On 07/16/2010 03:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> This is not good.
Bruce, over the time I've been building LFS, I've come to respect your 
knowledge, troubleshooting and responsiveness. When you say something 
like this, with no recommendations, my conclusion is that I am in deep, 
dark doo-doo.

I have some thoughts on how to proceed--below--about which I'd like your 
input.
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting or
>>> diagnoses?
>>>
>>> Also, is there I place I can go to look at test logs for the SVN book?
>>>        
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/SVN-20100627/
>    
Thanks for this. It will be excruciating, maybe not quite so much with 
diff, but I think I'll do a line-by-line comparison to see if I can 
ferret out any more differences.

When I have a problem building LFS, in the absence of similar problems 
by anyone else, I conclude that the problem is me--typos, knowledge or 
loss of brain--or my host system. Since I've not seen any report about 
similar situations, that conclusion is operative. If it's me, I haven't 
found it yet so I'm thinking about the host system.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. I've seen postings in the last couple of 
months about folks, who run the same host, having problems. The PS1 
thing is a good example. I'm wondering if something from Ubuntu didn't 
"creep" into the tool chain. Last year, I built the basic CLFS-multilib 
system using Ubuntu 9.[whatever it is.] I had no problems. Luckily, 
because I don't trust anything but LFS, I backed it up to my external 
drive, just in case the upgrade "gorked." I'm thinking about booting to 
it and using it as the host for my build.

Since my adventures of the other day, something, and I don't remember 
precisely what it was--maybe I just wanted to shoot glibc, I started 
from scratch--no pun intended. But I didn't reformat the hard drive 
partition. I wanted to start just from building, but realized that when 
I deleted /tools, I needed to do more than jump in and go.

My thinking is leading me to wipe out the partition and start again. My 
hunch, and that's all it is--no data, says that the culprit is the host 
system. Based on all the reasons why I hate distros and windoze, I'm 
leaning that way.

I know, even using hunches, that troubleshooting is a process of 
elimination. I don't know what to eliminate first. I do know that I can 
`source .bashrc` for the lfs user in order to get the environment I want.

An easier method is if someone has a remastered LiveCD later than 6.3. 
I've never had a problem with a build using that LiveCD.

What do you think of my logic? Do you see other alternatives? If not, 
what would you choose from what I've said?

Thanks again.

Dan

P.S. I'm not necessarily interested in time compressed solutions. I 
retired two months ago so troubleshooting my build and playing on 
eHarmony this weekend are pretty attractive. :)

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