On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:41:09PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > grep. That error message is from pcre-8.30 build log. It is called from the > build script, after installation and ldconfig: > > BUILD_DIR_SIZE=`du -sck \ > $TMPDIR/$BUILDDIR | grep total | cut -d"t" -f1` > > I believe you recognize. It is from your suggestion to me, some months ago. > And it is good, not only for the intended purpose, but it warned me, with > that complaint. I should not have tried to reboot without fixing pcre before. > > Also it is a shame that I should have also paid more attention to the remarks > on BLFS pcre-8.30 page *Command Explanations* > > "--libdir=/lib: This option makes it install its libraries into /lib. If you > reinstall Grep after installing PCRE, Grep will get linked against PCRE and > this may cause problems during the boot process if /usr is a separate mount > point. If you have /usr/lib on the same partition as /lib you can omit this > option" > > as one further warning to solve the issue before rebooting.
Thinking about this a bit more, why was the old rebuilt grep not using libpcre.so, rather than libpcre.so.0 ? I've never rebuilt grep after pcre is installed, so I don't know. > > > I always recommend booting to level 3 and using startx and not ?dm for > > exactly this type of problem. > > I used to do that for months (or even years?) until one day I read about > security issues if not using a dm, and installed slim. I have spent about an > hour now, trying to find it if it was on Arch or Gentoo, without success. As > I do not have much security knowledge, I believed it. > > Also, I notice that most linux distros use one. > > Please, I would like advice on that, as life would be much easier without > dm's. > My memory of slim is that I eventually hated it :) Perhaps because the text was too small, but I forget. It would be interesting to see that 'security' report. I used to use gdm for convenience (before it changed and stopped me seeing the results of the shutdown scripts - unpleasant when my development created an error in them), but the reason distros use dm's is that "users expect to boot to a graphical desktop". AFAIK, there are no security reasons to prefer a graphical login - although, arguably, in an office with multiple users a tty login where xorg is not running will not load a screensaver when a machine is unattended. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
