> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 07:55:46 +0100 > From: [email protected] (akhiezer) > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> > > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:22:37 -0700 > > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, akhiezer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> > > > > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 14:56:11 -0700 > > > > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > > > > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > > > > > . > > > . > > > > > > I typed in 'exit' until I got to the command prompt: > > > > > > lfs@debian:~$ > > > > > > the I su to root. Then I made the backups by > > > > > > cp -rf sources/ tools/ lfs.backups/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (OK, not the way I'd do backups, but hey ... ). > > > > > > > > > > Presumably you're doing this in the $LFS dir, namely /mnt/lfs . > > > > > > > > > > If so, then you have created /mnt/lfs/lfs.backups/ . > > > > > > > > > > You want now to move the 'lfs.backups' dir outside of /mnt/lfs : move > > > it > > > > > to be under /home : so you should now have /home/lfs.backups/ . > > > > > > > > > > Don't worry about moving/removing anything else from under /mnt/lfs > > > just > > > > > yet: instead, see next question. > > > > > > > > > > ** Now, where is your backup of the toolchain that you did at end of > > > > > chapter 5 ? ** > > > > > > > > > > (I know you wanted to push on with this on your Sunday. NB that it > > > seems > > > > > that you're ca 7-12 time-zones behind). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now I: > > > > > > chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i HOME=/root > > > > > > and then I was going to "rm -rf" each individual directory but to > > > make > > > > > sure > > > > > > things were right: > > > > > > root@debian:/# ls > > > > > > bin etc lfs.backups lost+found opt run sources > > > > > > temptools usr > > > > > > boot home lib media proc sbin srv > > > > > > tmp var > > > > > > dev initrd.img lib64 mnt root selinux sys > > > > > > tools vmlinuz > > > > > > root@debian:/# exit > > > > > > exit > > > > > > lfs@debian:/$ su > > > > > > Password: > > > > > > root@debian:/# ls > > > > > > bin etc lfs.backups lost+found opt run sources > > > > > > temptools usr > > > > > > boot home lib media proc sbin srv > > > > > > tmp var > > > > > > dev initrd.img lib64 mnt root selinux sys > > > > > > tools vmlinuz > > > > > > The two directories are the same? To make sure they weren't I ls > > > /home: > > > > > > root@debian:/# ls home/ > > > > > > lfs mike > > > > > > root@debian:/# chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i HOME=/root > > > > > > HOME=/root > > > > > > root@debian:/# ls home/ > > > > > > lfs mike > > > > > > So both directories are the same So what to do now? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The above excerpt is completely irrelevant here. > > > > > > > > > > You (basically) don't need/want to be using 'chroot' here. > > > . > > > . > > > > > > > > In any case. I didn't create /mnt/lfs/lfs.backups/ as I backed up to / > > > but > > > > > > > > > (The 'ls' outputs from above show it as seemingly being under both '/' and > > > '/mnt/lfs' ). > > > > > > > > > > I moved it to /home so now we are on the same page. > > > > > > > > > OK. > > > > > > > > > > As for the copy of > > > > /tools I also put it in / . > > > > > > > > > > > > > _What_ "copy of /tools" ? > > > > > > The one you did at end of chapter 5 ? > > > > > > Or the one that you just did today ? > > > > > > > > > > > > I think /mnt/lfs/tools was created in ch5 and so I cp it to / the mkdir > > lfs.backups then mv sources and tools backups to it then mv lfs.backups to > > /home/ so I end up with /home/lfs.backups containing my backups of sources > > and tools. > > > Did you do that at end of chapter 5 - at that moment in time - and _before_ > moving on to chapter 6 ? > > > OR, did you instead ONLY do that yesterday ? > > > You need to have done a backup of /mnt/lfs/tools WHEN you reached the end > of chapter 5: you had to do the backup at THAT moment in time; and you > had to do that BEFORE moving on to chapter 6. > > > > Regardless, I think I have the backups where you want them. > > > > > WHERE, right now, is the backup that you did WHEN you were at the end of > chapter 5 and BEFORE you moved on to chapter 6 ? > > What is the full path of its directory? > > > And WHERE, right now, is the backup that you did yesterday: what is the > full path of its directory ? > > > You should have two separate backups by now: the one that you did at > end of chapter 5 - at that point in time - before moving on to chapter 6; > and the one that you did yesterday. > > > You need to be crystal-clear on these points; else it's probably not time > yet to resume the build. >
- meant to add, that if you're not understanding the concepts here readily enough, then it may be safest just to, at most, restart from scratch - i.e. start from the beginning of the book again. Yes, that might be a pita for you; but you should have some experience now of how to get through those early chapters of the book; so it should not be wasted time. And it means that you should be starting from a known good state - i.e. a clean slate. What we have been trying to do here, namely rewinding to end of chapter 5 and then resuming the build, does require, really, clarity about some concepts and instructions to follow: else you really are better, as said, to just go back to very start of book again. It's variously inadvisable, all-round, otherwise. hth, akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
