Re: [blfs-support] Firefox-16.0.1 users

2012-10-27 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 27.10.2012 17:03, alex lupu wrote: > Hi Bruce: > >> We don't have the resources to update >> every time a point release comes out. > > Nor that you're expected to or should. > > That was more an expression of surprise (and frustration) on my part. > True, they sometimes "push" it to something

Re: [blfs-support] Problem and solution of sound issue with GNOME

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 06.10.2012 18:22, Armin K. wrote: > Just a warning, if you manage to upgrade WebKit to 1.10.0 and you want > to use rhythmbox, don't use gstreamer 0.11 switch because it will break > rhythmbox (I use rhythmbox git checkout that has been ported to > gstreamer 0.11/1.0 that works fine) Thanks,

Re: [blfs-support] Problem and solution of sound issue with GNOME

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 06.10.2012 16:54, Armin K. wrote: > On 06.10.2012 16:22, Lars Bamberger wrote: >> On 06.10.2012 15:33, Armin K. wrote: >>> On 06.10.2012 13:34, Lars Bamberger wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I had updated some packages and somewhere along th

Re: [blfs-support] Problem and solution of sound issue with GNOME

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 06.10.2012 15:33, Armin K. wrote: > On 06.10.2012 13:34, Lars Bamberger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had updated some packages and somewhere along the way, I lost all the >> sound in GNOME. GNOME sound preferences only showed the dummy audio sink. >> >> I found t

[blfs-support] Problem and solution of sound issue with GNOME

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, I had updated some packages and somewhere along the way, I lost all the sound in GNOME. GNOME sound preferences only showed the dummy audio sink. I found that I had to change some GNOME settings using the dconf editor (desktop/gstreamer/0.10/default-elements/*-audiosink from the default value

Re: [blfs-support] systemd UDEV-188

2012-10-06 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 06.10.2012 08:25, Carl Thorn wrote: >> [gst-plugins-base-0.10.36 (...) fails on make] > We really need the specific error to be able to help. > make[5]: Entering directory > `/xc/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36/gst-libs/gst/interfaces' > GENGstInterfaces-0.10.gir > g-ir-scanner: warning: Optio

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-10-02 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 01.10.2012 23:40, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > [XOrg installation] >> BTW, it won't hurt to run ldconfig (as root) after >> installing every single library. That's not in the >> book IIRC, but on my system that war needed for some >> packages. > > I was following, as this had happened to me, a

Re: [blfs-support] Clutter-1.12.0 compile problem

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 30.09.2012 12:47, Armin K. wrote: > And alas, sane users will install Xorg in /usr, otherwise it is a waste > of time ... Oh, a deja-vu. :-) Just like the GNOME_PREFIX discussion. Support for GNOME_PREFIX other than /usr was dropped from the book. Then XORG_PREFIX other than /usr should also b

Re: [blfs-support] XORG 7.7 libraries

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 30.09.2012 18:01, Carl Thorn wrote: > [Installing X with XORG_PREFIX=/usr] > When install XORG libraries xtrans-1.2.7 installs without error. But > libX11-1.5.0 fails during configure with this error:checking keysym > definitions... configure: error: Cannot find keysymdef.h. How do I locate >

Re: [blfs-support] Clutter-1.12.0 compile problem

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 30.09.2012 11:32, Armin K. wrote: > [[XORG Compatibily symlinks]] > > That is one mistake everyone makes. One more reason to fix it once and for all :-) > Compatibility symlinks have NOTHING > to do with Clutter and for anything else but some damn old stuff that > supports Xorg 6 release. I

Re: [blfs-support] Clutter-1.12.0 compile problem

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 30.09.2012 10:28, Lars Bamberger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble compiling clutter-1.12.0. Disregard. If I add --enable-x11-backend=yes to the configure options, it works. I have X11 installed with a /opt/X11 prefix but I also have the compatibility symlinks.

[blfs-support] Clutter-1.12.0 compile problem

2012-09-30 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, I'm having trouble compiling clutter-1.12.0. make stops with this: [...] CC clutter-stage-gdk.lo ./gdk/clutter-stage-gdk.c: In function 'clutter_stage_gdk_realize': ./gdk/clutter-stage-gdk.c:266:49: error: 'clutter_stage_gdk_update_foreign_event_mask' undeclared (first use in this functi

Re: [blfs-support] Is BLFS ever going to get a stable release?

2012-08-25 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 25.08.2012 20:15, Nate Muench wrote: > I'm curious, is BLFS ever going to get a stable release again? It's been > 4 years since the last one (6.3). I'll be honest, I've been putting off > a rebuild of BLFS (LFS) because if the, more frequent, uploads to the > BLFS svn branch. This has been

Re: [blfs-support] mutter and clutter

2012-05-17 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 16.05.2012 23:10, Armin K. wrote: > [clutter-1.10.4 configure log] > I've compared your second log and my build log: > > checking GL/glx.h usability... yes > checking GL/glx.h presence... yes > checking for GL/glx.h... yes > -checking for glXCreateContext in -lGL... no > +checking for glX

Re: [blfs-support] mutter and clutter

2012-05-16 Thread Lars Bamberger
> On 05/15/2012 11:49 PM, Lars Bamberger wrote: > > [mutter won't compile due to missing headers from clutter] > > They are located in /usr/include/clutter-1.0/clutter/x11 on my system > and I did not pass any extra options to the Clutter instructions. That was it, than

[blfs-support] mutter and clutter

2012-05-15 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hello, I've come across this problem during a GNOME build as per BLFS-SVN on an lfs-7.1 system: During the build of mutter-3.4.1: clutter-x11.h and clutter-x11-texture-pixmap.h are missing (needed by compositor.c). These are part of clutter-1.10.4 but they are not installed during the installa

Re: paco

2011-07-24 Thread Lars Bamberger
Oh, I think I'm loosing track of what the problem was in the first place. :-/ On Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Please, the correct order of columns for command paco -sMFCndd iptablesis: > > [package size] [missing-size] [number of installed files] [number of missing > files] [number of shared f

Re: paco

2011-07-23 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 23.07.2011 01:24, Fernando Oliveira wrote: > > For > uninstalling iptables-1.4.7, for example: > $ > ./configure ... && sudo make uninstall > Senha: > Making > uninstall in extensions > make[1]: Entrando no diretório > `/media/dados/home/fernando/tmp/iptables-1.4.7/extensions' > make[1]: > ***

Re: paco

2011-07-22 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 22.07.2011 18:30, Fernando Oliveira wrote: > I noticed a > "paco" command. I installed and now very much appreciate it. Jup, it's pretty neat! But please, don't just install it, read the appropriate hint at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/paco.txt > But how to remove an e

Re: epiphany, ssl and nss

2011-07-21 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 19.07.2011 02:47, Mike McCarty wrote: > Lars Bamberger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> whenever I try to go to a site via http_s_ in epiphany-2.30.2, I get >> this error: > > Could you post a failing URL? https://webmail.myquix.de/ https://banking.postbank.de/ https

epiphany, ssl and nss

2011-07-18 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hello, whenever I try to go to a site via http_s_ in epiphany-2.30.2, I get this error: "Unable to load page Problem occurred while loading the URL https://foo.foo SSL handshake failed: A record packet with illegal version was received." ~>ldd /opt/gnome/bin/epiphany | grep ssl libssl3.s

Re: xorg-server-1.8.2 and pkg-config

2011-01-19 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 19.01.2011 15:59, Göran Boström wrote: > Hi! > > Installed xorg-server-1.8.2 from the BLFS docs. > While countinuing installing drivers I get the message "xorg-server not > found" while configure. > Doing "pkg-config --list-all" I can't see any traces of xorg-server at all. 1st, verify that '

Re: Flash Player on 64 bit linux - Firefox

2011-01-05 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 05.01.2011 20:10, Mike Hollis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Mike Hollis wrote: >> ldd indeed does not show it as a dependency, but I renamed all the >> libcurls.* in /usr/lib and I have the symptoms the poster is reporting. >> Rename them correctly and it works. >> >> ---

Re: polkit and use-shadow patch

2010-11-20 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 20.11.2010 20:13, Juan Antonio Moreno Carmona wrote: > Hi > I tried to install polkit-0.96 with polkit-0.96-use_shadow-1.patch and > configure exits on error with: > > configure: error: unrecognized option: '--authfw=shadow' > > the complete configure command was: > > ./configure --prefix=/us

Re: looking for updates

2010-11-03 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 03.11.2010 18:52, bendeguz wrote: > > Is there a web page or mailing list, where I can keep > track of all packages related to gnu/linux? I'm not aware of any SINGLE source for that purpose. > Or do I > have to keep looking at several sources? Jup, I guess so. Personally, I've subscribed to

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-23 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 23.05.2010 20:22, Matthew Burgess wrote: > What about `type -a ls'? Yupp, works as advertised :-) Forgive me for not reading the manual before replying /shame on me/ Lars -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsu

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-23 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 22.05.2010 10:35, Nicolas Richard wrote: >> Find out what command is actually executed when you type 'ls'. Do a >> 'which ls' or 'alias ls' if which is not installed. > > I think 'which' will not tell you if there is an alias (maybe it depends > on version used), so 'alias' might be a better fi

Re: ls: unrecognized prefix: hl

2010-05-21 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 21.05.2010 09:40, Rodolfo Perez wrote: > root [ /etc ]# ls > ls: unrecognized prefix: hl > ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable It would seem that something went awry in the alias definitions and/or the dircolors definition. Find out what command is actually executed when yo

xsltproc segfault (was: gnome desktop)

2010-05-20 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 20.05.2010 11:24, Simon Geard wrote: >> [ Segmentation fault xsltproc ] Upgrade to libxml2-2.7.7. blfs-svn is still on libxml2-2.7.6. It seems, that the segfault was happening in xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename, which is a libxml2 function. Works fine here. HTH Lars -- http://linuxfr

Re: GVFS isn't loading at session start

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 07.03.2010 18:24, Maginot Junior wrote: > I can't open locations such as computer://, trash://, > network://, everytime I try I get "Error: Operation not supported", Hi, I have had the very same problem a while back. I traced it back to an undocumented dependency of gnome-vfs on gvfs. The solu

Re: Trouble building gir-repository

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 07.03.2010 15:08, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> If GNOME_PREFIX is anything other than the usual system-paths, the build >> mechanism passes incorrect arguments to libtool which can't find the >> libs. Runing the whole autoconf stack (aclocal, autoheader, automake, >> autoconf, configure, make) didn'

Trouble building gir-repository

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, I've got some trouble compiling gir-repository as per current SVN and was wondering if anybody else encountered the same problem. If this is helpful, feel free to add it to the wiki. Description of the problem == During 'make' in git-repository-0.6.5 and having GNOME_

Re: Thunderbird 3.0 and Xulrunner

2010-01-20 Thread Lars Bamberger
On 20.01.2010 10:24, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has successfully built Thunderbird 3.0 with > Xulrunner? It seems at least three people built it successfully: See BLFS Dev-List (Message-ID: <4b2143f2.8080...@operand.com.au>), BLFS Trac Ticket numbers 2036 and 2594 > I'm ha

Re: xorg-xserver-1.7.2/3 configure error

2010-01-03 Thread Lars Bamberger
lux-integ wrote: > I am having a little difficulty compiling xorg-xserver 1.7.2/1.7.3. On > execution, the configure script yields the following:- > > > checking for GL... configure: error: Package requirements (glproto >= 1.4.9 > gl >> = 7.1.0) were not met: > >

User notes on xchat

2009-11-08 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, Some notes on xchat that might be helpful ... I just tried to compile - xchat-2.8.4 with xc284-scrollbmkdir.diff patch (as per current BLFS), - xchat-2.8.6 without any patches and - xchat-2.8.6 with xc286-smallfixes.diff patch. Compilation stopped with an error which I _think_ is related to

PolicyKit and polkit

2009-10-19 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, in the current devel blfs there are these two packages: PolicyKit-0.9 and polkit-0.94 Are those two the same except for the version and the different spelling? That's not quite clear to me. If so, I guess the older PolicyKit-0.9 should be removed from the book. Lars -- http://linuxfromscra

ALSA startup problem with /usr beeing an another partition

2009-06-17 Thread Lars Bamberger
Hi, I've been tracking a problem with ALSA on my system. The symptom is that the soundcard remains muted after system boot. I traced it back to the point that '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf' needs to be reachable when 'udev' calls 'alsactl' during the boot sequence. However, this is not the case if '/

Re: root=UUID or root=LABEL not working

2009-02-23 Thread Lars Bamberger
ell sam wrote: > I am having trouble booting from the kernel on my hd to load Linux from > my usb hd. I have installed everything and it works using the internal > hd kernel booting from grub passing the root=/dev/sdb6 to the kernel. I take it, you want to boot the kernel stored on you hd and have