Re: [blfs-support] Heartbleed

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:41 AM, lux-integ  wrote:
> openssl is a package one generally installs  early in the distribution-build
> process.   To upgrade to say openssl-1.0.1g
> --(a)  does one need to yank out the old say openssl-1.0.1 and install the new
> 1,0,1g and if so would there not be breakages?  OR
> --(b) can one install openssl-1.0.1g over the old version  of  say
> openssl-1.0.1 ?
>
> advice from anyone on list will be much appreciated
>

If any application was compiled with static openssl library, you have
to recompile app in addition to installing a new shared lib/static.

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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin  wrote:
> Returning back to the root of the problem, can you give a bit more
> light?
>
> If you have an USB with ext2 (or whatever), you can not boot a new
> BIOS, correct? If you have an USB with FAT32, and with the exact same
> filesystem (except ownership and permissions) that the USB with ext2
> has, you can boot it?
System:
- mb: Intel Atom with ICH10R chipset
- disk: USB stick with MBR; a single etx4 partition (also have HDD
with the same config)
- grub 2.0 on mbr
- built LFS+BLFS 32bit

Original status:
- On the old mb:
   - I can boot from both USB stick and HDD
- on the same mb with updated BIOS version:
   - I can only boot from HDD (SATA port)
   - on the new BIOS with the same USB stick I can see grub menu, but
any attempt to boot results in error (see top of the thread)

> The question being, can you make a USB bootable just by switching the
> filesystem?
As I understand, grub is capable of reading ext4 (menu is shown)
At this point I wonder what causes grub to fail...

> And a thing I just came up with: does your ext2 USB have the "bootable"
> flag set on its boot partition?
I have ext4 with bootable flag (boots on working mb)

Just to clarify another problem while trying to solve initial one:
there was a suggestion to switch to gpt with a separate /boot
partition formatted as ext2 without initrd, but I can't boot linux
even on Core2 pc without initrd if rootfs is mapped via UUID.

Regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Richard Melville
 wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a
>> > initrd.
>> > Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try:
>> >
>> > menuentry "LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01" {
>> >linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \
>> >  root=PARTUUID=49acd73e-1457-424f-8dc1-3c3fa027becf \
>> >  rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=20
>> > }
>> >
>> > Of course, grub needs to be able to find the partition with the kernel
>> > on
>> > it.  It should be on the boot device with where grub.cfg is located.
>>
>> Could I skip initrd with extlinux as well if I use gpt?
>> If I do grub-install, it complains about gpt.. What are the tricks to
>> install grub2.0 on gpt formatted disk with a separate /boot?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexey
>>
>>
> You have to decide whether to use grub2 or syslinux; either will work.  My
> advice is to keep it simple. I prefer syslinux to grub2 because I think that
> grub2 has become too bloated, and if you are using the ext series of file
> systems (including btrfs) then I see no reason to use grub2.  And, yes, you
> can use syslinux with gpt and no initrd.  If you want to use grub2 then
> Bruce has already told you how to do it.
>
> One point I would make is to ensure that you are using the correct GPT GUID;
> it's the second one that appears in the table displayed by querying with
> "i", the one that's labelled "unique".
>
> BTW your rootdelay of "20" seems far too long; I've managed to reduce mine
> to "1" as you can see from my extlinux.conf file.

It seems to me I'm missing some key point...

I'm building everything in chroot on x64 for x86 (using CLFS as a
base). I've tried booting from GPT on Atom and HP desktop with Core2
(grub loaded, menu shown). After selecting menu (as Bruce suggested) I
always get a kernel crash during boot on both Atom and Core2 pc. Only
if I add initrd I can boot linux.

When I make LFS/BLFS bootable, do I keep kernel file in rootfs./boot
or in a separate grub /boot partition?
Do I still need rootfs:/boot? In case yes, why do I need 200Mib /boot partition?
In grub,cfg do I use "root=PARTUUID=xxx.." or "root=UUID=xxx.." ?

Regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs  wrote:
>
> If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd.
> Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try:
>
> menuentry "LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01" {
>linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \
>  root=PARTUUID=49acd73e-1457-424f-8dc1-3c3fa027becf \
>  rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=20
> }
>
> Of course, grub needs to be able to find the partition with the kernel on
> it.  It should be on the boot device with where grub.cfg is located.

Could I skip initrd with extlinux as well if I use gpt?
If I do grub-install, it complains about gpt.. What are the tricks to
install grub2.0 on gpt formatted disk with a separate /boot?

Regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Richard Melville
 wrote:
> Yes, I had the same problem; you have to have the kernel image on the same
> flash drive.  That could be seen as a security issue but as we are dealing
> with very small computers somebody could just as easily walk off with the
> complete box as they could with the USB flash drive.  Anyway, I have my USB
> flash drive locked under the front cover of the case; it's not on display.
> Of course, removing the flash drive renders the computer un-bootable; a
> security feature in itself.
>
> I use an 8GB flash drive (that seems to be the optimum capacity now,
> price-wise) and partition it into a 100MB boot partition with the remaining
> space as swap.  With 8GB of RAM I don't need to swap to it but I'm hoping to
> be able to use it for hibernation.  My systems are battery powered so I see
> it as a safety feature.  I've had no luck yet getting it to work (more BIOS
> problems I think) but I'm working on it.
>
> So, the boot partition holds the extlinux directory and the kernel image and
> nothing else. If you do that it should boot OK without initramfs. I've also
> been able to boot to another USB flash drive so the target drive is
> immaterial.  Let me know how you get on.
>

I have a few SATA disks connected to motherboard in addition to USB
boot disk, so I'm using UUID to identify root partition.
I have to use initramfs because I refer to root fs via UUID and udev
is not running at the time of mounting root fs.

So far with extlinux I could boot to ram disk on the new BIOS (where
grub fails miserably).
However on all motherboards boot process stops at the point of
mounting/finding  root partition.
I do have a rootdelay, but it does not help:
LABEL MyLinux
menu label MyLinux
LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01
APPEND root=PARTUUID=49acd73e-1457-424f-8dc1-3c3fa027becf \
  rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=20
INITRD /boot/initrd.img-3.10.32-sm01

If I do blkid, I can see /dev/sdh1 with a correct UUID (root fs).
I suspect initramfs image might have some issues and I wonder if I can
use scripts from BLFS or CLFS to create it or I need some adjustments
for extlinux variant (for example, /boot is a separate partition now).

Regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Melville
 wrote:
> What worked for me in the end is the following: I don't use a initrd and I
> partition the flash drive with GPT, format with ext2, and boot to an ext4
> partition on an mSATA SSD.  I use Syslinux rather than Grub2 as it's lighter
> and it's much easier (IMO) to set up.  If it's of any help here is my
> extlinux.conf:-
>
> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>PROMPT 1
>TIMEOUT 50
>DEFAULT xxx
>LABEL xxx
> LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.8-toi
> APPEND root=PARTUUID=---- \
>   vga=792 acpi_osi=linux acpi_backlight=legacy
> hest_disable \
>   iommu=soft rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=1
>
Hi Richard,

After struggling with grub, I've decided to try syslinux-6.02 with
setup similar to yours:
booting from usb stick with 512MB ext2 partition and ext4 root FS on
another USB stick.

I've got kernel panic - VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
(0,0). Some forums suggests initramfs.
I think you could skip initramfs only if you're using SATA disks. I've
added initramfs in syslinux config, but it was unable to find a device
containing root fs and dropped to a shell...

I wonder, since you have a working setup could you try to boot your
box with root FS on USB stick?

Regards,
Alexey
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[blfs-support] Is BLFS-7.4 book still available online?

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi guys,

I can't find blfs-7.4 online after 7.5 was released.
Is it supposed to be in blfs museum or somewhere else?

Regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, xinglp  wrote:
> try the below grub.cfg if your boot partition is same as root partition.
>
> set default=0
> set timeout=3
> insmod ext2
> menuentry "Default" {
> set uuid=d768c1f0-79c9-45c4-b604-8d0735a71242
> search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.28 root=UUID=${uuid} rootfstype=ext4 ro 
> rootdelay=6
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.10.28
> }

Did a change, got a similar error:
error: failure reading sector 0x215f from 'hd0'.

and grub returned to the main menu. Selecting it once more results in:
error: no such device: d768c1f0-79c9-45c4-b604-8d0735a71242
error: no such partition.

I really wonder, if grub can read grub.cfg, why does it fail to get
the rest from the same device/same bus/etc.?!

Regards,
Alexey
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[blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi guys,

I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on
some motherboards, but I  can do it on the same motherboard type with
different (old) BIOS version.
I've read BIOS release notes and found nothing relevant to the problem
neither seen anything significantly different in BIOS menu.

grub.cfg is simple:
set default=0
set timeout=3
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
menuentry "Default" {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.28
root=UUID=d768c1f0-79c9-45c4-b604-8d0735a71242 rootfstype=ext4 ro
rootdelay=6
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.10.28
}

On the failed system grub is capable to show boot menu, but while
selecting it, it fails with message:
error: failure reading sector 0x57f650 from 'hd0'.

if I drop to grub command prompt from boot menu (without initially
selecting entry), and do some commands:
grub> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
grub> insmod ext2
grub> ls (hd0,1)/boot
error: failure reading sector 0x802 from 'hd0'
grub> ls
 # now ls output is empty line
grub> date
error: no such partition.
grub>

- If I connect the same USB stick to the motherboard with old BIOS, it boots ok.
- I can boot from SATA HDD with exactly the same root fs as USB stick
(I've copied root partition with cpio and updated UUID value in grub
and fstab).
- I can boot from USB stick only if it has FAT32, for example MSDOS
boot disk or Ubuntu install disk made by Universal-USB-Installer.exe.

I wonder, what else do I need to check in order to get to the bottom
of this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Alexey
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[blfs-support] blfs-bootscripts-20131023 - uninstall

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi guys,

I've just noticed, that uninstall make target is missing for ntpd and
dbus in blfs-bootscripts-20131023.
Was it done by intention or simply overlooked?

Regards,
Alexey
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Re: [blfs-support] PHP-5.5.3 configure issue

[Alexey Orishko]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Pierre Labastie  wrote:
> Le 01/03/2014 18:24, Alexey Orishko a écrit :
> GDBM (uppercase for gdbm), is built in LFS. We never mention LFS packages in
> the dependencies. QDBM and GDBM are not the same.
> If you have built LFS following the book, the error comes from something else.
>
> You may look at config.log to know more.

I'm building php in chroot after CLFS build. I guess I simply need to
add that part
from LFS book.
By the way, is there any BCLFS book variant?

Regards,
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[blfs-support] PHP-5.5.3 configure issue

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi guys,

I'm building php from blfs-7.4 and configure failed with error:
DBA: Could not find necessary header file(s).
It looks the reason for the failure is "--with-gdbm " flag and a lack of QDBM.

Why is --with-gdbm flag used in php ./configure while QDBM package is
not "required one" and configure fails without it?

In the php chapter QDBM is listed as
"Optional Data Management Utilities and Libraries"
no version provided neither a correct link to web site.

I got error - This site has been moved. Correct link is:
http://fallabs.com/qdbm/

Regards,
Alexey

PS. I didn't check upcoming 7.5 book
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[blfs-support] (B)LFS-7.4 with latest kernel 3.10.x

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi folks,

I've built original LFS-7.4 and I'd like to use the latest Linux Kernel version
(currently 3.10.28) due to several bug fixes.

On already working system I've simply compiled a new kernel, installed
it and it works.

I have a question related to LFS book ch.8.3.1, where warning was posted:
- The headers in the system's include directory should always be the
ones against
 which Glibc was compiled, that is, the sanitized headers from this
Linux kernel tarball.
Therefore, they should never be replaced by either the raw kernel
headers or any other
kernel sanitized headers.

- If building 3.10.next version, do I need to replace kernel headers,
i.e. rebuild Glibc and
  all stuff related to it?

- Is there any consequences if I keep old headers & Glibc while
booting from new kernel?
(meaning: still 3.10, but latest patch level)

Regards,
Alexey
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[blfs-support] inaccurate Apache dependency listed in BLFS-7.4

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi folks,

In the BLFS book version 7.4, Chapter 20, Apache-2.4.6 it is stated, that
required packages: Apr-Util-1.5.2;
recommended: OpenSSL-1.0.1e
and some optional.

However, if I run configure as it is stated, it will fail:
configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required
and available from http://pcre.org/

I think you need to move PCRE from optional to required.
Adding "apr" to required won't hurt either.

regards,
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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, William Harrington
 wrote:
>> Good luck -  I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be
>> slow.
>>
>> ĸen
>
> All hail the power of cross compilers with faster machines!
I'll give it a try.

> Hopefully it does get fixed so this thread will help someone. Lots of
> information here.

Finally, folks! I've recompiled and installed a new kernel with
 Graphics support  --->
<*> Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer
[*]   Intel GMA3600/3650 support (Experimental)

and even got nice penguins during kernel boot :-) Screen resolution is also
increased from vga. I don't see any garbage on the screen while deleting
symbols with BS/DEL.

Next time I would know to check hw thoroughly instead of trusting
Intel with gpus :-)
Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction

cheers,
alexey
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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
>
>  I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if
> any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if
> this is a kernel _input_ problem.
>
>  But here is an alternative train of thought :
>
>  When you trigger the garbage, is it really there, or only in the
> screen output ?  Start a command with '#' so that it is treated as a
> comment, type, do whatever you need to so that the spurious garbage
> appears, then press enter.  And make a written note of exactly what
> you typed, and a guide to what appeared and where it was on the
> line, so that you can repeat the test.

1. Typed:
# k kk
2. Then deleted 2 speces between kkk-s with BS
3. white blocks  appeared on the same line till the end of the screen

>  Then key enter again : does the garbage scroll up, so that the
> current line is empty apart from the prompt ?
It does scroll up

>  Then key the up-arrow once to see the last line of history - is the
> garbage there in the history ?
No, it's not there (not in bash history)

>  If the garbage is only on the screen then I guess it _is_ a kernel
> problem, but in the _video_ driver (i915 I suppose, but maybe you
> compiled in vga).
 I will rebuild kernel

>  Your LatArCyrHeb font has two, possibly three, characters which
> match a "white square".  If you manage to prove that it is a kernel
> video problem, can you please "loadkeys LatGrkCyr-8x16" and repeat
> the test.  I'm guessing you will get a capital T with a comma below
> it (either U+021A or, in that font, U+0162), or a capital U with an
> acute accent (U+00DA), or else a capital U with a breve (U+016C).
> Knowing what appears might be useful if this is a bug in a video
> driver.  I'll attach the text listing of that font - I'm guessing it
> is one of character positions 210, 212, or 216.

Do you mean setfont instead of loadkeys? Screen font changed, but
white block is still the same while using LatGrkCyr-8x16.
If I select viscii10-8x16 I can see blinking white letter U with diacritics on
a grey background. It is a last letter in showconsolefont.
If Iset lat1-16 I see "y" (U+00FF)

>  If it is a video-driver problem, please attach the relevant part of
> your kernel config

I will recompile with:
Graphics support  --->
<*> Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer
[*]   Intel GMA3600/3650 support (Experimental)

>  And, which kernel is this ?
I'm going to build a latest stable from kernel.org 3.10.22

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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
>  Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too
> big, whoops!).  So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it
> from 177K to < 7K. 

Thanks and sorry for confusion!
I had no Unicode initially, but added it after initial comments.
However adding Unicode font didn't help. I'll try your suggestions tomorrow.

Anyway I've already found troubling news re. my Intel Atom GPU:
Intel D2550 Cedarview (GMA3600) has PowerVR 545 graphics core.
And its problem is described here: https://gist.github.com/Aissen/2925633
Now I understand why I can't get grub and kernel to get a higher resolution...
At least it explains a difference in behaviour between 2 different Atom
motherboards (old one has D510).

Found some suggestion online:
- Upstream kernel from 3.2 should have cedarview support with 'gma500'
driver maintained by Alan Cox. It provides basic KMS support for
LVDS/VGA/HDMI but without graphics acceleration.
- make sure CONFIG_DRM_GMA500 and CONFIG_DRM_GMA3600 is
 on in kernel config.

I use LFS-7.4 with kernel 3.10.10 and I've tried 3.10.22 but
apparently with wrong driver.

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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
>>
>  This gets weirder and weirder.  Most of us don't have a stock of
> different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this
> area.  I think you said that showkey and dumpkeys reported the
> keyboard was giving the expected values for the BS and DEL keys
> even though they were giving white squares when you deleted, so in
> theory the kernel drivers are ok.
>
>  Perhaps make a list of the values for _every_ key you use (with
> showkey) with this drive on a "good" motherboard, and then put it
> back on the bad motherboard and repeat the exercise just in case one
> or more _other_ keys are somehow corrupted.

Well, I only need to type english letter "k" and space to get into problems..
While changing fonts I've noticed that white square boxes have inverted "y"
with two dots over it.. Anyway, they appear on empty position of the
command line (where no text was typed in).

>  To be absolutely clear - you haven't installed xorg on the LFS-7.4
> system, this is all about a problem in the console terminals (the
> ttys), right ?

I don't have any X-related stuff, just plain LFS and I login on local
console.
On other HDD disk I've added a few BLFS packages with profile.d,
dircolors, sudo, mc, etc. to support non-root users.
Both plain LFS and one with some BLFS packages works ok on the old
motherboard.

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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
>
>  In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code
> U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read
> the mail on the LFS-7.4 machine (or copy this paragraph to a file,
> scp that file to the LFS machine, and then read it), does the
> resulting glyph appear correctly, and if not, does it match the
> white squares you had [ you need to revert the LANG and UNICODE
> settings ] ?

I can see reverse-video question mark on LFS box, but reverse area is square
in firefox/gmail and oval in lfs (I assume due to different font)

>  There are (at least) three things to be done when moving from
> non-unicode to unicode:
>
> (i.) set the environment to use the unicode versions such as
> en_US.UTF-8.
>
> (ii.) use a unicode console font.
>
> (iii.) adjust environment or other settings for individual
> applications, e.g. in the distant past I used to use LESSCHARSET but
> that is now redundant.
>
>  I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ?

My console file:
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
UNICODE="1"
KEYMAP="no-latin1"
KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
# End /etc/sysconfig/console

# Begin /etc/profile
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# End /etc/profile

- inputrc exactly as in the book
- rc.site has no console parameters set

Well, I've decided to look out of the box and changed keyboard from
usb to ps/2 type - no difference.

However when I tried to boot from exactly the same HDD on another
motherboard from different vendor - everything works fine! It doesn't
work on recent Atom D2550 motherboard and works on old D510 and
on HP desktop with Core2. New Atom board has Intel ICH10R chipset
and NUVOTON NTC6776D SuperIO, while old one has Intel ICH9R
chipset and Winbond 83627DHG-P SuperIO.

Does it mean the problem might be with some kernel drivers?

/alexey
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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
>
>  I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ?

I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding
fonts... should I?
I'll check the rest tomorrow.

/alexey
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Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ken Moffat  wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>>  What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ?
Neither has LC_ALL set

Ubuntu and LFS-7.4 had this set:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

My old LFS-6.3 has
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1

>>  Using 'showkey' [ in a tty ], find the values for the Backspace and
>> Del keys - on a regular 102-key keyboard mine are 14 and 111 - then
>> use 'dumpkeys | less' to find what is output for those keys - mine
>> are 'Delete' and 'Remove' : for no-latin1 the latter is corrected in
>> the patch.  I _think_ ubuntu has versions of both those commands
>> (from console-tools), so you could compare them.
On all systems showkey output is:
BS - keycode  14 and DEL -keycode 111
dumpkeys has 'Delete' and 'Remove'

>  Also, check what you have in /etc/inputrc [ LFS section 7.14 ],
content is exactly as in the book

After deeper investigation I got really confused
BS/DEL problem exists in en_US layout and appearing while I'm deleting
SPACE symbol with BS within a string like "k ".

I've changed LANG to LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 and UNICODE=0 and
problem is still there, however on old LFS-6.3 everything works fine with
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 and even with "loadkeys no-latin1".

Problem looks like described in BLFS Chapter 2. Important Information,
Locale Related Issues: "The Program Breaks Multibyte Characters or
Doesn't Count Character Cells Correctly"

Since issue is present even with US keyboard layout, I wonder if ALFS
build did something funny during build (or didn't do something right).

I've tried to rebuild kbd with a patch, but didn't help.

If I log via ssh everyhting looks ok. Is it because I use other pc
facilities in this case?

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Re: [blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

[Alexey Orishko]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Richard Melville
 wrote:
>> Richard Melville wrote:
>> > I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and
>> > ext2.  I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour.  If I
>> > use a
>> > UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to
>> > like
>> > either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot cycle goes round in circles.

I saw similar behaviour with my build. I've built latest blfs-7.4 and
booting it from USB disk with UUID tag for rootfs. The trick is to
install initramfs as it was described in the book and fix (!) fstab.
Just in case:
- grub.cfg -
set default=0
set timeout=3
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
menuentry "LFS 7.4 Kernel 3.10.10" {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.10
root=UUID=3d78d00e-9eea-4c0e-8100-7f9ee77ea582 rootfstype=ext4 ro
rootdelay=6
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.10.10
}
 fstab --
UUID=3d78d00e-9eea-4c0e-8100-7f9ee77ea582 / ext4errors=remount-ro 0   1
proc   /procproc nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0

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Hope it helps.

Cheers,
alexey
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[blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

[Alexey Orishko]

Hi folks,

I wonder if anyone could guess what's wrong with my text terminal.
I've recently built LFS-7.4 (32bit) and most of BLFS (I'm not using X
Windows, just text terminals only) on Atom D2550 motherboard, VGA display
resolution.

When I logged in if I try to edit bash command line by deleting symbol with
BS rest of the text line became solid white blocks.
The same happens if I edit in mcedit (editing in midnight commander). If I
scroll text garbage symbols scroll as well).
Same happens if I use DEL key, but not every time.
I also use loadkeys with no-latin1 (dunno if it might cause any trouble or
not).

Any hint, what might be wrong?

Regards,
Alexey
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