Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-25 Thread Andrew Benton
On 24/06/10 22:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: Both of the following commands display the symlink's target: ln -s /bin/sh Won't that just make a symbolic link to /bin/sh in the current directory? readlink /bin/sh Or more conventionally: $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-25 Thread William Immendorf
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: Another tool to find out information about a file is stat, part of coreutils. Or just use file, which is part of File (the package). -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Franz L. Kuhlmann
root:/sources/linux-2.6.32.8# ls COPYING Makefile block include mm sound CREDITS README crypto init net tools Documentation REPORTING-BUGS drivers ipc samples usr Kbuild arch firmware kernel scripts virt MAINTAINERS bash fs lib security root:/sources/linux-2.6.32.8# make mrproper CLEAN

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote: ... ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet - how do I do that BTW???) Both of the following commands display the symlink's target: ln -s /bin/sh readlink /bin/sh --

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Neal Murphy wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote: ... ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet - how do I do that BTW???) Both of the following commands display the symlink's target: ln -s /bin/sh readlink /bin/sh Or more

Re: LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-24 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:12:06 Bruce Dubbs wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote: ... ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet - how do I do that BTW???) Both of the following commands display the symlink's

LFS 6.6 Chapter 8.1 Can't make new kernel

2010-06-18 Thread Franz L. Kuhlmann
After having installed Ubuntu 9.10 I worked quite happily through the book up to section 8.1. However, after executing make oldconfig (since I felt to be safe with my rather ordinary desktop PC), * * Random Number Generation * Pseudo Random Number Generation for Cryptographic modules