Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Brandin Creech wrote these words on 09/20/05 20:23 CST: That assumes the last argument given to useradd is the username. I think this is the only correct way to specify it to useradd, anyway. I mentioned this earlier, but this thread won't die so I'll mention it again. Can't one simply set up

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 09/20/05 21:11 CST: Perhaps there is a public_html dir. 0700 on /home/username would kill it. Yup. But the OP requested a method to set 0700 on his home dirs. This is what I thought the thread was about. Not debating the need for 0700. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld

Re: Wrong permissions for user home directories

2005-09-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/20/05 21:34 CST: No, it won't kill the public_html dir. I happen to have an account on a system in which the home directory has 0700 permissions, but so long as the public_html directory has 755 permissions, everything will work fine. The 0700 on the home

Re: Problem with Expect

2005-09-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Julien Demoor wrote these words on 09/19/05 17:15 CST: I am trying to install Expect 5.43. Several errors happen during compilation, the log is attached to this message. I have tcl/tk 8.4.11. How can I fix this ? I suspect Tcl is not installed properly. It could be that the variables were

Re: Perl-Modules: YAML

2005-09-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Torsten Vollmann wrote these words on 09/18/05 13:16 CST: It just went past 2:40h for the testsuite - thats about the time it took to compile the whole LFS-6.1... It took 2:04 for it to finish last time I build it and it had trouble. Here is the log from that run:

Re: Perl-Modules: YAML

2005-09-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Torsten Vollmann wrote these words on 09/18/05 13:58 CST: Looks like some Perl-Module-Developer figured not all people have as much time or processing power as he does :-) Add what's really odd is that the version of YAML is the same (0.39). No telling what fixed it, newer version of Perl,

Re: Fontconfig: no fonts found

2005-09-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Thomas De Reyck wrote these words on 09/16/05 18:06 CST: I installed X.org today, and it appeared to run great...until i tried to run XFCE and ROX in it, that is. Fontconfig reports that there are no fonts found: Did you set up your fonts as the book shows in the X Window System Components

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 09/11/05 03:00 CST: What's the number of the bug? a search for tcl in BLFS bugzilla gets me Zarro Boogs found... http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582 Perhaps you only searched for open bugs? I fixed this and closed the bug yesterday.

Re: Firefox doesn't save settings

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Christopher Beppler wrote these words on 09/11/05 10:42 CST: I don't understand what you mean with this... sorry. Never mind, it's not important. If you did, you'd know what I was talking about. :-) However, just so you know, I meant using these flags passed to configure:

Re: Firefox doesn't save settings

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Christopher Beppler wrote these words on 09/11/05 11:01 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: I thought maybe perhaps you used them, because you *do* have system installed versions of the NSS/NSPR libs. Probably because you've installed Mozilla. No... I've just followed the instructions of the BLFS 6.1

Re: Firefox doesn't save settings

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Christopher Beppler wrote these words on 09/11/05 11:32 CST: Sorry... I have installed Mozilla some time ago... but I thought by removing /usr/lib/mozilla* /usr/include/mozilla* /usr/share/idl/mozilla* I've removed it correcty and completly. The BLFS book has instructions to move the NSPR

Re: Printing problem - installing HP driver

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 09/11/05 11:43 CST: Cups is a bugger to get working. So frustrating. But when it does work it's great. Gosh, my experience is the exact opposite. Install CUPS, Gimp-Print, ESP Ghostscript and Samba by the book, then configure the printer using the CUPS Gui,

Re: Firefox doesn't save settings

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 09/11/05 11:56 CST: Christopher Beppler wrote: libmozjs.so = not found libxpcom.so = not found Firefox's settings are stored in a javascript file prefs.js in your profile. It can't alter that file without libmozjs.so This is normal for

Re: alsa-oss installation - collect2: cannot find `ld'

2005-09-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Stephen Liu wrote these words on 09/11/05 19:33 CST: I think I may work around the problem either by adding --disable-cxx on configuration OR to install the package on chroot. I met the same problem on installing other packages before. My interest is to find out the cause. Otherwise I may

Re: docbook 4.1.2

2005-09-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hugo Villeneuve wrote these words on 09/10/05 15:02 CST: The only remaining problem with gstreamer is with the post-install command to change the ownership of html documentation: = chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/doc/gstreamer-0.8.10/*/html

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hugo Bernier wrote these words on 09/10/05 17:11 CST: On 9/10/05, Andrew Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I think this needs looking into. Has anyone filed a bug? [snip] I just did :-) It just so happens that things started getting busy at work right after I was finally able to

Re: A question on CUPS

2005-09-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Stephen Liu wrote these words on 09/09/05 09:40 CST: Would skipping installing the recommended dependencis, libjpeg-6b, libpng-1.2.8, and libtiff-3.7.3, affect its installation and operation? Probably, as it pertains to printing graphics. Why on earth do you wish to skip these important

Re: ATK 1.10.3

2005-09-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 09/06/05 14:18 CDT: I'm sticking with ATK-1.10.1 for now, until I see something from the GNOME team. Well, I'm wrong again! GNOME-2.12 has been released and the release calls for ATK-1.10.3. So much for GNOME's highly touted code freeze stabilization

Re: Suggestion on file-manager package

2005-09-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 09/07/05 22:40 CST: Stephen Liu wrote: Which package shall I install as file-manager. You really have to figure out for yourself which one is best for you. [snip other good advice] What Chris said! -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220]

Re: No Thunderbird RSS Feed Menu Option - SOLVED

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 08:55 CST: I noticed a number of old posts on this problem, namely, that there is no option to create an RSS or Movemail account in Thunderbird after installing it, even though there is one in the source tree. I never saw a bug about this, however,

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 09:37 CST: I just installed Thunderbird 1.0.6, and when I go to the extension manager, click install, locate the extension and click open, nothing happens; it returns me directly to the extension manager. This happens both as root and as a regular

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 11:08 CST: That wasn't the feature I was looking for -- I can't install any extensions for any user, including when running Thunderbird as root. I wish I could help. The feature works for me. How do you install Thunderbird? Meaning, the way the BLFS

Re: ATK 1.10.3

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 09/06/05 14:15 CST: Hmm, any idea on what the criteria for promoting releases of gtk+, glib, atk and pango to ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/ are? That's the only place I regularly check for new releases of said packages...maybe I need to change that,

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Doug Reich wrote these words on 09/06/05 16:27 CDT: There is a difference between running make -f client.mk build and ./configure make I realize. While the configure script reads the configure instructions, it does not read the make options, and so you miss out on those variables. So, not

Re: New user, Permission denied.

2005-09-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/06/05 17:24 CDT: It is not obvious to me. I read the man useradd and I could not find the solution. This commands are on the book lfs. I apologize for my question. I would like to publicly apologize to you for my previous comments. *I* am the one that

Re: New user, permission denied

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 09/05/05 19:17 CST: When I add a new user, there is the following message: -sh: /dev/null: Permission denied I put the following commands: groupadd lfs2005 useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs2005 -m -k /dev/null lfs2005 Please, execute this command and

Re: Download Xpdf tarball

2005-09-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Stephen Liu wrote these words on 09/04/05 10:56 CST: Hi folks, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/pst/xpdf.html Try this instead: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/packages.html where it will tell you to refer to:

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Stephen Liu wrote these words on 09/04/05 22:25 CST: I tried to install lesstif and met following problem. Steps performed as follows; lesstif-0.94.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources# tar jxf lesstif-0.94.4.tar.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources# cd lesstif-0.94.4 [EMAIL

Re: sudden death of higher resolutions in LFS 6.0

2005-09-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Ciecierski wrote these words on 09/03/05 17:37 CST: PS: Archaic, you may realise I've shamelessly copied your signature :-) Hope you don't mind - I just think it's short, meaningful and quite apropriate + may help spread the good news... - Want control, education, and security

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe... Anyone else have any smart

Re: GTK configure fails on ATK check

2005-08-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Ciecierski wrote these words on 08/31/05 20:17 CST: Yes, it's me once again buggering all of you... A little update for those who read some of my previous: I've uninstalled almost all packages relating in any way to Gnome My advice it to just wait a few more days for GNOME-2.12 to come

Re: GNOME-desktop

2005-08-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tarek Ghaleb wrote these words on 08/30/05 18:05 CST: It's been a while since I used DocBook, but it's always tricky to set it up to work correctly. If you cut and paste (or type very carefully) all the commands for the various packages that make up the SGML and XML DocBook stuff from the BLFS

Re: GNOME-desktop

2005-08-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/30/05 18:08 CST: BTW - I don't think that is what is wrong with the OP's situation. I would bet it isn't a DocBook issue at all. I should have qualified this with if he installed all the dependencies for gnome-session IAW with BLFS at the end of the last

Re: GNOME-desktop

2005-08-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tarek Ghaleb wrote these words on 08/30/05 21:13 CST: So, I guess I was talking about understanding how to set up catalog files and configure DocBook, etc., rather than just following instructions. I'm sure the instructions in the book about setting up DocBook are very clear, the book has

Re: firefox-1.0.6 gtk+2.8.0

2005-08-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
frank wrote these words on 08/26/05 09:55 CDT: i dont get firefox-1.0.6 starting up. i have gtk+2.8.0/2 which needs cairo and pango with cairo support installed. it starts (which is known and ok according to former posts): *** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure,

Re: firefox-1.0.6 gtk+2.8.0

2005-08-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
frank wrote these words on 08/26/05 11:52 CDT: i assume you have firefox running properly on a gtk+-2.8.0 build. Yes, I do. Thunderbird as well. just for information, do you also get these gdk warnings? Yes. Tons of warnings. -- Randy rmlinux: [bogomips 3923.96] [GNU ld version 2.16.1]

Re: firefox-1.0.6 gtk+2.8.0

2005-08-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
frank wrote these words on 08/26/05 15:27 CDT: ok, looks like gtk is not the reason. i'll try harder with firefox compilation. maybe i'll also try the 'mozilla way' (if i ever find out what it is). I wish I could help. I just finished updating the book with updates to both Firefox and

Re: Transfig.3.2.4 compile errors

2005-08-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 08/25/05 13:00 CST: Thanks Randy - that patch rocks. No complaints, no bellyaching from patch, no errors. Glad I could help. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
[cc'd to BLFS-Dev from BLFS-Support] Archaic wrote these words on 06/25/05 12:01 CST: [snip what is already instructions in the book] make -C browser/installer cd dist mv firefox /opt/firefox-${version} ln -sf /opt/firefox-${version} /opt/firefox ln -sf /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 13:45 CST: Currently running glibc-2.3.2 on my LFS 5.0 (CVS snapshot 20030522) system (many packages upgraded since then) and would like to upgrade to glibc-2.3.4 as per the 6.1 book. However, I'm completely unclear on how to 'upgrade' glibc

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Douglas J Hunley wrote these words on 08/24/05 14:42 CST: OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from /lfs/* to / ? Many different methods you can

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST: The issue of profile locking when trying to open a URL in an already running Firefox received some attention on blfs-support. Kevin Somervill went through the run-mozilla.sh script and found there was an error where a variable didn't get

Re: upgrading glibc?

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 08/24/05 17:11 CST: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words OK, so how does one upgrade an LFS system? Is it as 'simple' as creating /lfs on the system, doing the build chrooted there, and then going to single user mode and moving everything from

Re: Security thoughts to chapter 4.

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Guenther Niess wrote these words on 08/24/05 18:48 CST: I'm a newbie on lfs/blfs and want to install a multimedia/developer laptop desktop environment which is not the lowest security standart. So I prepare my installation for all the thinks and read the whole day about the programs referenced

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/24/05 20:29 CST: The Book is very well done. That is why a novice like me has reached this far, having installed X and Kde and now asking questions about how to get the peripherals going. No mean achievemnet for the LFS/BLFS team. You are a prominent

Firefox enhancement

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, If you have instances where you click on a URL link, or from the command line issue a URL parameter to Firefox and it opens a new browser window, when you'd rather it open a new tab in an existing browser window, issue the following command as the root user to update the installed firefox

Re: Weird test-results from gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
D.Dreschers wrote these words on 08/23/05 20:17 CST: in order to avoid rebuilding my complete system is it possible to build solely the objc,f77 and ada compiler and install them in /usr/local without damaging the c and c++ compiler in /usr ? What do you mean damaging? What version of GCC do

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/22/05 01:20 CST: That doesn't mean that it isn't an issue. I remember when I first did LFS getting sound to work was a big deal and it was the same issues that Randhir is reporting. I didn't post to the list about it, I struggled in silence and used

Re: there is not gmplayer

2005-08-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 08/22/05 18:17 CST: My configure was the following: patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-1.0pre7-kernel_2.6-1.patch ./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \ --enable-largefiles --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --enable-gui

Re: A question about login shells

2005-08-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Mike Hernandez wrote these words on 08/22/05 19:56 CST: maybe someone else has the cluebat handy? I do the following and it works for me to provide a consistent access to all my preferred login settings, regardless whether a login or non-login shell: create a .profile [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Byron wrote these words on 08/22/05 21:09 CST: Imagine taking the time to write a constructive suggestion, and being flamed for it. Last I checked, it was considered good form to close off a long support thread with a summary of the solution; that Randhir actually did this is

Re: GCC4 build with OpenSSH-4.1p1 missing -ldl

2005-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
[cc'd to BLFS-Support as it appears it should be directed there] William Harrington wrote these words on 08/21/05 11:28 CST: Has anyone experienced the problem where the dynamic loader library is not included in the list of LIBS? I am not seeing this issue. I am including the

Re: Tex cannot find latex.fmt

2005-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Henty wrote these words on 08/21/05 13:29 CST: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Lennon Cook wrote these words on 08/21/05 06:46 CST: [XOrg] assumes *everything* to compile it will be done as root... Hmmm. I haven't noticed this. I compile everything (up

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/21/05 20:24 CST: Only a few lines in these respective sections will make novices at ease plus this will reduce so much traffic on the List. With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting

Re: Tex cannot find latex.fmt

2005-08-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Lennon Cook wrote these words on 08/21/05 00:32 CST: Tex installed per BLFS 6.1, with all the Optional stuff, using the package user hint. What could cause all of these things to be missing? Installation using the package user hint? This is just a guess. I've installed TeX many, many times

Re: PHP does NOT like our 'Apache' install

2005-08-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/19/05 21:12 CST: PHP does not seem to be happy with our install method of 'apache-2.0.54'?? You are confused. our method of installing is different than the one you use. If our refers to the BLFS book's method, that is. I don't have any problems

Re: No sound

2005-08-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/19/05 21:05 CST: Sorry Jeremy!! There is no good news from my side. I have done what you wrote. Still no music or sound. But you said the other day that you *did* get output from the speaker-test program. So you *do* have sound. You never answered my

Re: PHP does NOT like our 'Apache' install

2005-08-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/19/05 21:12 CST: PHP does not seem to be happy with our install method of 'apache-2.0.54'?? Thinking about this further, I wonder if the fact that the book calls for using --enable-layout=FHS and there is a BLFS patch which modifies this layout, and then

Re: Problem on installing Xorg

2005-08-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Uli Fahrenberg wrote these words on 08/18/05 13:29 CST: Also, building X while in chroot is normally not recommended, you should be booted into your new shiny LFS system for doing that. Just out of curiosity more than anything: why? -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220]

Re: X libraries or include files not found - gtk+-1.2.10

2005-08-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Stephen Liu wrote these words on 08/18/05 22:45 CST: [snip all] Stephen, please start exercising a bit of self-reliance and try and help yourself occasionally. Most of the stuff you've posted recently is because of self-induced errors. Please double check your work, and that everything you have

Re: X libraries or include files not found - gtk+-1.2.10

2005-08-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Kevin Jordan wrote these words on 08/18/05 23:08 CST: On 8/18/05, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip countless lines of repetitive stuff] Did you add /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and set up /etc/profile.d/X.sh? Please folks, trim the original stuff from the messages before you

Re: Sound 101 questions.

2005-08-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 08/15/05 19:08 CST: [from LFS-Support, please direct all replies to BLFS-Support] It was suggested this belongs in BLFS support. I don't want to ignore etiquette and I'll post there in the future. However, as I've received replies I'll continue this

Re: undefined reference to `rk_globfree'/`rk_glob'

2005-08-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Harris Christian D SSgt 1 CS/SCBAM wrote these words on 08/15/05 19:07 CST: Is it ok to edit header file like that? Probably isn't the wisest thing to do. But, under your circumstances, it was one way to get libxml2 to compile. Can I trust the Libxml2 to function correctly? Yes, the program

Re: No sound

2005-08-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/14/05 19:00 CST: I have installed xmms-1.2.10 on my Pentium-3 machine; compaq presario laptop, with all its dependencies except 'libmikmod'. I always ensure that the ALSA 'aplay' command will play a .wav file and that the speaker-test command works as

Re: Firefox error to install

2005-08-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
mlij wrote these words on 08/14/05 22:11 CST: There was not any error to install it. When the BLFS 6.0 asks to run firefox in the /usr/bin, there is a failure: I downloaded the version 1.06 (I changed the commands from 1.0 to 1.06) What version of BLFS are the instructions based on. What

Re: evolution compile problems

2005-08-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Olaf Grüttner wrote these words on 07/11/05 20:19 CST: [snip all] Is there anything you can do to fix the clock on your system? You are running about a month behind everyone else. BTW - I responded to your message earlier and asked a question. And here is another question. What version of LFS

Re: Invalid pointer in XMMS

2005-08-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Giulio Daprelà wrote these words on 08/04/05 10:26 CST: I also noticed that the XMMS site claim also the following dependency: OpenGL Visual plugin: Mesa 3.0 or better Maybe you should add this to the optional dependencies in the book. A default installation of either of the X Window

Re: Circular Dependencies

2005-07-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:25 CST: The key is to have a reasonable idea of what each package contributes, then keep rearranging the pieces until you're happy. There are a few circular dependencies in the sense that foo improves bar, bar is necessary for baz, and baz can

Re: Building RPM

2005-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tarek Ghaleb wrote these words on 07/26/05 13:56 CST: I thought I'd try to rebuild Berkeley DB-4.3.28 with --enable-rpc. I added this switch to the ./configure command but also got the same exact error as above. My understanding of that configure switch for DB is that it will simply build the

Re: login errors after reinstalling shadow-4.0.10

2005-07-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 07/26/05 19:33 CST: What should I do to get rid of these errors? Follow the instructions in the current SVN book. The current book uses the following package versions, with some minor build variations to all of the packages: CrackLib-2.8.3 Linux-PAM-0.80

Re: Problem with Jpeg images

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Jensen wrote these words on 07/24/05 14:34 CST: Maybe we should move libjpeg and tiff to Recommended, add a note to --without-them if not installed. Then have the instructions do the recommended build. It's due for an update now anyway. It would be contrary to the what is stated

Re: Problem with Jpeg images

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 07/24/05 15:12 CST: The gtk developers seem to see jpeg as a required dependency. The install file in the source says GTK+ requires the following packages: - The GLib, Pango, and Atk libraries, available at the same location as GTK+ (Either

Re: blfs-support Digest, Vol 723, Issue 1

2005-07-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Mordox Layeha wrote these words on 07/19/05 11:24 CST: I got similar problem with gnome 2.10. After logout the screen goes black, although it seems that gdm is working. I checked out with ps aux | less and it seemed alright. Does anyone know what's wrong ? I suspect a repaint problem, but I am

Re: Firefox 1.04 and profile lockout

2005-06-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 06/24/05 18:36 CST: Likewise for thunderbird: mv /usr/bin/thunderbird /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.2/ And the new /usr/bin/thunderbird: I can't think of one reason why anyone would want multiple instances of Thunderbird running. DJ, clue me in. -- Randy

Suggestion to improve?

2005-06-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 06/07/05 21:52 CST: Steven C. wrote: Asking here for them to add something to the filter or whatever is also just a pipe dream LFS or at most BLFS dont take any suggestions on how to improve anything that they have created they actually take offence. :P I wanted

Re: libxft related pango problems

2005-06-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Olaf Grüttner wrote these words on 06/05/05 08:08 CST: Can somebody help me with pango? this is my error message: [snip stuff that looks like it is all okay] Have you run ldconfig to update the linker's library cache? -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC)

Re: openoffice-1.1.4 Multiply error

2005-06-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Linux fromscratch wrote these words on 06/05/05 18:08 CST: [snip] Just a personal observation, but I'm not real fond of the name you've chosen to use on your mailing account (I'm not speaking of the lfsmailing_at_gmail.com) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC)

Re: Dipmt: Distribution Independent Package Managing Tool

2005-06-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 06/02/05 00:18 CST: Package management systems and Gentoo are not in the BLFS book. Please Discuss these issues on LFS Chat. BLFS Support is to support people who are having issues installing packages that are in the BLFS book.

Re: regarding busybox - SOLVED

2005-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chakkaradeep C C wrote these words on 05/30/05 11:47 CST: i wonder how fnmatch.h alone missed!... First of all, as you've been asked in other forums, please don't top-post. This means you should reply underneath relevant text. Please also trim excess text that is no longer relevant to the

Re: Sendmail Problem

2005-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chakkaradeep C C wrote these words on 05/26/05 08:50 CST: hi all, i tried installing sendmail and am getting these errorsi have added the necessary things in site.config.m4.. You have added more than the necessary things. ../../include/sm/config.h:148:20: lber.h: No such file or

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 05/25/05 00:35 CST: Givin a guess, I like this one 'GLib-GObject-CRITICAL' of what is going on in the background, but I've no idea. (gnome-panel:27132): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `object-ref_count 0' failed (nautilus:27134):

Re: Gnome-2.10 application menu empty

2005-05-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 05/25/05 00:35 CST: Okay guys, I'm stumped. I have a day old build of current unstable. Not sure what unstable is. I'm guessing LFS-SVN. /uar/share/applications/*.desktop files exist. XDG_DATA_DIR is set (/usr/share). Taking advice from a post on gnome list,

Re: BLFS NewBie

2005-05-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
impulze wrote these words on 05/20/05 15:23 CST: [snip two top-posts, some stuff and 3 copies of the mail list footers] Please guys, no top-posting, and learn to trim the excess quoted stuff. http://lfs.crash404.com/faq/#netiquette -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220]

Re: MPlayer skin md5 sum

2005-05-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Zibeli Aton wrote these words on 05/18/05 01:30 CST: I'm preparing to install MPlayer using the current online BLFS SVN snapshot and noticed that I get a different md5sum for the file Blue-1.4.tar.bz2 than that given in the book. The MD5sum in the book was wrong. I've updated the book with

Re: User Login problems

2005-05-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris De Varennes wrote these words on 05/17/05 12:05 CST: After using the CD and nALFS to create a base LFS 6 system, I installed cracklib, PAM, and shadow exactly as described in the BLFS 6.0 book (same package versions, same instructions)...I realize now in retrospect I should have

Re: User Login problems

2005-05-17 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote these words on 05/17/05 16:13 CST: And it is my feeling, that security issues, as necessary they might be, are creating a lot of additional problems in the day by day use of linux, at least in an home environment. I would like to exchange oppinions on this issue also.

Re: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x080691a8 ***

2005-05-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 05/16/05 08:08 CST: Are we now at the stage where (B)LFS is as incompatible as m$ windows between versions, largely because the discipline has gone out of the release procedure in certain linux circles recently? No. BLFS versions target a specific version

Re: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x080691a8 ***

2005-05-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote these words on 05/15/05 12:27 CST: What's the meaning of this message ? I encouter it for example when compiling OO, or using certain programs ? LFS-SVN-20050412, BLFS-6.0. I've seen this message, but I can't remember what causes it. I do know you're going to have

Re: QT-3.3.4, MySQL-4.1.11, LFS SVN-20050428

2005-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
impulze wrote these words on 05/12/05 11:16 CST: i wanted to compile QT-3.3.4 with -qt-sql-mysql and it fails while trying to find mysql.h in /usr/include. I just edited the file and changed #include mysql.h to #include mysql/mysql.h and it worked. Maybe this section of BLFS is outdated but

Re: Samba/Ghostscript extra page printed

2005-05-06 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Herbison wrote these words on 05/06/05 10:40 CST: Local printing is working fine for me using HP's hplip driver with the included foomatic scripts and esp ghostscript, but when I print through samba I always get an extra page with something Like: %%PRODUCTNAME: ESP GHOSTSCRIPT%%

Re: Libstdc++

2005-05-04 Thread Randy McMurchy
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote these words on 05/04/05 14:31 CST: I discovered that gcc-2.95.3 isn't in BLFS book anymore. I have one problem with this : several (commercial) programs are compiled against the old libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (for example Racer, or MuPAD). [snip] What can I do about this

Re: Fwd: Spamassassin - won't compile with ssl

2005-05-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Declan Moriarty wrote these words on 05/03/05 09:17 CST: [snip] Hi Declan, We all received the first copy of your message and now the forwarded one. If you're not receiving them, you'll need to see what is up with your mail client. But you're coming in loud and clear, at least in my mail client.

Re: Looking for Hints to Install Net-SNMP

2005-05-02 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 05/02/05 13:17 CST: Went to Net-SNMP download site and there are a number of packages from which to choose. 1. net-snmp-5.2.1-HP-UX_B.10.20_9000-715.tar.gz 2. net-snmp-5.2.1-HP-UX_B.10.20_9000-712.tar.gz 3. net-snmp-5.2.1-HP-UX_B.10.20_9000-800.tar.gz

Re: build error doxygen 1.4.1 with doc

2005-04-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Thomas Berger wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:57 CST: i will build doxygen with following commands ( blfs-book - Chapter 12 ): = rm src/unistd.h ./configure --prefix /usr --docdir /usr/share/doc mak make install make docs make pdf

Re: Configuring and Running Xorg

2005-04-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/27/05 14:36 CST: My question is: Is the discussion in the HOWTO a throwback to earlier versions of XFree86 4.x.x or is this a glitch in the book and I should make ~/.xinitrc an executable shell script? I would bet a Coke that it isn't a glitch in the

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

Re: blfs livecd

2005-04-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 04/25/05 18:02 CST: Oh come on, John, there can't be more than about 80 packages in gnome ! (depends what you count as 'within' gnome, e.g. things like libxml2 and libxslt, and even xscreensaver). Yes, this is always the problem with gnome - I'm hoping the

Re: jadetex-3.13 (not openjade) install problem

2005-04-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Wouter Mense wrote these words on 04/18/05 13:30 CST: I'm using version svn-20050416 of the book btw. Everything you've shown so far looks good. However, I have a feeling that perhaps the jadetex.ini file did not get copied properly. Could you check? If you left off the comma in the copy

Re: X.org 6.8.2 problem

2005-04-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dennis J Perkins wrote these words on 04/10/05 20:19 CST: I compiled X and it seems to be working fine, except for one thing. If I switch to another terminal (Ctl-Alt-F1) and then try to switch back, my computer locks up. I recompiled 6.8.1 and that version doesn't have this problem. I can

Re: fontconfig-2.3.1 [update]

2005-03-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
[cc'd to blfs-dev] Andrew Benton wrote these words on 03/29/05 04:12 CST: Mark Carey wrote: I presume Randy doesn't get these errors as his --disable-docs appears to work because of a not installed docbook2man. I've installed docbook2man and --disable-docs works for me. If I pass

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