So today's other thread about menus helped me pinpoint my problem.
My permissions only allowed root to access the /usr/share/applications
directory. The culprit was installing openoffice from an rpm file. It
messed up my permissions somehow.
Cheers,
Pierre
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On 12/31/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Of course, I would be doing this in addition to the things suggested in
> the hint on smaller systems. I'm just looking for, "Sounds like it will
> work," or "Don't do it numbskull!"
It will work if you are careful :) But I don't know how pra
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 12/31/05 13:10 CST:
> I'm just looking for, "Sounds like it will
> work," or "Don't do it numbskull!"
Sounds like it will work. I think that the Cpio package is just
a build requirement for the JDK. You'll have to take other
dependencies for other packages on a case
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:10:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
> Of course, I would be doing this in addition to the things suggested in
> the hint on smaller systems. I'm just looking for, "Sounds like it will
> work," or "Don't do it numbskull!"
The best answer would be both. Some packages, l
Building {,B}LFS again has sent me down significantly different paths
than the first time I built it. This morning, getting ready to build
JDK and looking forward to OO.2.0--both for my laptop--the phrase
"Required to build" jumped out from "the book." Of course, I'm trying
to build the small
Hello,
I recently broke my system and some permissions got mixed up. As a
result only root gets gnome-menus. (It used to work before for all
users)
I have:
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/gnome/xdg
in /etc/profile and the variable is correctly set for any user logging
in.
I have tried running th
Hi everybody,
I've just be offered a FREECOM CLASSIC MOBILE 2.5" HARD DRIVE,
external driver via USB. And as I thought, I can't make it work on
Linux. I thought it was a problem of module, so I loaded:
usb_storage, uhci_hcd 32720 0
ohci_hcd 22600 0
ehci_hcd
