[blfs-support] Critical security updates to glib2 and JasPer

Hello everyone, Today, a critical 0day security vulnerability was discovered in glib2. This vulnerability has to do with the g_bytes_new and g_memdup functions, which are very commonly used in applications that use GLib. The vulnerability is an integer-overflow in the g_bytes_new function.

Re: [blfs-support] Has something happened with the LFS/BLFS repos?

On 12/15/20 4:34 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 21:32 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 08:25:34AM +1100, Wayne Blaszczyk via blfs- support wrote: I cannot seem to pull anything down this morning, either LFS or BLFS. Is there

Re: [blfs-support] gpm mouse server

On 12/14/20 5:36 PM, James Read via blfs-support wrote: I installed the gpm mouse server and ran /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S70gpm start and got the output    *   Starting GPM console mouse service However, no mouse pointer appears in my terminals and the mouse doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

Re: [blfs-support] Kernel configuration observations/questions - BLFS 10.0/development

On 11/26/20 4:58 PM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Hi rhubarbpieguy, I looked into the ones that Ken didn't do, and I have some feedback. autofs File systems --->   <*/M> Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) [CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS]    I believe Kernel

Re: [blfs-support] nss-3.50 & nss-3.55

On 12/2/20 5:59 AM, Fosca via blfs-support wrote: I have just been working on BLFS and came across a slight hitch regarding nss-3.50 & nss-3.55 in 9.1 and 10.0 respectively. So in 9.1 - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/9.1/postlfs/nss.html - we find "The unit tests were run

Re: [blfs-support] libsoup will not build with sysprof

On 12/1/20 1:08 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:27:32AM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: Ah, I missed that (rebuilt meson, retried libsoup). I'll upload the patch to patches, but I really don't think we need to recommend sysprof for libsoup

Re: [blfs-support] libsoup will not build with sysprof

On 11/30/20 5:30 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:14:40PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:46:39PM +0100, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Fri, 2020-11-27 at 17:50 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On

Re: [blfs-support] Installation of the kernel systemd documentation - LFS 10.0/development

On 11/11/20 5:42 PM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: General setup -->    [*] Control Group support [CONFIG_CGROUPS]    [ ] Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools [CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED]    [*] Configure standard kernel features (expert users)

Re: [blfs-support] Rebuilding gst-plugins-base after installing Qt

On 10/27/20 8:48 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:00:15PM +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: (Cc: to support if I remember, in case anyone else hits this) Starting to upgrade my systems for whatever has caused today's gstreamer releases. Most are still

[blfs-support] glib2 and European Daylight Savings Time

Good evening, Earlier today it was discovered that there are complications with the combination of tzdata2020b and glib2-2.66.2 that result in invalid times after European Daylight Savings Time ends on October 25th, 2020. This update should make it into the next render of the book as I just

Re: [blfs-support] Issues building gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0

On 10/14/20 10:50 PM, DJ Lucas - LFS via blfs-support wrote: Being that nobody is reporting it, I'm guessing not, but I'll ask anyway. Has anybody had issues building gkd-pixbuf-2.40.0? From a related bug report, it looks like some missing dependency elsewhere. It really doesn't matter much

[blfs-support] ZeroLogon vulnerability - Samba is affected and patched

date to Samba-4.12.7 will appear in the next render of the book, and an errata entry has been published. Thank you, Douglas R. Reno LINKS: [1]: NVD - CVE-2020-1472 [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1472] [2]: CVE-2020-1472 | Netlogon Elevation of Privilege V

Re: [blfs-support] WebkitGTK compilation problem

On 9/9/20 10:05 AM, filbar--- via blfs-support wrote: Hello, I have problem with compiling webkitgtk: -- [1722/4623] Building CXX object

Re: [blfs-support] 9.1-systemd: NSS-3.55 build fails

On 8/16/20 10:58 AM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: On August 16, 2020 at 6:27 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-support wrote: On 2020-08-16 02:27 +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support: Playing with CFLAGS does not always do what you expect (it depends on the individual packages as to whether you

Re: [blfs-support] Parole breakage on intel gpu.

On 8/9/20 6:35 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: Two or three weeks ago I noticed a problem with parole on my latest build on my haswell (LFS from 25th July, BLFS from the next day). Whatever I try to view, the screen broken into horizontal stripes, rather like venetian blinds but with a

Re: [blfs-support] Problems with xine-lib on intel and amdgpu

On 8/9/20 6:57 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: My second set of problems with video players ;) I know that xine has always been rather fragile, partly related to CFLAGS I use in oe of the dependencies - but a year ago those detined flags made it mostly work. With mov files and some of

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS ch.9 glib failure

On 7/24/20 4:13 PM, Alexey Orishko via blfs-support wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:07 PM Alexey Orishko wrote: I was trying to compile GLib-2.62.4 (BLFS 9.1) in chroot and ninja command failed. Finally, I found an old email, stating that "It would build if not passing -Dman=true". It is

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS ch.9 glib failure

On 7/24/20 5:07 AM, Alexey Orishko via blfs-support wrote: Hi guys, I was trying to compile GLib-2.62.4 (BLFS 9.1) in chroot and ninja command failed. Last time I compiled glib/blfs-7.5 where ninja was not used. In the current setup I have both recommended packages (libxslt-1.1.34 and

Re: [blfs-support] OpenSSH

On 6/6/20 10:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 6/6/20 5:01 AM, Greekforce1821 via blfs-support wrote: The LFS/BLFS system is running on a Virtual Machine with bridged networking. The output of the command ( ss-lt ) is the same one as you described earlier. Ping the LFS using my

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling systemd and dbus in chroot? - BLFS 9.1 systemd

On 4/3/20 11:26 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 4/3/20 7:17 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Can/should systemd and dbus be compiled in chroot?  I assume so, partly due to the following in the dbus documentation: Yes they can, and without those commands :) Those

Re: [blfs-support] Compiling systemd and dbus in chroot? - BLFS 9.1 systemd

On 4/3/20 7:17 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Can/should systemd and dbus be compiled in chroot?  I assume so, partly due to the following in the dbus documentation: Yes they can, and without those commands :) Those commands are only for if you're booted into the system,

Re: [blfs-support] Configuring p11-kit

On 3/31/20 12:30 PM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: I'm in the process of building p11-kit from BLFS 9.1. I have not installed NSS, and I will install make-ca as soon as p11-kit is done. In the instructions (http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/postlfs/p11-kit.html

Re: [blfs-support] Systemd-245 trial upgrade

On 3/11/20 5:42 AM, Tom Willhite via blfs-support wrote: Hey just a post for those who might want this new version of systemd.    You will get a boot warning in journal about this dbus service file... /lib/systemd/system/dbus (socket or service   I forget)   take out the /var from inside the

Re: [blfs-support] libexif CVE-2019-9278

On 2/10/20 1:32 PM, Chris Gorman via blfs-support wrote: Hello All, Just found this CVE on bugtraq. Thanks to the wonderful folks at Debian security. I've patched my libexif, but I thought others might want to do so as well. I am attaching the patch that fixes the potential exploit, but you

Re: [blfs-support] Gimp-2.10.14 Pyton issue

On 1/30/20 9:57 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:59:39AM +, Stuart via blfs-support wrote: I have built the latest BLFS Gimp-2.10.14 and I get the following issue on startup. Has anyone got any suggestions has to what may be wrong ? Thanks Stuart

Re: [blfs-support] Problem Building alsa-tools-1.1.7 in BLFS

On 1/27/20 10:16 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/27/2020 7:44 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 1/27/20 8:35 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: Building alsa-tools-1.1.7 in BLFS systemd development version: The BLFS book has a script that builds

Re: [blfs-support] Problem Building alsa-tools-1.1.7 in BLFS

On 1/27/20 8:35 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: Building alsa-tools-1.1.7 in BLFS systemd development version: The BLFS book has a script that builds a number of sub-programs. I got an error with "make" for one of them, and tracked it down to a conversion error in the sub-program

Re: [blfs-support] Instructions for installing libcap-2.31 with PAM

On 1/24/20 10:51 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 1/24/20 10:38 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 1/24/20 10:37 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 24/01/2020 à 17:28, Chris Gorman via blfs-support a écrit : Hello All, I am trying to update my BLFS system

Re: [blfs-support] Instructions for installing libcap-2.31 with PAM

On 1/24/20 10:37 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 24/01/2020 à 17:28, Chris Gorman via blfs-support a écrit : Hello All, I am trying to update my BLFS system to run the newest firefox and thunderbird. I have a working BLFS 9.0 installation and a working with installing packages

Re: [blfs-support] xterm and Xorg legacy

On 1/23/20 1:23 PM, Eduardo Batalha via blfs-support wrote: Hi, I had to install the font-misc-misc legacy font package in order to prevent xterm from crashing when changing options with CTRL-MouseButton. This font is not in the recommended legacy fonts at the end of the X-org section. Kind

Re: [blfs-support] GTK-doc Failures

On 1/22/20 8:42 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: In building several packages that allow making documents with the --enable-gtk-doc configure switch, I found that some succeed and others fail, apparently due to some bug in the gtk-doc build software. configure runs ok, but make

Re: [blfs-support] Updated xterm-352 tarfile has problems

On 1/22/20 7:47 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: I'm going to post some emails detailing a few issues I've encountered building BLFS packages in the past several weeks. I believe some are real problems, others are probably the result of my ignorance of important things. Here we

Re: [blfs-support] Thunderbird Startup Error Message

On 1/22/20 7:37 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/22/20 6:10 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/22/20 5:28 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 1/22/20 6:14 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/22/2020 4:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs

Re: [blfs-support] Trouble Configuring JS-60.8.0

On 1/17/20 9:19 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: I'm trying to build JS-60.8.0 in BLFS systemd development version. The configure script immediately dies with the message: NotImplementedError: /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found If I create an empty /dev/urandom file (touch

Re: [blfs-support] In git-2.25.0 all test fail as normal user

On 1/15/20 4:09 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/15/2020 1:43 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 15/01/2020 à 21:27, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support a écrit : I just built the updated git-2.25.0 and ran the tests. The BLFS book says that running them as a

Re: [blfs-support] Error Running bash Download Script in Xorg Libraries

On 1/15/20 1:11 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: On 1/15/2020 12:06 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 1/15/20 1:01 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: For about 4 hours I've been trying to execute the bash script in "Downloading Xorg Libr

Re: [blfs-support] Error Running bash Download Script in Xorg Libraries

On 1/15/20 1:01 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote: For about 4 hours I've been trying to execute the bash script in "Downloading Xorg Libraries" that downloads the needed files via wget, but keep getting this error: Resolving www.x.org... failed: Temporary failure in name

Re: [blfs-support] Phonon-4.10.3: Cmake error: Could not find "Qt5LinguistToolsConfig.cmake"

On 2019-11-16 14:43, Trent via blfs-support wrote: Phonenon-4.10.3 From this link http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/kde/phonon.html Error displayed: * CMake Error at

Re: [blfs-support] Bluez test failure? BLFS 9.0

On 11/12/19 6:02 PM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Compiling Bluez with 'make test' fails with:    ./test-driver line 107:   8971 Aborted   "$@" > log_file 2>&1    FAIL: unit/test-sdp The process then locks.  What does the failure mean?  To that

Re: [blfs-support] Issue with Admin Access in GNOME Desktop

On 11/11/19 3:57 PM, Jared Stevens via blfs-support wrote: > I am not entirely sure what you are trying to do.  When you first install gdm in blfs, you create a user "gdm" with group "gdm" this is what it is run as.  In all my years of using gnome, and it is around 30 years, I

Re: [blfs-support] LLVM-8.0.1 not building

On 10/29/19 12:51 AM, Trent via blfs-support wrote: On 10/28/19 11:31 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 10/28/19 11:17 PM, Trent via blfs-support wrote: On 10/28/19 8:53 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:47:50PM -0500, Trent via blfs-support

Re: [blfs-support] Fcron-3.2.1: /lib/systemd/system/fcron.service: No such file or directory

On 10/26/19 8:34 PM, Trent via blfs-support wrote: On 10/26/19 7:13 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 10/26/19 7:04 PM, Trent via blfs-support wrote: From this section: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/general/fcron.html Last part: sed -i 's:/var

Re: [blfs-support] Fcron-3.2.1: /lib/systemd/system/fcron.service: No such file or directory

On 10/26/19 7:04 PM, Trent via blfs-support wrote: From this section: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/general/fcron.html Last part: sed -i 's:/var/run/fcron.pid:/run/fcron.pid:' \ /lib/systemd/system/fcron.service Is returning: sed: can't read

Re: [blfs-support] Best approach for lvm2

On 10/26/19 9:20 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Pierre [1] I am not sure why Windows is using two small partitions + one big, but the computer came with that, and I just shrank the big partition to make room for linux. The reason why Windows does that is so that the recovery tools

Re: [blfs-support] Systemd Units link incorrect?

On 10/23/19 10:55 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:05:20PM -0500, Trent via blfs-support wrote: Sorry, I posted into the wrong mailing list. As mentioned in LFS list, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/introduction/systemd-units.html

Re: [blfs-support] Installing Python modules in BLFS - BLFS 9.0/development

On 9/21/19 7:46 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Although Python 3 is now installed in LFS, it appears necessary to reinstall Python 3 in BLFS to install Python modules.  From the Python 3 documentation:    "Python 3 was installed in LFS.  The only reason to install it here is

Re: [blfs-support] Minor documentation typo -D=LLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON - BLFS 9.0/development

On 2019-09-04 16:18, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: The LLVM-8.0.1 documentation lists -D=LLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON in the Command Explanations section.  I believe it should be -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON. Fixed at r22094. Thank you for the report! --

Re: [blfs-support] Mesa and Libva correct install method

On 8/27/19 8:28 PM, Dan Ayre via blfs-support wrote: Hi Friends, I have a lot of confusion on what comes first with this install. 1-Build and install libva  "You must build libva first without EGL and GLX support" How is this done? 2- Build and install Mesa 3- Build Libva but do not

Re: [blfs-support] gdm: how to use a non us keyboard? [solved]

On 8/27/19 10:01 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 8/27/19 2:54 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Also, changing /etc/localtime to a symlink has an immediate effect of changing the clock to the right timezone (that's really amazing, at the time you hit return, the clock

Re: [blfs-support] gdm: how to use a non us keyboard?

On 8/25/19 2:50 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On 25/08/2019 20:09, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: On 8/23/2019 7:56 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 09:39:41PM +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Will try using obconf in lxde.

Re: [blfs-support] Issues with epiphany

On 8/14/19 1:54 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On my development system, I thought I'd give epiphany another trial, using the development book, but with as few of the recommended deps as possible. Seems to work (for some value of work - see below), but not something I'd recommend (e.g.

Re: [blfs-support] wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager

On 7/20/19 3:37 AM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: I've been reading through the installation instructions for wpa_supplicant (http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/basicnet/wpa_supplicant.html) and NetworkManager

[blfs-support] Critical Firefox and Thunderbird 0days

to fix a set of security flaws: wget to 1.200.3 - Recommended but not required to fix another set of security flaws: cURL to 7.65.1 Thank you, Douglas R. Reno LINKS: [1]: https://thehackernews.com/2019/06/firefox-0day-vulnerability.html [2]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security

Re: [blfs-support] ffmpeg pulseaudio --enable-libpulse

On 6/15/19 10:23 AM, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote: When building ffmpeg, pulseaudio is listed as an optional dependency. But if one has pulseaudio, ffmpeg will still not work with pulse, unless ffmpeg is compiled with --enable-libpulse . https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html

Re: [blfs-support] Minor issue in Wireshark

On 5/28/19 10:09 AM, Waleed Hamra via blfs-support wrote: On 28/05/2019 18:04, Waleed Hamra wrote: Hi guys; in the Wireshark page, the command to install the documents assumes we're in the top level directory, when we're actually inside the build dir. Either we should cd .. , or adjust the

[blfs-support] HEADSUP - Firefox Addons Bug Fixed

, Douglas R. Reno -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] NSS on the systemd book out of date

On 5/12/19 4:54 AM, Waleed Hamra via blfs-support wrote: Hi guys; The development systemd version of the book still has 3.43, whereas the svn one is on 3.44. This wouldn't usually be a problem, except that the 3.43 patch is now 404ing. Regards Waleed Hamra Can you try again please? The

Re: [blfs-support] polkitkit patch

On 5/10/19 7:02 AM, spiky via blfs-support wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/polkit-0.115-security_patch-3.patch returns 404 where is the patch? If you're looking for the patch for Polkit-0.115, here it is:

Re: [blfs-support] Firmware for video controller

On 5/3/19 10:40 PM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out whether I need additional firmware for my video controller. # lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3185 (rev 03) # dmesg | grep firmware [...] [drm] GuC: No

Re: [blfs-support] giflib-5.1.6 zero byte Makefile

, and should probably be reported upstream and fixed! Also, were there any other files that were 0 bytes? Can you verify that the MD5SUM matches again please? Thank you, Douglas R. Reno -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs

Re: [blfs-support] Actions to install unbound and bind on systemd

On 4/20/19 3:36 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Writing to -support, because I am very newbie to systemd. On the systemd book, both for bind and unbound, there is an instruction to modify the /etc/resolv.conf file, such as: # unbound echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

Re: [blfs-support] libseccomp-2.3.3 test error

On 3/28/19 1:46 AM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: On Mar 27, 2019, at 04:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 3/27/19 4:17 PM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: Hi, I'm installing libseccomp-2.3.3 on BLFS 8.4-systemd following the instructions on

Re: [blfs-support] webkitgtk link

On 2019-03-11 15:50, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: Hi The link https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.22.6.tar.xz is returning You don't have permission to access /releases/webkitgtk-2.22.6.tar.xz on this server. It seems that Upstream is having problems. Pull it from here:

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 8.4 - Firefox 65.0.1 showing up as Nightly on my system

On 2019-03-09 17:11, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 04:54:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: I found build/moz.configure/init.configure is_nightly = is_release_or_beta = None if 'a1' in milestone: is_nightly = True elif 'a' not in

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 8.4 - Firefox 65.0.1 showing up as Nightly on my system

On 2019-03-09 14:33, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/9/19 12:52 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: On 2019-03-09 11:28, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 3/9/19 11:17 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: Good morning (or afternoon), I setup a build of Firefox to run overnight on one of my 8.4

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 8.4 - Firefox 65.0.1 showing up as Nightly on my system

On 2019-03-09 11:28, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 3/9/19 11:17 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: Good morning (or afternoon), I setup a build of Firefox to run overnight on one of my 8.4 systems. Using my pre-existing script and mozconfig, which worked for 8.4's release

[blfs-support] BLFS 8.4 - Firefox 65.0.1 showing up as Nightly on my system

Good morning (or afternoon), I setup a build of Firefox to run overnight on one of my 8.4 systems. Using my pre-existing script and mozconfig, which worked for 8.4's release testing to give me a Firefox Quantum install, gave me a Firefox Nightly install, in which the commands after ./mach

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

On 2/23/19 2:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/19 2:38 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/19 2:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/19 1:59 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/2019 3:54 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019

Re: [blfs-support] Make-ca errors

On 2/23/19 2:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/19 1:59 PM, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/2019 3:54 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:32:18AM +, DJ Lucas via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/2019 3:14 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: I had a

Re: [blfs-support] MiniBrowser question

On 2/23/19 7:40 AM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: Hi The MiniBrowser that is part of WebKitGTK+.  Silly question maybe.  Can you save websites with this browser?  I can't see how. thanks Cliff I don't think you can. You can try Ctrl+S if you want, but last time I checked,

[blfs-support] Fwd: KDE Project Security Advisory: kauth: Insecure handling of arguments in helpers

If anyone has Frameworks below 5.55.0 installed, I recommend updating if it's not too disruptive. Forwarded Message Subject: KDE Project Security Advisory: kauth: Insecure handling of arguments in helpers Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:13:05 +0100 From: Albert Astals Cid

Re: [blfs-support] twm menu not working

On 2/8/19 9:37 AM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: lHi I'm building a new LFS.  I've got to the Xorg testing and I'm booting into the three windows and clock.   I haven't got a left click twm menu though.  So i can't move the windwos etc. Have googled this problem with no luck.   Any

Re: [blfs-support] regulatory.db

On 2/2/19 10:43 AM, Pol Vangheluwe via blfs-support wrote: Op 19 jan. 2019, om 20:28 heeft Pol Vangheluwe mailto:pol.vanghel...@icloud.com>> het volgende geschreven: Google brought me to Linux Wireless.  The regulatory database contains all national regulations about WiFi signals and

Re: [blfs-support] Upgrading older systems (python3, rust)

On 1/30/19 9:14 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: Just a Heads Up to anyone else who updates firefox on older systems (and thereefore needs to update rust for 1.32.0 : If using python-3.6 (i.e. 8.2 and older) there are 223 extra tests failures, all in rustdoc. For the book's firefox (docs

Re: [blfs-support] Error compiling ICU4C-63.1 on a RaspberryPi 3B+

On 1/27/19 4:46 PM, Jim Baize via blfs-support wrote: Hello list. This is my first time posting to this list but I will try to be as thorough as I can be. I installed LFS on my RPi3B+ following the instructions found here (http://intestinate.com/pilfs/guide.html) and here

Re: [blfs-support] exiv2-0.27.0 update breaks gexiv2-0.10.8 on blfs-svn

On 1/3/19 2:54 PM, Thanos Baloukas via blfs-support wrote: On 3/1/19 10:22 μ.μ., Armin K. via blfs-support wrote: On 3.1.2019. 20:40, Thanos Baloukas via blfs-support wrote: ../gexiv2/gexiv2-startup.cpp:10:10: fatal error: exiv2/xmp.hpp: No such file or directory The header name changed to

Re: [blfs-support] Linux-PAM-1.3.0 & Shadow-4.6 & Systemd-239 and dependencies

some have /etc/passwd and /etc/group in non-standard locations [Manjaro as an example]). You'll need to rebuild both dbus and systemd here using the BLFS instructions. I highly doubt we'll ever add Linux-PAM to LFS. It's too complex. Douglas R. Reno -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/list

Re: [blfs-support] network manager-1.18.6 error

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 9:56 AM spiky0011 wrote: > > On 26/08/2018 15:42, lei niu wrote: > > No. You have to install libnetworknanager-glib first. > > lei niu > 邮箱：niuneil...@gmail.com > >

Re: [blfs-support] Unbound slow to start with recent kernels on some machines

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:04 PM Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 10:02:39PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I've been seeing problems on some of my machines with recent kernels > > (first noticed in 4.17-rc, but it also now happends in 4.16.4 or > > later). The problem is that instead

Re: [blfs-support] Build v4l-utils-1.14.2 error, missing glx.h.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:24 AM niuneilneo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am building Gnome from scratch, and this time I stuck at building > v4l-utils-1.14.2 (sorry for Chinese character, but I still think you can > understand where are the problem lines): > > make[3]:

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS-Basic

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:52 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 07/10/2018 05:46 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > > Would this be the time to suggest a change in policy on tickets? I'd > > like to see tickets have the changelog for the package and security > > updates marked as such

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS-Basic

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:44 PM Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 02:23:38PM -0700, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: > > Having multiple parts of the book being split up and teams working on > > each part is a good idea in my opinion. > > > > Except at the moment we have one small team and in

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS-Basic

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: > As most of you know, BLFS is huge. If it is printed on paper, it would > take over 2000 pages. There are over a thousand individual packages in > the book. > > In addition, upstream changes are released often. The average is about > 3.5

Re: [blfs-support] Seg fault when starting Gnome

blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Hi Cliff, I'm in the process of building GNOME for BLFS 8.1 currently. I'll report back when it's done and see if I have the same problem. In the meantime, what GPU are you using? I know Nouveau has been weird with GN

Re: [blfs-support] Runtime dependency? (It doesn't say.)

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: > > >> Patches accepted. > > > > > > I've seen your HTML source, it's rather more involved than the HTML-3 I > > > learned to hand-code many years ago. I just used pico to make my > > > website. Apparently you have a

Re: [blfs-support] ImageMagick and Emacs-25.2 Version 2017-06-13

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm finding the book a little hard to follow on the emacs page. Is it > saying that emacs-25.2 doesn't support ImageMagick-7.0.4-8 but does support > ImageMagick-6.9.7-8? I don't have ImageMagick installed at all at

Re: [blfs-support] Gobject-introspection

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Michael Shell wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:02:31 +1200 > Simon Geard wrote: > > > But given the ease of installing it, versus the difficulty of going > > back and reinstalling packages if you later find that you

Re: [blfs-support] radeon HD3000 freeze

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Warshall wrote: > On Sat, 27 May 2017 01:20:18 -0400 > Michael Shell wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 May 2017 09:36:04 -0400 > > Andrew Warshall wrote: > > > > > I have a radeon HD3000

Re: [blfs-support] LFS on Windows

wanted to try compiling for a new architecture and requested it. TL;DR - finished the temporary toolchain after 16 hours, and it's really slow... but it's functional. Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: [blfs-support] geoclue-2.4.6

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Ian Macdonald wrote: > Trying to configure geoclue-2.4.6 without ModemManager and Avahi seems > to require --disable-cdma-source and --disable-nmea-source as well as > the switches mentioned. > > Or, as usual, is it just me. > I'll add this to

Re: [blfs-support] Starting the avahi-daemon under systemd

intainer, that's all of them). Avahi continues to work fine. It's actually an issue in glibc, but we're waiting for a new version of Avahi to fix this up. In the meantime, it should be fine. Thanks, Douglas R. Reno LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinf

Re: [blfs-support] [blfs-dev] IBus-1.5.15 build failure

make[1]: *** [Makefile:682: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/sources/ibus-1.5.15' > make: *** [Makefile:589: all] Error 2 > > Regards, > Wayne > Greets, Wayne. We're missing a dependency in the book, you need to install GConf. I'll update it at my next commit. Thanks, Douglas R. Reno -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] gdk-pixbuf and shared-mime-info

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Hazel Russman wrote: > May I suggest that shared-mime-info be added as a run-time dependency of > gdk-pixbuf. The library doesn't function properly without it. For example, > gtk programs that use gtk_file_filter_add_pixbuf_formats() as

Re: [blfs-support] Upcoming release of BLFS 8.0

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 14:34 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > We are very close to being able to release BLFS-8.0. All packages have > > been built with current instructions and package versions in the > >

Re: [blfs-support] systemd LFS build 8.0-rc1

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Riccardo G Corsi wrote: > Hi, I had a problem in compiling systemd-232 in the (new) LFS 8.0-rc1 > (Linux From Scratch - Version 8.0-rc1-system) > > Configure alerts: configure: error: *** POSIX caps library not found > > I have libcap.so

Re: [blfs-support] Error in GnuTLS-3.5.9 "Optional"

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> wrote: > GnuTLS-3.5.9 is shown as an optional dependency for itself. > > Richard > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the

Re: [blfs-support] Bug in GPM-1.20.7. Could easily be patched.

east I was alarmed. Maybe the book could say that you > will see these failures and not to worry. > > -- > Hazel, I'm generating a patch for this now. It will be in the book in about an hour. Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Upgrading Systemd

; thanks > > Cliff > It isn't often that I say this, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't think that it will, but I've never upgraded systemd in place. If we can assume that systemd in BLFS is an upgrade, then I would say that it won't lose the enabled unit files. They are only symlinks,

Re: [blfs-support] ghostscript 'make so' fails

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:23:57PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > In a fresh system, ghostscript's 'make so' fails - several warnings > > which seem to be unchanged from my last build in November, but then > > > > In file

Re: [blfs-support] [blfs-dev] RFC - Remove WebKitGTK+-2.4.11

just label the dependency as "WEBKITGTK" or something similar, with no other indication as to what version that they are looking for. GtkHTML might be an example, although I don't have a book in front of me and am several hours away from one. Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer

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