Re: [blfs-support] portmidi on blfs javac problem

2014-04-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to build portmidi > ( http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/portmidi/ ) > on a machine with these:- > --os BLFS linux-3.10.37, openjdk-1.7 > --cpu amd64 gcc-4.8.1 linux-3.10.37? Typo? 3.10.7? > It uses cmake and reaches 93 percent and ends with this > #-

Re: [blfs-support] Can no longer build Pth-2.0.7

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 19/04/14 09:56, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a strange issue. After successfully building LFS 7.5 + Gnome >>> 3.12. I've been running on the new build for about a week now with no

Re: [blfs-support] Can no longer build Pth-2.0.7

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange issue. After successfully building LFS 7.5 + Gnome > 3.12. I've been running on the new build for about a week now with no > issues. I've now come across an issue where I cannot build Pth-2.0.7. It > hangs during configure, just after > 'checking fo

Re: [blfs-support] gegl and babl from svn source pkg links timing out

2014-04-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: > For info. It's occured for last 24 hrs Take a look at "Getting the Source Packages" in BLFS Chapter 1. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] rsync

2014-04-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >> >> Richard Melville wrote: >>> -d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m >>> /home/rsync. >> >> No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging >> into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created. >> >> --

Re: [blfs-support] wpa_supplicant D-Bus autostart problem

2014-04-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Shouldn't 'install -v -m644 systemd/*.service /lib/systemd/system' be > included in BLFS for supplicant if installing under Systemd? BLFS does not now support systemd. We may in the future, but we are limited in volunteers to do the needed work. -- Bruce -- http

Re: [blfs-support] rsync

2014-04-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > -d /home/rsync doesn't create the home directory; surely it should be -m > /home/rsync. No, it just specifies a directory in /etc/passwd, but no one is logging into the rsync account, so it doesn't need to be created. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

2014-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:41 AM, lux-integ wrote: >> openssl is a package one generally installs early in the distribution-build >> process. To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g >> --(a) does one need to yank out the old say openssl-1.0.1 and install the >> new >> 1,0,1g an

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > BASH=/bin/sh This appears to be your problem. It should be /bin/bash. Your password file should be: :x/home/:/bin/bash Bash changes behavior if started with the sh name. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http:

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 04/04/14 15:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Yes, I use startx. My ~/.xinitrc file contains: >>> >>> /usr/bin/numlock >>> /usr/bin/fluxbox >> I thought it should be

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > Perhaps, but 'll /bin/sh' shows -> bash. Doesn't that answer that question? Not really. bash behaves differently if invoked as sh. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > Yes, I use startx. My ~/.xinitrc file contains: > > /usr/bin/numlock > /usr/bin/fluxbox I thought it should be startfluxbox. At least that's what I had the last time I used fluxbox. For now use this in ~/.xinitrc: xterm -g 80x40+0+0 /bin/bash & exec twm > If

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > I echoed the file names as you suggested and prior to invoking X the > order is: > > /etc/profile > .bash_profile > .bashrc > /etc/bashrc That is correct. > However, I saw nothing when starting X. That's wrong. So I redirected the output to a > file. Prior to

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 04/03/14 10:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Your suggested "~/.bashrc" then "source ~/.bashrc" steps fix the > prompt. But I still can't source a script and subsequent xterm windows > show the old prompt. Edi

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 04/02/14 21:50, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> What's the output of 'echo $PS1'? >> >> How about 'ldd /bin/bash'? Is libreadline.so.6 there? > > ldd /bin/bash: > > linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7732000)

Re: [blfs-support] Just for info: dhcpcd-6.3.2 download link. Server is down at present

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robin wrote: > Found another link > > http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/dhcpcd/ Yes, that is one of our mirrors. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > My shell is /bin/bash. My bash version is 4.2.45(1) in my 7.4 and 7.5 > BLFS. Should they be the same? I don't recall, but bash-4.2.45 is fine. You are slightly ambiguous here. bash behavior changes if it is called as sh. I assume you mean it's being calle

Re: [blfs-support] Wrong prompt and “file not found” with xterm – BLFS 7.5

2014-04-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 04/01/14 19:36, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:15:05PM -0500,rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: >>> My BLFS 7.5 xterm displays a “sh-4.2#” prompt. My xterm prompt in BLFS >>> 7.4 is “/ >” and “PS1=”\w > “ is in my BLFS 7.5 /etc/bashrc file. In >>>

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2014 16:20:15 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/xorg7.html >> >> Note the lines that say: >> >> ACLOCAL='aclocal -I $XORG_PREFIX/share/aclocal' >> >>

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ronnie van Aarle wrote: > Those environment variables that you setup with EXPORT disappear when you > log out. Not if you follow the instructions in the book. They are reset in the bash profile. They assume you did http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/postlfs/profile.html -- Br

Re: [blfs-support] LibreOffice 4.2.2 fails

2014-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ronnie van Aarle wrote: > You can check if aclocal is available on your system by just typing aclocal > --version in a terminal window. > > if its not available, you should install automake from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/automake.html > > If $XORG_PREFIX is somethi

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 28/03/2014 18:28, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> Pierre Labastie wrote: > Will do. I need to leave now, so will be back in 2 or 3 hours. I think I > have the rights to write to the errata, so I might as well directly > write what I think there, unless you

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 28/03/2014 17:31, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >>> Em 28-03-2014 02:56, m...@pc-networking-services.com escreveu: >>>> Hello again, >>>> >>>> same thing in qca: >>>> >>&

Re: [blfs-support] Qca-2.0.3 Qca-2.0.3

2014-03-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 28-03-2014 02:56, m...@pc-networking-services.com escreveu: >> Hello again, >> >> same thing in qca: >> >> ./configure --prefix=$QTDIR >> >> should be: >> >> ./configure --prefix=$QT4DIR \ > > Fixed in svn at r12901. > > Thanks. > > This, I changed in Qt4 page in th

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea again!!!!!

2014-03-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Well I have managed to get iced tea to successfully compile on a systemd > system. Good. > If who ever is in charge of the fixed-paths patch is willing to do so, the > changes that need to be made to ALL of the Defs-utils.gmk locations is: > > > HEAD

Re: [blfs-support] Solution for twm complaining about lacking fonts

2014-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > When we install xorg following the BLFS_7.5 stable book, when you first > start x using the startx command, it will complain bitterly about the ISO > fonts are lacking and it will NOT correctly bring up twm with the three > windows and clock. (If

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Richard Melville > wrote: >> Yes, I had the same problem; you have to have the kernel image on the same >> flash drive. That could be seen as a security issue but as we are dealing >> with very small computers somebody could just as easily

Re: [blfs-support] Is BLFS-7.4 book still available online?

2014-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:44:35 +0100 >> From: Alexey Orishko >> To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org >> Subject: [blfs-support] Is BLFS-7.4 book still available online? >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I can't find blfs-7.4 online after 7.5 was released. >> Is it supposed to be in blfs mu

Re: [blfs-support] iptables again

2014-03-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Maybe somebody has the answer to this -- it's only a minor point. > > I've set up msmtp and s-nail on a blfs server; I can send email, and > iptables is not blocking them but neither is it recording the packets > passed. When I had this issue before with a different servi

Re: [blfs-support] Phonon-backend-vlc-0.7.1 DOES NOT COMPILE

2014-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > when trying to install phonon-backend-vlc by what is PUBLISHED in the book: > -- Found LibVLCcore library path:/usr/lib/libvlccore.so > -- Found LibVLC version: 2.1.3 (searched for: 0.0) > -- Building against Phonon 4.2 API > CMake Error at src/C

Re: [blfs-support] iptables

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >> >> Richard Melville wrote: >>> Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and >>> iptables-restore? >> >> You can use them if you want, but I don't see a use for them unless you >> are doing some kind of dynamic control of the tables. It's better

Re: [blfs-support] Gcr-3.10.1 need to set correct path for successful compilation

2014-03-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > While I was attempting to compile Gcr-3.10.1 from the stable BLFS-7.5 book > I was not able to do so until I did the following: > > XDG_DATA_HOME=/usr/share > export XDG_DATA_HOME > > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/ > export XDG_DATA_DIRS > > I do not y

Re: [blfs-support] iptables

2014-03-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Can anybody tell me what the reason is for not using iptables-save and > iptables-restore? You can use them if you want, but I don't see a use for them unless you are doing some kind of dynamic control of the tables. It's better if the admin knows what rules are being

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > I see that in a later mail you pointed to a patch. I _like_ patches > (easy to see if they still apply - if in any doubt use 'git apply') > but BLFS prefers to use simple things like sed, so I assume that > specifying CFLAGS= will meet with more approval. We like sed becaus

Re: [blfs-support] Cyrus SASL compilation error

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: >>> Hello! >>> I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html >>> >>> "

Re: [blfs-support] Yum help

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Soussi Adnane wrote: > Hello, > i'm on a LFS build , > it's been one month i'm trying to get yum working but without a result i'm > always getting this message: > > "There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > No mo

Re: [blfs-support] running lfs as guestOS on virtulisation setup

2014-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: > Greetings, > > I have recently been dabbling with 2 virtualiisation programs on linux. These > are qemu/kvm ( http://www.qemu.org http://www.linux-kvm.org ) and VirtualBox > ( http://www.virtualbox.org ). Both install as host on a typical LFS setup I > use ( cpu =amd64, pure 6

[blfs-support] BLFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs LFS -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-support] LFS-7.5 is released

2014-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-...@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email. [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.5/ [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5/ -- Bruce Dubbs

Re: [blfs-support] blfs-bootscripts-20131023 - uninstall

2014-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've just noticed, that uninstall make target is missing for ntpd and > dbus in blfs-bootscripts-20131023. > Was it done by intention or simply overlooked? There is a uninstall-ntp so that is a typo. The uninstall target for dbus is indeed missing. We will n

Re: [blfs-support] Getting X-server to re-read its xorg.conf.d config files 'dynamically'.

2014-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: > > Hi, > > > Anyone know of a current or mooted way in which to get X-server to > re-read its config files that are under /{usr/share,etc}/X11/xorg.conf.d/ > , dynamically and without stop/start or restart X server itself? I.e. to > absorb & use the new cfg - not just check for cor

Re: [blfs-support] mysql has a meaningless command. "install ... -d /run/mysqld"

2014-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: > Since the "/run" was mounted during boot. That's only there for starting mysqld_safe in the next command as a part of configuration. The start script also does: mkdir -p /run/mysqld chown mysql.mysql /run/mysqld ... -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/b

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to `s'

2014-02-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Guys, I appreciate you bottom posting, but could you please trim the unnecessary quoted text. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-support] LFS-7.5-rc1 is released

2014-02-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/7.5-rc1/ to read locally. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to `s'

2014-02-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > Hello, > > This is my second attempt to post this here. I beat the confirmation > e-mail by posting to the list and receieve the bounce that it was waiting > the list moderators approval and that was on the 5th. Generally posts by non-subscribers are delet

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2014-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard wrote: > I spent some time reading the BLFS instructions on installing java > and found it rather confusing. I am assuming that it is the 'circular > dependencies' alluded to in the text which make it such a > non-standard installation? In the end I downloaded Java from Oracle > and instal

Re: [blfs-support] (B)LFS-7.4 with latest kernel 3.10.x

2014-01-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've built original LFS-7.4 and I'd like to use the latest Linux Kernel > version > (currently 3.10.28) due to several bug fixes. > > On already working system I've simply compiled a new kernel, installed > it and it works. > > I have a question related to LFS

Re: [blfs-support] wpa_supplicant not working

2014-01-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre M.R. wrote: > Niels Terp wrote: >> The problem is, that when I start the wpa_supplicant program (and an icon >> was automatically installed in the notification area), the program opens OK, >> but only displays Status: Could not get status from wpa_supplicant. Apart >> from that, the program

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2014-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:17:22 -0300 >> From: Fernando de Oliveira >> To: BLFS Support List >> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash >> > . > . >> Unfortunately, I do not have lsof. >> > > > Another 'tree' ? Very useful diag/info util. Low-maint. Very simpl

Re: [blfs-support] No latex command? texlive-20130530

2014-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: > Dear BLFS Support List > > No latex command? texlive-20130530 > > I tried a local install inspired by: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/texlive.html > > I did not use the Texlive installer. Instead I downloaded the source tarball > ftp://tug.org/texlive/hi

Re: [blfs-support] Destdir installation question

2014-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:46:56PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: >> >> Note that some BLFS instructions in the book needs some tweaks in order to >> work proper when installing via DESTDIR. Some packages do not take care about >> DESTDIR but uses INSTALL_ROOT or even do not care ab

Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash

2013-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: > On Monday 30 December 2013 11:41:26 Richard wrote: >> Is there some 'trick' or undocumented procedure for building/using >> webkitgtk-1 with flash? Some build flag that I may have missed or variable >> which needs to be set? >> >> I have downloaded the appropriate archive from Ad

Re: [blfs-support] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch in BLFS 7.4 documentation.

2013-12-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 12/24/13 21:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 12/24/13 09:53, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >>>> Em 24-12-2013 11:02, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com escreveu: >>>> http://www.linuxfro

Re: [blfs-support] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch in BLFS 7.4 documentation.

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 12/24/13 09:53, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> Em 24-12-2013 11:02, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com escreveu: >>> The link >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch >>> in the NSS-3.15.1 documentation produces: >>> >>> Pag

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 04:07 -0600, William Harrington wrote: >> xorg-proto ( which has util-macros as required dependency) does not >> have Xorg introduction as a required dependency where XORG_PREFIX and >> XORG_CONFIG is set. > > Do we really have a reason for having these va

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS and Mavericks

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pol Vangheluwe wrote: > Trying to upgrade CUPS to release 1.6.3, as explained in the BLFS book (on a > LFS-6.8 system …) + hints from Ken. > Found that the link to the patch doesn’t work. Should be > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.4/cups-1.6.3-blfs-1.patch > ( so “7.4” instead o

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: Bruce Dubbs >>> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to >>> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected to have >>> processed those chapters. That would

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > ISTR that at a time, it was said that any page in the X chapter was a prereq > for the following. That explains why the pages are not in alphabetical order. > And that's how I implemented it in jhalfs-blfs (same for the KDE chapter, > actually). The Xorg pages are arrange

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: William Harrington >> To: BLFS Support List >> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >> >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the >> links for required

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > Ubuntu can be, at times, as "hinky" as Windows. As I randomly checked > directories and files for permissions. The uid's and gid's for all the > package users were indicated for files. However, when I checked my home > directory the files were owned by "libuuid" and were assign

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > I should have thought of this when I had a minimal, bootable LFS. But I > didn't. I'm asking for comments so that the probability of getting > another bootable LFS-7.4 system is high. Here are the steps in my plan: > > 1. Set up and mount a new partition for this system--done

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 21/12/2013 16:54, Dan McGhee a écrit : >> On 12/21/2013 01:40 AM, Chris Staub wrote: >>> I don't normally use json-c, but as I use package users myself I thought >>> I'd try it. I got exactly the same build failure when I used "-j4" with >>> make, and BLFS does say that

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: >> Yes, I have, Bruce. I physically have two sound devices. One is HDMI and >> the other, whose chip I can't identify, runs with the Azalia Controller >> so employs snd_hda_intel. `aplay -L` gives me nine devices. In addition >> to "null" and the HDMI, it tells me >> >>> sysdefau

Re: [blfs-support] JSON-C fails to build

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Armin K. wrote: >> On 12/20/2013 06:15 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with: >>> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-para

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP >>> ENVY m6 Sleekbook, has "Beats Audio." I don't know if I need to install >>> or do anything other than alsa. I wa

Re: [blfs-support] qt-5.2.0 wont compile

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lux-integ wrote: > Greetings > > I am trying to compile qt-5.2.0 for installation prefix /opt/qt5 as per the > blfs instructions > ( http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/qt5.html ) > > my computer has these: > --cpu amd64 3cores > --os blfs, kernel linux-3.10.24, gcc-4.8.1 > > > My 's

Re: [blfs-support] Polkit Actions

2013-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > On 12/12/2013 11:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> On 12/12/2013 03:17 PM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:37:39 -0600 From: Dan McGhee To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Polkit Actions >>> . >>> . I usually don't suggest

Re: [blfs-support] XML Files

2013-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/12/2013 10:00 AM, Armin K. wrote: >> On 12/12/2013 04:56 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> I've noticed that many files that get installed are XML files and >>> contain many lines for messages in different languages. In particular >>> I'm thinking of the action files in /usr/shar

Re: [blfs-support] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > On 12/3/2013 8:22 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >> I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you >> choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install. >> >> I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes with Redhat 5, and I >> understand that new versions get mi

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 op

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 root7

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] Suggestions on Desktop Environment

2013-12-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you > choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install. > > I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes with Redhat 5, and I > understand that new versions get mixed reviews in online forums. I have > no opinion, ha

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may > have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is: > > Crypt: Invalid argument This is what I get: $ su Password: badpw su: Authentication failure So I suspect some other issue. What do y

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > Reset my password or root's. This happens when, as me, I run "su" then > root's password. > > I don't want to change either of the passwords, so I'm thinking > > $ passwd -d dan > $ passwd dan su asks for the pw of the new user, usually root. sudo asks for the user's pw unless

Re: [blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and > ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a > UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like > either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot c

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' > The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and > installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root > so that I can use my install system. Before I got X workin

Re: [blfs-support] OpenJDK-1.7.0.45/IcedTea-2.4.3 : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11

2013-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: > On 2013-12-01 10.44, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> Em 30-11-2013 19:28, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: >>> Magnus Larsson wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org >>>> >>>> I get an error when executin

Re: [blfs-support] OpenJDK-1.7.0.45/IcedTea-2.4.3 : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11

2013-11-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Magnus Larsson wrote: > > Dear blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > > I get an error when executing make, truing to build > OpenJDK-1.7.0.45/IcedTea-2.4.3 as per Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version > 2013-11-29. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/openjdk.html > > ".../usr/bin/ld

Re: [blfs-support] Proprietary Radeon Driver

2013-11-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to > installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip > which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver > from ATI. I'm asking for advice on when to install it. It's

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > I've just configured a new 3.12 kernel and now /dev/fb0 is not being > created, despite all the necessary configurations being built into the > kernel. This means that I can't get a decent resolution in the console; I > was using vga=792. > > My old kernel was a 3.7-rc8 a

Re: [blfs-support] lsb_release-1.4

2013-11-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > I would like to have more about this. I understand what "info about the > Linux Standards Base" means, but what does this script actually > accomplish and how is the info used? Does this script in any way relate > to the link /lib/lsb to /lib/services/ ? I also noticed "lsb"

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: >> >> I'm glad I thought of that. I'm tired of configuring kernels. Have >> done eight since Friday. yuk. >> > Yeah, sorting out new machines is fun. > >> You and Bruce are going to have to buy new hardware to chec

Re: [blfs-support] Boot Failure with wlan0 firmware

2013-11-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: > This is one of those things between LFS and BLFS, but since I've been > flooding the LFS list I thought I'd go here with this one even though > most who monitor here monitor the LFS list. This also involves wireless > and LFS doesn't do that. > > I think this is a driver and mo

Re: [blfs-support] Problems Compiling Gimp, Gegl and Babl

2013-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > I'm trying to install Gimp-2.8.8, following BLFS 7.4 Version 2013-11-14. > I've had some trouble with two dependencies, babl and gegl, as > described below. > > For all these programs I first installed the required and recommended > dependencies, and many of the optional d

Re: [blfs-support] /lib/services/bridge need "ip link set xxx up" before or after "brctl addif xxx xxx"

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:41 PM, xinglp wrote: > >> The bridge is bringed up by ifup script. > > It should bring it up after the bridge is created. If that isn't > working properly, then it is wrong. Interesting that you are commenting on the script without reading it. Y

Re: [blfs-support] rc.iptables or sysctl.conf

2013-11-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Looking through the *setting up a network firewall* page I wondered what > the thinking was behind switching the kernel parameters via an rc.iptables > file rather than the perhaps more conventional sysctl.conf file. It's more straight forward and it stands alone. Of cou

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: >> >> After looking at tons of logs of people trying to log into a system >> using ssh and guessing usernames and passwords, I've given up trying to >> monitor such foolishness. I'd only want to bother to do something like >> that in a very high security situation. Perhaps

Re: [blfs-support] Comment/Question/Flame on "probably the most used admin tool", 'find'

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > alex lupu wrote: >> I'm saddened that after all these years there's apparently no easy way to >> do something like (expressed in Artificial Intelligence :): >> "Find files modified (accessed, created) in a range of time (in minutes)" &

Re: [blfs-support] Comment/Question/Flame on "probably the most used admin tool", 'find'

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
alex lupu wrote: > I'm saddened that after all these years there's apparently no easy way to > do something like (expressed in Artificial Intelligence :): > "Find files modified (accessed, created) in a range of time (in minutes)" > "After but Before a time in minutes ago". > > Most people with PhD

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 11:03 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm unaware why noshell would be an advantage over /bin/false. What >> does it do that is needed? > > Most google results indicate that it's to do with logging - that noshell > wil

Re: [blfs-support] typo in gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23?

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Walter P. Little wrote: > For gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23 ( > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/gst-plugins-bad.html), > I just noticed that FAAC-1.28 is listed both in "recommended" and > "optional." Seems like it should just be in one of the categories (perhaps > it got pro

Re: [blfs-support] Wifi Operations--Again

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:47:07PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> Em 03-11-2013 21:13, Dan McGhee escreveu: >>> On 11/03/2013 05:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:16:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > First question, does anyone know if it's even p

Re: [blfs-support] noshell

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: > Does anybody have any experience of noshell as a replacement for /bin/false > and /dev/null? I realise that it's quite old, but is it still useful as a > more secure way of creating a user with no login shell? > > Fish.com, together with the titan hardening package, seems

Re: [blfs-support] libvpx-v1.2.0 MD5SUM

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 02-11-2013 23:29, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu: >> Em 02-11-2013 23:14, alex lupu escreveu: >>> Is libvpx-v1.2.0 MD5SUM correct? >>> 4eab3775d178d44e084525ed978bcd9a >>> (BLFS book, version 2013-11-01) >>> >>> My calculations seem to show >>> f8de058e6ba14555144583

Re: [blfs-support] at-spi2-core-2.10.1 build fails

2013-11-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Frankish wrote: > Ref: Beyond Linux(r) From Scratch - Version 2013-11-01, at-spi2-core-2.10.1: > > The build fails with > > CC libatspi_la-atspi-value.lo > CCLD libatspi.la > GISCAN Atspi-2.0.gir > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > Is there a way to force make to pro

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:35:10PM +, John Frankish wrote: > Do you have somthing like: [25.470] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" in the log? If not, It might be that you forgot to compile the evdev driver. (see Xorg drivers page). >>> >>> No,

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 27-10-2013 21:51, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > >>> I can just svn add nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch and commit? >> >> Is there a -2.patch? The book calls for a -1.patch which is available. >> >> What I have is: >> &

Re: [blfs-support] Dead links

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ndalone-2.patch > lrwxrwxrwx 1 fernando fernando 27 Ago 8 08:23 > nss/nss-3.15.1-standalone-2.patch -> nss-3.15-standalone-2.patch > > However, I searched any messages in book, and found: > > Em 09-07-2013 05:20, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > >> cp: cannot stat > `/srv/ww

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