Spam filtering on the mailing lists

2005-06-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi everyone! I finally got around to updating the SpamAssasin rulesets for the mailing lists today (thanks to Jim Gifford for giving me explicit instructions!). I'd be interested to know if you: 1) Notice a significant decrease in the levels of spam on the lists 2) Continue to receive spam

LFS-6.1-pre2 released

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1-pre2. This pre-release for the upcoming final 6.1 revision of the book includes a patch to fix a recently disclosed security bug in zlib. You can read the book online at

Re: Hotplug, hotplug-ng, udev: Versions?

2005-07-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Declan Moriarty wrote: Those who keep on top of developments please point me. LFS-6.0 installed udev-030; there is udev-060 out there. I'd recommend udev-060 if you've got linux-2.6.12.x running. The Release-notes

Re: Hotplug, hotplug-ng, udev: Versions?

2005-07-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: On the basis that udev-059 should have improved things, (but didn't); udev-060 should have fixed that (but didn't); So udev-061 must work... And our survey saidpossibly not :) Try udev-062! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

LFS-6.1 released

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades (including Linux-2.6.11.12, GCC-3.4.3 and Glibc-2.3.4) and security fixes (including the recently disclosed zlib vulnerability). It also includes a large

Re: LFS-6.1 - svn and security issues

2005-07-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I pulled a fresh copy of LFS from SVN: svn co svn://linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/ Right, you want the *tagged* version, not the branch. Due to the way the testing branch was being used, we roll back the version format to TESTING-[DATE] after a pre-release, so

Re: Udev-062: A lucky number! Script errors?

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev was crapping out quite early and noiselessly in the script. This bit start) # Don't attempt to populate the /dev directory when # something # else has already set it up. [ -f

Re: Udev-062: A lucky number! Script errors?

2005-07-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: Actually, I was wrong. That .udev.tdb file will still exist. I was complaining I suppose that the approach was weak because a failure to mount the ramdisk would leave one with /dev populated by some nodes, and udev would piss off without even checking if the ones needed

Re: displaying png and mng images with firefox

2005-07-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: A little while ago, I made a throw-away comment that the test pages for png and mng at http://gjuyn.xs4all.nl/libmng/MNGsuite/index.html didn't seem to work. See the top of http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/mngsupport, but don't be tempted to install that extension,

Re: Mass storage, hotplug etc - SORTED?

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: Now all I have to do is to figure why I'm not getting the modules. I personally stay clear of modules completely. Are there particular reasons why you're using them, or is it just a way to get LFS to fix up our module handling? :) Matt. --

Re: Invalid pointer in XMMS

2005-08-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: Output from glxinfo for Xorg: OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.2.1. And, FYI, 6.3.1 has been merged in time for the upcoming 6.9/7.0 releases (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-August/008944.html) --

Re: evolution compile problems

2005-08-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Simon Geard wrote: Since most of us don't speak German, do you mind translating the lines above into English? I'll give it my best shot (though my German is very rusty, and my techincal German is non-existent). Thankfully if you're familiar with the basics of German and common GCC errors

Re: change permissions on /dev/null

2005-08-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andrew Benton wrote: If udev is running, won't /dev be a temporary filesystem that will disappear when you reboot? Well, kind of! It's pretty subtle in the book, but we do actually create /dev/null and /dev/console devices on disk so that booting into single user mode will work. During a

Re: Summer Time Winter time adjustments

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: But the various time programs seem broken at best, and linux seems confused about clocks, having turf wars over this function that one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# hwclock --show Wed 17 Aug 2005 20:28:09 IST -1.008866 seconds [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date Wed Aug 17 21:28:19

Re: hdparm DMA

2005-08-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Declan Moriarty wrote: and Maxtor ones only would do MDMA (whassat?) Take your pick from 'M$' DMA, 'Maxtor' DMA, 'Maybe' DMA or simply 'Ecstasy'! See, I can be entertaining too! :) It's actually 'Multi-Word DMA', see

Re: Very slow population of /dev under kernel 2.6.13

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote: I just made a compilation of a 2.6.13 kernel for my LFS/BLFS6.0 During the boot procedure, the PC stops for 3 to 4 minutes populating /dev with device nodes Under the 2.6.8.11 kernel, this point takes some seconds. What could be the problem ? Under both kernels /dev has

Re: Cannot install extensions in Thunderbird

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I hope your TBird build is as successful as the one I did today. I'm sending this message from a freshly built TBird. And we all know now why you're so keen to learn so much about TBird, Randy, don't we? *cough*

Re: Printing problem - installing HP driver

2005-09-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Stephen Liu wrote: Any folk on the list having experience please shed me some light. Yep, and someone even wrote a hint on it. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/PREVIOUS_FORMAT/hpdeskjet.txt is a little outdated, but should show you the basics required to get things

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

2005-09-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andrew Benton wrote: Really? I can't get any sound from flash if I don't enable alsa-oss emulation in the kernel. Which flash plugin are you using? Oh, erm, looks around to see who's he can blame...I was on my Ubuntu host when I tested that little theory out. I've not built any BLFS stuff

Re: transcode with lzo support

2005-09-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
thorsten wrote: PS: Please don't reply to a message from the list, if you start a new topic... Compose a new one instead. Thanks for the hint, will do next time but just out of curiosity, is it marked as a reply by your email program? or have you seen it in the headers? In my email program it

Re: No permission to use sound card

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ilja Honkonen wrote: I was trying to use ogg123 from vorbis tools to test my sound configuration and it didn't have permission to use the sound device. I fixed this by adding MODE=0666 to all lines about alsa devices in 25-lfs.rules. Is this the proper fix? I'm using (B)LFS 6.1. No, the

cpio-2.6 fails to build testsuite

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, Using current svn instructions, I get the following after issuing 'make check': genfile.c:63: error: static declaration of ‘argp_program_version’ follows non-static declaration ../lib/argp.h:428: error: previous declaration of ‘argp_program_version’ was here genfile.c:64: error: static

Re: cpio-2.6 fails to build testsuite

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: Don't know, I just tried building it but it wouldn't even compile at all (on GCC4 LFS)... From http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/cpio.html: sed -i -e s/invalid_arg/argmatch_invalid/ src/mt.c -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support

Re: cpio-2.6 fails to build testsuite

2005-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 1) Remove static, as you did. That's correct if argp_program_version is used anywhere outside genfile.c. OK, looks like it is the correct fix then: # grep -rl argp_program_version * lib/argp.h lib/argp-parse.c lib/argp-pv.c lib/argp-pvh.c src/main.c

Re: running *.ogg files ith alsa

2005-10-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
mess-mate wrote: Hi, after installing alsa (card detected:cmpci) can't run any *.ogg file on kde. I've installed vorbis and the ogg-lib but nothing helps. Any hint ?? Does ogg123 play them without any problems? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Steve Prior wrote: This is actually one of the reasons that a LFS 6.1.1 release was agreed to, though I haven't seen much progress in getting that out the door. Err, have you been following lfs-book at all? If so you'll have seen there's been a reasonable amount of work done on the 6.1.1

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: I understand that. That's what the Errata is for. Until 6.1.1 is released (if it is), this patch should probably appear there so people don't continue to run into this problem. Not everybody builds SVN. We (in this instance we = website project) accept patches :-)

Re: openssh closes connection after username is sent

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:57:34PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Um, I just realized I have no idea how the website is generated. What's the proper way to pull the html for website? Plus 's/lfs-book/website/' above. svn export svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/www2 I think you

LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1/ or download it from

KDM displaying squares instead of text

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, On a fresh build of LFS-SVN and BLFS-SVN I've just gotten kdebase installed. 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'm assuming it's some kind of font/utf-8 issue but haven't the foggiest what it

Re: KDM displaying squares instead of text

2006-05-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 5/29/06, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a fresh build of LFS-SVN and BLFS-SVN I've just gotten kdebase installed. 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'm sure KDM

xine-lib fails to compile video_out_xmmc.c

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, I've probably forgotten to do something really simple again, but would appreciate a cluebat here. I'm trying to compile xine-lib-1.1.1 with Xorg 7.1 installed but am running into: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../src

Re: xine-lib fails to compile video_out_xmmc.c

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
The configure check looks bogus. As a workaround, try adding ac_have_xxmc=no to your configure line. Actually, passing --without-xxmc-path --without-xxmc-lib disables the plugin! It's now compiled and installed without a problem. Whether I can get Kaffeine to link and work against it is a

MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, The file bin/installmesa appears to be missing from the latest version of MesaLib. Does anyone know whether this is just a packaging error on their part or whether there's a different mechanism for installing the package? The release notes didn't mention it. doc/install.html just

kdebase vs. linux headers

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi folks, I'm trying to compile kdebase-3.5.4 against the headers installed via 'make headers_install' from linux-2.6.18. Unfortunately, I get this error: error: '__s64' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/joystick.h:132: error: '__s64' does not name a type Now, obviously that's not

Re: kdebase vs. linux headers

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Rainer Peter Feller wrote: Just a wilde guess but may be /usr/include/linux/joystick.h should not inclde asm/types.h but linux/types.h ... I thought the same thing at first, but linux/types.h has the same guards around it! Anyway, this has now been reported upstream and the

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/06, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doc/install.html just mentions 'make install'. Having never touched Mesa before, I've no idea why one would want to use 'bin/installmesa' as opposed to 'make install'. The developer just added the `make install

Re: MesaLib-6.5.1

2006-10-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/06, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doc/install.html just mentions 'make install'. Having never touched Mesa before, I've no idea why one would want to use 'bin/installmesa' as opposed to 'make install'. The developer just added

Re: changes with new video card

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Simon Geard wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:03 -0700, Arden wrote: Help! I need some advice. I have just gotten into the blfs-book, so far I have X running, and a friend gave me a video card, EVGA GeForceMX 4000. Can I get this working? without much trouble? [snip] Shouldn't be a problem

Re: reiserfs-3.6.19 - Missing asm header?

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Burgess
Alan Lord wrote: Just a quick note; not sure if this is LFS or BLFS... It's a BLFS problem, caused by LFS :-) (yes, I love sitting on the fence!). On building the above tools, the make barfed because it couldn't find /usr/include/asm/unaligned.h Maybe this is something to do with the new

Re: Opera 9.02

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a great web browser, but only available as a binary. Which, IMO, makes it not great at all. Free software is not about its initial cost (in monetary terms) it's about Freedom (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). Then, since I don't have internet

Re: KDE - error reeports at start and stop

2006-11-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Shawn wrote: Jerzy: You compiled ipv6 support into X but you are not running ipv6. To get rid of this you need to rebuild X without ipv6 ( maybe somebody knows a runtime switch??? ). '-nolisten inet6' should do it. (see http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html) Regards, Matt. --

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good. I'd probably handle

Re: php and sql [slightly OT]

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Monday 12 March 2007 20:47, Alan Lord wrote: Yes there are quite a few differences between Postgresql and MySQL in syntax, SQL implementation (PGSQL is fully ACID compliant whereas MySQL is apparently not) MySQL is actually ACID compliant, but only if you use the InnoDB storage engine.

Re: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:00:56 Georgina Joyce wrote: In working through 28 June 2007 blfs, I'm attempting to build the Xorg libraries. However, I'm getting the error below: I observed the PKG_CONFIG_PATH and set that to /usr/lib/pkgconfig as that appeared to be the correct path but it

Re: Fw: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:11:03 -0700 (PDT), Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/9/07, Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Providing BLFS in info format does not require dumbing down *LFS or making any other major changes to its content. All

Re: sed question

2008-01-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:51:56 +0100, Olaf Grüttner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have a question about working with sed. I have an xml file containing theme1/theme I want to change this to theme2/theme I have problems with the and signs. Is there a was to mask them in the

Re: GCC - 4.2.1 fails to build on LFS 6.1

2008-08-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:37:20 +, Cliff McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually just Google the error message but it's finding nothing useful with this one. Any progress? I did the same and found very little. There was a suggestion it might be a bug, but that's out because

Re: Fwd: Xorg7.4-installation-xcursor-themes-1.0.1 compile problems

2008-12-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:56:59 +, b-vol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ### after configure and make is executed:- ## /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen -p ../redglass ./X_cursor.cfg X_cursor /usr/X11R7.4/bin/xcursorgen: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared

Re: when does sudo and sudoers get created?

2008-12-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:51:31 -0600, Ralph Porter rporterm...@gmail.com wrote: I must have missed a step. I do not have /usr/bin/sudo or /etc/sudoers What step has this install? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/sudo.html (found using the index at

Re: problems compiling pyKDE4//kde-workspace-4.2.0/yippiee!

2009-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:33:21 +, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote: So before you make you small-minded remarks, read the postings of someone that engenders respect (KenMoffat) a generous and knowledgable person with a long track record on BLFS and who has found my comments

Re: Help with Xlib and Xorg-apps

2009-04-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:05:52 -0500, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote: this is  how I did it a while back  (if it is of  any help - my host was amd64 -64BITonly  kernel-2.6.27.7)):- Apologies for the

Re: HAL doesn't detect my cdrom(s)

2009-05-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:54:50 +1200, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:12 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Hehe...should've sent this Sunday as I had intended to do. The util-linux requirement kills the new release...have to wait till LFS-6.5/7.0. 0.5.11 seems to be

RE: modules for different machines

2009-07-12 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:42:54 -0400, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thanks. What i don't think i made clear is i currently have a monolithic kernel running on lfs 6.4. If i made that kernel in to a modular kernel and compiled all the sound drivers as modules, then took that disk

LFS-6.5-RC1 released

2009-07-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 1. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.1, GCC-4.4.0, Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory

LFS-6.5-RC2 released

2009-07-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 2. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.2, GCC-4.4.1, and Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the

Re: Issue with signal.h

2009-08-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:49:28 +, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, After installing acl/attr, when I compile coreutils/libcap, this happens: CC ls.o In file included from /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28, from /usr/include/signal.h:339,

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:40:24 -0700, Nathan Coulson conat...@gmail.com wrote: I am having the following problems when compiling cdrtools with the latest book make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/raid5/book/blfs/38/cdrtools-2.01/libschily' == COMPILING OBJ/x86_64-linux-cc/fexec.o In file

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:41:01 -0400, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote: When I was trying to build Dash, I got these messages: if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -include ../config.h -DBSD=1 -DSHELL -DIFS_BROKEN -Wall -g -O2 -MT eval.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/eval.Tpo -c -o

Re: CDRTools fails to compile

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:23:01 +0100, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: See the attached patch, does this fix the issue? Yes, it does! Thanks very much Guy. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:51:31 +0100, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:45:38AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: This is an upstream bug, and as such should be reported there. Do you have a URL for the ticket? No, I was suggesting that William report

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 6:56:26 -0600, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: I had a look at their mailing list archives [0] and couldn't see a similar report (and google couldn't either). That missing [0] reference is: http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@vger.kernel.org/ Regards

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:10:00 +0100, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:57:50AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: That missing [0] reference is: http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@vger.kernel.org/ Ah, I've already looked through that, a project mailing

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:33:56 +0100, Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:15:13AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: Yes, I can reproduce it at will here. Stock LFS-6.5-rc2 and no compiler flags set in my environment: It's odd that I'm not experiencing

Re: Dash fails to build with the LFS 6.5 toolchain

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 7:52:48 -0600, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Now to track down which of those tools called out to from mkbuiltins is causing the issue! And the culprit is `sort'. Building coreutils without LFS' i18n patch is enough to get things working again

LFS-6.5 Released

2009-08-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.5. This release includes numerous changes from LFS-6.4 (including updates to Linux-2.6.30.2, GCC-4.4.1, and Glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material

Re: autofs-5.0.3 Compile error BLFS svn-20090901

2009-09-06 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:25:37 -0600, Jim McConville j...@xmission.com wrote: There still remains the question: Should it be noted in the BLFS document that these bindings will not exist if the computer is rebooted into the host system followed by an entry made into the chroot environment? I

Re: LFS is at 6.5 BLFS is at 6.3 Why?

2009-11-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:23:03 -0500, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: Why does LFS stay so far ahead of BLFS? What is the point of building the newest LFS if the BLFS files are older and probably won't work or would be replacing newer versions of apps with older versions? BLFS, like all of the

Re: LFS book 6.52.3 problem (passwd root)

2009-11-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:54:37 -0200, Cristiano Cortezia cris_locor...@hotmail.com wrote: I've got a problem in the mentioned step (6.52.3 - Shadow configuration). If I run the command 'passwd root', I get the following output, before being able to provide any input: root:/# passwd root

Re: man-db-2.5.5 never installed

2009-12-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:22:00 -0500, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: I have complete log files of the entire step process of the unpack, configure, make and make check steps. I can show you as much of the logged process for each step as you want to see. The error is directly related to man.o. I

Re: MySQL test error

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Mykal Funk wrote: 091224 8:16:01 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read Security section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! Are you building/testing MySQL as root, hence getting this warning? Have you tried building/testing as a non-root user? Regards, Matt. --

Strace on recent LFS (dev) build

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, Trying to compile strace under a very recent LFS build (2.6.32.2 kernel) results in: net.c:976: error: field 'nl' has incomplete type 'nl' in this case is of type sockaddr_nl, which should be defined in /usr/include/linux/netlink.h. config.log has this to say: configure:5882: gcc -c

Re: Strace on recent LFS (dev) build

2009-12-27 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Any ideas as to what's gone awry here would be much appreciated. Doing a bit more hunting around, I think http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c501935a3cdcf6b1d35aaee3aa11c7a7051a305 may be related. Changing the linux

Re: Xorg desktop viewed through fog - Sorted

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:06:29 +, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/1/11 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com:  Xorg -configure will tell you what kind of video card X finds.  Look at ~/xorg.conf.new Actually, I believe that upstream are moving toward a config-less X. I

Re: blfs-book-svn-html

2010-02-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
stosss wrote: Why is it that you and other developers are so touchy about the book and its condition and people pointing out things that could be done different, better or whatever? Why do you and the others insist on thinking there is nothing wrong with the book and so unwilling to improve

Re: BLFS-6.4RC1 or any

2010-02-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:38:51 -0600, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Mike McCarty wrote these words on 02/16/10 01:32 CST: To put it another way, my time is my life. But you have the time to write 9 paragraphs about why you don't like distros and use BLFS! Pot-Kettle-Black.

Re: help tetex-src-3.0 error

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dale Stein wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this problem I am trying to build teTeX-3.0 and it is coming back with a ulgy error. This was built with LFS 6.6 and BLFS svn. make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/blfs/tetex-src-3.0/texk/web2c/lib' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

LFS-6.6 is released

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.6. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.5 (including updates to Linux-2.6.32.8, GCC-4.4.3, Glibc-2.11.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the

Re: libdrm-2.4.14 overwrites some drm linux-api-headers

2010-03-02 Thread Matthew Burgess
John Burrell wrote: If installed as root, libdrm will overwrite these linux-api-headers from /usr/include/drm: On a very new system (linux-2.6.33 + libdrm-2.4.18) I see the same thing. Looking at the README in the tarball for libdrm: New functionality in the kernel DRM drivers typically

Re: libdrm-2.4.14 overwrites some drm linux-api-headers

2010-03-03 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:19:25 +, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: On 3 March 2010 13:49, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote: Then should libdrm be built as soon as possible when bootstrap building BLFS so as to minimise the chance that some other package will build

Building KDE-4.4.1

2010-03-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, I know a couple of folks here have built KDE recently. I think I already know the answer to this, but I think I have to grab kdesupport out of SVN in order to build KDELibs, right? My conclusion was arrived at because kdelibs wants 'automoc4' from kdesupport but there is no

Re: Building KDE-4.4.1

2010-03-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: On 7 March 2010 11:37, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I know a couple of folks here have built KDE recently. I think I already know the answer to this, but I think I have to grab kdesupport out of SVN in order to build KDELibs, right? My

LXDM PAM

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, Has anyone got lxde running with lxdm as the graphical login manager by any chance? I think things are getting hung up with PAM; lxdm starts up OK, but after trying to log in as a valid user, it just seems to result in lxdm restarting. I see this in /var/log/auth.log: Mar 8 21:21:09

Re: LXDM PAM

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Has anyone got lxde working with lxdm and would be able to offer any hints please? It turns out this wasn't PAM's fault at all. I was missing some core lxde packages, namely lxde-common. I'll see if I can get this stuff written up; lxde looks to be just what I'm

Re: OHCI vs UHCI

2010-03-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:56 -0600, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is one just to know by some means that all USB 2.0 conform to one or the other of UHCI or OHCI? The kernel's menuconfig help text for EHCI says: If you configure EHCI, you should probably configure the OHCI

Config-less Xorg xkb config

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be working fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard layout as its default. I'd prefer to remain config-less, if at all possible as, so far, this would be the only option that I'd need to cusomise. `setxkbmap -rules

Re: Config-less Xorg xkb config

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 29/03/2010 23:10, David Jensen wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:58:09 +0100 Matthew Burgessmatt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be working fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard layout as its default. I'd prefer

Re: Config-less Xorg xkb config

2010-03-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
On 30/03/2010 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote: On 30 March 2010 02:12, Ken Moffatzarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: I haven't tried to do without xorg.conf because I don't think it will default to anything approaching my default settings. Just gave this a test - no keyboard or mouse (I only

Re: What works for me (LFS-6.6, x86_64)

2010-05-07 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 06 May 2010 13:51:20 +1200, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:25 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: OK, I've dug out my notes from last october, but all those say is that the new version didn't seem to be properly released and was only in fedora (fc12). Looking at

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 23 May 2010 20:07:00 +0200, Lars Bamberger maill...@herr-der-mails.de wrote: hermes~ type ls ls is aliased to `ls -F --color=auto --show-control-chars' Nope. It won't tell me about the executable /bin/ls. What about `type -a ls'? Regards, Matt. --

Re: Config-less Xorg xkb config

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:58:09 +0100, Matthew Burgess matt...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Hi all, I'm running Xorg in a config-less setup. Everything seems to be working fine, apart from it's using the 'us' keyboard layout as its default. I'd prefer to remain config-less, if at all possible

Re: Jhalfs and LFS6.7

2010-09-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:26:07 -0400, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote: Hi I think I might be ready to use or try Jhalfs. Can anyone comment on its use with LFS 6.7 or would I need to use an earlier version? I've just completed a build of LFS-6.7 with the latest jhalfs-trunk on a Lubuntu-10.04

Re: make problem with kdelibs-4.5.3

2010-11-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:24:29 +0100, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, could somebody help with a hint, how to come through the last 4% of the compilation of kdelibs-4.5.3 ? I get ( on two boxes ) the error quote - Scanning dependencies of target

Re: make problem with kdelibs-4.5.3

2010-11-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:33:46 +0100, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote: -- Found shared-mime-info version: /usr/bin/update-mime-database: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/update-mime-database) It turns out I shouldn't have recommended

Re: Flash Player on 64 bit linux - Firefox

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:58:33 -0500, Mike Hollis zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:47:55PM +0100, Lars Bamberger wrote: I'm using Shockwave-Flash-10.1r10 with firefox-3.6.13 (with GNOME). That works perfectly here. libcurl does not seem to be a dependency for

XKB Failed to compile keymap

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, On my latest build of Xorg-7.6, the server refuses to startup issuing the following error: (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap /tmp/server-0.xkm XKB: Failed to compile keymap That immediately struck me as odd as the following option is passed to Xorg-Server's configure command:

Re: XKB Failed to compile keymap

2011-02-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:43:50 +, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: If building lots of drivers doesn't help, how about xkeyboard-config as suggested in http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2011-January/020953.html Thanks, Ken. It turns out that recompiling all of X up to

LFS-6.8-rc1 release

2011-02-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.8-rc1. This is the first release candidate on the road to LFS-6.8. It includes numerous changes to LFS-6.7 (including updates to Linux-2.6.37, GCC-4.5.2, Glibc-2.13 and security fixes). It also includes

Re: how to automate lfs

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:57:20 +0200, Rodolfo Perez r-...@gmx.net wrote: Hi all Well I'm not sure if this forum is the right one ... I've build lfs 2 times successfully and now I'm trying to use jhalfs. I did not succeed so far, but before i spend hours and hours I would like to ask the

Re: how to automate lfs

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:53:10 +, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, I write my own custom scripts based on the commands in the book but with my own special ingredients. I'm sure jhalfs works as other people on the lists use it, but I don't know if it works for

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