On 01/21/13 09:01, Thomas de Roo wrote: > On 01/21/13 02:59, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:38:29AM +0100, Thomas de Roo wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> The installation instructions on dash are followed by the suggestion to >>> make /bin/sh a symbolic link to dash. This is a really bad suggestion on >>> LFS, as it makes all the boot-scripts fail. (I just tried it on a newly >>> installed machine.) Maybe that info could be added too. >>> >> Colour me surprised - I thought the scripts (post LFS-7.0) were >> supposed to either be agnostic about what was used for /bin/sh, or >> else to use /bin/bash if they had bash-specific features. Having >> said that, I won't be surprised if any of the BLFS scripts I've >> touched turn out to break [ I cannot imagine why people think it is a >> good idea to build dash, but "your system, your rules" ]. >> >> But *all* of them fail with dash ? The pedant in me doubts that >> you installed _everything_, so please can you specify _which_ >> scripts fail if /bin/sh is a symlink to dash ? Or do you mean that >> all the *LFS* bootscripts fail ? >> >> ĸen > All of them might indeed be to big of a claim. I'll investigate to be > more specific. I'll report back after another attempt... > > Groet, > Thomas OK, so I checked again. I issued
cd /bin ln -s dash sh and rebooted. A lot of the bootscripts fail, both LFS and BLFS, from blfs-bootscripts-20120828 and lfs-bootscripts-20121013. So I suspect /lib/services/init-functions. For the log, see http://pastebin.com/k0b3RiD6. Groet, Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
