Re: [blfs-support] Can no longer build Pth-2.0.7

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Hi, I have a strange issue. After successfully building LFS 7.5 + Gnome 3.12. I've been running on the new build for about a week now with no issues. I've now come across an issue where I cannot build Pth-2.0.7. It hangs during configure, just after 'checking for

Re: [blfs-support] Can no longer build Pth-2.0.7

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 19/04/14 09:56, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Hi, I have a strange issue. After successfully building LFS 7.5 + Gnome 3.12. I've been running on the new build for about a week now with no issues. I've now come across an issue where I cannot build Pth

Re: [blfs-support] rsync

2014-04-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Richard Melville wrote: -d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m /home/rsync. No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created. -- Bruce But the

Re: [blfs-support] gegl and babl from svn source pkg links timing out

2014-04-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: For info. It's occured for last 24 hrs Take a look at Getting the Source Packages in BLFS Chapter 1. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] rsync

2014-04-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: -d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m /home/rsync. No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] wpa_supplicant D-Bus autostart problem

2014-04-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Cliff McDiarmid wrote: Shouldn't 'install -v -m644 systemd/*.service /lib/systemd/system' be included in BLFS for supplicant if installing under Systemd? BLFS does not now support systemd. We may in the future, but we are limited in volunteers to do the needed work. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:41 AM, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote: openssl is a package one generally installs early in the distribution-build process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g --(a) does one need to yank out the old say openssl-1.0.1 and install the

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: BASH=/bin/sh This appears to be your problem. It should be /bin/bash. Your password file should be: usr:x:uid:gid::/home/usr:/bin/bash Bash changes behavior if started with the sh name. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/04/14 15:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I use startx. My ~/.xinitrc file contains: /usr/bin/numlock /usr/bin/fluxbox I thought it should be startfluxbox. At least that's what I had the last time I used fluxbox. For now

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I use startx. My ~/.xinitrc file contains: /usr/bin/numlock /usr/bin/fluxbox I thought it should be startfluxbox. At least that's what I had the last time I used fluxbox. For now use this in ~/.xinitrc: xterm -g 80x40+0+0 /bin/bash exec twm If I

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps, but 'll /bin/sh' shows - bash. Doesn't that answer that question? Not really. bash behaves differently if invoked as sh. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/14 21:50, Bruce Dubbs wrote: What's the output of 'echo $PS1'? How about 'ldd /bin/bash'? Is libreadline.so.6 there? ldd /bin/bash: linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7732000) libreadline.so.6 = /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0xb76f2000

Re: [blfs-support] Just for info: dhcpcd-6.3.2 download link. Server is down at present

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: Found another link http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/dhcpcd/ Yes, that is one of our mirrors. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/03/14 10:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Your suggested ~/.bashrc then source ~/.bashrc steps fix the prompt. But I still can't source a script and subsequent xterm windows show the old prompt. Edit four files: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, ~/.bash_profile

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: I echoed the file names as you suggested and prior to invoking X the order is: /etc/profile .bash_profile .bashrc /etc/bashrc That is correct. However, I saw nothing when starting X. That's wrong. So I redirected the output to a file. Prior to starting

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/01/14 19:36, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:15:05PM -0500,rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: My BLFS 7.5 xterm displays a “sh-4.2#” prompt. My xterm prompt in BLFS 7.4 is “/ ” and “PS1=”\w “ is in my BLFS 7.5 /etc/bashrc file. In addition to

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: My shell is /bin/bash. My bash version is 4.2.45(1) in my 7.4 and 7.5 BLFS. Should they be the same? I don't recall, but bash-4.2.45 is fine. You are slightly ambiguous here. bash behavior changes if it is called as sh. I assume you mean it's being called

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ronnie van Aarle wrote: Those environment variables that you setup with EXPORT disappear when you log out. Not if you follow the instructions in the book. They are reset in the bash profile. They assume you did http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/postlfs/profile.html --

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2014 16:20:15 Bruce Dubbs wrote: See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/xorg7.html Note the lines that say: ACLOCAL='aclocal -I $XORG_PREFIX/share/aclocal' export ... ACLOCAL ... The ACLOCAL variable is set properly: echo

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ronnie van Aarle wrote: You can check if aclocal is available on your system by just typing aclocal --version in a terminal window. if its not available, you should install automake from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/automake.html If $XORG_PREFIX is something

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 28-03-2014 02:56, m...@pc-networking-services.com escreveu: Hello again, same thing in qca: ./configure --prefix=$QTDIR should be: ./configure --prefix=$QT4DIR \ Fixed in svn at r12901. Thanks. This, I changed in Qt4 page in the last days of the

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 28/03/2014 17:31, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 28-03-2014 02:56, m...@pc-networking-services.com escreveu: Hello again, same thing in qca: ./configure --prefix=$QTDIR should be: ./configure --prefix=$QT4DIR \ Fixed in svn at r12901

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 28/03/2014 18:28, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Pierre Labastie wrote: Will do. I need to leave now, so will be back in 2 or 3 hours. I think I have the rights to write to the errata, so I might as well directly write what I think there, unless you prefer me to send

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea again!!!!!

2014-03-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Well I have managed to get iced tea to successfully compile on a systemd system. Good. If who ever is in charge of the fixed-paths patch is willing to do so, the changes that need to be made to ALL of the Defs-utils.gmk locations is: HEAD

Re: [blfs-support] Solution for twm complaining about lacking fonts

2014-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, When we install xorg following the BLFS_7.5 stable book, when you first start x using the startx command, it will complain bitterly about the ISO fonts are lacking and it will NOT correctly bring up twm with the three windows and clock. (If you

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, I had the same problem; you have to have the kernel image on the same flash drive. That could be seen as a security issue but as we are dealing with very small computers

Re: [blfs-support] Is BLFS-7.4 book still available online?

2014-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:44:35 +0100 From: Alexey Orishko alexey.oris...@gmail.com To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [blfs-support] Is BLFS-7.4 book still available online? Hi guys, I can't find blfs-7.4 online after 7.5 was released. Is it supposed to be in

Re: [blfs-support] iptables again

2014-03-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor point. I've set up msmtp and s-nail on a blfs server; I can send email, and iptables is not blocking them but neither is it recording the packets passed. When I had this issue before with a different service,

Re: [blfs-support] Phonon-backend-vlc-0.7.1 DOES NOT COMPILE

2014-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, when trying to install phonon-backend-vlc by what is PUBLISHED in the book: -- Found LibVLCcore library path:/usr/lib/libvlccore.so -- Found LibVLC version: 2.1.3 (searched for: 0.0) -- Building against Phonon 4.2 API CMake Error at

Re: [blfs-support] iptables

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Richard Melville wrote: Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and iptables-restore? You can use them if you want, but I don't see a use for them unless you are doing some kind of dynamic control of the tables. It's better if the admin

Re: [blfs-support] iptables

2014-03-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and iptables-restore? You can use them if you want, but I don't see a use for them unless you are doing some kind of dynamic control of the tables. It's better if the admin knows what rules are being

Re: [blfs-support] Gcr-3.10.1 need to set correct path for successful compilation

2014-03-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, While I was attempting to compile Gcr-3.10.1 from the stable BLFS-7.5 book I was not able to do so until I did the following: XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/share export XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/ export XDG_DATA_DIRS I do not yet have KDE

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: Greetings, I have recently been dabbling with 2 virtualiisation programs on linux. These are qemu/kvm ( http://www.qemu.org http://www.linux-kvm.org ) and VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org ). Both install as host on a typical LFS setup I use ( cpu =amd64, pure 64bit

Re: [blfs-support] Yum help

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Soussi Adnane wrote: Hello, i'm on a LFS build , it's been one month i'm trying to get yum working but without a result i'm always getting this message: There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: Hello! I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html make -j1 results

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I see that in a later mail you pointed to a patch. I _like_ patches (easy to see if they still apply - if in any doubt use 'git apply') but BLFS prefers to use simple things like sed, so I assume that specifying CFLAGS= will meet with more approval. We like sed because

[blfs-support] BLFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs LFS -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-support] LFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-...@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email. [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-bootscripts-20131023 - uninstall

2014-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: Hi guys, I've just noticed, that uninstall make target is missing for ntpd and dbus in blfs-bootscripts-20131023. Was it done by intention or simply overlooked? There is a uninstall-ntp so that is a typo. The uninstall target for dbus is indeed missing. We will need

Re: [blfs-support] Getting X-server to re-read its xorg.conf.d config files 'dynamically'.

2014-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Hi, Anyone know of a current or mooted way in which to get X-server to re-read its config files that are under /{usr/share,etc}/X11/xorg.conf.d/ , dynamically and without stop/start or restart X server itself? I.e. to absorb use the new cfg - not just check for

Re: [blfs-support] mysql has a meaningless command. install ... -d /run/mysqld

2014-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: Since the /run was mounted during boot. That's only there for starting mysqld_safe in the next command as a part of configuration. The start script also does: mkdir -p /run/mysqld chown mysql.mysql /run/mysqld ... -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to `s'

2014-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Guys, I appreciate you bottom posting, but could you please trim the unnecessary quoted text. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-support] LFS-7.5-rc1 is released

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5-rc1/ to read locally. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to `s'

2014-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, This is my second attempt to post this here. I beat the confirmation e-mail by posting to the list and receieve the bounce that it was waiting the list moderators approval and that was on the 5th. Generally posts by non-subscribers are deleted

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2014-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard wrote: I spent some time reading the BLFS instructions on installing java and found it rather confusing. I am assuming that it is the 'circular dependencies' alluded to in the text which make it such a non-standard installation? In the end I downloaded Java from Oracle and installed

Re: [blfs-support] (B)LFS-7.4 with latest kernel 3.10.x

2014-01-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: Hi folks, I've built original LFS-7.4 and I'd like to use the latest Linux Kernel version (currently 3.10.28) due to several bug fixes. On already working system I've simply compiled a new kernel, installed it and it works. I have a question related to LFS book

Re: [blfs-support] wpa_supplicant not working

2014-01-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre M.R. wrote: Niels Terp wrote: The problem is, that when I start the wpa_supplicant program (and an icon was automatically installed in the notification area), the program opens OK, but only displays Status: Could not get status from wpa_supplicant. Apart from that, the program seems

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2014-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:17:22 -0300 From: Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash . . Unfortunately, I do not have lsof. Another 'tree' ? Very useful

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:46:56PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: Note that some BLFS instructions in the book needs some tweaks in order to work proper when installing via DESTDIR. Some packages do not take care about DESTDIR but uses INSTALL_ROOT or even do not care about

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2013-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: On Monday 30 December 2013 11:41:26 Richard wrote: Is there some 'trick' or undocumented procedure for building/using webkitgtk-1 with flash? Some build flag that I may have missed or variable which needs to be set? I have downloaded the appropriate archive from Adobe - with

Re: [blfs-support] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch in BLFS 7.4 documentation.

2013-12-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/24/13 21:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/24/13 09:53, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 24-12-2013 11:02, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com escreveu: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch Yes

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't read the preface and run

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pol Vangheluwe wrote: Trying to upgrade CUPS to release 1.6.3, as explained in the BLFS book (on a LFS-6.8 system …) + hints from Ken. Found that the link to the patch doesn’t work. Should be http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.4/cups-1.6.3-blfs-1.patch ( so “7.4” instead of

Re: [blfs-support] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch in BLFS 7.4 documentation.

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/24/13 09:53, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 24-12-2013 11:02, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com escreveu: The link http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch in the NSS-3.15.1 documentation produces: Page not found!

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: From: William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS Greetings, There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: ISTR that at a time, it was said that any page in the X chapter was a prereq for the following. That explains why the pages are not in alphabetical order. And that's how I implemented it in jhalfs-blfs (same for the KDE chapter, actually). The Xorg pages are arranged

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: From: Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected to have processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition elsewhere? From

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: I should have thought of this when I had a minimal, bootable LFS. But I didn't. I'm asking for comments so that the probability of getting another bootable LFS-7.4 system is high. Here are the steps in my plan: 1. Set up and mount a new partition for this system--done 2.

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Ubuntu can be, at times, as hinky as Windows. As I randomly checked directories and files for permissions. The uid's and gid's for all the package users were indicated for files. However, when I checked my home directory the files were owned by libuuid and were assigned to

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 21/12/2013 16:54, Dan McGhee a écrit : On 12/21/2013 01:40 AM, Chris Staub wrote: I don't normally use json-c, but as I use package users myself I thought I'd try it. I got exactly the same build failure when I used -j4 with make, and BLFS does say that this package

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP ENVY m6 Sleekbook, has Beats Audio. I don't know if I need to install or do anything other than alsa. I want to use the

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Armin K. wrote: On 12/20/2013 06:15 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -std=gnu99

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Yes, I have, Bruce. I physically have two sound devices. One is HDMI and the other, whose chip I can't identify, runs with the Azalia Controller so employs snd_hda_intel. `aplay -L` gives me nine devices. In addition to null and the HDMI, it tells me

Re: [blfs-support] qt-5.2.0 wont compile

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: Greetings I am trying to compile qt-5.2.0 for installation prefix /opt/qt5 as per the blfs instructions ( http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/qt5.html ) my computer has these: --cpu amd64 3cores --os blfs, kernel linux-3.10.24, gcc-4.8.1 My 'source

Re: [blfs-support] XML Files

2013-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/12/2013 10:00 AM, Armin K. wrote: On 12/12/2013 04:56 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: I've noticed that many files that get installed are XML files and contain many lines for messages in different languages. In particular I'm thinking of the action files in

Re: [blfs-support] Polkit Actions

2013-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 12/12/2013 11:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/12/2013 03:17 PM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:37:39 -0600 From: Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Polkit Actions . . I

Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: On 12/3/2013 8:22 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install. I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes with Redhat 5, and I understand that new versions get mixed

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Maybe someday, I'll have the time and energy to slog through the build process and try to find out why this happened. Although I'm happy with the outcome, I don't like to build as root. You shouldn't need to build as root, but you do need to install as root. There is

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: The only thing I've ever had trouble with in this system is deciding which things need to be SUID. Then there's xorg that also needs to be owned by root *and* run SUID. This is what I have: $ find `echo $PATH|tr : ' '` -type f -perm -u=s -ls -rwsrwxr-x 1 root root

Re: [blfs-support] Samba Daemons smbd nmbd winbind Don't Start

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Howdy experts, On the road to installing XFCE, I'm trying to install libsoup-2.44.2. The BLFS book has an option for Samba-4.12 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite). to run the tests. I've successfully installed Samba (as well as the other suggested options)

Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install. I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes with Redhat 5, and I understand that new versions get mixed reviews in online forums. I have no opinion, having

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root so that I can use my install system. Before I got X working

Re: [blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Reset my password or root's. This happens when, as me, I run su then root's password. I don't want to change either of the passwords, so I'm thinking $ passwd -d dan $ passwd dan su asks for the pw of the new user, usually root. sudo asks for the user's pw unless the

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is: Crypt: Invalid argument This is what I get: $ su Password: badpw su: Authentication failure So I suspect some other issue. What do you

Re: [blfs-support] OpenJDK-1.7.0.45/IcedTea-2.4.3 : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11

2013-11-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: Dear blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org I get an error when executing make, truing to build OpenJDK-1.7.0.45/IcedTea-2.4.3 as per Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-11-29. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/openjdk.html .../usr/bin/ld: cannot

Re: [blfs-support] Proprietary Radeon Driver

2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver from ATI. I'm asking for advice on when to install it. It's a

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: I've just configured a new 3.12 kernel and now /dev/fb0 is not being created, despite all the necessary configurations being built into the kernel. This means that I can't get a decent resolution in the console; I was using vga=792. My old kernel was a 3.7-rc8 and

Re: [blfs-support] lsb_release-1.4

2013-11-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: I would like to have more about this. I understand what info about the Linux Standards Base means, but what does this script actually accomplish and how is the info used? Does this script in any way relate to the link /lib/lsb to /lib/services/ ? I also noticed lsb appears

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: This is one of those things between LFS and BLFS, but since I've been flooding the LFS list I thought I'd go here with this one even though most who monitor here monitor the LFS list. This also involves wireless and LFS doesn't do that. I think this is a driver and module

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: I'm trying to install Gimp-2.8.8, following BLFS 7.4 Version 2013-11-14. I've had some trouble with two dependencies, babl and gegl, as described below. For all these programs I first installed the required and recommended dependencies, and many of the optional

Re: [blfs-support] /lib/services/bridge need ip link set xxx up before or after brctl addif xxx xxx

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:41 PM, xinglp wrote: The bridge is bringed up by ifup script. It should bring it up after the bridge is created. If that isn't working properly, then it is wrong. Interesting that you are commenting on the script without reading it. You

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: After looking at tons of logs of people trying to log into a system using ssh and guessing usernames and passwords, I've given up trying to monitor such foolishness. I'd only want to bother to do something like that in a very high security situation. Perhaps this is

Re: [blfs-support] typo in gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23?

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Walter P. Little wrote: For gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23 ( http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/gst-plugins-bad.html), I just noticed that FAAC-1.28 is listed both in recommended and optional. Seems like it should just be in one of the categories (perhaps it got promoted to

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 11:03 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm unaware why noshell would be an advantage over /bin/false. What does it do that is needed? Most google results indicate that it's to do with logging - that noshell will report that someone attempted to obtain

Re: [blfs-support] Comment/Question/Flame on probably the most used admin tool, 'find'

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
alex lupu wrote: I'm saddened that after all these years there's apparently no easy way to do something like (expressed in Artificial Intelligence :): Find files modified (accessed, created) in a range of time (in minutes) After but Before a time in minutes ago. Most people with PhD's in

Re: [blfs-support] Comment/Question/Flame on probably the most used admin tool, 'find'

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: alex lupu wrote: I'm saddened that after all these years there's apparently no easy way to do something like (expressed in Artificial Intelligence :): Find files modified (accessed, created) in a range of time (in minutes) After but Before a time in minutes ago. Most

Re: [blfs-support] at-spi2-core-2.10.1 build fails

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Frankish wrote: Ref: Beyond Linux(r) From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01, at-spi2-core-2.10.1: The build fails with CC libatspi_la-atspi-value.lo CCLD libatspi.la GISCAN Atspi-2.0.gir OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Is there a way to force make to provide

Re: [blfs-support] libvpx-v1.2.0 MD5SUM

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 02-11-2013 23:29, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: Em 02-11-2013 23:14, alex lupu escreveu: Is libvpx-v1.2.0 MD5SUM correct? 4eab3775d178d44e084525ed978bcd9a (BLFS book, version 2013-11-01) My calculations seem to show f8de058e6ba14555144583a2d031fe19

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Does anybody have any experience of noshell as a replacement for /bin/false and /dev/null? I realise that it's quite old, but is it still useful as a more secure way of creating a user with no login shell? Fish.com, together with the titan hardening package, seems to

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:47:07PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 03-11-2013 21:13, Dan McGhee escreveu: On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: First question, does anyone know if it's even possible to do

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: Do you have somthing like: [25.470] (II) LoadModule: evdev in the log? If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see Xorg drivers page). No, I don't have anything like

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Em 27-10-2013 21:51, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: I can just svn add nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch and commit? Is there a -2.patch? The book calls for a -1.patch which is available. What I have is: nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch nss-3.15.2-standalone-1.patch

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Niels Terp wrote: Hi everybody, In the latest stable BLFS ver. 7.4 there is a few dead links: In BLFS Boot Scripts: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/svn/blfs-bootscripts-20130908.tar.bz2 This is addressed in the errata. In NSS:

Re: [blfs-support] mpg123 and libtool .la files

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I just got round to doing some more use-testing of my current build (for packages newer than what I built before) and hit a problem with mpg123 : ken@ac4tv ~ $mpg123 /sources/sounds/randall-preamp-channels/Plexi-TexasDirt.mp3 [module.c:144] error: Failed to open module

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch is not on anduin.linuxfromscratch.org, well I can not find it Sometimes the patches don't get to anduin but they are always at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/ the boot scripts is here:

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: On 10/27/2013 06:00 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch is not on anduin.linuxfromscratch.org, well I can not find it Sometimes the patches don't get to anduin but they are always at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
8 08:23 nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch - nss-3.15-standalone-2.patch However, I searched any messages in book, and found: Em 09-07-2013 05:20, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: cp: cannot stat `/srv/www/www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch': No such file

Re: [blfs-support] There are two alias ls='ls --color=auto' in Bash Shell Startup Files.

2013-10-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: 2013/10/25 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com: xinglp wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/profile.html One in /etc/bashrc, another in /etc/profile.d/dircolors.sh Actually both are needed. If you log in via the command line, then the one in dircolors

Re: [blfs-support] There are two alias ls='ls --color=auto' in Bash Shell Startup Files.

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/profile.html One in /etc/bashrc, another in /etc/profile.d/dircolors.sh Actually both are needed. If you log in via the command line, then the one in dircolors is run, but /etc/bashrc is not. In a non-login shell, (type

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