Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:53:11 +0100 From: onepo...@starurchin.org To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS? Currently I have an old LFS livecd (r2145) to fall back on should I need to rescue my LFS box but I am nervous

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:18:21 +0100 From: onepo...@starurchin.org To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS? Yasser Zamani wrote: I recommend Slax (http://www.slax.org

[lfs-support] Having trouble with booted LF'S Bash's locale!

2012-07-06 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi there, Unfortunately I think I have trouble with Bash's locale when I boot to my created LFS. Immediately after loging in, when I issue a date command, the output is something like this: [][][][] [][]:[][]:[][] (IRDT) Where []s are squares fully filled with white. Also e.g. when

Re: [lfs-support] Having trouble with booted LF'S Bash's locale!

2012-07-06 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:03:11 +0100 From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Having trouble with booted LF'S Bash's locale! On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:49:34PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, Unfortunately I think I have

Re: [lfs-support] Having trouble with booted LF'S Bash's locale!

2012-07-06 Thread Yasser Zamani
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Having trouble with booted LF'S Bash's locale! On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 04:49:34PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, Unfortunately I think I have trouble with Bash's locale when I boot to my created LFS. Immediately after loging in, when I

[lfs-support] four questions after doing LFS

2012-07-05 Thread Yasser Zamani
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 which are in LFS

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

2012-07-05 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:41:40 +0100 From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] four questions after doing LFS On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 03:01:22PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, After doing LFS, I have four questions

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

2012-07-05 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:32:57 +0100 From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] four questions after doing LFS On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:41:38PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: That arrived as another very long single line, containing

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

2012-06-26 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:57:45 -0600 From: e_lio...@hotmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Cannot boot to LFS with seperate boot partition Hello, Errors like error: no argument specified usually point to something missing. Try: search

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

2012-06-25 Thread Yasser Zamani
Now, system can find Linux kernel and boot to the root :) But at first, it tells error: file not found and I have to press a key to continue; do you have any idea please? Could you post your grub.cfg please? Andy -- Thanks a lot Andrew; Now, system can find Linux kernel and boot

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

2012-06-25 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 6/25/2012 11:24 AM, Yasser Zamani wrote: *snip* root@slax:~# cat /mnt/sda7/grub/grub.cfg # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5

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

2012-06-21 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:05:45 -0600 From: e_lio...@hotmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Cannot boot to LFS with seperate boot partition Hello, On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:43:00AM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, When I reboot

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

2012-06-20 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi there, When I reboot to LFS with following /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.cfg, after selecting the boot menu, it tells me error: file not found cat /etc/fstab EOF # Begin /etc/fstab # file system mount-point type options dump fsck #

Re: [lfs-support] Packages Dependency Graph

2012-06-11 Thread Yasser Zamani
@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Packages Dependency Graph On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:30:54PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Generally, LFS encourages people to develop their scripting skills (after the first successful build). Relying on the host's tar will make scripting somewhat difficult

Re: [lfs-support] Book 7.1 Chapter 6.7 Linux API headers: make headers_check

2012-06-11 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:35:59 +0100 From: mikeyoun...@googlemail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] Book 7.1 Chapter 6.7 Linux API headers: make headers_check Hi all This is my first lfs build, and it was going swimmingly until I hit this little wall.

Re: [lfs-support] Book 7.1 Chapter 6.7 Linux API headers: make headers_check

2012-06-11 Thread Yasser Zamani
Mike On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Yasser Zamani yasser.zam...@live.com wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:35:59 +0100 From: mikeyoun...@googlemail.com

[lfs-support] Packages Dependency Graph

2012-06-10 Thread Yasser Zamani
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. Actually I want to know how I can achieve a

[lfs-support] How Glibc builds itself at LFS 7.1: 5.7. Glibc-2.14.1

2012-06-06 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi, Actually I already have been finished LFS 7.1 without any problem but once again I decided to repeat the process but this time with latest versions of packages and Linux kernel. I successfully done following sections: 5.4. Binutils-2.22 - Pass 1 5.5. GCC-4.7.0 - Pass 1 I used latest

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (TEST FAILURE)!

2012-05-16 Thread Yasser Zamani
From: bl8r1...@tut.by Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:33:12 +0300 To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (TEST FAILURE)! I expect every chip has its peculiarities, and my CPUs are not an exception. I failed to build LFS-6.8 (if I remember

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (TEST FAILURE)!

2012-05-15 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:05:28 +0100 From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (TEST FAILURE)! On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:56:10PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Is this failure expected or is a fatal

[lfs-support] LFS-71.: Solution for automation of 'tar X', 'cd X' ... 'cd ..', 'rm -R X'.

2012-05-14 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi there, As for each package you should decompress the package, enter decompressed folder, compileinstall and finally remove decompressed folder, and also while you do not learn any new thing by doing these each time, so I would like to share my automation solution which does these just by

[lfs-support] LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (TEST FAILURE)!

2012-05-14 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi, 'make -j2 check' on 'LFS-7.1: 6.37. Automake-1.11.3 (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/automake.html)' informs me for one failure with following red message :( = 1 of 842 tests failed (96 tests were not run) See

[lfs-support] Do you know why 2 CPUs act like a mirror in GCC test?

2012-05-12 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi, Sorry if it's off-topic; do you know why 2 CPUs act like a mirror while I'm running make -k check for testing GCC-4.6.2 (6.17's section of LFS-7.1)? it's not a problem but just I would like to know; I've attached an image which shows this while I was not running anything except GCC

Re: [lfs-support] Do you know why 2 CPUs act like a mirror in GCC test?

2012-05-12 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 19:01:51 +0200 From: akuk...@gmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Do you know why 2 CPUs act like a mirror in GCC test? On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:11:19 +0430 Yasser Zamani yasser.zam...@live.com wrote: Hi, Sorry

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 - 6.9. Glibc-2.14.1

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Yes, I think. If you look at some lines after the command, last known test failure is: Other tests known to fail on some architectures are posix/bug-regex32, misc/tst-writev, elf/check-textrel, nptl/tst-getpid2, and stdio-common/bug22. But I'm not sure about

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.1 - 6.9. Glibc-2.14.1

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Sorry, I took a more careful look at book and saw: You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the posix/annexc test. So you can continue to LFS with no any worry about this errors :) Good Luck! From: yasser.zam...@live.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Date: Mon,

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

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 21:00:28 +1200 Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Shoul I remember (keep in mind) all steps?! On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 21:02 +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Thanks a lot Simon, As I cited, the book is well described enough but I worried a bit when I saw a 'sed' script at first time

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

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Hi there, I have two suggestions for the book which I hope will be helpful: As in every computer boot up and logging in as lfs user I had to run 'mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/lfs' as root, I added (rewrited) this to .bashrc file as following (rewriting LFS-7.1 4.4. Setting Up the Environment

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

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
will learn this from previous sections. Thanks! Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:53:11 -0500 From: bruce.du...@gmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] mounting via .bashrc as root (2 suggestions) Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, I have two suggestions

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

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 20:44:45 +0100 From: zarniwh...@ntlworld.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] mounting via .bashrc as root (2 suggestions) On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:45:04PM +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: What about second idea? i.e. defining .bashrc

Re: [lfs-support] wget-list update

2012-05-07 Thread Yasser Zamani
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 23:14:28 -0500 From: cara...@cox.net To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] wget-list update I noticed that the wget-list file has outdated links for man-pages and zlib. For some reason, man7.org doesn't seem to host downloads anymore at all,

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

2012-05-06 Thread Yasser Zamani
, Yasser. From: delga...@ihug.co.nz To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 20:42:03 +1200 Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Shoul I remember (keep in mind) all steps?! On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 19:50 +0430, Yasser Zamani wrote: Hi there, At first thank you very much for this useful

Re: [lfs-support] Automated LFS Program (Ta-Kenset)

2012-05-05 Thread Yasser Zamani
Thanks a lot for helping community by your work. I just have a suggestion: As LFS has been cited that one of it's main purpose is education, so this is not bad to have a red bold sentence like something like Please do not use Ta-Kenset for your first LFS generation because you'll lose it's

Re: [lfs-support] Automated LFS Program (Ta-Kenset)

2012-05-05 Thread Yasser Zamani
Sorry, I forgotted to mention I meant having that red sentence in home page of http://www.takenset.us. just a suggestion ;) Regards, Yasser. From: yasser.zam...@live.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 10:08:43 +0430 Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Automated LFS Program