Re: What happened if I stop the make check?

2011-07-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Webmaster wrote: Sometimes I don't have much time to wait it so I pressed Ctrl+C. Are there any side effects if I stop it? No. make check is always optional. However, you may miss an error caused by an earlier mistake and have a latent error in your build. That's a risk you have to decide

Re: 6.43 Groff-1.21 Error

2011-07-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Timothy Powell wrote: g++ -I. -I. -I/sources/groff-1.21/src/include -I/sources/groff-1.21/src/include -I/src/libs/gnulib/lib -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c font.cpp If you run this again, do you get the same error in the same place? font.cpp: In function 'int scale_round(int, int, int)':

Re: ata1.00 Error

2011-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Webmaster wrote: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0xc SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x8 SAct=0xc FIS=0050:0003) ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:0f:c1:4e/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out ata1.00: cmd

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-07-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Immendorf wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Frederick Muriithi fredmang...@gmail.com wrote: ../../gcc-4.5.2/gcc/c-common.c: In function 'c_common_nodes_and_builtins': ../../gcc-4.5.2/gcc/c-common.c:5106: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug

Re: kernel panic

2011-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: I'm out to sea here. Worked through 6.8 build without error (it would seem). However, attempt to boot yields (in part): scanned 0 and added 0 devices autorun ... ... autorun DONE. Root-NFS: no NFS server address VFS: unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. VFS:

Re: Maximum lock depth

2011-06-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
pete Spam-Avoider wrote: The following line appeared on virtual console 1 during testing of glic-2.13 in BK6.8_Ch6.9.1: [ 5525.196801] Maximum lock depth 1024 reached task: ld-linux.so.2 (8378) The line was also visible as the last line produced by 'dmesg'. The line did

Re: broken link? vi. Prerequisites

2011-06-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: vi. Prerequisites link seems to be broken ... # The Linux Users' Guide http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LUG/guide.html This guide covers the usage of assorted Linux software. This reference is also fairly old, but still valid. I can find a the guide in some compressed

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Dickens wrote: Out of curiosity - I am building from the 6.3 LiveCD but following the 6.8 book with the proper sources downloaded, etc. That is fine. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6

2011-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: 6.36. Bzip2-1.0.6 works fine until I reach instruction: rm -v /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} re-ran the sequence and stopped just before this command; checked /usr/bin for bunzip2, bzcat, and bzip2; these do not exist. Is this a legacy instruction that is of no use, or

Re: Grub-1.99 show symbol grub_xputs not found on 32bits system.

2011-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: 2011/6/23 xinglp xin...@gmail.com: 2011/6/23 xinglp xin...@gmail.com: Grub-1.99 show symbol grub_xputs not found on 32bits system. But it works well on 64bits. May be my mistake, I'll check it later It's like that I can't use entire the disk (/dev/sda, partitionless)

Re: Building a 32-bit LFS on a 64-bit host

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lanas wrote: Hello all, How would one achieve that ? I recently built a LFS system on a 64-bit host, and all binaries turned out to be 64-bit. I'd like to build and run a 32-bit LFS system. Is there a way of doing that on a 64-bit host ? On the other hand, the instructions in this

Re: 6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Webmaster wrote: I never check, because if the check passed it's useless but if the check failed you can do nothing. Then you do not understand the purpose of testing. I've heard many a manager say more or less the

Re: 6.9. Glibc-2.12.1

2011-06-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: cannot get beyond this: make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.12.1' make: *** [check] Error 2 make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/rt/tst-mqueue5.out]

Re: Shadow

2011-06-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nick Amor wrote: Hi, I'm working on LFS 6.8 and I cannot download the Shadow package. When I try to use wget it returns the message failed: connection refused. I tried going to website to download directly and it said I didn't have access on the download page. I have searched Google and

Re: Mpfr-3.0.0 make html Error

2011-05-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
²ÜÓî wrote: root:/sources/mpfr-3.0.0#make html ... /sources/mpfr-3.0.0/missing: line 52: makeinfo: command not found WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file indirectly affecting

[Fwd: Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 2302, Issue 2 (janu mam)]

2011-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Send this type of message to lfs-support Original Message Subject: Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 2302, Issue 2 (janu mam) Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:57:37 +0530 From: janu mam janakiramulu.mt...@gmail.com To: Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com References: BANLkTi=v-FSv7De=mf67x

Re: setclock Question (lfs-bootscripts-20110424)

2011-05-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
al...@verizon.net wrote: That's a 360 (as they say) reversal of what I said in my previous post. Not sure if I got the attribution right. LOL. I think you mean 180. :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: Binutils 2.21 - check failure in chapter 6.13

2011-05-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Manuel Gonzalez Montoya wrote: On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Brett brettsca...@email.com wrote: Hi I am trying to build LFS SVN-20110427 on an AMD64 system I get a consistent failure when running the checks for Binutils in chapter 6. This is the output where the error occurs: For the

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 2302, Issue 2

2011-05-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
janu mam wrote: hi all in my system windows was there on -sda1,sda2-extended partition ,personal data drive-sda5 i am doing lfs6.7(book)- on sda6,swap-sda7(i am using lfs-livecd) --- see this is my grub.cfg file

Re: udev168 not work with mountfs of bootscript on x86_64 system ?

2011-04-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 13:17 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 07:25 +0800, xinglp wrote: On my X86_64 lfs (SVN-20110427) system . /dev/disk/by-label/xxx has not turnd up when mountfs started , so I can't use LABEL= in fstab . On 32bits system , this

Re: setclock Question (lfs-bootscripts-20110424)

2011-04-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
bsquared wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: zgrep CONFIG_RTC /proc/config.gz egrep ^CONFIG_RTC config-2.6.37 CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE=rtc0 CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=y CONFIG_RTC_INTF_PROC=y

Re: Packages Problem

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
thomas castleidne wrote: Dear Linux From Scratch I have just hit chapter three of the book and im having problems downloading the packages. I cannot seem to get the required packages, i am connect to the internet via ethernet cable. when i try : wget

Re: Packages Problem

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
thomas castleidne wrote: Dear Bruce since i emailed you i have played around a little more with it. it seems that even when i try wget http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/wget-list i get the same error message. I'm not entire sure where the problem is. It appears that you

Re: Packages Problem

2011-04-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
thomas castleidne wrote: Well im emailing you throguht my Windows 7 laptop and im trying to download the packages via the virtual terminal on the Linux From scratch live cd, do i need to activate the internet connection thoguht the terminal? im using an ethernet cable btw. Don't top post.

Re: V 6.8 MD5SUM file

2011-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: I don't know whether there is a MD5SUM file for V 6.8 of the book, but I've generated one, and verified that all the MD5 sums match the tarballs listed in the book. If one doesn't already exist, I'd like to contribute it. Well, if I ever get around to it, I'll upload the

Re: Compiling grub-1.98 fails

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: Karthik Bhuvanagiri wrote: Hi, I'm following LFS-Book-6.7. I followed everything in the book successfully until section 6.44.1-Installation of Grub. Compiling grub-1.98 fails after issuing make command. Please suggest me in resolving the issue. *Output of ./configure

Re: Compiling grub-1.98 fails

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Did this ever get resolved? I see that the .o files got included in the link more than once, but I didn't see a resolution. In a fresh svn build yesterday, I get no errors at all. You've cut down the output to where I can't see

Re: JHALFS Incompatibilities

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: I'm using a VM (qemu) to build LFS v 6.8. I'm using the LFS LiveCD as my build system. I've partitioned and formatted my disc, and successfully booted the LiveCD. I've downloaded jhalfs-2.3.2 (I understand the one on the LiveCD jhalfs-2.3.1 is broken) and started setting

Re: JHALFS Incompatibilities

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: When you go into the VM, extract jhalfs to your /home directory (the name doesn't matter). Run from there. jhalfs should create /mnt/lfs/{jhalfs,sources}. I tell it not to mess with sources and then What's the difference between that and running

Re: JHALFS Incompatibilities

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On Apr 21, 2011 12:08 AM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: When you go into the VM, extract jhalfs to your /home directory (the name doesn't matter). Run from there. jhalfs should create /mnt/lfs/{jhalfs,sources}. I tell

Re: kernel section mismatch warning, can't find patch

2011-04-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
bsquared wrote: Hello; I got three different section mismatch warnings. I found patches for two, but I am not finding any for this one. LD drivers/built-in.o WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x10539d): Section mismatch in reference from the function parport_pc_probe_port() to the

Re: Incompatibility of udev and /usr

2011-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: On 04/14/2011 02:55 AM, Simon Geard wrote: Yes, there's been a bit of discussion of this among the distributions of late. Here's a couple of the links I've read on the subject... http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken

Re: lfs boot failed

2011-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
me,apporc wrote: Hi pioneer I have finished to install lfs on my kvm virtual host. But it has a problem now. Sometimes, i mean not always , it will fail to boot. And i could not capture the error it reported , because next time i succeed to boot it there is nothing about it in kern.log . I

Re: Incompatibility of udev and /usr

2011-04-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:27 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Simon Geard wrote: [...] While not universal, there seems to be a growing feeling that having a separate /usr partition serves no useful purpose these days. The third of those links gives a pretty good summary of

Re: Kernel options help

2011-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dave Hajoglou wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Dave Hajoglou dhajog...@gmail.com wrote: To list, I built a new LFS 6.8 and everything is kosher save for some slowness. I built an x86_64 kernel (2.6.38.2) all on a Xen host (5.6.100) on a Quad Proc Xeon. It boots with no issues

Re: jhalfs build report

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dave Hajoglou wrote: I ran a jhalfs build last night and was wondering if anyone want's the report. I seem to recall that a while back the developers wanted these reports. The build took just over 4.5 hours. Yes, please. Send it to me and I'll post it in

Re: Grub install tesing

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
piper.guy1 wrote: Respectfully I don't agree. I still maintain the instructions in this section are confusing. If you read the quote it definitely says to get out of the chrooted environment, and then to re-enter it. There's nothing that says to perform the subsequent reboot and grub

Re: can't change MBR

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:06:35 -0400 piper.guy1 piper.g...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm almost finished LFS-6.7. I verified that grub works in section 8.4.3 and LFS boots up without any hitches. But now section 8.4.4 requires the change to the MBR with the 'grub-setup'

Re: Creating a OpenVz template with a LFS

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Julien BODIN wrote: Actually I just want a reliable and fast system which can be virtualized. I don't want to use CPU or RAM for other things that I really use. But this is not related to lfs, because I'm doing it just because I want to know how a distribution work. I was just curious

Re: Dead link in Ch 6.16 GCC page

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ian T wrote: Hi all, Sorry if this has already been posted, I looked through the archives, but I just joined this list. I'm building a 6.8 LFS and am at 6.16 GCC. Because of an error return in the tests, I went to check the build logs. However, the LFS site's log page gives me an Access

Re: Dead link in Ch 6.16 GCC page

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ian T wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ian T wrote: Hi all, Sorry if this has already been posted, I looked through the archives, but I just joined this list. I'm building a 6.8 LFS and am at 6.16 GCC. Because of an error return

Re: Is it normally?

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
g...@mail.com wrote: Good day. I done 5.5. GCC-4.5.2 - Pass 1 After make install end of screen was: make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build' After: ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc

Re: localnet script error

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
piper.guy1 wrote: Hi, I'm at the last stages of LFS-6.7, section 8.4.3 Testing The Configuration. After rebooting, starting GRUB from the command line, and booted into my LFS installation as indicated by 8.4.3, I had errors in several boot scripts. The cause was line 17 of

Re: Grub install tesing

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
piper.guy1 wrote: Is it me or is the first paragraph in section 8.4.3 in LFS-6.7 badly worded? It sounds to me it's suggesting how to add the new LFS-6.7 installation to the existing GRUB simply by exiting the chroot environment and then going back into the chroot environment. To

Re: Is it normally?

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
g...@mail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 19:20 +0300, g...@mail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 10:28 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: g...@mail.com wrote: Good day. I done 5.5. GCC-4.5.2 - Pass 1 After make install end of screen was: make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/i686

Re: I had not might properly download the MPC (0.8.2),

2011-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
fuf wrote: Good day! I had not might properly download the MPC (0.8.2), from LFS-6.8 book. Archive Manager wrote; An error occurred while loading the archive. gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now. The checking md5sum gave

Re: gcc test failures

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alex Bosworth wrote: Here's the synopsis: Been trying to compile LFS (from the latest svn version) on my laptop, I have tried four times so far (please note I'm making use of JHLAFS). During all the four builds, gcc tests don't seem to be satisfactory as the number of unexpected

Re: LFS 6.8, patch failure on gcc 4.5.2 pass #2

2011-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mark Maurer wrote: All -- I was flowing along nicely with LFS 6.8, until I come to the second pass of gcc 4.5.2 (after the binutils second pass). Where the book says to patch it (section 5.10.1) to revert to the old behavior with this command: patch -Np1 -i

Re: GRUB problems

2011-03-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JAMC60 wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install lfs-6.8 via ssh in a somehow old PC. All seems to be ok but the last step: Using grub to set up the boot process The output of device.map is: (fd0)/dev/fd0 (hd0)/dev/hda So, the next step is: grub-install /dev/hda No, the next step is

Re: Incorrect MD5SUMs

2011-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Yves Bellefeuille wrote: The MD5SUMs for lfs-bootscripts and udev-config as listed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter03/packages.html are incorrect. The correct values are as follows: lfs-bootscripts-20100627.tar.bz2: 8260bdb271caa3b538f8e95f65998864

Re: Incorrect MD5SUMs

2011-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Yves Bellefeuille wrote: The MD5SUMs for lfs-bootscripts and udev-config as listed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter03/packages.html are incorrect. The correct values are as follows: lfs-bootscripts-20100627.tar.bz2

LFS-6.8 is released

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.8. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.7 (including updates to Linux-2.6.37, GCC-4.5.2, Glibc-2.13) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and

Re: Help! GCC 4.5.1 pass 2 compilation failed.

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
frank@spx.com wrote: Hi, I was following LFS book source version 6.7. Completed steps before step 5.10. In 5.10, I need compile Gcc - pass 2. Got a fatal error ac_nonexistent.h no such file or directory, details please see config.log below, It sounds like you do not have autotools

Re: Help! GCC 4.5.1 pass 2 compilation failed.

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
frank@spx.com wrote: Please do not top post. It doesn't have the autotools requirement. I am using lfslivecd have autoconf version 2.61 and automake 1.10. You shouldn't need autotools for LFS. From my log: checking libelf.h usability... no checking libelf.h presence... no checking for

Re: Help! GCC 4.5.1 pass 2 compilation failed.

2011-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
frank@spx.com wrote: It doesn't have the autotools requirement. I am using lfslivecd have autoconf version 2.61 and automake 1.10. You shouldn't need autotools for LFS. In your first reply, you said It sounds like you do not have autotools installed in your host. I thought it may be

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
al...@verizon.net wrote: C. As nit-pickings (no urgency, we know how long it takes to change will with must in the next (almost) daily revision of the book:) C.1. 6.2.21 should say must instead of will OK, we can do this. It's in section 6.2.1, not 6.2.21. C.2. The whole Create some

Re: lfslivecd

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
janu mam wrote: i am using lfs livex86-r2160 as host for building lfs book 6.7, in lfs6.7 book the following msg was there The LFS LiveCD might not work on newer hardware configurations, failing to boot or failing to detect some devices such as some SATA hard drives. shall i use for

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
al...@verizon.net wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote, When I rebooted, I got the following messages: cannot open /dev/null FATAL: Module platform: regulatory not set FATAL: Module LNXSYTEM: not found FATAL: Module doc not found FATAL: pci:v... not found This last was repeated about

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
al...@verizon.net wrote: 3.2. The PROBLEM (the actual object of the OP) has been my worries started recently when _finally_ a [light] bulb went [off] in my head on reading # Create some devices and directories that Udev cannot handle # due to them being required very early in

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday 25 February 2011 15:02:23 Bruce Dubbs wrote: It looks like the process is: 1. Use null and console at the start. 2. Mount a tmpfs on /dev hiding the original null and console devices. 3. Create all new devices, including null, on the tmpfs via udev

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
al...@verizon.net wrote: I do have a confusion underlying this thread. I have claimed (possibly wrongly), the Udev philosophy assumes a /dev absolutely empty. Are the initial (metal) null and console nodes an LFS specific requirement (based on its particular boot/log sequence I tested and

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 22:11 +1300, Simon Geard wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:24 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: What am I missing? My latest only has $ ls /dev/disk by-id by-path by-uuid Odd - I see those, and by-label too. My main desktop is a little old now (about ten

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: As to the rest, it may be I've misunderstood your original post - the confusion was over the claim that people are unaware they they have those nodes on the metal /dev. Given these nodes are explicitly created with a clear explanation as to why, it seemed to me that you

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: [rant] Digressing a little, I have a bone to pick with Kay Seivers and Greg K- H. Their attitude is that only symlinks should be used in /dev and created from udev rules (for the most part), and those symlinks may only

Re: Compiling grub-1.98 fails

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Karthik Bhuvanagiri wrote: Hi, Where can I get md5sum of grub-1.98 tar ball? All md5sums are in section 3.2. All Packages. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Compiling grub-1.98 fails

2011-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Karthik Bhuvanagiri wrote: Hi, I'm following LFS-Book-6.7. I followed everything in the book successfully until section 6.44.1-Installation of Grub. Compiling grub-1.98 fails after issuing make command. Please suggest me in resolving the issue. *Output of ./configure --prefix=/usr

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until system is ready for deployment? No, but why would you want to do that? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Brian Winfrey wrote: Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until system is ready for deployment? No, but why would you want to do that? Â -- Bruce -- http

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + Package Users

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: update: util_linux-ng need to change permissions on /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ Why? They look OK to me. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev - USB Keyboard questions

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Stuart Stegall wrote: It's not uncommon for Mice to be detected as Keyboards, Mice, and Joysticks depending on the mouse's advertisements. I would imagine your keyboard is the same way. It's still being detected as a keyboard right? Send your complete X log and dmesg log. (Minus anything

Re: Wget-list seems to be missing for SVN-20110110

2011-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Melvin Poindexter wrote: Greetings. I've decided to start yet another LFS SVN. I clicked the link in the online book for the wget-list but it comes up Page not found error. Has the link changed? One of the IRC channel ops said that the server may not have generated one, and suggested that I

Re: Wget-list seems to be missing for SVN-20110110

2011-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Melvin Poindexter wrote: Thank you. Your link worked. I'm not sure where you got it. The link located at Ch. 3.1 is pointing to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/wget-list. Yours is different. You got it from SVN-20110110 ? I'm not sure where you are looking.

Re: questions about modifying the temp tool chain

2011-01-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Simon Geard wrote: I'm all for making sure the book is clear and unambiguous. But to use your analogy of training wheels, I think they're a bad idea, giving people an unjustified sense of competence because it looks easy. It's *not* easy, and if people are in over their heads, they need to

Re: gmp-5.0.0 installation problem

2011-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
karl tattersall wrote: Brief explanation of the problem: Configuration of gmp-5.0.0 produces an error. • The version of the book being used (in this case 6.6) Yes, the book version is 6.6. • The host distribution and version being used to create LFS I am creating this on Kubuntu –

Re: Problem booting LFS 6.7

2011-01-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Theodore Papamarkou wrote: Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 7649- 7649- 6144 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14020+ 14593-574- 46039055 Extended /dev/sda3 7649+ 14019- 6371- 51174400 83 Linux /dev/sda4 0

Re: Problem booting LFS 6.7

2011-01-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Theodore Papamarkou wrote: The problem though is that I rebooted the system several times without remounting it manually or automatically through /etc/fstab. If that's one of the mistakes I made, then I will have to do go through all the chapters of the book from the beginning, right...? Not

Re: LFS grub start error

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: Please ask on lfs-support. I have seen with 'c' on prompt No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 vfat msdos iso9960 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs at unknown-block(8,4) This is a kernel message, so at this point grub's job is done.

Re: LFS grub start error

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: I haven't got /dev/sda4, my /dev/sda has got only two (sda1 e sda2) brw-rw 1 root daemon 8, 0 Jan 2 18:31 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root daemon 8, 1 Jan 2 18:31 /dev/sda1 brw-rw 1 root daemon 8, 2 Jan 2 18:31 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root daemon 8, 16 Jan 2 18:31

Re: LFS grub start error

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: Is it possible to see a log of the complete error? For example the output of dmesg ... Until you get it to boot, no. If it can't mount /, where would it write to? I don't think you understand. Make a grub.cfg file that is exactly 5 lines long: insmod ext2 set

Re: jhalfs not work with xz-utils

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Pegg wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:18 AM, xinglp wrote: It looks like the jhalfs use the below section instead of filename. lfs/{chapter05,chapter06}/xz.xml line 9 ?dbhtml filename=xz-utils.html? Yes, right it does ignore my previous email. Bruce if you would like I'll fix

Re: jhalfs not work with xz-utils

2011-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: I patched the jhalfs. Maybe I should patch the lfs book instead. BTW: Is there any tools for editing the lfs book in a easier way, other than vim. No, that's how we've always done it. diff -Naur jhalfs.orig/LFS/master.sh jhalfs/LFS/master.sh --- jhalfs.orig/LFS/master.sh

Re: Using Repositories

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 13:30:58 +0530 Bavithra R bavithr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I am a newbie for creating distro from scratch. Initially I started with LFS book. Now I am in a need to use the Debian repository. Then install Debian Can any one please tell me

Re: [LFS 6.7] 6.9 Glibc-2.12. 1: make -k check 21 | tee glibc-c heck-log ? Target `check' not remade be cause of errors.

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
NeoAmsterdam wrote: Here's what ``grep Error glibc-check-log`` had to say: make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/posix/tst-waitid.out] Error 1 make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) make[1]: *** [posix/tests] Error 2 make[2]: ***

Re: LFS grub start error

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: created a virtual machine with Fedora 14 guest host a filesystem with no errors everything is set up in LFS 6.7 Chapter 9. Kernel is ok. When I mount the new virtual machine obtained LFS, I get errors because I did not understand how to configure fstab and grub.cfg

Re: Copy and Paste

2010-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Blake Morgan wrote: The documentation says that the CD includes SSH server and client. I'm not sure if it is enabled and I don't know how to enable it. PuTTY says Network error: Connection refused. The port is 22, the connection type is SSH, and the Host Name is the IP Address. Please

Re: Copy and Paste

2010-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Blake Morgan wrote: The reason I have been avoiding the differen didstro is because I'm confused about the partitioning. Would I not partition durin the install and do it in the shell? Would I follow the books instructions during the install? I don't understand how to partition for LFS using

Re: sysklogd 1.5.0 segfault,1.4.1 works well.

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: It's a bug of sysklogd-1.5 ksym_mod.c line 184 if ( ksyms == NULL ) { if ( errno == ENOENT ) Syslog(LOG_INFO, No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.\n); else

Re: 6.9-glibc

2010-12-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nolan wrote: Appears to be some show-stoppers here. Any suggestions for debugging? || Do I need to rebuild, and at what point should that start. make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.12.1' make: *** [check] Error 2

Re: Problem on GCC pass 2 (chapter 5.10.1)

2010-12-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
pieter blomme wrote: Being pretty new to LFS, it's high chance I fucked up somewhere. But up till now everything seemed to work. When i try to apply the patch patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-4.5.1-startfiles_fix-1.patch while being in the gcc-directory, i get the following error: patching file

Re: LFS 6.7.1. Installation of Linux API Headers book 6.7 gcc not found

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: I have Fedora 14 as host and I'm stuck in par. 6.7.1 of LFS 6.7 book. I followed all the instructions, I'm sure you have typed everything like in the book (I did the chroot, mount, mkdir etc etc). When I reinstall the package and try to do: make mrproper It

Re: $LFS_TGT and Target build

2010-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fady Fawzy wrote: Dear LFS-Deveolpers, I detected that when we are build the /tools in CH5 , we used $LFS_TGT to install the packages with modified target build name as xxx-lfs-linux-gnu . When we are in CH6 we don't set the variable to be used in real LFS build and so we don't use it

Re: Advanced LFS

2010-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fady Fawzy wrote: Dear all , I'm going to build LFS system as a Virtual appliance and i put a challenge for myself to build the appliance as small as possible . It will handle some web app. ,JAVA ,and C++ programs . I'm now in Ch6 in LFS 6.7 , So any suggestions about any un-needed tools

Re: glibc compilation ok on Fedora 14

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rosario Turco wrote: Sorry, my editor has removed the hyphens and spaces made. The exact command on Fedora 14 is (all lower case): ../glibc-2.12.1/configure --prefix=/tools \ --host = $ LFS_TGT --build =$(../ glibc-2.12.1/scripts/config.guess) \ --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \

Re: udev problem

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Stuart Stegall wrote: udev-test will run 142 tests: FAIL: test/udev-test.pl == 1 of 1 test failed My system has error as expected for tests 1, 48, 81, 82, 139, 140, and 141 for udev-161. 0 errors occured PASS: test/udev-test.pl = 1

Re: udev problem

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Stuart Stegall wrote: udev-test will run 142 tests: FAIL: test/udev-test.pl == 1 of 1 test failed My system has error as expected for tests 1, 48, 81, 82, 139, 140, and 141 for udev-161. 0 errors occured

Re: LFS6.7-Sec6.32 -- 'make' is failing

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dax Mickelson wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:05:24 -0700 Dax Mickelson d...@daxm.net wrote: Attached is the output of 'make' failing. (If you need you can go to www.daxm.net/LFS/6.7/Screenshot-6.32-make-errors.png to get it too.) I don't even have a guess as to what to do. :-( According

Re: udev problem

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2010 04:55:43 robert wrote: unpacked udev-161.tar.bz2 cd udev-161 then copy and paste ... (the two dearchive operations are xvf??? and not jxvf??? 'tar xvf' unpacks a noncompressed tar archvie (.tar). 'tar xvfj' unpacks a

Re: udev problem

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
robert wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:36:31PM -0600, robert wrote: So, I don't follow then. Instructions at 6.59. Udev-161 say: tar -xvf ../udev-config-20100128.tar.bz2 ... why not *J*xvf? Apart from the other responses, I can't help commenting that 'J' is not 'j'.

Re: Download sites offline

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daryl Lee wrote: I am off and running with my newly repartitioned drive and have something to report, but not sure where to send it, so here goes. I'm using version 6.7 of the LFS book, and one of the files in wget-list ( has a broken link. Broken:

Re: Download sites offline

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Daryl Lee wrote: On 12/06/2010 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Daryl Lee wrote: I am off and running with my newly repartitioned drive and have something to report, but not sure where to send it, so here goes. I'm using version 6.7 of the LFS book, and one of the files in wget-list ( has

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