[blfs-dev] notification-daemon service file missing

2014-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a problem with notifications not working: (nm-applet:7993): nm-applet-WARNING **: Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files Upon investigation, it seems that notif

[blfs-dev] xscreensaver shutdown behavior

2014-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I usually start Xorg from the command line and log out to the command line when done. One thing I've noticed is a nasty message from xscreensaver about how we've installed it incorrectly or that we are running as root (suid) when we shouldn't be. I've traced that down to a function that tries

Re: [blfs-dev] Recent Activities

2014-06-03 Thread Christopher Gregory
On Wed, June 4, 2014 8:31 am, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Just a note to say thinks to all who have helped in my exploration of a > lot of new hardware. I have now made everything work on my new laptop and > it has been a challenge. > > One of the reasons I got the new system was to have additional HW to

Re: [blfs-dev] bash script

2014-06-03 Thread Christopher Gregory
On Wed, June 4, 2014 3:21 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:16:32AM +1200, Christopher Gregory wrote: > >> >> It is really weird that the times do vary between runs of the script. >> >> > On a non-realtime OS you should always expect _some_ variation. > If you look in 'top', even o

[blfs-dev] Recent Activities

2014-06-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Just a note to say thinks to all who have helped in my exploration of a lot of new hardware. I have now made everything work on my new laptop and it has been a challenge. One of the reasons I got the new system was to have additional HW to support BLFS development. Here is a list of things t

Re: [blfs-dev] FireFox 29.0.1

2014-06-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 08:36:09AM +0200, thorsten wrote: > > What really puzzles me is why some firefox issues seem to affect > > very few people. On one of my older systems I had to change > > _something_ in the last couple of months when I upgraded firefox (I > > no longer remember the details

Re: [blfs-dev] bash script

2014-06-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:16:32AM +1200, Christopher Gregory wrote: > > It is really weird that the times do vary between runs of the script. > On a non-realtime OS you should always expect _some_ variation. If you look in 'top', even on a system without 'cron' or 'at' there will be a lot of pr

Re: [blfs-dev] FireFox 29.0.1

2014-06-03 Thread Christopher Gregory
On Tue, June 3, 2014 7:46 pm, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 03/06/2014 09:06, Christopher Gregory a écrit : > >> On Tue, June 3, 2014 6:36 pm, thorsten wrote: >> What really puzzles me is why some firefox issues seem to affect very few people. On one of my older systems I had to change >>>

Re: [blfs-dev] FireFox 29.0.1

2014-06-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 03/06/2014 09:06, Christopher Gregory a écrit : On Tue, June 3, 2014 6:36 pm, thorsten wrote: What really puzzles me is why some firefox issues seem to affect very few people. On one of my older systems I had to change _something_ in the last couple of months when I upgraded firefox (I no lo

Re: [blfs-dev] FireFox 29.0.1

2014-06-03 Thread Christopher Gregory
On Tue, June 3, 2014 6:36 pm, thorsten wrote: >> What really puzzles me is why some firefox issues seem to affect >> very few people. On one of my older systems I had to change _something_ >> in the last couple of months when I upgraded firefox (I no longer >> remember the details, but I think it