaf Grüttner wrote:
> As far as I can tell this url contains the latest headers.
> http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/
> linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.tar.bz2 is the latest unless some headers
> from cvs are required. I am not sure if taking cvs-h
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:14 -0400, Jordan Bray wrote:
> The problem was /dev/snd/ devices weren't created. I don't know where
> in the b?lfs process this is supposed to take place, but my
> MAKEDEV-1.7 does not make these devices. there is a script included
> with alsa-driver-1.0.13 called snddev
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 22:50 +0200, michael lang wrote:
> error about gnome-session not being started properly. Also, if I'm
> right, the latest gnome-control-center doesn't install gnome-session.
> You have to explicitly go into the directory and install it...
Can you clarify that comment? I don'
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 08:49 +0200, Tijnema wrote:
> chosen for KDE in my LFS system. But what i've wanted to say is that
> installing problems other than there default location mostly gives a
> lot of problems.
I'd second this comment. Can't speak for KDE, but Gnome is fairly
sensitive about which
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:20 +0200, Olaf Grüttner wrote:
> I took glib-2.13.0
2.13 *is* a development version, not guaranteed stable. Might not be the
problem, but it's probably best to stick with 2.12, unless you've a
specific reason to do otherwise.
Simon.
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