Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG) [SOLVED]

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wit wrote: > > The proper interpretation of the text is closer to something like this. > > My Corrected interpretation = > If the defaults Perl would use are not going to be acceptable, run the > Configure command. Otherw

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> > Configure seems to cache the prefix value. When you rerun > configure.gnu, --prefix= doesn't seem to change anything. I meant to > check whether -Dprefix= (t

Re: Useradd

2006-12-02 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Dec 2, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: Geoffrey, could you try to trim down the quotes in the replies? Thanks. On 12/1/06, Geoffrey Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: End of output of strace The write -"No mail." Does show up when login is attempted. There seem to be alot of N

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Wit
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: Configure seems to cache the prefix value. When you rerun configure.gnu, --prefix= doesn't seem to change anything. I meant to check whether -Dprefix= (the real option used in Configure) would help, but perl

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG) [SOLVED]

2006-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Wit wrote: Wit wrote: Confirmed! I get the same results as you now. Executive summary: the text in the book can be interpreted to mean both commands (Configure and ./configure) should be run. I did that and the results caused the problem. The proper interpretation of the text is closer to

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG) [SOLVED]

2006-12-02 Thread Wit
Wit wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try out this command and we'll see where the new perl says it's module path is. # perl -le 'print join("\n", @INC)' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr

Re: gphoto permissions

2006-12-02 Thread Stan Sander
Dan Nicholson wrote: Do you have permissions as an ordinary user? If it's a usb camera, it should be following the udev rule we install with libusb: SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="usb". Is that not working? Are the permissions not coming out correctly in /dev/bus/usb? I don't think pam has any

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-02 Thread Wit
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 12/2/06, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Angel Tsankov wrote: > > The problem was that I executed udevstart as user udev rather than as > root. Thanks a lot, Al! No problem, I'm glad to have helped... I never knew that. I always figured grub had it's own code for

Race condition in init.d/functions

2006-12-02 Thread Paul G Rogers
I found a race condition in LFS-4.1 function killproc(), but the same code is found in the LFS-6.1.1 I recently installed. LFS-6.1.1 may provide a workaround I can't test, but it's still a workaround. The condition is this: when running Apache, it will spawn a number of httpd helper daemons, as s

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: > Try out this command and > we'll see where the new perl says it's module path is. > > # perl -le 'print join("\n", @INC)' > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux > /usr/

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Wit
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, the new question, I think, is why does autoconf not detect the chrroted correctly installed Perl stuff? It does find the /tools. Is it perhaps using some config file left from the chapter 5 install? So perl did get installed

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Angel Tsankov wrote: > > The problem was that I executed udevstart as user udev rather than as > root. Thanks a lot, Al! No problem, I'm glad to have helped... I never knew that. I always figured grub had it's own code for poking at the PCI bus

Re: gphoto permissions

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Alberto Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have my lfs/blfs happily working. But there is one thing that I don't know how to do, and it is using gphoto. My system has kde 3.5.5 with digikam 0.8.2, and hal and linux-pam. As root, gphoto detects my camera, but as a normal user I can

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/2/06, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, the new question, I think, is why does autoconf not detect the chrroted correctly installed Perl stuff? It does find the /tools. Is it perhaps using some config file left from the chapter 5 install? So perl did get installed to the right place? An

Race condition in init.d/functions

2006-12-02 Thread Paul G Rogers
I found a race condition in LFS-4.1 function killproc(), but the same code is found in the LFS-6.1.1 I recently installed. LFS-6.1.1 may provide a workaround I can't test, but it's still a workaround. The condition is this: when running Apache, it will spawn a number of httpd helper daemons, as s

Re: Repost: Autoconf make failure (looks like perl defaults NG)

2006-12-02 Thread Wit
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 12/1/06, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> A find shows that the not-found file is in >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux/File. This leads me to thinking that >> either the perl defaults in Configure may have been inappropriate or ?? >> I notice t

Re: speaker test produces no sound

2006-12-02 Thread jeeva suresh
After doing even more research, I believe the problem is the error "File descriptor in bad state" when I run the command. cat /usr/local/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > pcmC0D2p I guess this is more because this is the only thing which is throwing an actual error! I may be completely wrong

gphoto permissions

2006-12-02 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have my lfs/blfs happily working. But there is one thing that I don't know how to do, and it is using gphoto. My system has kde 3.5.5 with digikam 0.8.2, and hal and linux-pam. As root, gphoto detects my camera, but as a normal user I can't. I think it's because of linux-pam, because in o

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-02 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: Al The problem was that I executed udevstart as user udev rather than as root. Thanks a lot, Al! No problem, I'm glad to have helped... Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-02 Thread Angel Tsankov
Bind mounting is not mentioned here, so I guess it is not needed. Furthermore, GRUB 0.96 DOES detect my HDD when I build LFS 6.1.1 wihtout package users. No it was introduced in 6.2. IN 6.1.1 read section 6.8 carefully. If you follow this, you will realise that $LFS/dev/will only get popula