On 10/29/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/29/10, Ken Moffat k...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
Looking at what I'm using on the desktop, I see I added the
following to ~/.xinitrc in January to reinstate the old behaviour for
xorg-7.4. Apologies for missing this last night
On 10/28/10, Stuart Stegall kel...@keltor.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I know, this issue is a little the field of BLFS. I am trying to get
xorg working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the
On 10/28/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I know, this issue is a little the field of BLFS. I am trying to get xorg
working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the
xorg.conf.new, I get a screen, with a dirty X on it, but no way to close
it
Sometimes I try the 20-second fix-all:
Shutdown.
Turn off all power to all hardware.
After 20 seconds, power-up and boot.
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On 10/20/10, Mike Hollis zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:18:26PM -0400, linux fan wrote:
Sometimes I try the 20-second fix-all:
Shutdown.
Turn off all power to all hardware.
After 20 seconds, power-up and boot.
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On 10/19/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
In my case - I am not excluding errors from my part-, I got, as I wrote, an
error message not an assigment
If one is brave and patient, it can be very much fun to get to the
grub2 command line and experiment.
set pager=1 turns the
On 10/19/10, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
OK. I did grub-config. But as I am always a little afraid of touching MBR,
I did not make grub-install. This tourned to be a catastrophe. I got a
grub pront and nothing more.
I am always afraid of touching MBR and would almost
On 10/16/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:03:36 +0200
Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de wrote:
Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
The linux statement on the other hand tells grub where the kernel
resides and were root of the partition to be
On 10/15/10, Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
Well, the untarred files have timestamps of months ago, when the developers
made the package. Even untarring with -m and getting the current time makes
no difference. But I can post the part where it repeats:
The untarred
Also, not forgetting to remove any previously unpacked glibc sources
and glibc-build directories before unpacking with tar.
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This one said kernel must have ext4 support.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg00190.html
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On 10/9/10, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
a jumble of data. See the attached script; it can give folks a clean, tidy
Oops, I got FAIL: /usr/bin/find not found. Need findutils version=4.1.20
My find is winding up in /bin
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I'm confused that LFS-6.7 is out (I thought), and when I read stable,
it says 6.6.
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On 9/21/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
I't possible your browser is remembering the old page. Try doing a
refresh. All the lfs 'stable' entries are point to 6.7:
Refresh fixed it.
Thanks
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The live cd has the user jhalfs which is already set up in sudoers (sudo).
Once booted and at the shell, you can become jhalfs with:
su - jhalfs
Then can get into graphical desktop with:
startxfce4
In the instructions that reference user lfs, substitute the user jhalfs
I think that may work ok.
On 8/13/10, Suraj Linux suraj.embedded.li...@gmail.com wrote:
add_matching_files: unable to open '/dev/.udev/rules.d': No such file
or directory
Without knowing anything, I wonder why '/dev/.udev/rules.d' is
missing. What creates it?
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On 8/9/10, Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
Is it possible to have 2 grubs running in a same computer?
My idea is to have the first grub in mbr, with the main OS, and an entry
pointing to the second grub, installed in a partition with the LFS and all
its options.
I could do
On 8/9/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
configfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
For grub2, before that may also be needed:
insmod configfile
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On 7/21/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
On 07/21/2010 06:08 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
On 21/07/10 01:25, Dan McGhee wrote:
It's nagging me that currently grub sees nothing but my new LFS system.
Grub2 supposedly searches for one of the specific kernel name prefixes of:
vmlinuz
vmlinux
On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
The speed bumps that I mention in the grammatically incorrect subject
line have grown to a mountain range higher than the Himalayas.
With grub 2, the first thing to do is panic. Done.
The second thing is don't panic.
1. Review the grub-0.97
On 7/20/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
Since my post of just an hour ago, my options have been reduced to
one--write to the MBR. One of the files needed to make a completely
independent bootable grub disk is stage2_eltorito, which is not present
in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/, or anywhere
On 7/18/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
I've started again and that's the way I ran make except that, again, I
want it to stop after Ch. 6 so I ran make mk_CHROOT
NOT: make mk_CHROOT
make BREAKPOINT=mk_CHROOT
If you want it to stop after finishing target mk_CHROOT
BREAKPOINT is all
On 7/17/10, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
3. Can I shutdown if I put a breakpoint in the makefile call?
Yes, but ...
... like driving a racing car around a track at 190 MPH, if you really
know what you are doing, you'll make it most of the time. But if you
don't really know what you are
On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the
host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5).
Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs.
Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already
On 7/3/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little
too small if many things will be installed (a typical desktop system
with lots of goodies).
I shudder to think about what you are using to fill that up ;) I'm
On 7/3/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
If using bash a simple:
#!/bin/bash -e
set +h
at the top of the script works, bails on any error
Or
set -e
A few package maintainers manage to return 0 success from configure
even when the configure fails. These may be rare or nonexistent
On 6/24/10, Timothy Rice t.r...@ms.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
It occurred to me that maybe once mysql is installed, info can then use
mysql to, say, manage a database of entries, or something. Pure
conjecture, but if true, it could explain why dir would need to be
rebuilt. However, nothing I've
On 6/22/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Philippe Delavalade wrote:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net//expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2
That may be a typo, but it shouldn't affect the download. URLs are
permitted repeated slashes.
That's what I was going to say ... but
On 6/20/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Is there someplace where someone writes about what's new in
kernel patches? New and removed features, considerations about
implementation, etc.? Someplace where we can see what's in it,
whether it has anything for us or not?
Kernel
On 6/17/10, Michael Vahl mvah...@bib.h-brs.de wrote:
Any other suggestions?
Without knowing anything, maybe outputs would give somebody a clue:
ls -ld /boot/grub
grep sda /etc/fstab
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
date
sudo /usr/sbin/grub-mkdevicemap
ls -l /boot/grub/device.map
: ... date
have looked something like this:
mount LABEL=BACK_UPS /back_ups
mount /dev/[bla-bla] /mnt
cd /mnt
R-M-minus-R-star (you never write that in a post)
rsync -aH --numeric-ids /back_ups/LFS-6-2/root_fs/back_up.0/. /mnt/
More info on these rsync snapshots in case anyone is curious is here
http://linux
On 6/8/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
shouldn't that be
if (( ${v[0]} 2 )) (( ${v[1]} 4 ))
or maybe (( v[0] == 2 )) (( v[1] 4 ))
... bash (( allowed me to omit $ and {} around variables/arrays ))
But in the target lfs-6.6, glibc 2.4 is true, so the test isn't even needed.
On 6/8/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
so the whole thing can be reduced to:
v=($(ls /lib/libc-*.so | sed 's/[.-]/ /g'))
[ (( ${v[1]} 2 )) (( ${v[2]} 4 )) ]
sed -i '/k prot/agcc_cv_libc_provides_ssp=yes' ../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/configure
[ $(ls /lib/libc-*.so \
| sed 's/[.-]/
I haven't read where piper.guy confirmed that bash is installed or
that if bash is not installed, that changing the link to point to bash
won't help.
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# Hack to solve glibc __stack_chk_guard cross compile ( 2.4 :)
# this schpeel in LFS-6.6 ch5 gcc-pass1 and ch5 gcc-pass2 after unpack:
glibc=$(ls /lib/libc-*.so)
read j1 v[0] v[1] v[2] j2 ${glibc//[-.]/ }
if (( v[0] 2 )) || (( v[1] 4 )) [ -f gcc/configure ]; then
# kick it
sed -i -e '/#
On 6/4/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
So the problem was the Chapter 5 gcc?
I'm not sure that follows.
Seems to.
Intending to attempt to duplicate __stack_chk_guard error in chapter 6
while building lfs-6.6 from lfs-6.1.1 ...
The theory being that the host gcc/glibc ideal
On 6/4/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
So the problem was the Chapter 5 gcc?
I'm not sure that follows.
Seems to.
... I decide to break out of it, and try something
... This diff in commands
=
--- /mnt/lfs/jhalfs
On 6/2/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
system, /etc/sysconfig/clock had UTC=1.
As a consequence, timestamps were in the past.
Or would that be in the future.
My timezone is America/New_York in /etc/localtime.
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On 6/2/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
To be a proper trailer you need to have a system with ONLY the
minimum requirements for the book. Otherwise you aren't proving
building will work with only those.
I don't think you will find any volunteers to perform the intricate
and
On 6/2/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Paul Rogers wrote:
I reported it doesn't work with 6.1, that's as close as I had. And the
response I got was, paraphrasing, use 6.3, it's known to work. There
seemed to be a complete lack of recognition of it being a problem with
the
On 6/2/10, Danny Engelbarts d.engelba...@gmail.com wrote:
... a 6.3 system is required than the book should state 6.3 until proven
otherwise.
That is just exactly what the DEV book now requires.
Unfortunately, now we don't get to find out exactly why the original problem
undefined reference
On 6/2/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
The version of glibc within chroot certainly should support ssp but the
two reports we have didn't seem to find it automatically. Others cannot
duplicate the problem. If we had consistent errors on most builds, we
could fix it.
Could
On 6/1/10, David Expósito david.sa...@gmail.com wrote:
/usr/lib/libXfont.so: undefined reference to `ft_isdigit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
In newer versions of Freetype2, the ft_isdigit macro has been removed.
When building libXfont-1.2.8 in ch. 23.8 Xorg-Libraries you were supposed
On 6/1/10, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
Volunteers welcomed.
I'll volunteer...I can mess up anything :)
I am going to try it again as I am a gluten for punishment.
From one punishment lubber 't another:
Consider using the HSR that are now in LFS-DEV for your testing.
The
On 5/31/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't have any standing to 'expect' anything from us. You can
suggest, but with your attitude, my reaction is to push back and say no,
even if that's wrong.
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I support and congratulate Paul Roger's package management
On 5/31/10, x2...@lycos.com x2...@lycos.com wrote:
Most of the posters with problems do seem to have,
for whatever reason, strayed from the path of righteousness
and not followed the book closely enough.
Quoth the creator:
Gerard: Read the book we wrote for our users. But, don’t be
On 5/29/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Since I cut and paste the book instructions into my build script
template, albeit with ample instruction and organization for use in
cloning the system too, I can provide them for the Stage 1 2 builds of
gcc and glibc, if it would help to
On 5/29/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
No fun. 1.4GHz P-3, 512MB. Besides, as I wrote, I really want to have
a clean migration path. Maybe 6.1 to 6.6 is too far a jump, but it
matched the HSR with the exception of kernel version.
Besides I rather think the LiveCD starts
On 5/28/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
gcc package for that __stack_chk_guard variable, assuming it was
defined there. It's not. Could someone please grep their include
directory and let me know where it is defined? I haven't found it on
my system.
grep -r -c
On 5/28/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
Good advice. I'd actually recommend 'make oldconfig' and then make
notes on *everything* that might be questionable, research, then set or
not in menuconfig, but that's just a variation - the important thing is not
to try to jump
On 5/27/10, JimD. wrote:
On this topic, I too had a notion that what I call Lab Notes would have
been an improvement and perhaps call users attention to important
procedures.
I like that.
In the BLFS book, each package has user notes that link to a wiki
page if it exists. Those are not even
On 5/27/10, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote:
[Ken Moffat]
getting from a .config that worked in 2.6.18 to one that works in
2.6.32. Particularly, libata [ most ide drives now use libata and
therefore /dev/sdXn instead of hdXn ].
[Paul Rogers]
Yes, I've seen that in some of the
On 5/26/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
I can't really see how things can be improved (short of blinking red
text on *every* page), but it does seem like half the problems we deal
with are from people not following it. Are people not even reading that
entire General Compilation
On 5/25/10, mhenriqu...@terra.cl wrote:
just to bother, the book mention something about that somewhere?, do I
miss something...
Ch 5.3. General Compilation Instructions has an *Important* note to
delete the unpacked-source and build directories after installing
unless otherwise specified.
On 5/20/10, Kyle Brennan kyle_b...@live.com wrote:
though. I did work in the sources directory. I got to GLibC and it ran
for about 45 minutes and then it threw this error at me: make: *** [all]
Error 2
It just came out of the /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.11.1 directory. which
Wouldn't it be
On 4/14/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 07:53:42 pm Trent Shea wrote:
Also,
/opt/kde/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindX11.cmake which gets installed by
kdelibs - not really sure if both files get used...
all to no avail.
I do not know if the 'name' used is
On 4/12/10, lux-integ lux-in...@btconnect.com wrote:
could this be related and does anyone have any ideas for swift resolution
I don't have libxklavier and it built.
Going off topic:
I don't like the giant balloon tooltips over the panel.
I like it better with this patch for kdelibs even
On 3/25/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
HAL is not part of LFS, you should direct questions about things in BLFS to
blfs-supp...@linuxfromscratch.org
I configure HAL with
--disable-console-kit \
--disable-policy-kit
Otherwise new hal expects them and if they
On 3/24/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've finally got round to trying to install grub2 on one of my boxes.
I messed with grub2 a little.
I tried the 'kernel /core.img' method to get to grub2 from legacy.
'set' shows the settings somewhat like bash.
'set pager=1' ... I
On 3/25/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
2. From somewhere, the prefix is set to (hd0,15)/boot/grub. I've no
idea where this is set, and trying to set it at the start of grub.cfg
didn't work. So, I've created that path for it -
mkdir /boot/boot
ln -s ../grub
On 3/23/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 11:39 -0700, brown wrap wrote:
I tried that. NO inputs work. Not USB or PS/2 mouse and old XT keyboard.
Ok, that's something. If no input devices work, that might point to
options under HID Devices not being enabled (HID
On 3/23/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
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brown pastebin sys.log has
http://pastebin.com/EGZYEdMe
Mar 16 22:46:27 guajome-dome kernel: [9.460024] ehci_hcd
:00:04.1: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the
wrong IRQ.
Someone
On 3/21/10, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'd be happy to get any keyboard and mouse to work.
I wonder is your usb problem just the keyboard and the mouse?
In my config
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
I always thought XTKBD was obsoleted long ago.
To
On 3/22/10, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
-When- does the keyboard start to not work?
If it works at a console login but not in X-windows, that happened to me,
and I reconfigured xorg-server to fix the scenario where dbus and hal
were installed, but I was not running them, and thus
On 3/22/10, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote:
So now I went back to building a clean kernel that will at least boot again.
Possibly try
rm .config
make defconfig ARCH=x86_64
Then make menuconfig
and select things you know that you will need built into the kernel.
Try to avoid making any
On 3/22/10, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote:
Today I booted up the LFS 6.3 DVD and its works as well. I found its .config
and tried to use it to build a kernal:
make mrproper
Copied it to .config
make oldconfig
make
make modules_install
and then copied everything to its place in
On 3/19/10, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I wonder if head is closing the input pipe when it has read
all it needs, and that's causing the error. I can't reproduce
that problem with my host system, however.
It is tar-1.23 and not head
head --version
head (GNU coreutils) 8.4
On 3/18/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/03/10 19:24, Scott Kopel wrote:
So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to
get the kernel to recognize my ide drives?
I have old system with IDE drives and addon cards for sata dirves.
The systems sees tht
On 2/16/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
I tend to use 5GB or less for a desktop system.
If you plan to build *all* of gnome, or *all* of kde,
that probably isn't enough space, but in my case
I'd probably put /boot (100MB is big), swap if any,
and 2 or 3 versions of '/' on
On 2/23/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you source /etc/profile in ~/.bashrc?
Not the perfect answer, but it led to the answer.
Actually, /etc/bashrc should be sourced in ~/.bashrc and it was,
but I had missed creating /etc/bashrc in The Bash Shell Startup Files,
and /etc/bashrc:
#
Is it just me, or why does bootscripts no longer create setclock link
/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S25setclock ?
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On 2/23/10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
linux fan wrote:
Is it just me, or why does bootscripts no longer create setclock link
/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S25setclock ?
It was removed about nine months ago because it is set by udev.
... supposed to be set by udev ...
But why, on my
On 2/17/10, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
If the community's expectations are that we have the most current
release of every package in the most recent BLFS book, then the
expectations are too high and are unreasonable.
I agree.
I think the most important thing is that
On 2/8/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote:
Indeed. I was wrong. They do work with libata. They were older machines
that were working fine so I avoided the headache of altering their
kernel configs. My first couple of attempts at getting libata to
On 1/27/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/01/10 19:13, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
does your home directory have the proper permissions?
i.g. chown name:name /home/name
In LFS we compile in $LFS/sources which should have been chown lfs when
you created the user lfs
I tested
On 1/27/10, Justin P. Mattock justinmatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Oops..
I didn't really follow the book step by step.
The best results are by following the book instructions. Especially in
chapter 6 those first steps must be done correctly:
Set $LFS correctly
Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems
On 1/24/10, Rambabu Dasari babu4...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to build Linux from Scratch(LFS), while booting the kernel
throughing the following error.
[4.586704] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
[4.592188] Failed to execute /init
6.2.1. Creating Initial
On 1/12/10, jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com wrote:
so, in the name of progress, i like to solict advice on what to do next,
LFS-6.4 and earlier had:
for NIC in /sys/class/net/* ; do
INTERFACE=${NIC##*/} udevadm test --action=add --subsystem=net $NIC
done
I wonder
On 1/12/10, jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com wrote:
not clear that adding --subsystem would force INTERFACE to be exported to
Hmm,
Output of ls -d /sys/class/net/*
/sys/class/net/eth0 /sys/class/net/lo
Output of ls -dl /sys/class/net/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0
On 1/12/10, linux fan wrote:
Just experimenting ...
It almost seems like export/import is fouled up.
The following block should print:
bar
..
foo=
echo 'echo $foo' fubar
chmod 755 fubar
foo=bar ./fubar
echo .$foo.
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On 1/9/10, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
So I guess I am looking for someone to tell me - perhaps reassure me - that
I could build my own shareable (on a disk) distro that could compete
(outperform?) standard linux distros. I understand I would need to do other
stuff - like arrange for an
On 12/28/09, Mikie wrote:
I have difficulty understanding *why* you want to do this mass extraction.
It's that much less typing.
For least typing, jhalfs lets you just type make and it does all
untarring and building.
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On 12/18/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
trim the '' quoted text to just the part
want to resond to
==
==
grep '/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log
is:
attempt to open /bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o
succeeded
attempt to
On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
But now I found out, that the startfiles show up when I am entering the
following command:
grep -o '/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log
(Can you see above how I trimmed the '' quoted text to just the part
I want to resond to?)
Show us the output of this
On 12/17/09, linux fan wrote:
On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
Are you sure you had the configure command exactly as in the
book ?
And I'm thinking ... I usually copy/paste each entire grey block and
look at i before pressing enter. Notice that the backslashes \ at the
end of some lines make
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
6. Any deviations from the document?
As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a
separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the
build
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my
exisiting swap partition was busy
swapon: /dev/yyy: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
I think that just means it is already using that swap partition.
You can see what swap it
On 12/16/09, stosss wrote:
On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
Thank you very much for your help. What can I do, if I already did 'make
install'? How can I uninstall again?
In linux, attempted uninstall risks more harm than good unless you
really know what might break which is usually not the case.
On 12/14/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Try the fix Ken suggested (CONFIG_HZ_100) and make sure you turn off the
SMP option. That has a lot of extra code you don't need.
Is there a way to 'nice' the build so that it doesn't use all 100% cpu?
Does the clock moving only a tick or two during the
On 12/15/09, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Pixel 73 pixe...@hotmail.com wrote:
I am doing LFS 6.3. Everything went well until Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2.
When
Please don't use LFS 6.3, unless your host system is old enough to
build it. I
On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
How can I analyze which of my previous steps went wrong?
Did the make command really complete without errors?
I always try to keep a log containing all the output because the
screen scrolls by, and later, I wish I could see the errors that went
by so that I can
On 12/15/09, linux fan wrote:
As long as you didn't do 'make install', it is possible to remove the
directory extracted from the source tarball, then extract the source
tarball again, and do the package over with a clean sources. I think
I forgot ... with gcc, you also want to remove the gcc
On 12/15/09, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Pixel 73 wrote:
I am using LFS LiveCD 6.3. So that should be no problem then, right?
You can use any distro which can build the tools, which is any
distro I know of. Ignore the peanut gallery.
Yes,
On 12/3/09, Simon Geard wrote:
Wow... if you *do* get a new LFS build running on that, I'd be curious
to know how long it took...
My first guess is 11 days or so.
Calculating from:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~sbu
MHz=100
one_sbu=5848
lfs_6_5_sbus=153
seconds=899422
time=10,9:50:22
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On 12/3/09, Mike McCarty wrote:
You don't necessarily have to build on that machine. However,
I realize that may be part of the challenge.
Hmm, if LFS 6.5 cross compiles, could you build it on a fast machine
for the slow machine and then put it on the slow machine with rsync or
something?
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On 11/29/09, Alberto Hernando wrote:
... The error is the same, VFS
can't find a valid root system, please add a valid root option. I
.. and /etc/fstab is as the book says.
If /etc/fstab is as the book says (verbatim), it won't work.
You must interpolate
/dev/xxx /fff
On 11/29/09, linux fan wrote:
The VFS can't find ... suggests that the boot loader (grub/lilo)
done its job and the kernel was loading until it choked on the
filesystem fstab told it,
If the message is exactly:
Kernel panic -not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0
On 11/28/09, stosss wrote:
I am only using the lfs 6.3 LiveCD (this is the newest and last lfs
LiveCD released) so I will have a working environment to build lfs
Unless I am mistaken, everything in ch6-8 is done within chroot.
Then it is imperative to be certain that
6.2. Preparing Virtual
On 11/28/09, Baho Utot wrote:
make test | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Check.log
make install | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Install.log
Logging helps so much when things go wrong.
As already mentioned
Scripting an LFS build is *hard*
1. Use jhalfs. That is the most consistent way to do things
and it keeps
On 11/25/09, su.sinnes wrote:
is there anything i can do?
We've all been down this road before ... whatever we do, grub doesn't
seem to work ...
You have gotten grub to load a kernel ... that is getting close.
The key marked PrtScr SysRq can stop the display from scrolling
while booting --
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