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.
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Good afternoon,
On September 14th, 2020, Secura unveiled a vulnerability in the Windows
NetLogon protocol, dubbed "ZeroLogon". The vulnerability is described as
follows in the description at NIST.gov [1]:
"An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker
establishes a
On 9/9/20 10:05 AM, filbar--- via blfs-support wrote:
Hello,
I have problem with compiling webkitgtk:
--
[1722/4623] Building CXX object
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
--
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
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
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.
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.
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
Good morning folks,
Last week, critical security vulnerabilities were unveiled in Mozilla
Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird [1]. These vulnerabilities allowed for
arbitrary code execution, sandbox escape, and denial of service. The
problem with these vulnerabilities is that they are being
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
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
Hi folks,
On May 4th, 2019, a bug surfaced in Firefox related to Addons. This was
due to an internal certificate that expired, and was not renewed by
Mozilla until problems were already present. The initial fix was
deployed on May 5th, 2019, through a patch in Mozilla's Studies system.
This
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
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:
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
On 4/24/19 6:53 PM, Mark Mohr via blfs-support wrote:
Well I used Nautilus File Manager 'Extract Here' menu option. There
lies the problem and the first time that has happened.
Was this Nautilus in 8.4 or SVN? I really should investigate this, as
it's a major problem with it's functionality,
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
On 11/26/18 5:00 PM, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote:
On Nov 24, 2018, at 02:38 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support
wrote:
On 24/11/2018 08:16, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to install Linux-PAM-1.3.0 (LFS 8.3-systemd), and in
the chapter
on the package it
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