Re: lfs system

2011-08-16 Thread Frederick Muriithi
I just finished building my lfs 6.8 system, and registered as a new lfs user. Just follow the rules for posting and you'll be surprised how helpful the people on lfs-support can be. Hang in there; just don't give up. It's worth the 'pain' -- Frederick M. Muriithi --

Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

2011-08-01 Thread Frederick Muriithi
After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following sample output on the screen: [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(0,0) [ 3.585205] Please append a correct root= boot option;

inetutils-1.8 build error

2011-07-25 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Hi there? Having trouble compiling inetutils-1.8 in chapter 6 of version 6.8 of the LFS book. The following is the last few lines of the error output on issuing the 'make' command: Making all in telnet make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/inetutils-1.8/telnet' CC authenc.o CC

Re: inetutils-1.8 build error

2011-07-25 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Thanks. My problem was ncurses. I built and installed ncurses again and the problem was solved. Thank you. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

2011-07-21 Thread Frederick Muriithi
After running the 'su-tools -s /bin/bash -c make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make-check ' command in Chapter 6, one of the tests failed. The following is a number of lines from the test output: + require_root_ + uid_is_privileged_ ++ id -u + my_uid=99 + case $my_uid in + return 1 + skip_test_ 'must

Re: coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

2011-07-21 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Thank you. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-07-08 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Thank you Mr. William I. and Mr. Bruce D. The problem, I found out, was with the memory slot my DIMM was in. Changing it got me up and running again. Thank you for your time, and the links. I appreciate. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-07-07 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Hi people? I downloaded the sources listed in the LFS-Book-6.8 as suggested. The build for gcc-4.5.2 however failed with a segmentation fault as shown in the list below. ../../gcc-4.5.2/libiberty/cp-demangle.c: In function 'd_demangle_callback': ../../gcc-4.5.2/libiberty/cp-demangle.c:4777:

gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-23 Thread Frederick Muriithi
I am a beginning LFS student/builder. I was using the LFS livecd (Version x86-6.3-r2160) for my build. The binutils build went well. The gcc build (with the command 'make bootstrap') however, failed with the following being the last 20 lines of the error output: warning: structure `reg_info_def'

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

2011-06-23 Thread Frederick Muriithi
Thank you. I'll do that and get back to you with progress/error report. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page