Re: updating the kernel

2005-04-26 Thread Philipp Tölke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it to be considered dangerous to update my kernel from 2.6.8.2 to 2.6.11.x ?? Can I do this just by patching the kernel and redoing the makeconfig, etc. I have no backup made of anything, so what should I be

Re: Understanding 'setuid'

2005-04-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
On 4/26/05, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Thanks, Andrew. But I asked for good documentation G. Hit google for Unix File Permissions. This will give you about 100 really good hits...maybe add sticky to the search terms to find the ones that have really in-depth

Re: Xorg fatality

2005-04-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
On 4/25/05, Donal Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, I think I'm the fatality here, not the package. I'm getting the same problem with Xorg 6.8.2 over and over again. My xorg.conf look ok, and I have loaded the freefonts ttf fonts into the /TTF directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Re: Xorg fatality

2005-04-26 Thread Donal Farrell
Yupe stab city - the home of hurling!! Got that matter fixed by editing fonts.alias in the /misc folder. To sum up this question, and the other about the livecd, can I now add whatever application software I need, compress the fs (reiser) and build a livecd for my own system, as I'm going to

ati binary driver and libstdc++.so versions on LFS 6.0

2005-04-26 Thread Robert Drozda
Hello, i was recently dealing with hw support for 3D acceleration on LFS 6.0, kernel 2.6.9. With Radeon 9600 card, ati binary driver is the only way. Im using X.org 6.8.2 so i was trying to get up driver fglrx_6_8_0-8.12.10-1.i386.rpm. Everything went fine, including tv out, except 3d

Re: Understanding 'setuid'

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 4/26/05, Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sticky bit is the fourth permission digit. So you have 4711 instead of 711 for programs that retain the owner's(usually root) permissions. Actually if the sticky bit is set you would have 1711, and if the suid bit is set you get

Re: Understanding 'setuid'

2005-04-26 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 06:21 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: In getting to this point in Linux, I've read many times something to the effect, This needs to be setuid root. And that this means that the sticky bit is set. Beyond that I can't find anything. What does setuid really mean? What

Re: gnome and x problems

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 4/26/05, Donal Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi again. I am having difficulties with gnome 2.10/Xorg6.8.2 When I do startx, I get a gnome-terminal from which I do the commands metacity, or opera, or nautilus. Any of these (and more) (and as root) give the error: Cannot find display X.

gdm problems

2005-04-26 Thread Donal Farrell
I'm trying to make gnome2.10 on Xorg 6.8.2, and am having no luck at all. My latest problem is as follows. I can get onto the gnome terminal when I do startx, and I can use Opera. When I try to issue the nautilus command, I get the following: Window Manager Warning: Log level 6: file group.conf

Re: blfs livecd

2005-04-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Simon Geard wrote these words on 04/26/05 06:45 CST: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:21 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Other than that, GNOME-VFS requires a patch to compile with HAL, Which version of HAL are you playing with? Most recent. Gnome 2.10 isn't compatible with the current releases of

Re: blfs livecd

2005-04-26 Thread Donal Farrell
where can I get the patch? How do I reinstall gnome-vfs with this patch? Thanks, Donal On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:36, Randy McMurchy wrote: Simon Geard wrote these words on 04/26/05 06:45 CST: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:21 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Other than that, GNOME-VFS requires a

gdm problem almost fixed

2005-04-26 Thread Donal Farrell
Almost. I am now getting the gnome desktop, the blue-ish background, nautilus will let me browse folders and even open blfs-book files usiong opera. However, every so often, the screen goes black and a message apperas saying gdm cant locate the gdm user in gdm.conf also, after these blips, there

Re: gdm already running

2005-04-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
On 4/26/05, Donal Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again. I think I've got my gnome working properly, and gdm. I reinstalled the install-gdm from blfs-bootscripts. When i changed the default init level to 5 in /etc/inittab, and rebooted, I get the message loading gdm gdm is already

Re: gtk2 problems

2005-04-26 Thread B.
Hello, B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:18:25 +0400 you wrote: Neither have I. So I'll suggest the obvious. Presume something is mucked up and try these. Thanks. I'd try it tomorrow. Well, I have carefully recompiled pango (1.8.1), atk (1.9.0) and gtk (2.6.7) (I have attached

evolution-2.2.0 libgtkhtml error

2005-04-26 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi. i'm having dependency issues with evolution 2.2.0. i have evolution-data-server installled correctly, but evolution claims it needs libgtkhtml = 3.6.0 I originally had 3.5.3 so I updated to gtkhtml 3.7 with no luck. Has anyone experienced the same problems? Regards, Donal --