On 10/19/10, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
I'm not sure what the status is for blfs-tool. Don't know if anybody
uses it here, I know I've never tried it, and rarely hear anything about
it on alfs-discuss either.
I ocassionally use it. It works.
ISTR if there is anything in the
On 10/18/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
You wil see a line such as:
lfs kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.33
... and that 2.6.33 is the kernel version that booted.
Assuming that you named System.map-($uname -r)
Make that System.map-$(uname -r)
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On 10/13/10, Mike Hollis zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote:
The only one of these I have in $XORG_PREFIX/bin is makedepend.
That is the only one I have and there are no problems as far as I know.
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On 10/6/10, bendeguz mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have any suggestion?
A careful read of
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3357+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M20+Qusblp
HPLIP (and soon perhaps more manufacturer-supplied backends)
is libusb-based, it grabs the device and takes it away from the
On 9/26/10, bendeguz mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, yes and no. I mean, that you don't have setuid on the Xorg executable.
... was reading XFree86 conf/cf/xf86site.def where it says ...
/*
* If you only run the X server under xdm the X servers don't need to be
* installed SetUID, and
On 9/20/10, luxInteg lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
E [20/Sep/2010:19:32:22 +0100] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm!
This looks fubar. ReadMe.htm could not be a ppd file.
browser - localhost:631 and try picking a better one
I know nothing of the cups hal thing,
but without using hal, there was this monstrosity:
new USB CUPS backend. For this backend the
usblp kernel module must be unloaded.
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2010-September/020617.html
requiring that if usblp is a module, that it be
On 9/10/10, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
Ah! The book expects these to be in /usr/lib/X11/fonts, and then
makes symlinks for the OTF and TTF fonts. How old-fashioned! My
fonts have been in /usr/share/fonts since the days of LFS-6.4.
ISTR fontconfig finds all fonts in
On 9/4/10, luxInteg lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
in one instance when I did not get a dummy I got KDE start/and/exit
sounds
but no CD-sound.
I was (but no longer) playing kde-4.
Exact specifics forgotten, but
check somewhere in control settings
something like mixer or phonon stuff.
If
On 8/24/10, rhubarb...@poetworld.net rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote:
However, I'm confused. The error occurs on my screen with make
install. Should I have used something similar to make install | tee
LogFile.txt 21 to trap the error? If I do so, LogFile.txt is
extensive, but omits those
On 8/4/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't get gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2 to work properly, seemingly no
matter what I do.
Excuse me as much as possible.
gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2 worked with firefox-3.6.8
but it did not work with firefox-3.0.1 or earlier (exact cutoff unknown
On 8/1/10, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
On 07/31/2010 09:53 PM, linux fan wrote:
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. That was a while ago.
Well, it seems like you are on top of it anyway. Good luck.
No, I'm stumped.
The magic hat doesn't work for me.
I can't get gecko
On 7/30/10, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
Not sure what was up with your FF/XulRunner installation
mplayerplug-in won't compile against recent xulrunner
, but why the
prejudice against gecko-mediaplayer?
It didn't work for me.
I gave gnome-mplayer a shot and was delighted that
On 7/31/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
If you have any concerns about security, you should normally use the
latest version (firefox 3.6.8) - and recompile anything that links to
xulrunner.
Thanks, I'll take that under advisement.
( ... grrr ... new stuff don't work ... )
On 7/31/10, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
On 07/31/2010 06:57 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
On 1 August 2010 00:49, DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
Hmm...IDK. I'm using Firefox 3.6.6, with Xulrunner-1.9.2.6,
gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2, and gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2. Both the link
BP ROV feeds mplayerplug-in xulrunner-1.9.1.11 success
firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2 - nope
FYI,
I know mplayerplug-in is not in the book,
but I wanted to see the BP oil spill ROV live feeds.
http://www.bp.com/sectionbodycopy.do?categoryId=9034366contentId=7063636
Xine and/or Xine-plugin could do
On 7/1/10, Olaf Grüttner olaf.gruett...@web.de wrote:
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 by
what I am wondering about is why nobody else has problems with this.
I thought also needed DocBook XSL
FYI
I installed these in order:
subversion
unzip
docbook-dtd
docbook-xsl-stylesheets
scrollkeeper
gnome-doc-utils
gtk-doc
eggdbus-0.6
polkit
I did not install PAM.
I installed polkit-0.96 with shadow patch (no PAM):
==
# see
On 6/6/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/06/10 18:51, Carl wrote:
[49358.956254] hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
think there is anything wrong with the hardware as I have Ubuntu
installed on a different partition on the same machince and it
On 6/5/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
x2...@lycos.com wrote:
I'm building BLFS using jhalfs.
Just starting the XOrg_7 package build and
i am encountering problems.
Can someone tell me the correct list if
this isn't it?
It's the right list
Once I used jhalfs
On 5/23/10, Rodolfo Perez r-...@gmx.net wrote:
Hmm ... but I do get the message:
root [ /etc ]# ls
ls: unrecognized prefix: hl
ls: unparsable value for LS_COLORS environment variable
with lfs 6.4 (coreutils-6.12).
Bruce can you explain this? Is lfs 6.4 too old?
Could it be an error,
On 5/23/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
On an LFS 6.5 system, my $LS_COLORS has hl=44;37 and it is recognized
fine by ls. It is generated by the entry in /etc/dircolors of
HARDLINK 44;37 # regular file with more than one link
Interesting!
On an LFS 6.6 system, instead of
On 5/21/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I'd also try
$ set | grep LS_COLORS
or
echo $LS_COLORS
Investigation:
coreutils installs /usr/bin/dircolors
Blfs ch3.5 Bash Shell Startup Files
creates /etc/dircolors using
/usr/bin/dircolors -p /etc/dircolors
$HOME/.dircolors
On 5/20/10, Lars Bamberger maill...@herr-der-mails.de wrote:
On 20.05.2010 11:24, Simon Geard wrote:
[ Segmentation fault xsltproc ]
Upgrade to libxml2-2.7.7. blfs-svn is still on libxml2-2.7.6. It seems,
that the segfault was happening in xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename,
which is a
On 5/10/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
If random users have sudo permissions to create or modify files in
system directories, you have no business complaining about *anything*
else being insecure. No hacker is going to waste time trying to exploit
polkit when they could just give
On 5/10/10, Rodolfo Perez r-...@gmx.net wrote:
Still i would like to have a brief guide to connect me to the internet.
I seem to remember copying host system's /etc/resolv.conf to
$LFS/etc/resolv.conf before doing chroot, so that I can wget from
within chroot.
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On 5/9/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
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An authentication agent is used to make the user of a session
prove
that
the user of the session really is the user (by authenticating
as the
user) .
Polkit
On 5/7/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
This patch enables polkit to compile against shadow. I don't need to install
PAM anymore. I got it from a link linux fan suggested
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2010-April/066993.html
Alas, computing moving targets is so
On 4/28/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
if you or anyone on list know how to force gcc to make gfortran libs (
shared
libs) (on x86_64) (or how to solve the linker problems in the linked
email
herein) I would be grateful for advice.
On 4/21/10, lux-integ
On 4/24/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2010 06:14:51 pm cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Any ideas here, tried changing .py files etc
MAC
My cmake debugging experience is limited to find and grep.
[I found]
l...@lfs:/sources/KDE/4.4.2/kdeadmin-4.4.2$ grep
On 4/24/10, cliffhan...@gardener.com cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
But these are installed:-
root [ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages ]# ls cups*
cups-1.0-py2.6.egg-info cups.so
[Tyrer]
I would try running that manually. Change to that directory and:
python FindPyCups.py
If I read it
On 4/24/10, Trent Shea trents...@gmail.com wrote:
On April 23, 2010 11:24:21 pm Trent Shea wrote:
On a LFS-6.6 32bit host I don't see a difference in the output of
./configure HAVE_CXX=yes and ./configure.
Actually looking back, is this variable for taglibs or gst-plugins-good?
Looks like
On 4/24/10, James Richard Tyrer tyr...@acm.org wrote:
On 04/23/10 22:47, Trent Shea wrote:
On April 23, 2010 11:24:21 pm Trent Shea wrote:
On a LFS-6.6 32bit host I don't see a difference in the output of
./configure HAVE_CXX=yes and ./configure.
Actually looking back, is this variable for
On 4/22/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
I have already installed pyKDE4 from kdebindings-4.4.2. Does the above
mean that if the marble library is required I have to re-compile pyKDE4
with -DEXPERIMENTAL_PYTHON_BINDINGS=TRUE passed to cmake or is it
another
procedure
On 4/21/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
I forgot to add that I followed the recipe for creating shared libs (for
atlas using gfortran) given here:-
Have a look at what blfs gcc says re: fortran
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gcc.html
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On 4/21/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
There is some difference between the two environments which needs
to be sussed out.
[Edgar]
I restored the image of this system to a box Nr.2
If I understand that correctly, Nr.2 should have been equal to Nr.1.
I beg to wonder if
On 4/20/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Hi Bruce, Michael,
I found version.h, the definition was commented out. I deleted the comment
#,
In C the octothorpe character '#' does NOT indicate a comment. You need
to reinsert that character.
but
On 4/20/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
Serious: help very appreciated ! If I cannot more build the kernel, I am at
the very end of my installation!
make menuconfig
I feel certain you ran this to account for different hardware.
If not, it may be worth a try since it is very
On 4/20/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
kernel/power/snapshot.c:1546:
That code line is under
#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER
Google CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_HEADER gave that
depends on: CONFIG_X86_64 CONFIG_HIBERNATION
and so is box Nr.1 and box Nr.2 also X86_64 or
On 4/20/10, James Richard Tyrer tyr...@acm.org wrote:
There is an issue with the applet. The default policy means that it
will only run as root. Some Googling and I found how to set this up so
that the applet will be on the system tray and will work for user
accounts. These two patches
On 4/16/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
-
-- The following OPTIONAL packages could NOT be located on your system.
-- Consider installing them to enable more features from this software.
On 4/14/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
... allow you to inspect
the detail of how kde is managing to not find it is there?
I didn't know, but I'm sure you already knew that there could be an Xi gem in
checking builddir/CMakeFiles/*.log
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On 4/13/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
much complete now - xorg-server 1.8 was the last piece I was waiting for
in order to drop HAL from my system entirely...
Well, ...
I stopped the haldeamon and started up kde 4.4.2 (pretty new stuff).
Then I started dragonplayer and it
On 4/13/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
I would be grateful is someone could explain how I could get this pogram to
compile without having to link libraries to /usr/lib.
I don't know if a clue from alien slackbuild of KDE 4.4.2 where they use
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=$SLKCFLAGS
On 4/13/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course, when it comes to cmake, I am a complete idiot
But
grep -l -r Xinput /usr/share/cmake-2.6.4/Modules
/usr/share/cmake-2.6.4/Modules/FindX11.cmake
makes me wonder if it can be hacked
Or even would cmake ignore adding $XORG_PREFIX/lib
On 4/13/10, Trent Shea trents...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this helps, but for phonon I use:
-DPHONON_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/kde/include
-DPHONON_LIBRARY=/opt/kde/lib/libphonon.so
OFF TOPIC:
For me, phonon was Krazy.
I got clues from alien slackbuild of k442
Build xine-lib after libxcb and qt
On 4/13/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
excerpt from ~/share/cmake2.8/findX11.cmake ##
IF (UNIX)
SET(X11_FOUND 0)
SET(CMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK_SAVE ${CMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK})
SET(CMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK NEVER)
SET(X11_INC_SEARCH_PATH
On 4/13/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
excerpt from ~/share/cmake2.8/findX11.cmake ##
find / -xdev -iname findX11.cmake
How many of these are there and is it really using the one it should?
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On 4/13/10, Trent Shea trents...@gmail.com wrote:
On April 13, 2010 02:07:30 pm linux fan wrote:
OFF TOPIC:
For me, phonon was Krazy.
I got clues from alien slackbuild of k442
Build xine-lib after libxcb and qt after that.
But build qt with -no-phonon or else can't get xine backend
Where
On 4/8/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for that, the polkit-1-shadow.diff patch works with polkit-0.96!
(need to run
autoreconf after applying the patch).
When I tried that, I get errors:
o...@lfs:/sources/polkit-0.96# autoreconf
docs/polkit/Makefile.am:83: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does
On 4/10/10, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
I have completed installing KDE-3.5.10
Anyone have some suggestions on installing or configuring fonts?
Thunderbird and Firefox are terrible
I unpack bitstream-vera fonts
On 4/10/10, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:19 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
I unpack bitstream-vera fonts
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10.tar.bz2
[snip]
Even better would
On 4/10/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know, but I'm guessing that gtk-doc has something to do with it. Do
you have
gtk-doc installed?
No.
Yes, it is to do with gtk-doc.
That's going to force me to install more dependencies.
I was hoping for a hack to avoid that, oh well.
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On 4/10/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
On Friday 09 April 2010 01:49:22 linux fan wrote:
And I've tried in vain to find documetation which I can understand
anything about polkit. How to configure it???
No Idea.
Exactly.
That's my number 1 problem with polkit
On 4/6/10, zzflop zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote:
I just finished building Apache-2.2.15 from the blfs-dev
book on LFS-6.6. Went on to install Subversion-1.6.9 and
configure failed saying that subverion needed sqlite to
build, which I don't have installed.
I am a miscreant using subversion-1.3.1
On 4/8/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
QUESTION 1:
Which is KDE-program that installs the needed kde4-config ?
kdelibs
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On 4/8/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
QUESTION 2:
my $KDEDIR is not /usr, is is sensible to change
-DKDE4_AUTH_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR:STRING=/usr/share/PolicyKit/policy \
to
-DKDE4_AUTH_POLICY_FILES_INSTALL_DIR:STRING=$KDEDIR/share/PolicyKit/policy \
Don't know, don't
On 3/17/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 March 2010 12:37, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
/bin/sh: -DXRDB=xrdb: command not found
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `star...@app_man_suffix@', needed by
`all-am'. Stop.
APP_MAN_SUFFIX only appears in
On 3/14/10, David Jensen djensen...@windstrean.net wrote:
IMHO its easier to recompile x-server adding
--with-fontdir=$XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11
fixes the incorrect dir and removes the log errrors
/usr/share/fonts/X11 is a location known to Fontconfig.
The book has written
23. X Window
On 3/13/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
The confusion originates with new font-util which creates
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontutil.pc having the fontrootdir equate
by default to /usr/share/fonts/X11 and all the font packages determine
the font installation dir from that.
Are you sure?
On 3/14/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
Then you are ignoring good advice.
If you don't compile xorg-server --with-default-font-path you will need to
set
the FontPath in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or it will revert back to the built in
default
Always, in the past, I would unpack bitstream-vera fonts
URL=http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera\
/1.10/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10.tar.bz2
into the TTF directory and make a link X11-TTF in /usr/share/fonts
pointing to the TTF directory as mentioned in the book.
The resulting
On 3/13/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
FWIW, I configured xorg-server-1.7.4 with
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--enable-builtin-fonts \
--with-module-dir=/usr/lib/X11/modules \
--disable-config-hal --disable-config-dbus \
successfully. It is updated to 4.4.0, but as yet untested.
Replacing 4.4.0 with 4.4.1 in all the instructions should work.
This page points to the tarballs and has the build instructions I used:
http://linux-fan-alfs.blogspot.com/2009/12/build-kde-434-from-source.html
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On a newly built LFS-6.5 / BLFS system,
when I start X-Windows, the bash promt is getting set to:
PS1='\s-\v\$ '
I have it set in /etc/profile to:
export PS1='\...@\h:\w\$ '
I get the prompt in /etc/profile when on the text consoles or when
I do 'su - anyuser'
When starting X-Windows on
On 16 February 2010 17:26, linux fan wrote:
The issue is trying to hit a moving target.
That is exactly the big problem!
You will *always* be working on BLFS for more than 1 day.
On 2/16/10, Ken Moffat wrote:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/svn/
OK, I admit it looks just
On 2/16/10, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas a.hat...@gmail.com wrote:
But, if both Book maintainers say that there is no need for a BLFS release
anymore, then at
least we have to find a workable scheme, so we can give to the developers
and users a clear
target and don't leave them in the mist.
I
On 1/2/10, Simon Geard wrote:
So, there's probably an XML file somewhere containing that invalid
element. What does the following command show on your system?
fgrep servicedir -r /etc/dbus-1
Simon.
servicedir/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/servicedir
is in that file:
On 1/1/10, lux-integ wrote:
I dont seem to have the pathappend utility I keep hetting
'pathappend command not found' on login,
Please refer to BLFS book Chapter 3. After LFS Configuration Issues
The Bash Shell Startup Files where you need to set all that up.
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:49:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Session bus not starting on new LFS
To: cliffhan...@gardener.com
On 12/31/09, cliffhan...@gardener.com cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Remarkable. I've spent some
On 12/31/09, cliffhan...@gardener.com cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Hi
Maybe someone can help here, if i don't fix this I may as well junk the
whole system. I have a new LFS 6.5 plus BLFS as required.
Although I can start system dbus in the usual way, a session dbus fails
to start as
On 12/28/09, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/28/09, linux fan wrote:
I compiled strace-4.5.18 on a very recent dev lfs build with 2.6.32.2
and no problem.
DOH, but I used linux-headers 2.6.31.6.
It was SVN-20091124 and then I upgraded kernel to 2.6.32.2.
It seems
On 12/27/09, Matthew Burgess wrote:
Hi all,
Trying to compile strace under a very recent LFS build (2.6.32.2 kernel)
results in:
net.c:976: error: field 'nl' has incomplete type
I compiled strace-4.5.18 on a very recent dev lfs build with 2.6.32.2
and no problem.
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On 12/28/09, linux fan wrote:
I compiled strace-4.5.18 on a very recent dev lfs build with 2.6.32.2
and no problem.
DOH, but I used linux-headers 2.6.31.6.
It was SVN-20091124 and then I upgraded kernel to 2.6.32.2.
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On 12/26/09, Jan Seynaeve wrote:
I'm following the instructions from the development blfs for
installing xorg and I'm a bit confused about the fonts.
Fonts always confused me until I discovered what works for me.
I use ttf-bitstream-vera fonts from:
On 12/9/09, cliffhanger wrote:
Hi
Building Gnome-desktop 2.28 from Blfs gives the following error - has
any one seen this?
ImportError: No module named xml2po
I don't know about xml2po, but you build libxml2 after python get some
libxml2 python modules.
1. python
2. libxml2
3.libxslt
I only
Why does kde get out of memory (in sys.log) at startup?
System Info
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uname -r
2.6.31.6
cat /proc/meminfo | head -1
MemTotal:1554632 kB
ran memtest86+ for 2 hours with no errors.
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model name\|MHz
model name :
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