My shiny new LFS system is heading for /dev/null. That's ok, it was only a test of current packages, but I must admit I'd hoped to keep it for a week or two.
The reason is that although I've built everything except for some gnome packages, I didn't test sound until last night. Totally broken. gvolwheel reported it couldn't connect open the mixer, although alsamixer runs ok. aplay segfaults, but the segfault is in ld-2.15.so. Google found that *some* people have been hitting this since glibc-2.14. It also pointed me to a patch at cross-lfs, http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/eglibc-2.15-fixes-1.patch which is from the libc-alpha list last year. It applies (eglibc isn't _that+ different :), but I'm reluctant to try upgrading the running glibc - doing in-place toolchain updates is the beginning of a slippery slope! I'll try a fresh test build, and this time test 'aplay' in chroot. So, for the moment this is just a heads-up that I'm looking at this. Still puzzled about what suddenly broke this for me, LFS-7.1 on this machine was fine but the problem first surfaced (for some people) last summer. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
