Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: How are you guys becoming root? Simply doing 'su' inherits the environment. I tested it two ways. I didn't trust myself to type it all in without typos at the command prompt so I put all the commands in two scripts, one run as a user, one run as root. The exports were i

Re: KDE startup problem

2005-09-10 Thread Sean de la Haye
On 9/10/05, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sean de la Haye wrote:> I'm trying to get KDE working on my LFS box and I've encountered an usual> problem. I've been able to get XFree86 installed successfully and I've been> able to install other applications through twm. KDE

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hugo Bernier wrote these words on 09/10/05 17:11 CST: > On 9/10/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >>I think this needs looking into. Has anyone filed a bug? > > [snip] > > I just did :-) It just so happens that things started getting busy at > work right after I was finally

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Hugo Bernier
On 9/10/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I think this needs looking into. Has anyone filed a bug? [snip] I just did :-) It just so happens that things started getting busy at work right after I was finally able to compile tcl & tk. Best, Hugo -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: Printing problem

2005-09-10 Thread frank
hi Stephen But the printer can't print. Ran "Print Test Page" resulting in "Error: client-error-not-possible" indicated. iirc this error was often caused by a missing spool dir (/var/spool/cups) or wrong permissions. nevertheless you should set the appropriate "LogLevel" in cupsd.conf and c

Re: Blank window on gnome-control-center

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Peter B. Steiger wrote: A few months ago Rhandir Phagura posted a problem with gnome-control-center not showing anything but a blank window. Now I'm getting the same problem. Rhandir said that he was able to get g-c-c working when he exported the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, XDG_DATA_

Re: KDE startup problem

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Sean de la Haye wrote: I'm trying to get KDE working on my LFS box and /usr/share/icons. I've also tried making clean and rebuilding with no luck, I even tried 3.4.2. Does anyone have any suggestions? Check that you configured your fonts properly like it says on the page http://www.

Re: docbook 4.1.2

2005-09-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hugo Villeneuve wrote these words on 09/10/05 15:02 CST: > The only remaining problem with gstreamer is with the post-install > command to change the ownership of html documentation: > > = > chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/doc/gstreamer-0.8.10/*/html >

Re: docbook 4.1.2

2005-09-10 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:10:07 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Villeneuve wrote these words on 09/10/05 11:47 CST: > > > Now, I'm trying to install gstreamer-0.8.10, but I have the following > > error: > > > > From what I understand, docbookx.dtd version 4.1.2 was n

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, rblythe wrote: Okay, I re-read and followed :) the instructions given by Peter and Ken. I re-installed freetype2-1.9 (prior to trying to build xorg) I got the same freetype errors as in my previous post. I am out of ideas, and I really don't want to start from scratch ag

Where to get font for kiten (KDE)

2005-09-10 Thread D.Dreschers
Hi folks, I installed KDE and was eager to use kiten from the kdeedu package. After I started it I immediately noticed some boxes where kanji-characters should be. Hiragana and katakana characters are displayed correctly. I suppose I'm lacking a kanji font file. So, where do I get one? Thanks

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

2005-09-10 Thread rblythe
On Saturday 10 September 2005 10:38 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Those sound like *raw* kernel headers, *not* the headers from > linux-libc-headers. Re-read what Peter said, then reinstall the > linux-libc-headers from the version that you used when you built the > system. Building userspac

Re: Building BLFS using uClibc

2005-09-10 Thread John Gay
On Saturday 10 September 2005 18:19, Brandin Creech wrote: > I'm curious if anyone has had any success in going "beyond LFS" by using > uClibc instead of Glibc. I'm supposing that there will be some changes > needed to the steps needed for building some of the applications mentioned > in Beyond Lin

Building BLFS using uClibc

2005-09-10 Thread Brandin Creech
I'm curious if anyone has had any success in going "beyond LFS" by using uClibc instead of Glibc. I'm supposing that there will be some changes needed to the steps needed for building some of the applications mentioned in Beyond Linux from Scratch, but my understanding of uClibc is that it aims to

Blank window on gnome-control-center

2005-09-10 Thread Peter B. Steiger
A few months ago Rhandir Phagura posted a problem with gnome-control-center not showing anything but a blank window. Now I'm getting the same problem. Rhandir said that he was able to get g-c-c working when he exported the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, XDG_DATA_DIRS, and XDG_HOME, and ra

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, rblythe wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 2:17 am, Peter B. Steiger wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 23:25 -0400, rblythe wrote: error messages I recieved (listed below) are resulting from the missing float.h header file. Oooh, I know that one - because it happened to me.

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

2005-09-10 Thread rblythe
On Saturday 10 September 2005 2:17 am, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 23:25 -0400, rblythe wrote: > > error messages I recieved (listed below) are > > resulting from the missing float.h header file. > > Oooh, I know that one - because it happened to me. When you built lfs, > did

Re: escputil (gutenprint)

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Nothing to do with gcc4. Tried the printer today on a previously working setup on a different machine. The device appears fine, but obviously there is some sort of internal fault causing it not to be identified. [insert ritual condemnation of crap in

Re: gnome-2 libraries

2005-09-10 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Simon Geard wrote on Fri, 09 Sep 2005: So you've got gtksourceview-sharp installed, going by the listing - correct? In that case, what exactly does monodevelop report when you try to build it? It'll be using pkgconfig to lookup the packages you need - which ones does it fail on? Can you

Re: escputil (gutenprint)

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: I'm having a problem with escputil from gutenprint-5.0.0-rc1 (and -beta4) with gcc4 on x86_64-64 - gutenprint compiles fine and passes all its tests, but escputil -u -s -r /dev/usb/lp0 reports "cannot identify printer!". From memory, gimp-print-4.2 didn

Re: KDE startup problem

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sean de la Haye wrote: I'm trying to get KDE working on my LFS box and I've encountered an usual problem. I've been able to get XFree86 installed successfully and I've been able to install other applications through twm. KDE 3.4.1 built with no problems and when I tried to st

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Hugo Bernier wrote: I recently encountered an error compiling tk, so I made my way back to tcl and found that I could not compile it as an unprivileged user; I would consistently get an error on this line of the instructions: ln -v -nsf ../../include/tcl${V} /usr/lib/tcl${V}/include && I looked

Re: KDE startup problem

2005-09-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
Sean de la Haye wrote: I don't have IPv6 in the kernel and I was unable to turn it off through modifying /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Try adding "-nolisten inet6" to the command line that launces xdm, configured in the above file, I believe. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-sup

Re: NTP bootscript

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Benton
HAUTZ Gilles wrote: Hi all, I've discovered a "bug" in the ntp boot script. If there is no network connectivity or a DNS problem. The computer won't boot and stay at NTP starting. I think we should first check that we can reach the ntp server before trying to start ntpd. I know that RH try fir

Re: Can't compile X.org - missing float.h

2005-09-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > >I am at my wits end with this. Attached is my xorg-compile.log. I >happened to notice some not in ... type messages so I did this: cat >xorg-compile.log | grep 'not in' and I received a lot of lines that >showed float.h not being in

Re: A question on CUPS

2005-09-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Hi Declan, > > Tks for your advice. > > > > > I use neither, preferring Uli's script which > > does the business for me. > > What is Uli's script? Any pointer? TIA > Part of the PFS (Printing From Scratch) hint, which relies on the fact that

Re: Running a firstboot Script

2005-09-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Thanks, Declan! > > It works great. Now I can upgrade packages by just changing their > version numbers in versions.make, and rebuild the system overnight. > > How's that for living on the bleeding edge? ;) > > -mk > > > Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL

Re: Problems installing OpenOffice.org Binaries

2005-09-10 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Hi, > > I'm trying to install OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 on my amd64 system, as it's > a lot easier than trying to compile it right now (I'll do it > eventually, I promise :) > > Problem is, I run into the following, which I cannot explain: > > [EMAIL P

Re: tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Hugo Bernier
The same error also exists in TK; the $V variable is not set in root's environment and the instructions expect it to be. Best, Hugo -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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

2005-09-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, On installing alsa-oss-1.0.9 problem was encountered on "make install" Steps performed as follows; $ tar -jxf alsa-oss-1.0.9.tar.bz2 $ cd alsa-oss-1.0.9 $ ./configure && > make . creating libossredir.la (cd .libs && rm -f libossredir.la && ln -s ../libossredir.la libossredir.la) ma

tcl 8.4.11 - error in instructions?

2005-09-10 Thread Hugo Bernier
I recently encountered an error compiling tk, so I made my way back to tcl and found that I could not compile it as an unprivileged user; I would consistently get an error on this line of the instructions: ln -v -nsf ../../include/tcl${V} /usr/lib/tcl${V}/include && I looked at it for a while and