Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 05/12/2013 19:21, Dan McGhee a écrit : On 12/05/2013 11:20 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: This build has failed three times for me. Here is the applicable portion of the build log: [What I originally included was an excerpt from my error log. I apologize for the mistake. [...] 1420 Fatal

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Melville
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too big, whoops!). So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it from 177K to 7K. sigh/ Thanks and sorry for confusion! I had no Unicode

Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Melville
Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard Melville a ?crit : Does anybody know what causes the following:- du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/fd/4': No such

Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc

2013-12-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 06/12/2013 10:56, Richard Melville a écrit : Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard Melville a ?crit : Does anybody know what causes the following:- du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access '/proc/602/task/602/fdinfo/4':

Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc

2013-12-06 Thread akhiezer
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:35:35 +0100 From: Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-support] du on / produces errors from /proc Le 06/12/2013 10:56, Richard Melville a écrit : Le 05/12/2013 18:18, Richard

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if this is a kernel _input_ problem. But here is an alternative train of thought :

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if this is a kernel

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/06/2013 02:51 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 05/12/2013 19:21, Dan McGhee a écrit : On 12/05/2013 11:20 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: This build has failed three times for me. Here is the applicable portion of the build log: [What I originally included was an excerpt from my error log. I

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 06/12/2013 18:12, Dan McGhee a écrit : On 12/06/2013 02:51 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 05/12/2013 19:21, Dan McGhee a écrit : On 12/05/2013 11:20 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: This build has failed three times for me. Here is the applicable portion of the build log: [What I originally included

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/06/2013 11:14 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 06/12/2013 18:12, Dan McGhee a écrit : For some reason I was compiling NSS in my Ubuntu host system using the chroot environment. Pierre's reference to a parallel build, and since I wasn't trying to do one, got me looking. Sorry if I was

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be slow. ĸen All hail the power of cross compilers with faster machines! Hopefully it does get fixed so this thread will help someone. Lots of information here. Sincerely,

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Maybe someday, I'll have the time and energy to slog through the build process and try to find out why this happened. Although I'm happy with the outcome, I don't like to build as root. You shouldn't need to build as root, but you do need to install as root. There is

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/06/2013 01:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Maybe someday, I'll have the time and energy to slog through the build process and try to find out why this happened. Although I'm happy with the outcome, I don't like to build as root. You shouldn't need to build as root, but you

Re: [blfs-support] Troubles Building NSS-3.15.3 [Corrected Major Error]

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: The only thing I've ever had trouble with in this system is deciding which things need to be SUID. Then there's xorg that also needs to be owned by root *and* run SUID. This is what I have: $ find `echo $PATH|tr : ' '` -type f -perm -u=s -ls -rwsrwxr-x 1 root root

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org wrote: Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be slow. ĸen All hail the power of cross compilers with faster machines! I'll give it a try. Hopefully it does get fixed so this thread will help

[blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
Hi all! Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? The thing is that I have moved to new harware, rebuilt most of (B)LFS, but would want to read these bunch of documents without first having to spend the entire weekend hacking OpenOffice.

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Armin K.
On 12/06/2013 10:30 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: Hi all! Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? The thing is that I have moved to new harware, rebuilt most of (B)LFS, but would want to read these bunch of documents without first

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:37:57 +0100 Armin K. kre...@email.com wrote: You could use AbiWord if you don't want to build entire Libreoffce. But it seems that wv package (available in BLFS) could help you do what you want. See http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ wv Utilities. They recommend using

[blfs-support] Samba Daemons smbd nmbd winbind Don't Start

2013-12-06 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
Howdy experts, On the road to installing XFCE, I'm trying to install libsoup-2.44.2. The BLFS book has an option for Samba-4.12 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite). to run the tests. I've successfully installed Samba (as well as the other suggested options) and installed the

Re: [blfs-support] Samba Daemons smbd nmbd winbind Don't Start

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: Howdy experts, On the road to installing XFCE, I'm trying to install libsoup-2.44.2. The BLFS book has an option for Samba-4.12 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite). to run the tests. I've successfully installed Samba (as well as the other suggested options)