Hello everybody, I've a few basic questions

2005-07-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Mengual
Hello everybody, I'm a newbie on the list, but completely newbie on linuxfromscratch. I cannot put up anymore Debian, and I don't want to use an other distribution. If fact, I think Debian is a good distribution, but the fact that packages are installed, removed, upgraded... automatically causes mo

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-07-17 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: ... Keeping Firefox in your home folder solves the problem of running it once as root as you have write permissions in your home folder. Also, if it all goes wrong just delete it. You haven't installed anything system side so there's no mess to clean up. This script should

Re: problem with netfs and samba share

2005-07-17 Thread Rob van Dam
Simon Geard wrote: It's not a problem unique to Samba - network filesystems in general always seem to cause problems when the remote machine goes down. We've had much the same problem with NFS on machines at work - if an NFS server needs to go down for any reason, it's best to make sure any clie

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-07-17 Thread Andrew Benton
Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: As it happens, I'm involved in the development of an svg-based system. I would like to get my hands dirty on the deerpark versions of Firefox, but without throwing the working 1.0.5 version out the window. Does it sound like a good (=sufficient for complete isolation of

Re: Upgrading Firefox

2005-07-17 Thread Dan McGhee
Ken Moffat wrote: Where did you see indications of 1.0.6 appearing soon ? Ken Ken, thanks for the informative response. I read about 1.0.6 in this article at mozilla.org: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6950 In fact, just now when I checked the URL, I saw an announc

Re: problem with netfs and samba share

2005-07-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:31 +0200, Rob van Dam wrote: > So I guess I have to live with this? > > I will complain on the LKML because this makes my system useless now and > then. A solution is to reboot, but that's the specialty of another o.s. It's not a problem unique to Samba - network filesys

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-07-17 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Andrew Benton wrote: No, it's not a mandatory dependency, they've included the cairo code in the mozilla source. It works well, but there's not a lot of svg out there on the web. As it happens, I'm involved in the development of an svg-based system. I would like to get my hands dirty on the de

Re: problem with netfs and samba share

2005-07-17 Thread Rob van Dam
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: It is the kernel problem. Try complaining to LKML, but I think that it will turn into a useless flame. So I guess I have to live with this? I will complain on the LKML because this makes my system useless now and then. A solution is to reboot, but that's the