Re: idiots guide to cups and samba?

2006-06-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 06/11/06 13:01 CST: just wide open printing from windows XP Home to cups. I suppose disregard my previous message as I didn't catch this the first time around. I do the exact opposite of what you are trying to do. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Angel Tsankov wrote these words on 06/08/06 06:31 CST: Aha, and do I need to have any of the RP-PPPoE configuration files for the rp-pppoe plugin to work, e.g. /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? Couldn't you answer that on your own by simply trying it? If it works without the config file, then you don't

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

2006-06-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
rblythe wrote these words on 06/04/06 11:53 CST: This is a long post simple to say thank you. You are most very welcome. I usually try to do whatever I can for folks that have done some research and made legitimate attempts to correct the problem. You qualified. :-) BTW, you are getting the

Re: Questions about openLDAP Cyrus-SASL

2006-06-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
rblythe wrote these words on 06/04/06 12:11 CST: This e-mail is for my learning purposes only. [snip] Could someone give me a couple of examples of what a user like myself could use these packages for? Please also keep in mind that I don't think learning about these packages is a waste

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

2006-06-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
rblythe wrote these words on 06/04/06 12:33 CST: Yes I am behind a router. when I issue the dnsdomainname command the output is: localdomain I never did put much thought on how this name is registered on a LAN. I guess now I have more to research and learn about. There really isn't

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

2006-06-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 06/04/06 12:53 CST: 192.168.x.xxx computer.rblythe.prv rblythe This should have been written as: 192.168.xxx.xxx names I wouldn't want you to think there was only 10 available addresses in the 3rd octet. I will leave it up to your research

Re: Problem with tests in NSS-3.11

2006-06-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/04/06 13:58 CST: I'm kind of shooting from the hip, but you can also control the router DHCP to do these kind of things. There are several reasons why I prefer to not do this. Of course, these are just my thoughts and YMMV. 1. I believe it easier to

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 crashes on launch

2006-06-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 06/01/06 13:40 CST: You probably already know this, but for those who don't... ldd is your friend. When a specific binary (such as /usr/bin/acroread) fails, type: ldd /usr/bin/acroread ... and look for any libraries it says it can't find. [snip rest

Re: freetts and gnome-speech

2006-05-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
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 (Though Simon your intentions are admirable, please look at the book if you aren't sure about something before

Re: MySQL missing LinuxThreads

2006-05-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tor Olav Stava wrote these words on 05/29/06 03:29 CST: I suggest updating the patch, and adding it to the BLFS book. Because MySQL builds perfectly on an LFS system, and your trouble is based on an HLFS system, your suggestion would be perfect for the Wiki. I've created the MySQL User Notes

Re: gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/29/06 05:02 CST: I aquired sighted help and I fired up startx and was presented with a window containing a shell prompt. Did you change your .xinitrc file as suggested in the Configuring the Core GNOME packages page like so? : echo exec gnome-session

Re: gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/29/06 09:22 CST: Here it is: # Begin .xinitrc file xterm -g 80x40+0+0 xclock -g 100x100-0+0 metacity exec gnome-session Myself, all I ever put in is the 'exec gnome-session' line. I've never needed the metacity line, and I would for sure remove

Re: KDM displaying squares instead of text

2006-05-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 05/29/06 13:21 CST: On trying to login via KDM all I see is squares in place of every single character of text that should be on that screen. I haven't a clue here, Matt. The only thing that shows up in /var/log/kdm.log is: FreeFontPath: FPE

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/27/06 09:38 CST: Maybe you can use gcc-2 to drop that pesky net-tools patch. :) Seriously, any package that hasn't been fixed for gcc-4's stricter syntax by now is borderline unmaintained. And what makes this difficult, is what constitutes been fixed? If

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/27/06 09:43 CST: I would try `make install'. My notes show these commands to install festival: ./configure --prefix=/opt/festival-1.95-beta install -v -m755 -d /opt/festival-1.95-beta/{bin,src/main} ln -s ../src/main/festival{,_client} bin make install -v

Re: Ant errors not music...

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/27/06 06:10 CST: BUILD FAILED /usr/src/apache-ant-1.6.2/build.xml:970: The following error occurred while executing this line: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: junit/framework/TestCase (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0) Use version 3.8.1

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/27/06 10:22 CST: Thanks, I'll study these notes, should be a good guide. I have similar notes for the speech_tools package along with a patch I used. You may not need any of this, though, as it sounds like you have it running already. Be forewarned, I

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/27/06 10:44 CST: I worked fairly hard learning the gnome-speech, gnopernicus, free-tts stuff as I wanted to get something in the book for the speech impaired. Please substitute vision impaired for speech impaired. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27

Re: Questions about /dev/fd0

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 05/27/06 12:24 CST: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Just for the record, /media/floppy is specified by the FHS. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux

Re: Suggestion for Additional X Window System Configuration chapter

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 05/27/06 20:08 CST: I know that's covered in FAQs all over the world, but I figure it makes sense for it to be included with the other xorg.conf instructions. This, to me, is a very good suggestion. DJ, care to handle it? I cannot confirm it, as I don't

Re: gcc-3.3.6 tail command fix.

2006-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
linux23dragon wrote these words on 05/26/06 19:39 CST: Any comments? Why would anyone want to install GCC-3.3.6? :-) -- Randy rmlinux: [bogomips 3995.17] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.16.14 i686] 19:41:00 up 5 days, 9:51, 8

Re: gcc-3.3.6 tail command fix.

2006-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/26/06 19:45 CST: libstdc++.so.5 for binaries that still look for it. The Internet is so difficult to express yourself. If all 3 of us were in a bar shooting the shit, and this conversation was happening, you'd know immediately that I was being humorous, and

Re: gcc-3.3.6 tail command fix.

2006-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
linux23dragon wrote these words on 05/26/06 20:12 CST: I have a lot of old pre-compiled programs for games and other software that won't be updated to today's standards. Too bad. Sounds to me as though it's time to update your software inventory to modern standards. :-) (Hmmm. I wonder if

Re: gcc-3.3.6 tail command fix.

2006-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 05/26/06 20:48 CST: Arrmy training, sir! I use lines from Stripes all the time and these undereducated 20-somethings around me have no idea what I'm talking about. Is this what it's like to be old? Col. I sometimes wonder that same thing.

Re: Webcast reception

2006-05-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
TheOldFellow wrote these words on 05/24/06 08:16 CST: Any pointers would be much appreciated. Hi Richard, I have found that the MPlayer plugin for Firefox works really good on almost anything I've thrown at it. Of course, you have to install MPlayer first.

Re: X server for Linux

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Angel Tsankov wrote these words on 05/23/06 06:25 CST: Well, I guess I need a detailed explanation of what the difference is between a window manager and an X environment. I wouldn't expect anyone here to provide that for you. If you really don't know the difference, and aren't just pulling

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/23/06 07:20 CST: What should I do to fix the language problem below? Googling for setting up a locale should help you there. _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created. _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener:

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/23/06 07:20 CST: _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created. _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 2 Additionally, it appears your /tmp directory does not have the correct permissions

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/23/06 07:56 CST: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:30:20AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: What happens if you create the directory shown above as instructed in the BLFS X installation? What package instructed as you suggest? I've installed many packages am I

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/23/06 15:12 CST: What does i18n mean? internationalization An 'i' then 18 characters before closing with the 'n'. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/23/06 15:12 CST: Thanks, that's all sorted now. I'd missed the link for configuration because I wanted to see if I could get gnopernicus talking. Slowly but surely, I'm getting there. Which Text-To-Speech package are you using. I have real good luck

Re: Subsystem problem for wireless

2006-05-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/23/06 17:23 CST: I would move the linux source out of /usr/src. This is a big no-no specifically for broken packages like this. Save yourself a lot of hassle and move the kernel code somewhere else. Well, just as a follow-up on Dan's message. If you

Re: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Warren Wilder wrote these words on 05/22/06 08:14 CST: I've noticed that a lot of emails about DBUS and HAL are passing by lately. (Currrently I have udev as well as hotplug working for me.) I picked up that HAL and DBUS are great for detecting hotpluggable media, DBUS is a low-level backend

Re: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alan Lord wrote these words on 05/22/06 14:10 CST: I have a question which now seems as good a time as any to pose: in that, as a non-desktop user (Either Fluxbox or XFCE at a push) would there be any benefit to us minimalists using these automated features? Perhaps not at the moment. But I

Re: updating libraries

2006-05-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
alberto hernando wrote these words on 05/13/06 05:35 CST: Hi. I have a generic question about libraries and updates. I'd say that you cannot answer your question on a generic basis. You'd have to take each update and know if there are API changes, .so name changes or anything else that could

Re: which running process uses shared library x?

2006-05-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Warren Wilder wrote these words on 05/13/06 07:36 CST: How do you check whether any of the running processes is using the shared library xxx.so? One way is to print out out a list of the shared library dependencies for whatever binary (process) you want to know about. Take for example

Re: the ffmpeg documentation install instruction seems to be a little bit wrong

2006-05-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Thomas Ulrich Nockmann wrote these words on 05/13/06 07:59 CST: Hello, does not have a backslash being in the second line? Thanks, will fix it right now. And to answer your question, you are doing us a favor by writing in to tell us about mistakes in the book. In fact, for these types of

Re: updating libraries

2006-05-13 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Henty wrote these words on 05/13/06 07:49 CST: Yes. The GTK+ team are outstandingly good at preserving backward compatibility. I have done many upgrades of GTK+-2.4.x,2.6.x,2.8.x (and also glib, atk, pango) without problems. I've never had to uninstall the old version and never had

Re: Mplayer and dvd playback issues

2006-05-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/11/06 19:00 CST: On 5/10/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, which backend are you using with Totem - libxine, gstreamer 0.8 or 0.10? Probably not gstreamer-0.10 if he's watching DVDs since the plugins haven't been ported yet.

Re: Mplayer and dvd playback issues

2006-05-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/11/06 20:10 CST: That's true. I guess I'm trying to buy into a gstreamer only media backend. It seems ridiculous to install two separate ones. At the expense of 5 minutes and a few megabytes? Please, it would not be considered ridiculous to invest 5

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 05/10/06 08:27 CST: If it doesn't: bug in Firefox (and in the book). If this is a bug in the book, why haven't you ever mentioned it? Rebuild with the library containing the needed symbol explicitly mentioned in LDFLAGS, as the LiveCD does

Re: Gnomemeeting

2006-05-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/10/06 15:44 CST: Thanks for the report. I'll try to get this in the book soon. You can if you wish, but Gnomemeeting will be *removed* from the book in probably less than a week. :-) I haven't built Ekiga yet, but I feel pretty good about it. If it does

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/10/06 15:56 CST: You could have said that before! Sheesh. Is there a proper warning for this in the books? In the Before asking for Help section, it specifically says to mention if you've deviated from the book. So Leo was in error by not mentioning

Re: Still stuck when trying to install KDE.

2006-05-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/09/06 08:12 CST: I still have no idea what the issue is, and I don't think anyone here is going to be able to provide meaningful debugging of dcop. However, now that you're armed with a backtrace, this problem could be brought to the KDE lists. One of

Re: Still stuck when trying to install KDE.

2006-05-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
David BOURIAUD wrote these words on 05/09/06 08:53 CST: So, what ? If you were facing the same problem, what would you do ? Complete rebuild, top to bottom. But that's just me. I *know* this stuff should work, and I've proven it, over and over and over again (proven to myself, that is). Now,

Re: USB key, and Iptables logging

2006-05-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote these words on 05/09/06 16:58 CST: Hi. Two problems : Typically, you'll receive much better attention to issues when they are listed in separate messages. Trying to work two problems with one Subject title usually ends up much less focus to each individual message. --

Re: Mplayer and dvd playback issues

2006-05-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Winkler wrote these words on 05/09/06 20:30 CST: im not sure what the problem is here following the BLFS svn i installed MPlayer for some reason i cant watch dvd's You should not be having these issues. You put *so much* stuff in your email that I could not decipher it at all. Is there

Re: Hello Please help

2006-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/08/06 19:54 CST: Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Could you please trim the trailer stuff from messages? It is a

Re: Sendmail config fixes mail loops back to me....

2006-05-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Carson wrote these words on 05/04/06 16:42 CST: Too bad for you, that you're using Mutt - get a better email client *plonk* -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 16:48:01

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/04/06 20:33 CST: One im not complaining just pointing out something incase somone else goes though all the trouble. if you follow the current lfs you probably will have no luck getting gnome working. Simply back down a few versions of Pango, ATK,

Re: gcc4 and gnome current blfs

2006-05-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 05/04/06 20:56 CST: oops i forgot to mention that i was using CLFS thats using gcc 4x. current blfs version is 2.10. Sigh. The above is meaningless. I was trying to be helpful. You are trying to use development LFS with stable (I think) GNOME.

Re: libglade

2006-04-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 04/29/06 21:28 CST: You do relize that the version of libglade in the blfs book is from september 2001 right? there up to like version 2.01 now ! I'm not quite sure why I'm responding to this message, perhaps in an effort to keep a bug being introduced

Re: udev + sr0 + cdrom = no symlinks

2006-04-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Lupine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 04/29/06 22:32 CST: [snip all] How does this email address get by the spam-checker? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 22:38:01 up 35

Re: GNOME-media error

2006-04-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Filip Bartmann wrote these words on 04/23/06 13:08 CST: I get the same result as you(I have gstreamer installed in /usr/include/gstreamer-0.8/gst/). I make the link /usr/include/gst to /usr/include/gstreamer-0.8/gst/ too. At this point it is now over my head what could be wrong. I do know that

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

2006-04-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Winkler wrote these words on 04/23/06 13:21 CST: im having issues with alsa i think that is I don't have the patience to look through an entire dmesg output. Perhaps out of courtesy to those trying to help you, you could only post the relevant material. Are you certain that the permissions

Re: Xorg-7.0.0 installed (prefix=/opt)

2006-04-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 04/20/06 10:41 CST: The fluxbox page in BLFS tels you how to populate ~/fluxbox I know you did extensive changes to the fluxbox page recently, and what seems like including changes to how ~/fluxbox is created, so you may want to tell folks to use BLFS SVN.

Re: Various problems during the installation of KDE

2006-04-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Paul G Rogers wrote these words on 04/20/06 10:43 CST: Because I'm compiling for an old P1-233MMX, I'm trying to limit the overhead, snip though I fear that will just bog-down my old CPU. Just an FYI. I recently installed KDE-3.5.2 on a recent (20060322) LFS based system. Though not quite the

Re: Minor typography in Subversion.

2006-04-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
William Zhou wrote these words on 04/20/06 13:37 CST: If you passed the --with-swig parameter to configure and wish to build the Perl, Python and/or Ruby bindings, issue any or all of the following commands: Thanks William, however, in the future when you point out things using ^^

Re: ntp-4.2.0

2006-04-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randolph D Dach wrote these words on 04/15/06 12:08 CST: When I check ntp.conf it has been overwritten to This behavior has been noted when using the Dhcpcd client. Do you by chance use it, or another DHCP client? Do you establish a network connection at boot time? If so, you may want to

Re: ntp-4.2.0

2006-04-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randolph D Dach wrote these words on 04/15/06 13:01 CST: Is there andy way to stop that from happening??? First of all, please don't top-post. You should trim the original message to include only the relevant parts you are replying to and then place your reply below the trimmed portion of the

Re: ntp-4.2.0

2006-04-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randolph D Dach wrote these words on 04/15/06 13:47 CST: the DHCP client is DHCP Client Daemon v.1.3.22-p14 and I finally have the DHCP working correctly . Cool! I edited the /etc/sysconf/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/dhcpcd to instruct DHCP_START=-d -N and now everything works fine and I

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 and HLFS-SVN-20060220 Segmentation Fault

2006-04-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tor Olav Stava wrote these words on 04/09/06 13:54 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: Firefox runs like a champ. I believe the issue you quote above, Dan, is related to X-org 6.9/7.0. Tor said he too has 6.8.2 installed. Have you done any special configurations beyond what's in the BLFS book? All

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 and HLFS-SVN-20060220 Segmentation Fault

2006-04-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 04/09/06 14:17 CST: I had an issue installing firefox as well. Its due to some bug with gcc4 i belive. There is a patch on the paches list on LFS page. This resloved my build issue. Just FYI for everyone. No GCC-4 patch is required for Firefox 1.5.x.

Re: Firefox-1.5.0.1 and HLFS-SVN-20060220 Segmentation Fault

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:52 +0100, Alan Lord wrote: Like I said it might be completely wrong, but something to keep you going until the states wakes up!!! History has shown you to be right about 95% of the time when you have a segfaulting Firefox. Misconfigured fonts. -- Randy rmlinux:

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:41 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: The solution is that we need to stick with the packages the developers say are for Xorg-7.0 unless there is a security flaw or serious bug release made. Bumping up the major version from fixesproto-3.0.2 to fixesproto-4.0 without

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:02 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: Also Dan i think it's good idea for every module to has its own page and with the right order. A single page is getting unreadable and in my humble opinion might be confusing. I must admit to not looking into the Xorg 7.0 stuff yet. I just

Re: problem starting gnome 2.12.2

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:33 +0300, Ag Hatzim wrote: I also want to object to pull out the Xorg-7 from the book. Is exactly the same code with 6.9.0. What we can do,is to publish an official list with the right versions and stick with them,thus will make the support more easily. Pulling out

Re: GTK+-2.8.16 configure error

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 23:44 +0530, Faheem Mohammed wrote: ...just trying to get xfce up and running... however... i keep getting errors that gtk+2.8.16 won't work because the PKG_CONFIG_PATH may be wrong or th BASE_DEPENDENCIES variable is not set.. it complains it cannot find atk, pango,

Re: GTK+-2.8.16 configure error

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:30 -0700, Henry christenson wrote: Dont forgot if X is installed its path too. We are talking about the directories that are native to pkg-config. Ones it knows about by default and not from PKG_CONFIG_PATH. A separate X directory other than /usr/lib/pkgconfig would

Re: Apache + CGI Segmentation faults

2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 23:49 +0200, Simon Scheiwiller wrote: What could be the problem here? I wish I could help you Simon, but I haven't a clue. However, this might be helpful. It should work. I have several systems with Apache-2.2 on it that can run cgi scripts just fine. For example, they

LFS-6.3 pre3 [was: Re: xorg-7.0.0-server build error]

2006-04-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:29 +0200, Johannes Lächele wrote: after I installed LFS, using the LFS-book-6.3-pre3 Where did this come from? Man oh man, I am out of the loop big-time. :-) -- Randy rmlinux: [bogomips 3993.32] [GNU ld version

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 03/31/06 17:19 CST: It is simply a matter of perspective. Technically, the patch isn't a gcc-3 patch, but rather a C standard compliance patch. I also agree the patch should be renamed to reflect its new purpose (i.e. fix compile errors with gcc-4) if for no other

Re: To Indiana LFS'ers

2006-03-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 03/31/06 19:10 CST: [snip the entire post] That stomach illness you are encountering has really messed you up. :-) I don't know if there was one thing in that message I understood. Really, I was totally lost even after reading it several times. Is there a

Re: Recommended Permissions for files residing in /etc/skel (eg .bash_profile etc)

2006-03-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Winkler wrote these words on 03/29/06 14:08 CST: I however am wondering what would be the best suggested permissions for the files in /etc/skel I always set them to 0600. That way the default is for them to be installed in user's home dirs with the same perms (my personal preference is

Re: Glib-1.2.10

2006-03-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 03/29/06 15:38 CST: Problem in the configure. Getting ltconfig errors. Any ideas ? Though I did snip some of your message, there is simply not enough material in your message to begin to understand what your problem may be, much less a solution. So

Re: Glib-1.2.10

2006-03-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/29/06 16:56 CST: Unpack your binutils tarball and copy config.guess and config.sub over the ones in glib-1.2.10. In fact, you should keep these files handy because this situation may arise again. What's wrong with just using the 'config.guess' and

Re: How to make Thunderbird play Sounds

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
John Gnew wrote these words on 03/28/06 11:44 CST: I have gone to Edit/Preferences/General/Play an sound, but I can not make Thunderbird play a sound. I am running version 1.5 and have followed the BLFS for the install. And yes my speakers are on and I can play sound from other applications.

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow links

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
John Gnew wrote these words on 03/28/06 11:49 CST: Since both of these products are configured and installed in a similar fashion, I am probably missing something simple to make this work correctly. Read the configuration sections in the SVN Thunderbird and Firefox instructions. You'll see

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow links

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/28/06 13:02 CST: On 3/28/06, John Gnew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I had to do was, once in the configuration sections for each product, right click and select new to add the new preference name as a string, and then the value. Yep. I guess this should

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow links

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
John Gnew wrote these words on 03/28/06 12:52 CST: Both products do not match BLFS instructions. Yes, they do! :-) Maybe in some installs these preference names are present No, they are not present in any install. I believe you rushed through the material too quickly, John, and

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 03/28/06 20:06 CST: Me using gcc 4 thought i wouldent need the patch because of the way its mentioned in the book. Thanks for the input, though I'm not really sure there's anything we'll do about it. The way it is mentioned in the book is: Required

Re: Kdebase Please Fix

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
tom wrote these words on 03/28/06 12:35 CST: I think the book should mention you need to add this --with-kio-smtp to kdebase in order for kmail to authenticate otherwise smtp wont work. You entered a bug into the Trac system about this. We are all aware of what you are saying. Repeatedly

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow links

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
USM Bish wrote these words on 03/28/06 21:20 CST: It requires editing the prefs.js file in your Thunderbird profile (look in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, and drill down to find this file). 3. After making certain Thunderbird is not running, add the line Codei, to the file and

Re: (no subject)

2006-03-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/28/06 22:16 CST: This was brought up a while back. The patch name needs to be changed to indicate gcc4. I'll just have to disagree with your thinking. The book says it is a required patch. The patch has been required since that version of GCC. Nothing

Re: Feauturerequest: IPSec-tools, Squid, Privoxy

2006-03-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthias Berndt wrote these words on 03/25/06 05:14 CST: is there anyone interested in adding IPsec-tools, Squid and/or Privoxy to the book? I believe standard protocol is to first submit a hint (one for each package), and then request that the hint(s) be incorporated into the book if there is

Re: .la files in /opt/Foo

2006-03-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 05:49 +, John Gay wrote: On 3/22/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, they do cover different problems, although there is some overlap. Libtool is fairly specialised towards the task of hiding the differences in the build process that exist on

Re: gnome-icon-themes.pc location

2006-03-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hugo Villeneuve wrote these words on 03/18/06 16:45 CST: I installed Gnome Icon Themes 2.12.1, and noticed that the pkgconfig file, gnome-icon-themes.pc, is installed in /usr/share/pkgconfig. This caused problems when I tried to install libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 later as it could not find

Re: Libpng Errors

2006-03-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Lord Igtenio wrote these words on 03/03/06 15:57 CST: And should I submit this as a bug to the people who work on jhalfs? I figured it'd take care of this, but apparently it hasn't. There are a whole slew of folks that have successfully used jhalfs to build a working installation of LFS. You

Re: Trying to Write a Bootscript [Solved]

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 02/12/06 19:25 CST: Dan McGhee wrote: Thanks, Dan Sorry for the noise. Was it really necessary to quote your *entire* previous post for your two-line reply? Sheesh, make me scroll down 3-4 pages to read, I'm sorry, I screwed up! -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld

Forrest Gump [OT] [was: Re: Thunderbird...]

2006-02-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/09/06 18:55 CST: ForrestGump mode onI am not a smart man, but I *do* know what a simple instruction is./ForrestGump Who remembers that line from the movie? No takers, huh? http://www.mcmurchy.com/forrestgump/ForrestGump.mpg -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 01:34 CST: The spellchecker underlines EVERY word as I type. I installed the English(British) dictiionary, no change. If I 'ignore' a word that doesn't take the underline off. If I 'ignore-all' a word it doesn't change the other instances.

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 11:19 CST: chmod 666 /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell/* I'd appreciate knowing what perms you have on those files, Randy? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/build ls -l /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell total 688 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/09/06 15:20 CST: Randy, what do you think about adding info about spellcheck dictionaries to Thunderbird/Mozilla? FYI, I don't know if the spellcheck is implemented the same way in Mozilla-1.7.x. I'm not sure that doing anything other than maybe a small

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 15:44 CST: On the other hand, the book as at present only really serves the English/US community. So some mention of alternative dictionaries might be in order. I wholeheartedly agree. I thought there was a mention about the Moz Plugins site on

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 14:02 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: Well, if you go to the home page (http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/) it points you to the OpenOffice page (http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/) as the source of the dictionaries. And it says I'm not sure what it is today that is making

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/09/06 17:11 CST: In fact, on the forum, there are tons of people getting the permissions problems Richard did from using the xpi. The solution was similar to what I told Richard to do: Amazing how someone's little problem (Richard's spell checking issue)

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/09/06 17:11 CST: BTW, if you think there are some retarded questions on {b,}lfs-support, read that forum. It's amazing how difficult people can make the simplest things. ForrestGump mode onI am not a smart man, but I *do* know what a simple instruction

Re: Passwd? problem

2006-02-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jon Bradley wrote these words on 02/06/06 17:45 CST: whats the deal with this.. passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module Anyidea about this err msg? man pwconv -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release

Re: kdepim-3.5.1 and gnokii problems

2006-02-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 01:05 +, lux-integ wrote: i am experiencing difficulties installing gnokii-0.6.10 with kdepim-3.5.1. (the file .gokiirc is in the home directory.) The errors are in the atached file. Help will be gratefully received. I've never used gnokii, but it appears

Re: problems with gnome-2.12

2006-02-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Olaf Grüttner wrote these words on 02/03/06 08:18 CST: I searched the complete section of gnome2 instructions of the blfs-svn book. There is no mentioning of a variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. Does this not count? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/gnome-desktop-file-utils.html --

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