I've been building LFS-svn and BLFS-svn from last week. That all went ok, but I decided to change my scripts to get a more reliable indication that a package failed (one of my upgrades to openssl-1.0.2a failed and I had not noticed). That change seems to be working well, but to test the changed scripts (lots of '&&' removed from the driver scripts, occasional other removals of status tests in favour of my new function which also reports how long the script ran) I've been using qemu on top of xfce-4.12.
Without Xorg in the guest, several times the system booted but gave me a smaller tty window instead of the expected 1024x768, and usually I was not able to login - on one occasion I had to hit <enter> to move through each of the bootscripts. On other occasions the guest booted fine. Then I built Xorg and some desktop packages. Running from within xfce, my .xinitrc xrandr command to resize the screen to 1280x800 was ineffective, qemu took the whole available screen (this is a 1680x900 monitor) and xrandr thought it was in a 1280x960 mode, I think. On one occasion, leaving X dropped me to a tty which still took the whole available screen (i.e. everything except the panel), on another occasion I went back to the expected 1024x768. Finished my build for the day, shut down qemu, shutdown Xorg with xfce, went back to icewm (in this .xinitrc I test $2, if present, for --wm=). To my immense surprise, I have now booted qemu twice from icewm without problems, and got the expected 1280x800 Xorg screen. For the moment, this is just anecdotal - something somewhere is having unexpected consequences. Actually, I don't think I've ever tried to run qemu from within xfce until this weekend, maybe it has always been odd. Change is fun, isn't it ? I have no plans to investigate this at the moment (no real idea _where_ the problem is), this is just a preliminary marker in case other people start to see the problem, and a reminder to test *everything* when packages change. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
