Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Melville
(or at least a 'world-within-a-world'); ...a society *within* a society; where you have to get up to get down, and where getting it on *usually* means getting them off. The Wicker Rap -- circa 1980 I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist that. Richard --

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read the mail on the LFS-7.4 machine (or copy this paragraph to a file, scp that file to the

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read the mail on the

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this area. I think you said that showkey and dumpkeys reported the keyboard was giving

[blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Melville
Does anybody know what causes the following:- du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/fdinfo/4': No

[blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3

2013-12-05 Thread Dan McGhee
This build has failed three times for me. Here is the applicable portion of the build log: rm: cannot remove 'Linux3.8_x86_64_glibc_PTH_64_OPT.OBJ': Is a directory Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create Linux3.8_x86_64_glibc_PTH_64_OPT.OBJ/pk11cert.o: No such file or directory

[blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Dan McGhee
The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies. I just wanted to get a working Thunderbird so that I wouldn't have to keep rebooting to get to my e-mail. I have it, but I want it built with all the

Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc

2013-12-05 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard Melville a écrit : Does anybody know what causes the following:- du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4': No such file or

Re: [blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Armin K.
On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote: The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies. I just wanted to get a working Thunderbird so that I wouldn't have to keep rebooting to get to my e-mail. I have

Re: [blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/05/2013 01:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote: The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies. I just wanted to get a working Thunderbird so that I wouldn't have to

Re: [blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/05/2013 02:22 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/05/2013 01:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote: In preparing for Firefox, the book, BLFS SVN, gives the procedure for linking it agains XULrunner. (And I hope this isn't a mis-print, but that the build time for Firefox

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:43:28PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this area. I think

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:01:00PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Your LatArCyrHeb font has two, possibly three, characters which match a white square. If you manage to prove that it is a kernel video problem, can you please loadkeys LatGrkCyr-8x16 and repeat the test. I'm guessing you will get

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too big, whoops!). So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it from 177K to 7K. sigh/ Thanks and sorry for confusion! I had no Unicode initially,

Re: [blfs-support] Building Thunderbird

2013-12-05 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 12/5/2013 12:31 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies. I just wanted to get a working Thunderbird so that I wouldn't have to keep rebooting to get to my e-mail. I