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fixed
it.
Does this sound familiar at all?
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to putting everything in /usr
again, but it's just frustrating.
Oh, the setup... Using the svn as of 20070912, kernel 2.6.22.6, gcc
4.12, binutils 2.17, libtool 1.5.24. /etc/ld.so.conf contains /opt
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twm).
I guess the next step is to edit the fluxbox source and put in
breakpoint messages to tell me exactly how far it gets before
crashing... unless anyone else has a better suggestion?
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where to look for the underlying
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before X, so I planned to go back afterwards
and make those links... and totally forgot.
When I set up the links, suddenly everything works. Go figure! I don't
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you said you didn't want to use git I assumed you meant
the same one I use for package management.
The one I'm talking about is Ingo Brückl's Guarded Installation Tool. I
have no idea what the others are for.
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for 320 packages in
its history file. I can back up all the files for a given package or
delete all those files with a three-word command (git --backup package
or git --remove package)
What could be simpler?
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game of solitaire, I'm happy.
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the coward's way out and install the
binaries.
If you like bloat-free window managers, have you tried Fluxbox? It has
a memory footprint of 5688MB... don't know how that compares to XFCE.
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then! I should probably give it another try.
As it happens, I'm building a new BLFS this week so when I get to the
JDK, I'll try it from source and report the results. And for a real
change from my make-it-up-as-I-go-along technique I promise I'll
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On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 09:22 +1200, Hoiho wrote:
Something like this :
grep -f file1.txt -v file2.txt file2a.txt cat file1.txt
file2a.txt
See, I knew the BLFS crowd wouldn't let me down. Now I have *two*
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I'm experimenting or upgrading, and it's a big help when
(not if, but when - it's inevitable) I screw up inittab and make the
primary system unbootable.
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running DRM tests fine,
but I worry that I'm ignoring whatever underlying problem caused the
memory crash in the first place.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Or does anyone have a
suggestion on what I can test for?
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exclusively for gaming and
LFS tinkering.
I'll try moving the BIOS settings back down to safe standards and see
if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion!
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on this.
Thanks, Shawn, but there is no Xorg.log - this error occurred while
*compiling* xf86scanpci, not at runtime.
It sounds like it might be a hardware problem related to an aging
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of the problem. That's great news
for me, because it means it's not something I was doing wrong.
Spasibo!
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starts with just Hi, by
itself on the first line and then a link to some spam-site, so those
criteria send incoming email straight to the spam bucket. Use some
other greeting so I don't have to fix my spam filter :-)
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the first time to set the initial state.
Hope that helps!
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a note on INFOPATH to the texinfo
chapter of LFS.
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a fluxbox menu
entry for each video mode.
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managed to get the whole thing done over one
weekend, about 6 hours total. (any normal person could do it in an
afternoon, but when you have a wife, two teenagers, and a dog underfoot
you don't have so much time to tinker with the OS)
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for any help
Have you confirmed that snd-ali5451 is loading properly? Do you have
the dsp device initializing in the udev configuration rules? is the
snd-ali5451.ko module in /lib/modules/{your kernel version}?
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-Gnome font to something more appropriate?
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calendar and contacts worked fine again. Next chance I get I'll narrow
it down further to see if it's only one of the locking options or both
that are causing the error.
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Those environment variables are the same at all times whether I use
fluxbox or gnome-session.
When I launch X with an alternative wm like fluxbox, are there other
services I need to launch manually so Gnome applications can find their
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by themselves. {shrug}
Oh well, as long as I have it working I'm happy. New GTK, new Gnome,
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facts first, but I'm 88.47% certain that you're supposed to have a
symbolic link from /usr/X11R6/include/X11 to /usr/include/X11.
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gnome2.10 tree once I got it working in February
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this paragraph, either listing
or linking to the cards supported by that version of driver?
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old blackbox configurations and menus, so the transition was painless
and now I have more features to play with. I wish I had discovered
fluxbox before, but I tend to live out the if it ain't broke, don't fix
it maxim (which is why I'm so stubborn about sticking with gcc 3.x).
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-related processes? If you can, that
would at least tell you if the system itself is locked up or just the
keyboard/console.
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builds on
various systems over as many years, this information on making sure
non-root users are able to run the DRI module is the one thing I have
ever found lacking.
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proud to visit on occasion). :-)
As well you shouldn't!
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(making sure, of course, I am a member of group video). The
alternative is to set Mode 0666 so anyone can use DRI.
I know that's covered in FAQs all over the world, but I figure it makes
sense for it to be included with the other xorg.conf instructions.
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then down into
lib1/app regardless of the top level directory name change.
Probably way more detail than you wanted, but that's the whole story :-)
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everyone's favorite minimalist WM is :-)
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the
radeon driver, then reports that it is exiting. No error messages
anywhere. Any suggestions on how I can trace where it's dying? Xinit
doesn't seem to take any parameters for debug messages.
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identical script is right there in the BLFS
Wiki :-)
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! Some people have real lives and can't
spend every waking moment updating books every time a new release shows
up. I mean the x.org docs themselves refer to build scripts that
attempt to download 7.0 stuff, so are useless for 7.1.
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omit Xinerama. There are some stub functions and #defines to dummy
around its absence, but I couldn't get past the compile errors to save
my life. As soon as I went ahead and allowed Xinerama, it finished in
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with this release of x.org
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there must be some difference in bootup
options between your bootloader and that of Knoppix... or perhaps the
Knoppix distro customized the kernel source itself to route non-critical
kernel messages to /dev/null.
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process $fn uses $1
fi
fi
done
This little bash script takes as its only argument whatever library you
request, e.g.:
whatuses orbit
(note that it is not case-sensitive)
would return all currently running gnome programs that use libORBit
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the original gcc (or fpc) came from before gcc and fpc
existed; we just have to start with a precompiled host and use that to
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chrooted
to /home/named; I can send (privately) the specific config files if
anybody thinks you can help but it shouldn't matter since those same
config files work fine with the older kernel.
Frustrated in Windy Wyoming,
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, there is *no way* to natively build the original compiler!
All the instructions at the above link (compiling the compiler) rely
on starting with an existing copy of FPC. So you must install a
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location. So if I move that folder to a safe place, a new build of
Xorg7 whould not conflict with the hidden files in any way.
I'm going to try it this weekend, if I have the time, and I'll report
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Is there any particular advantage to using gcc 4, or am I better of
staying with gcc 3?
I'm currently on kernel 2.6.15, gcc 3.4.4, glibc 2.3.5.
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Has anyone tried to build 1.5 using the 1.07 instructions in the book?
I'm getting compile errors with the negotiateauth extension, so I had to
remove that from the --enable-extensions configure option before it
would build correctly.
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-building sims, and for many there are no Linux equivalents. She
can dual-boot into a Windows partition as needed, but she's gonna find
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resources on a host when you have a
Linux-to-Linux connection? I'm not talking about copying files, but
opening them in-place on the server.
Any advice on a book title or howto would be greatly appreciated! And
wish me luck weaning the girl off Winduhs...
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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:37 -0700, Doug Ronne wrote:
Ok, so I got evince installed finally (that took a lot. I practically
have gnome installed now).
Sounds like you install Gnome the way I do - core libraries only, so you
can run apps that depend on it.
Thank you,
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I will try evince. I really don't like xpdf.
Oops. Maybe I should read *all* the replies before I provide a
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On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:08 -0600, Archaic wrote:
Yep, the painful screwups stick in your mind for a very long time and
teach you a lot!
Plus they make great stories. You ran rm -rf / on your PRODUCTION
system??? Everybody loves topping I did something even stupider
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upgrade hardware and start my next LFS project.
Hope that helps... I can send you my printcap if you like. Hmmm, maybe
I should write up what I learned in a mini-HOWTO for other folks who
have PCL printers and/or applications which only generate PCL output.
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blackbox.
Has anyone else encountered this and found a solution? Or can y'all
suggest a way I can track down the cause of the problem? I'm barely
literate in c and I don't know how to use a debugger, but I'll learn if
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rather not install it if it will
conflict with lprng which I prefer.
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- perhaps my roommate (I'm a uni student) will find one of
them the eighth miracle of the world :-)
Put in my vote for GIT (Guarded Installation Tool). As soon as I had
the toolchain installed, I installed GIT so it could track everything
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done. But I'd make extra sure you have a reliable boot
floppy or CD, and/or back up everything irreplacable before you try it.
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I know when I upgraded the kernel on my LILO system I had to re-run lilo
to point the boot sector to the new kernel image, or something like
that. Do I need to do anything with grub when I install a new kernel,
other than update menu.lst to reflect the new image name?
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load a small BASIC program on my 8K Commodore PET so I'm always careful
to hoard memory :-)
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I guess it's time to head over to bugzilla... I figured I was just doing
something wrong, but if nobody else here can build it without the
profile locking behavior, it's not just my problem.
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will
disable profile sharing, and --disable-profile-locking will disable
profile locking.
Can anyone point me at a clue or a FAQ that will explain in more detail
what the compile options do and what combination will let me go back to
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experience) to
keep the original headers throughout all your upgrades?
Let me go off topic to say thanks to all of you who do developing and
testing for LFS and BLFS. This is a wonderful project.
A hearty amen! to that.
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