Re: X Configuration/ KDE Issues

2006-12-21 Thread Alex Merry
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 22:45, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/20/06 16:30 CST: > > I'd like to know other opinions about pursuing a KDE update right > > now. > > I think it would be nice to do the KDE update, but it is a lot > of work, and a couple of months after

Re: A couple suggested changes and package updates

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Merry
On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:57, Dan Nicholson wrote: > $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/20-alsa.rules > # Give the audio group ownership of sound devices > SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio" > SUBSYSTEM=="snd", GROUP="audio" > > # ALSA Devices > # When a sound device is detected, restore the volume setti

Re: Glibc 2.5 SCSI headers (SVN20061021)

2006-11-12 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 12 November 2006 17:50, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 11/12/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/11/06, Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've noticed that Glibc (2.5) overwrites the scsi headers > > > installed as part of the "linux headers" step (linux 2.6.18.1). > >

Re: lfs-bootscripts-6.2

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Merry
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:59, thorsten wrote: > And tried to stop them with > killproc -p /var/run/openvpn-1.pid openvpn and > killproc -p /var/run/openvpn-2.pid openvpn respectively. > > When both instances are up and I tried to stop one of both, the right > openvpn process gets killed and the

Re: killproc bug or misfeature?

2006-10-29 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 29 October 2006 14:19, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > killproc -p /var/run/ppp-eth0.pid pppd > [snip] > However, the result is not as I expect. If there is indeed only one > pppd, it is terminated, waited for, and a green OK appears on the > screen. If there is another (unrelated) copy of

Re: LFS-Stable-6.2: duplicate udev rule file number (minor issue?)...

2006-10-26 Thread Alex Merry
On Thursday 26 October 2006 09:34, Kris van Rens wrote: > cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/26-network.rules << EOF > > I found that there is a udev rule '26-modprobe.rules' already; I'm > not sure how this works out as the filenames are different but the > priority number for udev is the same. It might just

Re: udev-100 [was: Glibc-2.4]

2006-09-25 Thread Alex Merry
On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:41, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > Done in r7793. > > And, after looking at the udev-100 bug, it appears that I missed one. > All the ENV{PHYSDEV*} variables are deprecated; the ENV{PHYSDEVBUS} > that almost everyone uses in 05-udev-early.rules (to

Re: udev-100 [was: Glibc-2.4]

2006-09-18 Thread Alex Merry
On Monday 18 September 2006 07:35, Matthew Burgess wrote: > One thing I'm concerned about with Dan's proposal of aligning all the > users and groups up between the various *LFS books is of our motto > "Your distro, your rules". If we start mandating all the users and > groups that folks should hav

Re: cryptodev

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:02, Robert Connolly wrote: > I like it. It works well. Thanks. > > Is it practical to add a --selftest option which checks known values, Seems like something that should go in a seperate script to me, distributed with the digest script: it is something that is only

Re: cryptodev

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:53, Robert Connolly wrote: > On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:38, Alex Merry wrote: > > I happen to agree with the FSF that programs should not change > > their behaviour because their name has been changed, but that's > > just personal prefer

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:57, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I don't get any errors that would seem to indicate it requires a user > or group named "nobody". Now yes, in the sources it does try to drop > privileges by first looking up the "nobody" user in /etc/passwd, then > dropping all supplementar

Re: Glibc-2.4

2006-09-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:13, Christoph Berg wrote: > I also built a glibc 2.4 based system multiple times. Everything > works well and I also noticed the nogroup/nobody issue. Although it > looks, like vol_id can resolve these error. But booting looks better > with added nogroup/nobody. udev

Re: linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Merry
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 04:56, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Drepper's checked something in to address the problem and closed the > bug reports if anyone's interested. I haven't tested it. > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 > http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2006-q3/msg00278.

Re: Future udev rules

2006-09-08 Thread Alex Merry
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:15:04PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > too difficult to provide this. (I'm ignoring the problem you've > described with the ethX interfaces right now as I'm not exactly > following it.) I don't know if this will help, but this is how I understand it: The point of the per

Re: -ffast-math + Mesa

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Merry
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:33:52PM +0400, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > Everything seems ok except -fmath-errno doesn't work as expected. > gcc-4.1.1 was built directly from gcc.gnu.org without any patches. What were you expecting it to do? As I understand it, -fmath-errno is the default. -fno-math

Re: IEEE1394 UDev Error (bootscripts?)

2006-08-30 Thread Alex Merry
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:51:42PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Here is a bug report I've been meaning to send in for months. Upon > booting my machine this evening, I decided to send it in. I get an > error, that suspends the boot process, which says it is a problem > with the LFS bootscripts. >

Re: /bin/ping is group writtable

2006-08-29 Thread Alex Merry
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:33:26PM +0400, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > I mean a user able to read a file can disassemble it and find security > holes in it. Although it would probably be easier to download the sources and look at those... Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.ox

Re: Coreutils instruction changes

2006-08-24 Thread Alex Merry
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > 4) We currently use a sed to avoid a supposed buffer overflow in > translated versions of `who'. This is unnecessary now as it's been > fixed in a different manner, so the sed can be removed from the book. From what I read of th

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-22 Thread Alex Merry
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:17:17PM +0100, Richard Downing wrote: > So I think the project needs a challenge. Trouble is I can't think what > it is! HLFS? Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk pgpWLzymYuM1G.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: udevtest "Creating Custom Symlinks" page

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:06:58PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >Alex Merry wrote: > >>On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:58:54PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > >>This patch should fix it. > >> > > > >I think this is a c

Re: udevtest "Creating Custom Symlinks" page

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Merry
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:58:54PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Right. I get the same thing here. What I meant was, I think it's a bug > in udevtest. The same comment "/* remove sysfs_path if given */" is > used in both udevtest and udevinfo. However, it only works in > udevinfo. The problem is t

Re: [RFC] kernel tree to /usr/src [was: Re: jhalfs and kernel tree]

2006-08-15 Thread Alex Merry
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:15:51AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > So, I'd rather save the kernel source in another directory. Maybe > /usr/share/linux. That's where I put them in my builds. You can always > move the tree to whatever location is needed by another package which > _really_ needs the ke

Re: Possible Udev Rule Bug?

2006-08-14 Thread Alex Merry
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >On 8/14/06, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In 25-lfs.rules there is, > >>KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", MODE="0620",GROUP="video" > >>Shouldn't the mode be 0660? > > > >That's a good question. > > I

Re: Possible Udev Rule Bug?

2006-08-14 Thread Alex Merry
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:33:54PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > In 25-lfs.rules there is, > KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", MODE="0620",GROUP="video" > Shouldn't the mode be 0660? I can't say for certain, but my guess is that the reason is to prevent a user peeking in on another user's display. However

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Merry
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:39:21PM +, Peter wrote: > Sorry, I was a bit sloppy in the last message. > My question summarized - Is the following > command OK? > > mkdir -pv ${LFS}/{dev{/pts,/shm},proc,sys} But you're creating ${LFS}/dev (presumably for the first time), so I guess you are then

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Merry
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:51:47PM +, Peter Ennis wrote: > Is it OK to explicitly create > dev/pts and dev/shm before mount --bind ? > This will fix my situation. No. This will definitely not help, as they will be covered by mount --bind. You may want to look at the --bind option in `man 8 mo

Re: udev.rules - /dev/cdrom is not longer created

2006-07-27 Thread Alex Merry
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote: > In LFS 6.1.1 the device /dev/cdrom is created during boot. In the > current version it is no longer created. It's not a required device, but > it is fairly useful as it avoids programs having to hunt around the > block devices try

Re: fomit-frame-pointer sed in gcc pass2/3

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Merry
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:51:22PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > Alex Merry wrote: > > Robert was suggesting a change that would allow the sed to be applied to > > other *FLAGS variables. When you consider the dangers in constructing and > > running commands you don'

Re: fomit-frame-pointer sed in gcc pass2/3

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Merry
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:13:53PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Robert Connolly wrote: > > > >> This isn't a bug, but the line: > >> > >> sed 's/^XCFLAGS =$/& -fomit-frame-pointer/' > >> > >> can be problematic if a user uses this command to modify other variables, > >> be

Re: fomit-frame-pointer sed in gcc pass2/3

2006-07-15 Thread Alex Merry
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:40:54PM -0400, Robert Connolly wrote: > On July 15, 2006 12:26 pm, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Robert Connolly wrote these words on 07/15/06 11:13 CST: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/build > sed 's/^XCFLAGS =$/& -fomit-frame-pointer/' tf > > stuff > > XCFLAGS = -g -O2 > > more st

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Alex Merry
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:12:17PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > This is preliminary. I'm still working through the rest of the rules. > This covers the first 3 sections of the current 25-lfs.rules file. > > KERNEL=="capi", NAME="capi20", > SYMLINK+="isdn/capi20" > > K

Re: Glibc make error

2006-03-24 Thread Alex Merry
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:02:53PM +0100, EaStErDoM wrote: > Chris Staub schrieb: > > >I'm sorry, I forgot that the stable book does use 2.6.11. In any case, > >that's not likely to be the issue, assuming that the headers are in > >fact correctly installed into /tools/include. It is possible tha