Re: [lfs-support] Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems always kills Chromium.

2012-12-20 Thread Alexander Spitzer
I had the same problem. Try starting chrome from bash by typing 'google-chrome' and a solution will be suggested. I believe by remaking /dev/shm, the permissions have been changed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the permission change shouldn't have any effect on the LFS build (it didn't for me).

[lfs-support] LFS Issues with Windows 8

2012-12-18 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, I have been transferring an LFS system on a USB drive around various computers and it works for all except a new laptop running Windows 8. In that case, the BIOS (or is it UEFI?) does not read (or reads and discards) the grub loader on the USB. There is no way to select the USB

[lfs-support] Booting LFS Error Kernel Panic

2012-12-17 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, I am having a hard time booting my LFS system, which is on a USB drive. I installed grub on /dev/sdc (the usb relative to the host) and the bios successfully finds GRUB. After around 2.3 seconds, the boot process hangs after printing what I believe to be a trace call. Interestingly,

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS Error Kernel Panic

2012-12-17 Thread Alexander Spitzer
be independent of host system. Also, the scrollback buffer does work just not when the kernel has crashed. I am sorry for the long kind of useless post but if anyone has anything to add please feel free. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Alexander Spitzer aes...@cornell.eduwrote: Hello all, I am having

[lfs-support] Installation of Bash 5.15 Error on make

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, I am on section 5.15.1 (installing bash) on LFS version 7.2 and I am receiving an error after running make: $ make -j yacc -d ./parse.y make: execvp: yacc: Permission denied make: *** [y.tab.c] Error 127 I have encountered this before and I attempted to get around by sudo, but that

Re: [lfs-support] Installation of Bash 5.15 Error on make

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply. ls -l /usr/bin/yacc gives: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41 Dec 13 19:13 /usr/bin/yacc -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Installation of Bash 5.15 Error on make

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Chris Staub ch...@beaker67.com wrote: On 12/15/2012 03:03 AM, Alexander Spitzer wrote: An additional piece of information that might be important: The patch asked for in the book is bash-4.2-fixes-8.patch while the one I have from the website and that one

Re: [lfs-support] Installation of Bash 5.15 Error on make

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
It worked! Thank you so much! For reference I also had to edit /usr/bin/yacc to exec '/usr/local/bin/bison' -y $@ since there was no bison at all in /usr/bin On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Chris Staub ch...@beaker67.com wrote: On 12/15/2012 03:11 AM, Alexander Spitzer wrote: Hi Chris

Re: [lfs-support] Installation of Bash 5.15 Error on make

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
I am definitely using the development source while reading 7.2 :X This might be why check didn't build smoothly. I'll carry on for now but if I encounter any weird problems I'll know why. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Chris Staub ch...@beaker67.com wrote: On 12/15/2012 03:18 AM, Alexander

[lfs-support] Freeing space for installation of gcc in chapter 6

2012-12-15 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, The gcc installation in chapter 6 is listed as requiring 2.0 GB of free space. However, I only have 1.4 GB available :( Are there any files or libraries that are not needed and can SAFELY be deleted (maybe in /tools)? I am hesitant to touch anything. The make runs fine. It is during

[lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hello all, I am on section 6.4, entering the chroot environment, in LFS Book 7.2 and when i attempt to chroot I get the following error: /tools/bin/env: /tools/bin/bash: No such file or directory This seems to be not too rarely encountered problem but all the diagnostic checks that I've found

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
: Hello Alex, Could you send the output of: $ ls -l /tools/bin/bash $ /tools/bin/bash --version Might be a permissions problem. Also are you running the 'chroot' command as the root user? Thanks, Michael On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 19:22 -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: Hello all, I am

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hi Ken, Running ldd /tools/bin/bash gives: linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff3d955000) libtinfo.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x7f39676b7000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x7f39674b3000) libc.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f39670f3000)

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
Hi Simon, I think that's exactly the problem. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: No such file or directory doesn't always refer to the actual program you ran (/tools/bin/bash) - it sometimes means the interpreter for the program can't be found. If you use

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: At the moment, I don't recognize your results. Usually, people who get the correct results from the sanity checks get a good build. Perhaps there is something different about _how_ you built this. What host distro

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure: bash not found

2012-12-14 Thread Alexander Spitzer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: Does it work if you simply rebuild bash, according to the instructions in the book? No need to actually install it - just run the steps up to make, and run readelf on the resulting binary in order to see if it's valid.