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

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:42:21 +0100 gmspro wrote: > @james, > > I logged in as: > > chroot "$BDUX" /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin /bin/bash --login > > Then i tried to change password. > It doesn't give me the prompt to type password

Re: [blfs-support] wget: unable to resolve host address

2012-06-26 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:55:32 +0100 Omar wrote: > Hi, all, > > I used wget to download and got the following prompt. > > http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/svn/xorg/proto-7.7-1.md5 > Resolving anduin.linuxfromscratch.org... failed: Name or service not known. > wget: unable to resolve

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

2012-06-26 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:24:12 +0100 Yasser Zamani wrote: > root@slax:~# cat /mnt/sda7/grub/grub.cfg > # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg > set default=0 > set timeout=5 > # WHEN I SELECT THIS ENTRY IT TELLS "error: no argument specified" BUT AFTER > KEY PRESS ENTERS TO WINDOWS SUCCESSFULLY > menuentry "

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

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:04:24 +0100 Yasser Zamani wrote: > 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 -- http://linuxf

Re: [lfs-support] glibc 5.7

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:57:19 +0100 Tobias Gasser wrote: > why are the CC= AR= RANLIB= not set for glibc? To quote from the glibc page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/glibc.html "--host=$LFS_TGT, --build=$(../glibc-2.15/scripts/config.guess) The combined effec

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

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:09:21 +0100 Emerson Yesupatham wrote: > *My host system violates one of the prerequisites mentioned in page XVi* > > *Linux Kernel-2.6.25 * So what are you saying, that your kernel is older than 2.6.25? Glibc is configured with --enable-kernel=2.6.25 so if you try to use

Re: [lfs-support] AMD Catalyst drivers and LFS-7.1ish

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:09:31 +0100 Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > How on Earth does one manage to get that binary piece of junk to work? > I've tried several approaches now, and after a few weeks with no luck > getting first 12.2 and now 12.4 to work I'm about to give up. > > Has anybody manage

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

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:00 +0100 xinglp 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 to do that, such as by inittab

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

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 14 May 2012 14:31:11 +0100 Lázaro Morales wrote: > En 14/05/2012 08:54:50, Эмиль Кранц escribió: > > > Have a closer look: /dev/sdaX in fstab and /dev/hdaX in error message > > IDE and SCSI? Typo? > > Cheerio. > > The virtual machine have 1 virtual disk IDE. The '/dev' folder is: > >

Re: [lfs-support] 6.2.3. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems question

2012-05-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 13 May 2012 12:43:57 +0100 Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > Yes, on my host system (which is LFS 7.1), /dev/shm is a symlink > pointing to /run/shm. This is what the mountvirtfs start script creates > during boot up. This is why I'm questioning if this is a bug? > Wayne. Yes, that looks like

Re: [lfs-support] 6.2.3. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems question

2012-05-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 13 May 2012 06:58:57 +0100 Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > Hi All, > I've recently updated my main workstation to LFS 7.1 (From LFS 6.7), and > noticed one of my auto build scripts is now failing. > I've tracked it down to the following command. > mount -vt tmpfs shm $LFS/dev/shm > It seems to m

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

2012-05-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:20:45 +0100 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 >

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

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:11:31 +0100 ankit vishwakarma wrote: > so do i need not worry and continue with the build or what should i do Are you going to use Vim? If yes then install it and try using it. If it works then carry on and stop worrying. If you're not going to use it then stop worrying.

Re: [lfs-support] PS1 for user lfs

2012-04-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:38:37 +0100 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 r

Re: [lfs-support] Reduce Size Of LFS Build

2012-04-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:26:58 +0100 Kshitij Jain wrote: > I've already prepared the lfs system and it is working perfectly. > I just want reduce the size of the whole system (so that it is easy to > migrate) by deleting files and folders like /sources and /tools which is > not useful anym

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

2012-04-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:22:57 +0100 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? The lfs patches are in a subversion repository. Some of them are written

Re: [lfs-support] Ncurses compilation during the Temp Tools stage

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:15:11 +0100 Эмиль Кранц wrote: > Hello all. > Ncurses configure script during the Temp tools stage (chapter 5.15) > gives an error, requesting to be complied against gpm. As gpm is > installed in BLFS, the key "--without-gpm" should be passed to the > configure script, in a

Re: [lfs-support] 5.5. GCC-4.4.3 - Pass 1

2012-04-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:10:09 +0100 Anoop C wrote: > I am also getting the same error, > > gcc 4.6.2 > binutils 2.22 > > Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz processor (DELL Optiplex GX620) > Dual core. > > root@pc:~# uname -a > Linux pc 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011

Re: [lfs-support] problem with section 6.9 of LFS 7.1

2012-04-06 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:38:22 +0100 Charles Wood wrote: > Installing glibc-2.14.1 > > I am a student and am doing Linux From Scratch as a class project. I am > working on section 6.9, installing glibc-2.14.1. I have made sure I am > entering all the commands correctly. When I perform "make instal

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

2012-04-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:26:03 +0100 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

Re: [blfs-support] Problems building gnome-terminal-3.4.0.1 with gtk3.

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:24:57 +0100 John Burrell wrote: > > > > > > checking for SMCLIENT... yes > > checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2 > > Using config source xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema > > installation > > Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas as install dir

Re: [lfs-support] Can't install irssi

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:09:46 +0100 gmspro wrote: > I have install glib and pkg-config following th blfs doc > > cd irssi-0.8.15 > > ./configure > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.7... yes > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... Pack

Re: [lfs-support] Problem Booting New Kernel

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:54:08 +0100 Kshitij Jain wrote: > After Configuring the Gruband restarting the system my system grub > menu shows and kernel boots. After few seconds it stops loading on > following snapshot shows the booting >From the image the kernel has clearly not found the roo

Re: [lfs-support] Can't install glib

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:11:15 +0100 gmspro wrote: > cd glib-2.32.0 > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc > > checking for zlib.h... yes > checking for LIBFFI... no > configure: error: in `/sources/glib-2.32.0': > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.

Re: [lfs-support] How can i set up pppoe internet connection?

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:11:54 +0100 gmspro wrote: > Here it's for static ip address > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html > > I need to install rp-pppoe, the pppoe-setup and pppoe-start, how can i > install it? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/ba

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

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:55:06 +0100 gmspro wrote: > >From /etc/initab > > id:2:initdefault: > > It was id:1:initdefault: before , > > 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 se

Re: [blfs-support] Intltool-0.50.0 not found

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:29:58 +0100 "mike" wrote: > hi , > > i go to the following link and wget the file and it claims it can't any > ideas? > > http://launchpad.net/intltool/trunk/0.50.0/+download/intltool-0.50.0.tar.gz > Works for me: andy@eccles:~$ wget http://launchpad.net/intltool/trun

Re: [lfs-support] lfs live cd and being blind

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:12:08 +0100 Eleanore Boyd wrote: > On 3/29/2012 11:03 AM, mike wrote: > > hi, > > > > I am blind and build my lfs's usually using grml and an ssh session but was > > wondering if their is a way to get the lfs live cd to start with speakup for > > building? > > > I am workin

Re: [lfs-support] problem with glibc

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:29:04 +0100 Lázaro Morales wrote: > En 29/03/2012 14:13:05, ankit vishwakarma > escribió: > > > after running the version.sh script the following is the output > > > > ankit@ankit-Inspiron-1012:~$ bash version-check.sh > > bash, version 4.2.10(1)-release > > /bin/sh ->

Re: [lfs-support] problem with glibc

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:13:11 +0100 ankit vishwakarma wrote: > after running the version.sh script the following is the output > > ankit@ankit-Inspiron-1012:~$ bash version-check.sh > bash, version 4.2.10(1)-release > /bin/sh -> /bin/dash Fix this. You can't do LFS with dash, it won't work. sud

Re: [lfs-support] problem with glibc

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:10:52 +0100 ankit vishwakarma wrote: > presently i am doing with chapter 5.7 glibc installation i have applied the > patches restarted the budil many a times but the following error occurs > consistently please help. > > > > In file included from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/lin

Re: [lfs-support] Package management

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:03:59 +0100 DJ Lucas wrote: > packaged up as a tar.bz2 (guess > I should probably use xz now) It depends on the situation. If the files are just for local use (no one is downloading them) then the factors are disk space, RAM and time. If disk space is tight and you've got

Re: [lfs-support] problems with glibc

2012-03-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:13:32 + "mike" wrote: > hi, > > i followed the book to a letter then when i do a make on glibc i get the > following > > c -lgcc_eh `i686-lfs-linux-gnu-gcc --print-file-name=crtend.o` > /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/csu/crtn.o > /mnt/lfs/tools/bi

Re: [lfs-support] preprocessor error

2012-03-21 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:02:09 + "siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > Hello, > > now in Build LFS System, GCC come the error again. > > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether /sources/gcc-build/./gcc/xgcc -B/sources/gc

Re: [lfs-support] GCC Error

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:40:26 + "siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > ok, yes i have search in other folder. But really i not know what should read > in the messages there. > > http://nopaste.info/56d5e47c92.html > This looks like the wrong file. This is /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/config.log As

Re: [lfs-support] GCC Error

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:55:27 + "siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > Hello, > > i try with LFS 7.1 to build my own Linux, ok at Moment in VMWARE but when it > run good i want it use directly. > > I use the Handbook, at Moment i has compile errors in GCC, i has before too > one error message but

Re: [lfs-support] ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:55:28 + Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > So in other words, 'ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib' and 'ln -sv /usr/bin/cpp > /lib' are equivalent? ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib is a relative symbolic link. ln -sv /usr/bin/cpp /lib is an absolute symbolic link. Andy -- http://linuxfrom

Re: [lfs-support] bash: mount: command not found

2012-03-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:09:16 + gdsi wrote: > Hello. > I had reached to LFS-7.1 ch.6.13, all were ok. On next day after > performing all needed mount's and chroot I received: > root:/# echo $LFS > /mnt/lfs > root:/# mount -v -t ext3 /dev/sda10 $LFS > bash: mount: command not found > root:/# >

Re: [lfs-support] usb mouse connects=disconnects repeatedly

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:19:57 + Martins Gulbis wrote: > I started with the config used for the ubuntu > system running on my system and ran make oldconfig. Currently under USB > support I have the following included: > > > Support for Host-side USB > USB verbose debug messages > U

Re: [lfs-support] usb mouse connects=disconnects repeatedly

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:33:47 + Martins Gulbis wrote: > I just finished getting my LFS 7.0 system to finally boot ok. However > the usb mouse I have connected seems to be constantly disconnecting and > reconnecting after the system boots, filling the screen constantly > connect/disconnect

Re: [lfs-support] Linux 3.1 API headers headers_check Errors

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:13:35 -0800 Kyle Brennan wrote: > Okay. So I did a terrible job explaining what my issue is. I am getting > these errors above when I run the headers check. I'm not sure if they are > normal or not, I tried looking them up and found nothing. I would like to > find ou

Re: [lfs-support] Linux 3.1 API headers headers_check Errors

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:06:51 -0700 Kyle Brennan wrote: > > Hi, > I am attempting my first LFS build, and I got to step 5.5 in the book, and > everything goes as normal until I hit the command "make headers_check" which > gives me multiple errors. they are outlined below. Where? > /mnt/lfs/

Re: [lfs-support] Headers in the system's include directory. Still Confused.

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:47:07 -0600 (CST) al...@verizon.net wrote: > So, some of the questions kicking around in my head, for anybody who'd care to > take the time to enlighten me on: > > Q1. Was I supposed to move the 'linux-x.y.z/include/' files to > '/usr/include/' immediately after I install

Re: [lfs-support] 7.1-rc1 pcre

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:22:53 -0700 John Harrigan wrote: > In the Preface, Rationale for Packages in the Book, it explains > the rationale for PCRE but PCRE is not listed in 3.2 All Packages. > > I'm assuming the PCRE reference is just left over from a previous > iteration of the book, is that co

Re: [lfs-support] 6.06 Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

2012-02-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:09 -0800 Qrux wrote: > Also, did you install shadow from LFS? > > Because I see this in my /etc/login.defs: > > xlapp [/var/log] # grep tmp /etc/login.defs > # If defined, login failures will be logged here in a utmp format. > # last, when invoked as

Re: [lfs-support] 6.06 Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:53:25 -0800 Qrux wrote: > "Empirical" testing shows that login writes to btmp. I infer, from that > description given at TLDP, that everything that logs a bad-login attempt > (e.g., login) ought to be writing to this file. It is NOT an SSH-specific > thing. You appear

Re: [lfs-support] 6.06 Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:23:48 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The command 'lastb' uses btmp. It's true lastb can use /var/log/btmp, but only to read its contents. If nothing in LFS is writing to the file, do we need to create it in LFS? Wouldn't it be more sensible to create it in BLFS, on the ssh pag

Re: [lfs-support] 6.06 Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:01:55 -0800 Qrux wrote: > After installing OpenSSH, I'm seeing errors like this: > > sshd[1226]: Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp > > Quick google turns up: > > https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1825 > > TL;DR - I think we ought to

Re: [lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:39:29 -0500 Alain Toussaint wrote: > Hello everyone, > I just started building up LFS-SVN (my distro is very recent) and I've > set up /etc/fstab with default options such like this: > > /dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 > /dev/sda1

Re: [lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:20 -0800 "Robert A. Lerche" wrote: > Hi. I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to > create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). > > I am now engaged in a project for a client using Android on a custom > embedded system. As you may know,

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:06:44 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There are three places /dev/pts is mentioned in the book: > > 6.2. Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems > 8.2. Creating the /etc/fstab File > 9.3. Rebooting the System ...and on the udev page we have: install -dv /lib/{firmware,udev/devic

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:06:31 -0500 Baho Utot wrote: > I have this currently in the config file > > CONFIG_VT=y > CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y > CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y > # CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set > # C

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:57:57 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > It is mounted as > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 > > I suspect that /dev/pts should be created by udev, you might want to > comment that out of fstab to see if it is created and then try to mount > manually.

Re: [lfs-support] Another problem: Glibc in Chapter 5.7

2012-01-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:30:04 +0100 "Mario Meier" wrote: > Why? The book says, $LFS_TGT should be the return value of config.guess of > binutils, which is (in this case) i686-pc-linux-gnu! No, the book says $LFS_TGT should be $(uname -m)-lfs-linux-gnu See: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/vi

Re: [lfs-support] Another problem: Glibc in Chapter 5.7

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:35:19 +0100 "Mario Meier" wrote: > Dear Support, > > I have another problem: Building Glibc (Chapter 5.7) fails during make. > > This time, I have copied the output immediately: > > mv -f /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/libc.so.6.new > /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/libc.so.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 Chapter 6.16. MPC-0.9 FYI

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:49:37 -0500 Baho Utot wrote: > > I have been working on mpc. > > I have noticed that the way it is built in the book it only builds the static > library. > > If --enable-shared is passed to configure it look like that is ignored as it > still doesn't build the shared l

Re: [lfs-support] configure, make and make install as who

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:42:35 -0500 Dave H wrote: > Hello I'm stuck at a point and I really don't know what's wrong. Here is > my situation. > > Gathered from the list of All Packages list page 3.2, it states Autoconf > (2.68) and M4 (1.4.16) > > So I downloaded, extracted, M4 (1.4.16) and did

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:10:30 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > I installed every thing successfully up to 5.28 (patches) . During the make > process I got this following warning. > > /mnt/lfs/Sources/patch-2.6.1/src/patch.c:1542: warning: the use of `mktemp' > is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' > lfsutha

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:50:06 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > version-check.sh: line 22: /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory Don't worry about this. Ubuntu's libc is fine. > version-check.sh: line 32: makeinfo: command not found > Texinfo: You need to install texinfo. Andy -- http://linuxfroms

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:34:32 +0400 Дмитрий Шеховцов wrote: > >Hello. > > I follow LFS 7.0 book. > After Glibc-2.14.1 has been installed (chapter 6.9) chroot fails with > "Segmentation fault" error. > If I rename $LFS/lib to $LFS/lib_ just before chrooting then chroot is > completed OK. W

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:31:33 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > Hi Firerat I tried installing the system with gawk. This time I got the > following error. Any suggestions ? I suggest that you run version-check.sh and post the results here. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/prologue/host

Re: [lfs-support] Still fighting with Network Madness...

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:00 -0700 wrote: > I get the feeling that this is one of those areas that just works for > people, and I'm admittedly frustrated. > > Additionally, to "Evade this issue" when I do a full build in VirtualBox > using just default Kernel config, > I get a kernel panic abou

Re: [lfs-support] Still fighting with Network Madness...

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:00 -0700 wrote: > It does make an entry in the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > file for my card and uses eth0, > it even has a comment above it displaying a PCI device ID and in parens > (tg3) > > THIS IS PROBABLY GOOD I THINK Yes, that looks good. > I do

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:03:09 -0700 wrote: > Cool TRick - and I see how that might worked ... but what I found is... > the driver > is name tg3. It is from Broadcom. In the kernel (3.2), make menuconfig Device Drivers ---> [*] Network device support ---> [*] Ethernet driver support ---> [*]

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:58:10 -0700 wrote: > >> Now I want to make my network card work - it says there isn't an eth0... > > > >That sounds like a kernel config problem. Read what lspci says about > >your ethernet card and when you do make menuconfig compare it to the > >help text for each of the

Re: [lfs-support] Problem on compiling and installing Binutils-2.21.1a

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:57:03 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > checking for gawk... no > checking for mawk... mawk Fix this. Glibc does not like mawk. Use gawk. Also, can you please stop top posting and trim your replies to the relevant content? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:20:12 -0700 wrote: > Now I want to make my network card work - it says there isn't an eth0... That sounds like a kernel config problem. Read what lspci says about your ethernet card and when you do make menuconfig compare it to the help text for each of the ethernet option

Re: [lfs-support] Final GCC Compile Weirdness - 1 Time? No, 2 nd Time? Perfect!

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:21:01 + Firerat wrote: > I find that if a make fails first time, but completes (or gets further ) on > second run it is due to some race condition where you have multiple jobs > and a new job thread is dependent on something that hasn't completed. > The simplest way aro

Re: [lfs-support] LFS -Chapter 6.4 - CHROOT - Frustrating me badly.... I've tried so many things...

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:25:27 -0700 wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I need more help I'm afraid. > > Error Message: chroot failed to run command '/tools/bin/env' : No such > file or directory > What do you get when you run (on your host system): ldd /tools/bin/env If it lists anything in /lib or /

Re: [lfs-support] glibc tests errors

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:19:39 -0600 Eleanore Boyd wrote: > It should say "x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu", no unknown factor. Something is > very wrong with associations, hostnames, or otherwise. No, that's not true. After the second pass of gcc in chapter 5 it says x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (or on 32 bit

Re: [lfs-support] Cannot open root device "sda1"

2012-01-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:52:55 -0800 (PST) brown wrap wrote: > I am using LFS 7.0. I have completed everything just trying to boot the > system. When I do boot,it panics and  I get: > > Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown=block(2,0) Maybe it's called sdb1 or hda1 or perhaps you compiled you

Re: [lfs-support] IPRoute2

2011-12-31 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:14:14 -0800 lfs-support.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > I just tried to download from: > https://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-2.6.39.tar.gz > and got a 404 - Not Found > Any suggestions where I can download an IPRoute2 tarball?

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - 6.34 Perl-5.14.2 - 32bit VM Host on Slackware 13

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:52:53 + Ken Moffat wrote: > This time (still LFS-7.0), module-init-tools (needs libc.a or > else --disable-static-tools) I must confess I was unaware of this problem. It's been years since I compiled module init tools as I don't use any modules. > and sysvinit (spec

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure

2011-12-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:47:39 -0500 Austin Jones wrote: > I'm doing LFS 7.0 on an Ubuntu 11.10 system. My system rebooted and I need > to get back into the Chroot environment. I mounted all the virtual kernel > file systems, but when I ran the Chroot command in section 6.4, I received: > > chroot

Re: [lfs-support] confusion setting up binutils-build directory

2011-12-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:53:04 -0500 Dave H wrote: > hi, i am at Chapter 5.4 of the lfs manual v7.0 and i'm confused where it > says to make the binutils-build directory. > > > > i am assuming at this step, i should be user lfs and currently in the > $LFS/sources directory. > > however the comm

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.6.1 - Pass 2

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:53:47 -0500 Austin Jones wrote: > I'm doing LFS 7.0 Section 5.10 on Ubuntu 11.10. When I run make install, I > get this error: > > /usr/bin/install: cannot remove > `/tools/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.1/install-tools/fixinc.sh': > Permission denied > make[2]: *** [in

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 8 Grub Reboot Failures... Progress - but Kernel explodes into confetti

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:12:13 -0500 Jason P Sage wrote: > APPENDED CORRECTION: (SORRY Wrong link originally) > > ftp://jegas.net/archives/os/linux/linuxfromsratch/lfs/ INIT: /etc/inittab[19]: id field too long (max 4 characters) You should be able to fix this yourself. let's see /etc/inittab c

Re: [lfs-support] what to do? binutils of my host system doesn't match with LFS-7.0 host requirements

2011-12-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:41:50 +0530 Karthik Bhuvanagiri wrote: > Hi, > > I want to build LFS-7.0 but binutils of my host system (ubuntu 11.10) is > 2.21.53.20110810 (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) which doesn't match with the > host requirements of LFS-7.0. Shall I proceed building LFS-7.0 with my > in

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - 6.34 Perl-5.14.2 - 32bit VM Host on Slackware 13

2011-12-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:04:10 + Ken Moffat wrote: > This is also why some of us have a bee in our bonnets about static > libraries - if it's only used within a package, no problem. If it's > installed into /usr/lib as libfoo.a then you'd better have a means > of identifying what used it in c

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - 6.34 Perl-5.14.2 - 32bit VM Host on Slackware 13

2011-12-23 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:24:38 -0500 Jason P Sage wrote: > I just wanted to report that I had trouble with Perl in relation to the > ZLib Library. > > In the book it suggests a "sed" command that makes Perl compile with the > previously installed ZLib Library. > > This (unlike everything so far

Re: [lfs-support] did " 6.13. Binutils-2.21.1a " link against with lib under "/tools" or "/usr"

2011-12-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:00:36 +0800 郭伟利 wrote: > Hi ! Friend on lfs! > I am using lfs-7.0 > I find a question confused with me in (6.10. Re-adjusting the Toolchain ) > When "verify that the new linker is being used with the correct search paths" > > the output is > "SEARCH_DIR("/tools/i686-pc-li

Re: [lfs-support] lfs-7.0 when compile glbc-2.14.1 ERROR: command substitution: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

2011-12-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:45:42 +0800 郭伟利 wrote: > i do the lfs on ubuntu 11.10 > > my host bash version is 4.2.10(1) , the $( ) works > but the lfs' bash version is also 4.2.10(1), the $() does not work ! > why? > any bodybody can reply? Works for me. If you're getting the error: command substitu

Re: [lfs-support] Cant execute dynamically linked binaries on my LFS

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:53:07 +0530 harish badrinath wrote: > What could be wrong ?? Perhaps you made a mistake somewhere in chapter 5. Perhaps you stopped at some point and when you came back you didn't set up the build environment correctly? Perhaps, as a result, some of the things in /mnt/lfs/

Re: [lfs-support] help LFS 6.0 Ch 5.7.1 glibc-2.14.1 configure: error: gcc must provide the header

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:04:32 +0100 Henk Teijema wrote: > Configure stops with error: > configureL error: gcc must provide the header > > > Host Proc Arch = i686 > Gcc -version = 4.1.2 > > Cupid.h is in /mnt/lfs/tools/lib/gcc/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/4.6.1/include/cupid.h > > What d

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.6.1 compile error.

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:21:18 +0200 "Alfs Kurmis" wrote: > Hi experts. > > I try install LFS-7. > I sucessful installed binutils /mnt/lfs/binutils-build/binutils-2.21.1 > but i can not install GCC-4.6.1. > I gotta error - see below. > As said here i unpacked > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - broken bash build - command substitution: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

2011-12-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 04:49:05 -0600 Tom Blamer wrote: > I've been following the LFS 7.0 stable book exactly, as far as I know, but > I've hit a brick wall with building Bash in chapter 5. > > For example, I see lots of messages like this in the output of "make tests": > > < ./glob.tests: command

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - broken bash build - command substitution: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

2011-12-04 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:14:26 +0800 Zhu Bicen wrote: > I also encounter this problem before, I think the cause is on my build > machine, /bin/sh is pointing to dash, not bash. > please check this Pre Requirement. Is dash installed on Fedora? I thought it was a Debian thing. Andy -- http://linux

Re: [lfs-support] Many certitudes and some doubt

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:55:45 +0100 Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > Today I began my second approach to LFS: I'm trying to build a pure 64 > bit OS based on the kernel 3.1.4. > The first approach (sufficiently smooth and fully successful) was from > and for a 32 bit OS. > The version of the book bein

Re: [blfs-support] bind problems

2011-11-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:10:53 -0500 "Danny Vukobratovich" wrote: > /etc/bind/rndc.key:1: key 'rndc-key': already exists previous definition: > /etc/bind/rndc.key:1 > > Here is my configuration from my named.conf file: It looks like the problem is in /etc/bind/rndc.key. Can we see that? (obscure

Re: [lfs-support] gcc

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:08:33 -0600 Eleanore Boyd wrote: > On 11/24/2011 10:41 AM, Aaron Hill wrote: > > I am using Version 7.0 of the LFS book. When I try to compile GCC with > > the make command as root, I receive the following error: > > > > cc1-checksum.o main.o tree-browser.o libbackend.a ..

Re: [lfs-support] libc.so.6

2011-11-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:32:57 +0800 Zhu Bicen wrote: > Hi, I am check the host requirement to build LFS. after issuing the > version-check.sh on error is occured: > I am using a 32 bit ubuntu 11.10. > > version-check.sh: line 22: /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory I haven't downloaded or

Re: [lfs-support] 6.9.1. Installation of Glibc command substitution error

2011-11-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:14:19 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Zhu Bicen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am using stable LFS7.0 book, and doing the build step by step. > > Every thing goes well before 6.9.1. Installation of Glibc. > > But within 6.9.1. Installation of Glibc, I encountered two errors which

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spiky wrote: > Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive > hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). > then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) > linux /boot/vmlinux-3.1-7.0 (it found with tab)root=/devsda1 > boot > i get > "no filesystem could mount root tried ext 3 ,

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:53:11 + spiky wrote: > I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If > drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab & > grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, > grub.cfg > > # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg > set default

Re: v7.0, gcc pass 2 won't make. libmpfr not found?

2011-11-10 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:23:28 + (GMT) Christian Gardner wrote: > > > Subject says it all really. Everything up to this point seems to go smoothly > - creating the filesystem, > first passes of binutils, gcc, linux headers, glibc, adjusting the toolchain, > second pass of binutils. > I've d

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

2011-11-08 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 07:04:54 -0600 William Immendorf wrote: > (Bruce, you may want to add:) > "The LiveCDs of these distributions work well as a base system too." As others have said, they may need some tweaking (/bin/sh => bash, gawk, etc) Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:57:21 +0330 "Yaser Amini" wrote: > Try to execute command separately > > First: > > CC="$LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib/" \ > AR=$LFS_TGT-ar RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib > > > > Second: > > ../binutils-2.21.1/configure --prefix=/tools \ > --disable-nls --with-lib-path=/tools/lib

Re: No disk devices from udev 166

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:59:58 + Ken Moffat wrote: > Confused. Suggestions welcome. I've never had this problem, so I can't think what could be the cause. What I would suggest is that you compile your kernel with CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y Then the kernel will mount a tmpfs

Re: 6.7. Linux-3.0.4 API Headers - make headers_check

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:50:05 -0700 Don Burns wrote: > Hello lfs'ers, > > I've just joined the list and, though I've seen this question asked in the > archives, I did not find an answer that I could turn into a fix. I'm > building with Version 7.0-rc2, I've gotten to step 6.7, and followed, > ca

Re: LFS-6.8 - wireless

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Benton
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:04:49 -0400 scrat wrote: > I have completed a LFS-6.8 build and it actually boots and functions :) > > I have it on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop which has a broadcomm b44 > ethernet adapter and a B43 wireless adapter. > I used to run Arch linux on this laptop with the wire

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