Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:42:26AM +0300, Markku Pesonen wrote: I think the problem may lie in the way LFS installs the tzdata package. Glibc 2.15 (and earlier) installed timezone data without leap second information in /usr/share/zoneinfo and /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix (why

Re: [lfs-support] How processor-specific is a standard LFS build?

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:53:38AM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: That would depend on how far back you're interested in going, and how much you're willing to look into it. For compatibility with most things, you would be interested in getting a i386-pc-linux-gnu target

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On a fresh LFS svn system, I can do $ TZ=EST date;date;date -u Thu Aug 16 23:56:26 EST 2012 Fri Aug 17 04:56:26 GMT 2012 Fri Aug 17 04:56:51 UTC 2012 My understanding is that POSIX ignores leap seconds, and TZ

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as nobody fails

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and changed permissions but when I run:- su nobody -s /bin/bash -c make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes -k check || true It returns:-

Re: [lfs-support] I post

2012-08-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Garrett Gaston wrote: I sent and email to the lfs support mail list over an hour ago and it has never appeared in my inbox, is this normal? I don't know about hotmail, but gmail does not echo back messages you send. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] e2fsprogs test failures on version SVN-20120806

2012-08-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lewis Pike wrote: I'm getting some failures during the e2fsprogs test suite in part 3 of LFS Version SVN-20120806; revision 9930, to be exact. This seems related to ticket #3146 [1] in the bug reports. The report indicates that the issue has been fixed in svn r9926 with the upgrade to

Re: [lfs-support] Dazed and Confused

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: Hello all, I am at 5.8 Adjusting the Tools chain. ... and I am really confused. Here is the command: SPECS=`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs $LFS_TGT-gcc -dumpspecs | sed \ -e 's@/lib\(64\)\?/ld@/tools@g' \ -e /^\*cpp:$/{n;s,$, -isystem

Re: [lfs-support] NFS root...

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: I plan on running my LFS system NFS root. Are there special boot time scripts that are meant for NFS root? I'm building LFS for booting via PXE, so I plan on skipping installation of grub. The purpose of this Linux system is to facilitate bare metal recovery. Has

Re: [lfs-support] Stuck 6.49...

2012-08-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:29 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Michael Robinson wrote: I don't have pkg-config installed, I wonder what I missed? What's your error? We can't help without details. LFS Book 7.1 chapter 6 kmod. configure: error: in `/kmod-5': configure

Re: [lfs-support] Error at GlibC

2012-08-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 8/14/2012 11:12 AM, Mikie wrote: Hello all, When I did: make install ... at5.7. Glibc-2.14.1 I got an error: lfs@ubuntu:/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build$ make install LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C; export LANGUAGE LC_ALL; \ make -r PARALLELMFLAGS= CVSOPTS= -C

Re: [lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Richard Melville wrote: Can anybody tell me why the above happens? I'm using Chrome on the host to follow the book. Chrome won't restart and I'm now using Firefox. I noticed that the symlink was also removed from the host /dev directory; If LFS is not defined in

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc chapter 6 stuck...

2012-08-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michael Robinson wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 20:38 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Michael Robinson wrote: root:/# DL=$(readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n 's@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]$@\1@p') bash: command substitution: line 45: syntax error near unexpected token `)' bash: command substitution: line

Re: [lfs-support] installing packages from chapter 6.7 onwards

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Moe Derballa wrote: Hi guys just a quick question. When installing API headers in 6.7 and all packages from there on, which user login is best to use. Root on the host system or lfs user?? (or something else). Everything in Chapter 6 and later needs to be done as root. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Whitequill Riclo wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Whitequill Riclo wrote: I've been looking for this for a very long time, I have this problem too! and I've had it for months, and months... I can't figure it out. Which problem? We need your

Re: [lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Can anybody tell me why the above happens? I'm using Chrome on the host to follow the book. Chrome won't restart and I'm now using Firefox. I noticed that the symlink was also removed from the host /dev directory; If LFS is not defined in the environment you used,

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Keiran wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to mail with this Yes, this is the right list. When trying to compile GCC at Chapter 5.5, I get this error, and no amount of Googling has been able to solve it. configure: error: in `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/lto-plugin':

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Keiran wrote: That tells me that gcc is not installed or binutils wasn't installed correctly. What is the output of the script in Section iii - Host System Requirements? bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22 bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 bzip2, Version 1.0.6,

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Aug 12, 2012, at 15:37 PM, Keiran wrote: --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu What happened to your LFS_TGT variable? Are you using the lfs user? Make sure you are the lfs user and your environment is set up right.

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.6.2 on 32 bit Mint13 mpfr error

2012-08-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander Yartsev wrote: I am sure that I have the mpfr, gmp and mpc in the gcc source folder, but I get the following: *gcc configure command: $LFS/sources/gcc-4.6.2/configure --target=$LFS_TGT --prefix=/tools --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib --disable-decimal-float

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: Everything has built fine up to this stage and the sanity checks were OK. MPFR and GMP have compiled OK with the libraries installed in .libs. I've even checked to make sure that the MPFR libraries were 64 bit, and now I've run out of ideas. I'd be really grateful for

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: I realise that I'm building the dev edition, but my host is Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit and the host requirements appeared to fit better. Also it looked as though the dev edition was at a reasonably stable stage. I'm building a 64 bit edition on a 64 bit host (OS and

Re: [lfs-support] Installing 'Binutils' -- './configure' No such file or directory

2012-08-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Christopher Adams wrote: I've run into a problem trying to configure the 'binutils' package. Note: I'm working on Section 5.3.1 (Compiling Binutils) of LFS version 6.3; LFS 6.3? That's 3 years old and 7 releases ago. It's not supported any more. Try LFS-7.1. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0: Section 6.22: E2fsprogs - Test failure

2012-08-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emerson Yesupatham wrote: Hi Team, I am seeing a test fauilure in LFS-Boot-7.0, Section 6.22 (E2fsprogs-1.41.14). Out of 107 tests, 1 test got failed. I have checked the reference test logs present at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/7.0/core2duo/test-logs/085-e2fsprogs,

Re: [lfs-support] lfs-book-7.0 error while building glibc-2.14.1

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
avinash kumar wrote: I get these errors when i run tests after Make: make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/posix/bug-regex32.out] Error 1 make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/nptl/tst-attr3.out] Error 1 make[2]: ***

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 : error during udev-181 compilation

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Denis Mugnier wrote: Hello ;o) A french LFS has the following trouble with the compilation of udev-181 : CCsrc/src_udevadm-udev-builtin-blkid.o src/udev-builtin-blkid.c:84:30: error: unknown type name 'blkid_probe' src/udev-builtin-blkid.c: In function 'builtin_blkid':

Re: [lfs-support] Setting Up a Network Firewall Question

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 7/31/2012 4:32 PM, Téssio Fechine wrote: Hello, Reading the 'Setting Up a Network Firewall' section of the documentation, I could not stop thinking that constructions like those are redundant: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route echo 0

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: Hello lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org In Chapter 6.7 of the LFS book I got an error while make headers_check It says /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory. But the file is there (in chroot environment): root:/# ls -la /tools/bin/perl results in: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: Hi Bruce, root:/# ldd /usr/bin/perl results in: /tools/bin/ldd: line 126: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory Sorry. ldd /tools/bin/perl -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 Chapter 6.7 bash: /tools/bin/perl: No such file or directory

2012-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daniel Cremer wrote: Similar output: root:/# ldd /tools/bin/perl /tools/bin/ldd: line 126: /tools/bin/perl: No such or directory Then perl did not get installed in Chapter 5 or you did't have ln -sv $LFS/tools / set up properly. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: Hello, After completing LFS 7.1 the partitions layout was: Filesystem TypeDescription -- --- sda2 ext3Host system sda3 ext3LFS sda1 swapSWAP And then I used

Re: [lfs-support] GMP 5.0.4 cmpilation - chapter 6.14 - LFS version 7.1

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Israel Silberg wrote: Hi all, I'm a first time LFS maker. when I try to run the ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd I get the following output: checking C++ compiler g++ -g -O2... no configure: error: C++ compiler not available, see config.log for details You either

Re: [lfs-support] GRUB problems

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: But the question is, How can I install grub to the lfs partition? I can't boot into it. You need to boot from another device, dvd, usb, etc. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: Some distributions are doing the following: moving all the files in /bin to /usr/bin then symlinking /bin to /usr/bin moving all the files in /sbin to /usr/bin then symlinking /sbin to /usr/sbin moving all the files in /lib to /usr/lib then symlinking /lib to /usr/lib

Re: [lfs-support] Filesystem changes and systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: BTW this issue with udev in my opinion is to insure systemd control over all linux distros. The good thing about open source is that we can change things to be the way we want. lfs-svn can build udev from the systemd sources in about 10 seconds. It's was a little work to

Re: [lfs-support] grub-mkdevicemap no more?

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Findlay wrote: The grub-mkdevicemap utility seems to have disappeared from GRUB-2.00. This from the NEWS file: * grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of any grub utility. It is referenced in sections 6.47, 8.4 of version SVN-20120719 Is there an

Re: [lfs-support] cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory GCC- PASS 2

2012-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Moe Derballa wrote: Hi there. I am working from the latest LFS book online using Linux Mint 32-bit. I've followed the instructions letter for letter but seem to get an error compiling gcc - Pass 2. /tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory collect2:

Re: [lfs-support] Broken links for man-pages-3.35.tar.gz and zlib-1.2.6.tar.bz2 in wget-list

2012-07-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Christian Paro wrote: I found the same version of the man-pages package in another location after checking the man7.org home page: http://man7.org/linux/download/man-pages/man-pages-3.35.tar.gz; should now be http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.35.tar.gz; ...though

Re: [lfs-support] Q: Is the map between physical SATA disks and GRUB2's hdn fixed?

2012-07-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Henty wrote: Can I be sure that GRUB2's hd0, hd1 etc. will always correspond to the same physical SATA connectors on the motherboard, no matter what hardware I plug in? (I know from experience that /dev/sda does not always map to the same connector.) If not, how can I

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOk-7.0:Section:5.2 Tool Chain Technical Notes: Doubt

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eleanore Boyd wrote: The compilation process creates the hard links, so there is no need to manually create links. Correct. If anything, creating links beforehand may cause errors due to the links pointing nowhere. LOL. You can't create a hard link that points to nowhere. You could

Re: [lfs-support] Hard links

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: One could do this echo test file test ln test link1 ln test link2 ln link1 link3 ls -i 1333952 test 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 rm test ls -i 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 Doesn't link[1..3] point to no where or garbage? No, they point

Re: [lfs-support] Hard links

2012-07-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: On Monday, July 16, 2012 08:09:23 PM Bruce Dubbs wrote: Baho Utot wrote: One could do this echo test file test ln test link1 ln test link2 ln link1 link3 ls -i 1333952 test 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952 link3 rm test ls -i 1333952 link1 1333952 link2 1333952

Re: [lfs-support] Can't do df -h, but coreutils is installed successfully

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rick Shelton wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:57 PM, gmspro gms...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a problem running df command. df -h df: cannot read table of mounted file systems man df , displays/shows the manual. Where is the problem? What should i do? I think the error message was

Re: [lfs-support] Can't change root password

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Эмиль Кранц wrote: the line passwd: password changed says otherwise you have changed your password. there will be no visible indications of changing password. try to log in Better, look at /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You should see something like: /etc/passwd:

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel is not booting

2012-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: Hi, I have install linux kernel-3.2.6 from inside chroot to lfs system. During boot, it displays /etc/fstab /etc/mtab not found or something. This is the /etc/fstab: /dev/sdb8 /ext4defaults1 1 /dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults

Re: [lfs-support] Charpter 7.7.2 Changing Run Levels ' question

2012-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
钱 枫 wrote: Hello, I came across a little problem in the making progross of LFS 7.1. In the book charpter 7.7.2 Changing Run Levels, it metions There are a number of directories under /etc/rc.d that look like rc?.d (where ? is the number of the run-level) and rcsysinit.d, all containing a

Re: [lfs-support] four questions after doing LFS

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, After doing LFS, I have four questions which may every body ask him or herself at finish of LFS: How to save a checkpoint to 1) recover and then redo in case of feauture mistkes or 2) deploying LFS to architectural same other machines? I myself tared all files

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1 Findutils check doubt

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
钱 枫 wrote: Hello, It's my first time to do LFS, and sorry for my poor english. I came across a little problem when test Charpter 6.40 Findutils-4.4.2(LFS 7.1), after i enter make check, I noticed two line skipped test. It says no chinese GB 18030 locale is installed, but I indeed install the GB

Re: [lfs-support] Problem following LFS Version 7.1 - 6.7 Linux-3.2.6 API Header

2012-07-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Toby Ferguson wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, spiky martynvid...@aol.com wrote: Also can you not top post it,s prefered to post at the end so ppl can follow OK - thanks for the speedy reply - I guess you mean I should post down here? ... Yes, but you need to trim away non-relevant

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-BOOK-7.0 Section 5.9 binutils pass2 doubt

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Emerson Yesupatham wrote: The higher the version number is, the less compatibility code is added, and the faster the code gets. I'm not sure about that. It gets smaller, but I doubt it gets faster. At least not enough to be perceptible. -- Bruce --

Re: [lfs-support] Packages (man-pages-3.35.tar.gz) on LFS-7.1

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archie Arevalo wrote: From a previous encounter with GCC, I opted to clean the slate and start all over. It has come to my attention that the file lists - wget-list and md5sums - did not quite download all the tarballs (patches were OK). It may just be my net connection (I reside behind the

Re: [lfs-support] Error During Section 5.9 Binutils-2.22 - Pass 2

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:25:07PM -0500, Lance King wrote: After running the following commands per the guide... CC=$LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib/ \ AR=$LFS_TGT-ar RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib \ ../binutils-2.22/configure --prefix=/tools \ --disable-nls --with-lib-path=/tools/lib

Re: [lfs-support] /etc/fstab

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I'd appreciate it if somebody could please have a look at my /etc/fstab file shown below and let me know if it's OK. I've searched this mailing list's archives and an example /etc/fstab I found was a bit different to mine. I also had a look at the /etc/fstab files

Re: [lfs-support] Error compiling Tcl 8.5.11 - Segmentation fault

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fábio Mattes wrote: Hello lfs list, I'm from Brazil and I'm new to the list, I became interested in lfs today and was testing to see if I could, but a problem arose in the covenant Tcl 8.5.11 when I run make install it returns me as follows: Installing libtcl8.5.so to / tools / lib /

Re: [lfs-support] Cannot boot to LFS with seperate boot partition

2012-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On Jun 21, 2012 9:04 AM, Yasser Zamani yasser.zam...@live.com wrote: Thanks a lot Andrew; Now, system can find Linux kernel and boot to the root :) OK, that part is solved. But at first, it tells error: file not found and I have to press a key to continue; do you have any idea please? We

Re: [lfs-support] Packages Dependency Graph

2012-06-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, Any one have the LFS's required package's dependency graph? e.g. by seeing the graph I'll know what packages will be failed if I skip installing 5.21. Gawk-4.0.1 (by trying I found out 6.9. Glibc-2.15's configure will fail) and etc. Take a look at

Re: [lfs-support] Errors compiling glibc in chapter 6

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:49:01PM +0200, joao.more...@free.fr wrote: bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 yacc not found I'm pretty sure gcc needs this. $ cat /usr/bin/yacc #! /bin/sh exec '/usr/bin/bison' -y $@ -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] gmp 5.0.5 + mpfr 3.1.0 failure

2012-06-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: mpfr configure fails with: ... checking for recent GMP... yes checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no I'm not sure what's happening, but I have: $ nm /usr/lib/libgmp.so |grep gmpz_init 00019a60 T __gmpz_init 00019a90 T __gmpz_init2 0001a9c0 T

Re: [lfs-support] interface eth0 doesn't exist

2012-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Omar wrote: Hi, all: The eth0 fails to start when I start up the LFS7.1 system. It prompts that Bringing up the eth0 interface... interface eth0 doesn't exist [FAIL] I think it maybe correlative to the failure of chapter 7.2.1. It gave the following information and failed to generate

Re: [lfs-support] lfs7.1 cannot boot

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 05:07:19PM +0800, Omar wrote: ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry GNU/Linux, Linux 3.2.6-lfs-7.1 (on /dev/sdb1) { insmod ext2 set root='(hd1,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 63a59ea4-b2dd-4ede-a506-14b8d0a951c5 I believe that

Re: [lfs-support] handle power button in LFS

2012-05-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:00 +0100 xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: In order to use power button to shutdown or suspend my lfs. I enabled the depreciate /proc/acpi/event in kernel, and install acpid to handle the button event. It works well. But is there any clear way

Re: [lfs-support] Problems starting the final LFS system

2012-05-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: Hello, After complete the LFS book, when I restart the computer I get a few errors messages and the computer stuck after this: /lib/lsb/init-functions: line 590: /run/var/bootlog: No such file or directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc: line 217:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Chapter 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 error

2012-05-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Kaunchy wrote: Sorry for the message isn't plain text just now... Hello there! This is my first building LFS by following the LFS-BOOK-7.1. After long time work,more than 12 hours since the building process started,a problem occured when I was making 'Automake-1.11.3' tests at

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 - 6.17. GCC-4.6.2

2012-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lázaro Morales wrote: Hello, The GCC compilation process finished fine, but I get the next errors in the testing phase and then the test is stopped. === libgomp Summary === [...] make[2]: Target `check-target' not remade because of errors.

Re: [lfs-support] mounting via .bashrc as root (2 suggestions)

2012-05-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yasser Zamani wrote: Please see the Note at LFS-7.1 section 5.35 at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/changingowner.html which says: The commands in the remainder of this book must be performed while logged in as user root and no longer as user lfs. Also, double check

Re: [lfs-support] Shoul I remember (keep in mind) all steps?!

2012-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, At first thank you very much for this useful site and book! Currently I'm doing jobs step-by-step with no getting any errors; however, sometimes the steps are very specific e.g. GCC pass 2 steps. GCC needs that patch, fixincludes should be suppressed,

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Scott Robertson wrote: What part of: For each package: 1. Using the tar program, extract the package to be built. In Chapter 5, ensure you are the lfs user when extracting the package. 2. Change to the directory created when the package was extracted. 3. Follow the book's

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: LFS devs, writers, and editors, please try to understand that the LFS can read like a list of GPS coordinates given at 1mm spacings without altitude and annotations. If I follow it *exactly*, and assume no errors in the readings or the map, and I make the same set of assumptions

Re: [blfs-support] X unsolved and networking solved

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:14:19AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Actually, 10 bootable partitions on a dos disk is pushing it - I suppose one or more of /boot, /home, swap is in a primary partition. Why? As of Jan 20, 2010 Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: The users need to learn to think about what needs to be done, not just copy/paste without understanding. As a proxy example of ambiguity, do you not see the...confusion...some might experience when in your previous email, you said: If you follow the instructions literally,

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: One solution is to keep saying: Reread Section 5. 5.3? I'm exploring other solutions, because I think it's silly to insist that the book is well-written when, for every single release, many people are confused by how to begin Chapter 5. I didn't have an issue. But I can

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: If LFS is just a source code project, then to some extent you can say that prose style or organization is irrelevant. It's not, because it's often repeated that it's a book, as well. So, style is important, because organization can aid understanding. The descriptions and the

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Scott Robertson wrote: 1) I don't think that is true. The manual contradicts itself. On the one hand it tells you to put stuff in $LFS/tools, but then it specifically recommends NOT putting things in there during the initial compilation process. It also tells people to create an LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 questions

2012-05-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Scott Robertson wrote: Please don't top post on the LFS lists. I started reading 7.0, and I was doing OK until about Chapter 5. Until I realized that some of my directories didn't seem right. Somehow I ended up with just a sources directory on the LFS partition. I'm not a hardened expert

Re: [lfs-support] Bk7.1_Ch6.17 GCC-4.6.2 search order of 'include directories'

2012-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
pete Spam-Avoider wrote: Hi, I'm building stable book 7.1 (Bk-7.1) using a stable book 6.8 (Bk-6.8) system which meets all the Host System Requirement of Bk-7.1. I've followed the book to the letter. All commands have been taken from the text of Bk-7.1 by cutting and

Re: [lfs-support] error while booting

2012-04-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ankit vishwakarma wrote: the following error occurs whie booting lfs *mounting virtual file systems: /run /proc /sys /dev [OK] /etc/sysconfig/network: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline' /etc/sysconfig/network: line 1: 'HOSTNAME=lfs'

Re: [lfs-support] error in vim inn chapter 6.61

2012-04-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ankit vishwakarma wrote: the terminal type is xterm. and the information concerning LANG and LC_environment variables is as follows These are all ok. so do i need not worry and continue with the build or what should i do please provide help. It's a curious minor issue, but I can't figure

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:38:37 +0100 Philippe Delavalade philippe.delaval...@orange.fr wrote: Hi. I'm building svn-9812 ; my host is debian/wheezy ; I encounter for the first time a little problem in 4.4. When becoming user lfs and after having passed the command

Re: [lfs-support] error in udev in chapter 6.60

2012-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ankit vishwakarma wrote: while issuing the make command in udev chpater 6.60 for lfs 7.1 the following error results.please provide help CC src/src_udevadm-udev-builtin-kmod.o src/udev-builtin-kmod.c:30:21: fatal error: libkmod.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. Did

Re: [lfs-support] error in udev in chapter 6.60

2012-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ankit vishwakarma wrote: i have installed kmod but there is no file named /lib/libkmod.so so do i have to install kmod again Please don't top post. If /lib/libkmod.so does not exist then kmod wasn't installed. You may have built it, but overlooked the make install line. Yes, install kmod

Re: [lfs-support] error in vim inn chapter 6.61

2012-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ankit vishwakarma wrote: cp test51.ok test.ok ../vim -u unix.vim -U NONE --noplugin -s dotest.in test51.in 3,6c3 NewGroup xxx term=bold cterm=italic ctermfg=2 ctermbg=3 --- NewGroup xxx term=bold cterm=italic

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Philippe Delavalade wrote: Hi. I'm building svn-9812 ; my host is debian/wheezy ; I encounter for the first time a little problem in 4.4. When becoming user lfs and after having passed the command source .bash_profile I don't obtain the right prompt ; all variables are correct except

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Philippe Delavalade wrote: .bashrc and .bash_profile are exactly those of the book :-( My only deviation from the book is to have given a specific gid and uid to lfs when executing groupadd and useradd, but I think it's not the reason why PS1 goes wrong. Setting a specific uid and gid

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Philippe Delavalade wrote: Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:22, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Philippe Delavalade wrote: .bashrc and .bash_profile are exactly those of the book :-( My only deviation from the book is to have given a specific gid and uid to lfs when executing groupadd and useradd, but I

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Philippe Delavalade wrote: Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:51, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : [...] Everything except PS1 seems OK. it's to complicated for me :-) Did you do 4.3: `su - lfs` Yes, sure ! I tried three times ; the first time, I thought I forgot some thing ; so I ran `userdel

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Philippe Delavalade wrote: Le samedi 21 avril à 00:32, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Philippe Delavalade wrote: Le vendredi 20 avril à 23:51, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : [...] Everything except PS1 seems OK. it's to complicated for me :-) Did you do 4.3: `su - lfs` Yes, sure ! I tried three times

Re: [lfs-support] Network config (Chapters 7.2 and 7.6 of the LFS book 7.1)

2012-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: Heya, wanted just to give my two cents regarding the new sysconfig/ifconfig.eth# methodolgy. With the old one (network-devices directory) I had the possibility to put more then one option for one ethernet card (for instance one ip address and two static routes within 3

Re: [lfs-support] LFS + Rootkits

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: ...and a rootkit was installed. A very interesting story. I'm interested how a regular user was able to install a rootkit. I realize that you may not know. Didn't have the time to analyse that but I presume through privilege escalation. Cause this user had direct access to

Re: [lfs-support] Udev Symlinks in Xorg

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Please post X problems on blfs-support. -- Bruce Esben Stien wrote: I've made some rules in Udev: #Logitech Dinovo Keyboard SUBSYSTEMS==usb, ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}==03, ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}==01, ENV{ID_CLASS}=kbd, SYMLINK+=input/keyboard-dinovo #Logitech MX Revolution Mouse

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror? Yes. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc and -march=i486 option

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ante wrote: Well, I try to ask it once more. Can anybody explain (or give me a link to relevant discussion) why glibc should be compiled with -march=i486 option? I remember that in LFS 5.0 it was recommended to clear CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS during compilation; but why it is recommended -march=i486

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc and -march=i486 option

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ante wrote: On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: ante wrote: Well, I try to ask it once more. Can anybody explain (or give me a link to relevant discussion) why glibc should be compiled with -march=i486 option? I remember that in LFS 5.0 it was recommended

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On Apr 9, 2012 11:44 PM, gmspro gms...@yahoo.com wrote: @bruce, Yes. -- Bruce Yes for what? Yes for 'Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror?' or Yes for 'Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ ' Look

Re: [lfs-support] LFS + Rootkits

2012-04-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
loki wrote: Heya, First this is not a support request but a live story from someone using LFS heavily in real life situations and servers and why I would choose LFS before any distribution based server. Let me introduce myself. Im into LFS since version number 3 - 4. Can't remember

Re: [lfs-support] Problem Booting New Kernel

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Kshitij Jain wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Andrew Benton a...@benton.eu.com wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:54:08 +0100 Kshitij Jain kjain181...@gmail.com wrote: After Configuring the Gruband restarting the system my system grub menu shows and kernel boots. After few

Re: [lfs-support] Can i write my own init scripts skiping linuxfromscratch boot scripts? Can i skip patching?

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/bootscripts.html Here there are bootscripts. I want to make my own linux. That's why i don't want to use others' script. If i don't install those scripts will the lfs work or will it be bootable? If i don't install

Re: [lfs-support] Adding firmware to the kernel

2012-04-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: My latest machine has an ATI 760G (Radeon 3000) video controller. According to dmesg, it is trying to load R600_rlc.bin for KMS. So, I got the firmware, and put it in firmware/radeon/ in the kernel tree. But it doesn't find it (this is without an initrd). My config

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel is not loading successfully

2012-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: During kernel boot i get some errors/failure. Here is the logs Apr 03 20:08:42 +07:00 (none) Mounting virtual file systems: /run /proc /sys /devFAIL Apr 03 20:08:42 +07:00 (none) FAIL Apr 03 20:08:42 +07:00 (none) FAILURE: Did you build the kernel with CONFIG_TMPFS=y?

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel is not loading successfully

2012-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: cat /etc/fstab /dev/sdb8 /ext4defaults1 1 #/dev/yyy swap swap pri=1 0 0 proc /procproc nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfsnosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0

Re: [lfs-support] Can't login after kernel loading, some configuration problem with kernel loading

2012-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: cat /var/log/boot.log ... Apr 04 02:01:00 +07:00 lfs Setting up Linux console... OK During boot at the last phase i see the first column is with some unreadable characters and in place of [ok] at the rightmost column also unreadable characters there. And at the last phase

Re: [lfs-support] Can't login after kernel loading, some configuration problem with kernel loading

2012-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: From /etc/initab id:2:initdefault: It was id:1:initdefault: before , It should be 3. Now i get the login prompt , i typed root and the password, that doesn't login successfully, it prompts me to login again and again, may be some problem setting root password. I also

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