On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 01:50:41AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 11:34:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >>On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 03:46:50PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >
> >So, I eventually got back to chroot, and tried to manually run make
> >install-libs for e2fsprogs : that succeeded.  I had hoped to confirm
> >that mkdir was segfaulting - a quick look suggests that the /tools
> >version is used for e2fsprogs.
> >
> >I then marked the package as completed and continued.  All was going
> >well until I got to texinfo, where
> >
> >make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
> >
> >again caused a segmentation fault.  I again suspected that mkdir
> >(invoked by mkinstalldirs) might be the problem, so I attempted to
> >rebuild coreutils (by this point, I am using the final coreutils).
> >But I can't - when I try to run make, it segfaults.
> >
> >I then tried to rebuild make itself, but again it segfaults at
> >'make'.  So then I tried to invoke /tools/bin/make but again it
> >segfaults!
> >
> >NB - from time to time I have dropped the caches, in case this new
> >box had suddenly developed a RAM problem, but nothing changed.
> >
> >I also noticed errors about /dev, /proc/ /sys not getting mounted
> >(recall that I am getting "noise" from ls when I log all files
> >before and after I create /etc/passwd and /etc/group - these errors
> >obviously rolled off my screen:
> >
> >mount: only root can use "--bind" option (effective UID is 1000)
> >mount: only root can use "--options" option (effective UID is 1000)
> >mount: only root can use "--types" option (effective UID is 1000)
> >mount: only root can use "--types" option (effective UID is 1000)
> >
> >I am now starting to believe that there is indeed something
> >inherently different about fedora. Maybe I'll ask on -support.
> 
> I brought up a live version in qemu.  Came up fine.  Installed
> version-check.sh and then all needed programs.  Worked fine.  Installed
> docbook, subversion, xslt, etc and fetched lfs-svn.  Tried 'make' and it
> instantly crashed and took the terminal with it.  Tried a reboot.  Hung. Had
> to do the equivalent of a hard reset.
> 
> Of course, since it was a live system, I lost everything I did.  I tried
> again and downloaded make-4.1.  It installed and built OK, but then firefox
> crashed and I could not restart it.
> 

Sorry about that, looks as if there really _is_ a problem with
fedora23.

> So next I installed f23 on a virtual drive.  Took a couple of tries to get
> it right.  I've been able to build the lfs book and install jhalfs.  I
> mounted a partition for lfs and installed the sources.
> 
> I'm quitting for now.  It's late and I'll work on this tomorrow.
> 
>   -- Bruce
> 
Thanks for looking at this.

ĸen
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