Re: [blfs-support] gnome-3 is in the book

2012-03-01 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am 29.02.2012 23:49, schrieb Ken Moffat: > Perhaps I was a little too terse in that reply. Although we may > have put packages in 'build order' in the distant past (when we had > far fewer packages in the book), we've long-ago moved away from > that. Among other reasons is that package dependen

Re: [blfs-support] gnome-3 is in the book

2012-02-28 Thread Olaf Grüttner
If you are building any of gnome-3, please remember that the packages are listed in alphabetical order within the various sections. You *will* need to work out which 'utilities' you want to build, and then work back to find a correct order for all their dependencies. Hope some of you enjoy soem

Re: problems with polkit

2010-07-03 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I tried eggdbus 0.6 and found strange errors which I am not able to explain but could leave to errors with polkit install: ... Warning: unable to resolve '%org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.OOM' ... ... Warning: unable to resolve '#Tweak' ... ... Making all in man make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/e

Re: problems with polkit

2010-07-03 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > > > does this make sense to anybody ? > > do I have to reinstall libxslt / pam / whatever or has anybody tried > > eggdbus 0.6 with polkit 0.96 ? > > > > Olaf > > Ran into this myself, because I forgot to install 'DocBook XML > DTD-4.5' (and not sure, but it may be possible to get around this

sqlite - remark

2010-05-10 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everybody, One remark for sqlite - instructions: to install the documentation you are using the "unzip" command. this command is not available on the system if you do not put it as a requirement for installation. Best regards Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support

Re: Firefox-3.0.1

2008-07-17 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> I've just downloaded and compiled firefox-3.0.1. > When firefox-2 appeared there was a discussion here, because there > were some problems. Well, I just want to let you know that firefox-3 > didn't compile well, but 3.0.1 does. The mozconfig and basic > instructions in the book work well. The LD_

problem with gdm

2008-07-12 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hello everybody, I am having problems with gdm. I installed gdm-2.22.0 with no problems but when starting it shows a message: gdm-binary Warning Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager: Connection ":1.3" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.DisplayManager" due to security policies in

problems yelp with gecko dependency

2008-06-22 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi, I am installing gnome-2.22. Yelp and Epiphany complain about gecko missing. I have installed firefox 3.0. Firefox is working ! Do I need something else ? Any hints ? Greetings Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.ht

sed question

2008-01-30 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everyone, I have a question about working with sed. I have an xml file containing 1 I want to change this to 2 I have problems with the "<" and ">" signs. Is there a was to mask them in the sed command? sed s/"1"/"2"/g' test.xml does not work Greetings Olaf -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: Bootscreen on {B}LFS

2008-01-09 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi, Do you have problems with gnome-2.20? Such as freezing desktop after hovering over music files (music-preview) Such as ofter crashing nautilus and epiphany Such as not working desktop background preferences ? Olaf Am Mittwoch, den 09.01.2008, 07:47 + schrieb Luke Vear: > Hey my fellow l

ffmpeg: links for faac and faad

2007-12-29 Thread Olaf Grüttner
at the moment links for faac and faad are pointing to the same sourceforge website where faac is not downloadable. this link might be better. http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq

d-bus-python install problems

2007-12-29 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I have successfully configured and compiled the d-bus-python 0.82.0 package. when I make install, I get the following error: /usr/src/dbus-python-0.82.0/install-sh -c -m 644 'service.py' '/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/service.py' /usr/src/dbus-python-0.82.0/install-sh -c -m 644 'types.p

cups ideas

2007-12-23 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everybody, installing cups on my system was easily done with the blfs instructions, many thanks. But I had problems configuring. I found out that my kernel didn't include the parallel port support and printing support from the beginning. Maybe mentioning this in the cups instructions will be he

Re: BLFS 6.2 and LFS 6.3

2007-11-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
for me the combination of lfs-6.2 and svn-blfs-book gave me problems because of the kernel headers being too old for hal. lfs-6.3 with recent blfs-books gave me no problems so far. Olaf Am Dienstag, den 06.11.2007, 22:33 +0500 schrieb M. Shuaib Khan: > On Nov 6, 2007 9:56 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROT

Re: xorg problems

2007-10-29 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > Warning: couldn't find charset data for locale [EMAIL PROTECTED]; using ISO > > 8859-1. > > I think this is a problem in luit. The default location luit looks for > the locale data isn't the same place it's installed by libX11. Try > reinstalling luit, but pass > --with-localealiasfile='${data

Re: problem with /dev/null

2007-09-07 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > When a regular user logs into the system I get the message: > > Password: > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > > > > When I change the permissions of /dev/null > > chmod 666 /dev/null > > > > I have no problems logging in. > > > > I guess this i

problems with gnome - xserver

2007-09-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I have problems with gnome stability and I suppose this has to do with xorg-7.2 nautilus freezes, panel freezes a playing totem or an open epiphany keeps working I have to kill x11 with crt-alt-backspace starting the x-server after such a freezing is possible, but gnome won't come up, just the

Re: problems with alsamixer

2007-09-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I got it working :-) I had a soundchip on board and didn't notice that alsamixer was treating that chip instead of the soundcard chip. > I am coming closer :-) > > my udev-rules for alsa look like this at the moment > # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules > KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*",GROUP="a

problem with /dev/null

2007-09-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
When a regular user logs into the system I get the message: Password: -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied When I change the permissions of /dev/null chmod 666 /dev/null I have no problems logging in. I guess this is a udev problem, but I wonder why nobody el

dhcp link

2007-09-03 Thread Olaf Grüttner
The links for the dhcp package do not work anymore, http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/servers/isc/dhcp/dhcp-3.0.6.tar.gz this is the recent package. Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: problems with alsamixer

2007-08-31 Thread Olaf Grüttner
nd no sound is produced with programs like ogg123 ... these are the instructions in the book cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules << "EOF" # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules # When a sound device is detected, restore the volume settings KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", ACTION==&

gstreamer plugins good

2007-08-31 Thread Olaf Grüttner
It says that gconf is an option, but if you want to install totem later on I think it is a requirement Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

problems with alsamixer

2007-08-28 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi, I have build lfs-6.3r1 with the corresponding kernel and this is the first time that I have problems with alsa. My devices: ### [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /dev/m memmicrocode midiC1D0 mixer1 mouse0 mice midi1 mixer mixer2 msr0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls

typo in system tools backends?

2007-08-25 Thread Olaf Grüttner
it says --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.14.3 && shouldn't this be --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3 && regards Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: hal trouble

2007-08-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > > hal-0.5.9.1 needs newer kernel headers. Either keep using old hal or > > > update your glibc/kernel headers. > > > > > > > > SW_MAX is defined in /usr/include/linux/input.h on newer kernel headers. > > > > > > -- > > > Dan > > > > where can I find new kernel headers? Most recent I found was

Re: hal trouble

2007-08-06 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Sonntag, den 05.08.2007, 12:53 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 8/5/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have got hal - compile -troubles. > > Can somebody give me a clue, what my problem is? > > > > Olaf > > > > hal-0.5.9.1 >

hal trouble

2007-08-05 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I have got hal - compile -troubles. Can somebody give me a clue, what my problem is? Olaf hal-0.5.9.1 make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/hal-0.5.9.1/hald/linux' Making all in probing make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/hal-0.5.9.1/hald/linux/probing' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -DPAC

Re: possible problems with gconf ?

2007-06-26 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Dienstag, den 26.06.2007, 11:35 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 6/26/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It solved something at least. > > The menus are now populated with applications. > > The rest of the problems is still valid. > > *

Re: possible problems with gconf ?

2007-06-26 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> This is clearly a problem. If gconf is configured with > --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.1, then all schemas should be installed > in /etc/gnome/2.18.1/gconf. It will not use /etc/gconf unless you add > entries to that path file. > > Here it seems that if you're using gconf with metacity, then it s

Re: possible problems with gconf ?

2007-06-26 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Dienstag, den 26.06.2007, 05:54 -0600 schrieb Shawn: > On June 26, 2007, Olaf Grüttner wrote: > > I start xorg with startx > > > > my .xinitrc contains > > gnome-terminal & > > exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session fluxbox > > > > I have usual m

possible problems with gconf ?

2007-06-26 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I start xorg with startx my .xinitrc contains gnome-terminal & exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session fluxbox I have usual mouse mouvements and keyboard behavior is as usual. I start a gnome-app e.g. totem from gnome-terminal. After totem appears, the mouse movements are accellerated and the keybo

gnome-2.18 - once more

2007-06-18 Thread Olaf Grüttner
When starting gnome-2.18 I have an empty panel and 2 icons (computer and trash), the mouse movements are accellerated and faster than usual. No warnings or infos are given...! I took the blfs-svn instructions and recent gnome-packages. What can I check to get this stupid gnome desktop stuff to w

Re: gnome-2.18 question

2007-06-14 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2007, 11:06 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 6/13/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A question for the people out there who have successfully compiled > > gnome-2.18: > > what versions of dbus, dbus-glib, hal and python-gnom

gnome-2.18 question

2007-06-13 Thread Olaf Grüttner
A question for the people out there who have successfully compiled gnome-2.18: what versions of dbus, dbus-glib, hal and python-gnome-desktop are you using? Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the a

Re: gnome-2.18 release in the book?

2007-06-07 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2007, 05:54 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 6/5/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > when I start x there is a short panel at the top with no buttons at all. > > Cursor movements are twice as fast as usual and acceleration it too

Re: gnome-2.18 release in the book?

2007-06-05 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I have compiled most of gnome-2.18 and configured it accordingly to the svn-book. when I start x there is a short panel at the top with no buttons at all. Cursor movements are twice as fast as usual and acceleration it too high. A window pops up saying: can't load default theme, either metacity no

gnome-2.18 release in the book?

2007-06-04 Thread Olaf Grüttner
In March I heard that gnome-2.18 will be some 8 days away. I am in desperate need for some help and I am willing to test if the instructions are not perfect right from the beginning. Is there something planned as a release dates? Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-suppo

GConf 2.18 problems

2007-06-02 Thread Olaf Grüttner
I have installed most of gnome-2.18 with the current instructions of the blfs-svn book. I have changed instructions only in one point instead of --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.14.3 I have taken --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome and kept this consistent to all packages that needed this change. When I start gnome

GConf Problem - *Some* apps not obeying UI settings; Mouse settings seem to be ignored

2007-05-30 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2005, 09:35 + schrieb Lennon Cook: > I'm having two annoying problems with my GNOME environment, and both > seem to be to do with GConf settings. The first is that most apps > aren't obeying my UI settings (detachable toolbars off, icon settings > = icons only). About

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-16 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 11:41 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 5/15/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 06:18 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > > > > > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/jhbuild/trunk/patches/hal-dbus_c

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-15 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 06:18 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 5/14/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I compiled hal-0.5.7.1 and the error is: > > > > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/hal-0.5.7.1/tools' > > if gcc -DHAVE_CONF

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-14 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 22:40 +1200 schrieb Simon Geard: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:47 +0200, Olaf Grüttner wrote: > > As far as I can tell this url contains the latest headers. > > http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/ > > linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-14 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Freitag, den 11.05.2007, 15:33 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 5/11/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 10.05.2007, 12:12 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > > > On 5/10/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > &

Re: change proposal for xorg download instructions

2007-05-13 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Samstag, den 12.05.2007, 18:05 +0200 schrieb Tijnema !: > On 5/11/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > please change > > > > wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \ > > -i ..

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-11 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Donnerstag, den 10.05.2007, 12:12 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 5/10/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > probe-input.c: In function 'main': > > probe-input.c:61: error: 'SW_MAX' undeclared (first use in this > > function) &

Re: problems compiling hal - error messages in english

2007-05-10 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Am Donnerstag, den 10.05.2007, 06:31 -0700 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > On 5/10/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I am on a quest to compiling and installing gnome-2.18. > > I have taken the instructions from the blfs-book (gno

problems compiling hal

2007-05-10 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everybody, I am on a quest to compiling and installing gnome-2.18. I have taken the instructions from the blfs-book (gnome-2.14) and adjusted package-versions when the configure command complained. So far so good, but now hal-0.5.9 gives me compiling problems with no indication that this is

change proposal for xorg download instructions

2007-05-10 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everybody, please change wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \ -i ../app-7.1.wget to wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \ -ci ../app-7.1.wget === Greetings Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support

change proposal for xorg download instructions

2007-05-09 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi everybody, please change wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \ -i ../app-7.1.wget to wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ \ -ci ../app-7.1.wget === Greetings Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-suppor

problems configuring libbonobo

2006-02-16 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi, I am having problems configuring libbonobo. I have libxml2, orbit and xml:parser installed. I have xorg installed. The message below confuses me, because there is no package gobject, gthread and ORBit-Cosnaming in the blfs-book. Any clues? Why is the configure script checking for libbonob

Re: problems with gnome-2.12

2006-02-16 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:13 +0100, Olaf Grüttner wrote: > > gnome-audio is dependent on pkg-config > > You sure? Looking through it, it doesn't appear to require it, and > doesn't provide a .pc file - going by the date on the tarball, I'd say > pkg-config di

Re: problems with gnome-2.12

2006-02-05 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > > > I don't know why you didn't mention setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable. > > It says to do it in the instructions of at least two packages you had > > to install. You also need to set the LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH variable. > > One thing I've found is that if XDG_..._DIRS are not the default, th

problems with gnome-2.12

2006-02-01 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Hi, I have problems running gnome-2.12. When gnome starts there is a message about "gnome settings daemon not running ..." My menues contain just one application even though I installed just about everything. Logging out is not possible, xscreensaver doesn't react. A long the way I must have m

Re: evolution compile problems

2005-08-12 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> And here is another question. What version of LFS are you running? 6.0 dependencies are installed. configure gives no problems. Olaf -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: evolution compile problems

2005-08-12 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Thanks, the hint with LC_ALL="en_US" helped. the make output of compiling evolution is below. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/evolution-2.2.2/views/calendar' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/evolution-2.2.2/views' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/us

evolution compile problems

2005-08-10 Thread Olaf Grüttner
hi I have problems compiling evolution. I am using blfs from the cvs version of the book. this is my error: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/evolution-2.2.2/tools' make install-am make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/evolution-2.2.2/tools' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOM

libxft related pango problems

2005-06-05 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Can somebody help me with pango? this is my error message: Writing a pango.modules file to use when running examples before installing Pango. /usr/src/pango-1.8.1/pango/.libs/lt-pango-querymodules: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: problems with gpm installation

2005-03-24 Thread Olaf Grüttner
> > > >Goodness, a similar bug was around in gpm-1.19.x series too and I > >thought I had even offered a patch that would fix a "no texinfo" problem. > > > >Maybe I'll take a look and do another one. In fact, maybe I'll even > >offer to help Nico with QA before he does another release. These sim

Re: Gnome and jpeg.

2005-03-13 Thread Olaf Grüttner
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:04:42 +0100 Daniel Klagges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have just installed Gnome 2.8 with the newest blfs svn. It seems, that > my gnome has no jpeg support. It is not possible to choose an jpeg > background image, apps like gthumb and gimp can't open jpeg files.

problems with gpm installation

2005-03-05 Thread Olaf Grüttner
my error: gcc -L/usr/src/gpm-1.20.1/src -o prog/gpm-root prog/gpm-root.o lib/libgpm.a rm prog/hltest.o prog/mev.o prog/disable-paste.o prog/mouse-test.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gpm-1.20.1/src' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gpm-1.20.1/doc' /bin/sed -f /usr/src/gpm-1.20.1/doc