Re: [lfs-support] bootup sequence

On 4/19/21 9:31 PM, Brian Hagen wrote: Hello, all:     I am satisfied with the stability of the 9.1. 10.0, and 10.1 LFS releases that I have built. Even so, I would like to take some time to get very familiar with the bootup sequences they have. Ideally, it could be possible to trace the

Re: [lfs-support] init-functions: new pidofproc function: posix compliant: no sub shells: tested

Hi Scott On 4/9/21 12:16 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: On 4/9/21 2:10 AM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi Scott On 4/9/21 2:40 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: # Function:    pidofproc [-p pidfile] pathname #   The pidofproc function shall return one or more process #   identifiers for a particular daemon using

Re: [lfs-support] init-functions: new pidofproc function: posix compliant: no sub shells: tested

Hi Scott On 4/9/21 2:40 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: # Function:    pidofproc [-p pidfile] pathname #   The pidofproc function shall return one or more process #   identifiers for a particular daemon using the algorithm #   given above. Only process identifiers of running #   processes should be

[lfs-support] LFS translation to Ancient Greek completed

Hi all It took me a while, but I now finally completed my translation of the LFS book into Ancient Greek. It is based on LFS 10.0, and only the sysv version is done yet, Systemd is still pending due to ancient greek only having capital letters. Maybe this could be mentioned on the lfs

Re: [lfs-support] Boot scripts: request for comments

On 3/19/21 1:14 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:06:40 +0100 Tim Tassonis wrote: On 3/18/21 6:21 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:51:09 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/18/21 11:21 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: I am presently looking at and working on the LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Who's running

On 3/15/21 4:53 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: #! /bin/sh VERSION="$(basename ${0}) verison: 2021-03-15" USAGE="Usage: $(basename ${0}) < option > | --status | [ service_name [ command | --restart ] ]" SERVICEDIR="/etc/init.d" SERVICE='' OPTIONS='' if [ ${#} -eq 0 ]; then echo "${USAGE}" >&2; exit

Re: [lfs-support] Boot scripts: request for comments

t; and "massive cleanup to say the least". If you want to help, that's great, but if you just want to insult other people, then... Bye Tim -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Hohlstrasse 400 c/o Baubüro Insitu 8048 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.l

Re: [lfs-support] Who's running

On 3/15/21 4:53 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: #! /bin/sh VERSION="$(basename ${0}) verison: 2021-03-15" USAGE="Usage: $(basename ${0}) < option > | --status | [ service_name [ command | --restart ] ]" SERVICEDIR="/etc/init.d" SERVICE='' OPTIONS='' if [ ${#} -eq 0 ]; then echo "${USAGE}" >&2; exit

Re: [lfs-support] help

On 11/30/20 6:02 AM, Kevin Liu wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, 1. compiling LFS version 10.0, chapter 5.5, glibc-2.32 2. too old : make error running ../configure, see below checking for python3... python3 checking version of python3... 3.6.8, ok configure: error: *** These critical programs are

Re: [lfs-support] BTRFS

On 11/21/20 6:17 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: I recently updated my Fedora 32 installation to 33, which uses the btrfs filesystem by default.  This is a fresh installation on a new hard disk. So far so good. I think that LFS potentially can use this filesystem. What do y'all think of this?

Re: [lfs-support] Giving up on LFS

Just download and install the kernel firmware package, as described in the book, works perfectly, and fedora does the same. I have currently about seven different laptops working with wireless and blfs, so the problem is not lfs, but not properly reading the book On 9 March 2019 22:45:28

Re: [lfs-support] Upgrading sysvinit

On 3/9/19 10:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/9/19 2:42 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 09/03/2019 20:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/9/19 12:30 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I was just upgrading sysvinit from 288dsf to 2.93 and then noticed that   I could not properly reboot or even halt

[lfs-support] Upgrading sysvinit

Hi all I was just upgrading sysvinit from 288dsf to 2.93 and then noticed that I could not properly reboot or even halt the system anymore. Does anybody know something about that? As far as I saw, the system complained about missig /run/initctl, but maybe that's just a symptom? I have

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS with systemd

On 07/12/2018 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 06/27/2018 04:42 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: I removed the need for using initrd, so now init=/bin/bash is working. Time to move forward and investigate what is causing the ABRT when starting systemd. Thanks for the pointer, it has grossed my mind before

Re: [lfs-support] Some blfs programs expect /usr/bin/python

On 03/13/2018 10:49 AM, Richard Melville wrote: On 8 March 2018 at 17:15, Hazel Russman > wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:11:23 -0600 Bruce Dubbs > wrote: > >Ken

Re: [lfs-support] Step 6.9: error: missing __attribute__ ((constructor)) support

Hi René On 02/14/2018 02:28 PM, René Nyffenegger wrote: Please do not top post. According to what you say, there should be no need to add libc_cv_ctors_header=yes. Looking at my logs, I have, during the configure stage: -- checking whether to use .ctors/.dtors header and

Re: [lfs-support] Non-working programs during LFS due to libraries in /tools

On 02/12/2018 08:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I noticed that during LFS build, some programs will not work after they are installed, because their libraries are in /tools/lib and /tools/lib is not in the search path of the dynamic linker. An example is e2fsprogs

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

On 02/12/2018 07:31 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 12/02/2018 18:54, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 11/02/2018 23:01, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 02/11/2018 10:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: I have found a workaround for my problem: If I replace mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts

[lfs-support] Non-working programs during LFS due to libraries in /tools

Hi all I noticed that during LFS build, some programs will not work after they are installed, because their libraries are in /tools/lib and /tools/lib is not in the search path of the dynamic linker. An example is e2fsprogs, ldd on /bin/chattr results in: linux-vdso.so.1

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

On 02/11/2018 10:07 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 02/11/2018 09:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however

[lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

Hi all I currently building LFS (svn) and seem to get a problem doing su in the chroot environment. I am past shadow now and have set-up a user to work with. The user however should be able to su to root. I have done the same on lfs 7.9 and lfs 8.0 without problems. I think, I follow the

Re: [lfs-support] New lfs build and spectre/retpoline

On 02/03/2018 10:58 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I'm finally starting with a complete new rebuild of LFS/BLFS based on 8.1. As gcc 7.3 just was released and is needed for spectre v2 mitigation, I wondered if it makes sense to use

Re: [lfs-support] Full retpoline mitigation on older systems

On 01/31/2018 10:43 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: If anybody wants to add full retpoline mitigation (against Spectre v2) to an older system, the following works on x86_64 (I no longer have i686 systems to test on). I have tested this on my oldest available system (LFS-7.6, using gcc-4.9.1 and which

Re: [lfs-support] Insecure email communication

On February 1, 2018 22:27:15 Frans de Boer wrote: LS, I just had to downgrade my email security in order to be able to send messages to the list. Just because the email server used for the list does not support TLS. It's 2018, and no TLS support? Maybe you should get

Re: [lfs-support] bcmwl-kernel-source

On July 6, 2017 7:56:02 PM Andrew Dance wrote: Hi all! I've been tinkering with LFS on my Macbook Pro Retina and have managed to get it booted up. However, I'm having trouble getting my wifi card to work. It's a Broadcom bcm4360. There are 2 flavors, evidently.

Re: [lfs-support] console exit scripts exits with rc = 1 after upgrade to kbd 2.0.4

On April 21, 2017 12:25:38 Stephen Berman <stephen.ber...@gmx.net> wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:26:15 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] On 03/11/2017 10:41 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 11/03/2017 22:11, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 03/11/2017 09:17 PM, Pie

Re: [lfs-support] Problem building kernel 4.10.8 with bc-1.0.7

On 04/06/2017 05:48 PM, Edgar Alwers wrote: Am 05.04.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Marco Borrini: With latest bc, kernel compilation seems to hang Could you please explain what "bc" is ? Go read for yourself: http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/bc.html Thanks, Edgar --

[lfs-support] Optional dependencies in lfs

Hi all I just successfully finished my lfs 8.0 build and would first like to thank everybody involved for all their work towards lfs. When backporting a few packages to an older system that contains lots of blfs stuff, I came across some instances where an lfs package links against a blfs

[lfs-support] Error in su.c when bulding shadow 4.4

Hi again On my full lfs 8.0 rebuild, I have built shadow 4.4 as specified on the lfs page, however I did it the "blfs way" of first installing pam. When building shadow, I got the following error: su.c:376:3: error: too few arguments to function 'snprintf' snprintf (kill_msg, _("

Re: [lfs-support] flex before binutils in lfs 8.0 possible?

On 03/24/2017 09:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I am just in the process of building lfs 8.0 and came across the situation that binutils seems to link against flex if available, but is compiled before it. Would there be a problem if I compile flex before binutils

[lfs-support] flex before binutils in lfs 8.0 possible?

Hi all I am just in the process of building lfs 8.0 and came across the situation that binutils seems to link against flex if available, but is compiled before it. Would there be a problem if I compile flex before binutils? This would allow me to get the same results later if I recompile

Re: [lfs-support] console exit scripts exits with rc = 1 after upgrade to kbd 2.0.4

On 03/11/2017 10:41 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 11/03/2017 22:11, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 03/11/2017 09:17 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 11/03/2017 21:11, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 03/11/2017 09:00 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I tried to upgrade my lfs machine to kbd 2.0.4 and after

Re: [lfs-support] console exit scripts exits with rc = 1 after upgrade to kbd 2.0.4

On 03/11/2017 09:17 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: On 11/03/2017 21:11, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 03/11/2017 09:00 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I tried to upgrade my lfs machine to kbd 2.0.4 and after a reboot init reported a failure (rc = 1) and needed a return press to continue. Unfortunately

[lfs-support] console exit scripts exits with rc = 1 after upgrade to kbd 2.0.4

Hi all I tried to upgrade my lfs machine to kbd 2.0.4 and after a reboot init reported a failure (rc = 1) and needed a return press to continue. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the reason for this. I use the exact console bootscript from LFS-Bootscripts (20150222) and after a

Re: [lfs-support] Building a LiveCD from LFS 8.0

ot top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pos

Re: [lfs-support] Has anyone used gentoo stage3 as toolchain or temporary system skipping the chapter 5?

asked exactly the same question a while ago, and got plenty of answers to it. It's really one of the lowest form of asshole-ism to abuse the helpfulness of other people in order to get some amusement. Please fuck off. -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st

Re: [lfs-support] Is it possible to use gentoo stage3 as tools or temporary system?

bc-2.24 Zlib-1.2.8 File-5.28 Binutils-2.27 GMP-6.1.1 MPFR-3.1.4 MPC-1.0.3 with the gentoo compiler and not the one that you built yourself. Chris -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.

Re: [lfs-support] A question on Multiboot

? Thank you all for the help--and the patience. Sincerely, William Harrington -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/fa

Re: [lfs-support] No Networking in Post Boot

running on the same metal, and I just copied over the 4.2 configuration and did "make oldconfig" to build 4.7.2. -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-sup

Re: [lfs-support] passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

On 09/14/2016 06:06 AM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Rob > wrote: Building LFS-7.10-Systemd I installed linux-pam, reinstalled shadow, reinstalled systemd. However, I must have missed a step

Re: [lfs-support] Force i386

On 09/04/2016 10:12 AM, Rob wrote: Thanos Baloukas wrote: http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2016-September/050333.html In that thread, you linked to a script collection, on github. The instructions in there did not work (not surprising), and asking

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with Psmisc

On 08/17/16 17:35, Albert Pinto Gil wrote: Hi, I'm having some problems with the installation of psmisc package (in chapter 6.26). I have followed every single instruction in the book carefully and when I try to prepare the package for its compilation it says: checking whether ln -s works...

Re: [lfs-support] Firefox in another language

On 06/09/16 20:13, thorsten wrote: Thanks for the info. I was hoping for something that you could install system-wide, being activated upon the user's locale setting, but mozilla seems to go another way here. Cheers Tim Hi Tim, I do not know if this is what you are searching for, but I do

Re: [lfs-support] Firefox in another language

as I know, this also works for multiple locales in parallel, however I did not try it. Looks exactly what I was looking for. Sadly there is no tag (yet) for FIREFOX_46_0_RELEASE, which is what I'm using. Kind regards Tim regards thorsten -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennle

Re: [lfs-support] Firefox in another language

On May 26, 2016 22:48:06 Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:03:44PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I just wanted to ask if anybody has already compiled firefox with support for some other language? The blfs firefox page seems to mention this

[lfs-support] Firefox in another language

Hi all I just wanted to ask if anybody has already compiled firefox with support for some other language? The blfs firefox page seems to mention this (which is totally ok, of course). Cheers Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] Do I have be root from 5.36 onwards?

On 03/17/16 13:50, "René Nidegger" wrote: I am trying to execute the steps outlined in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html I am logged in as lfs. The commands mknod -m 600 $LFS/dev/console c 5 1 mknod -m 666 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3 print "Operation not

Re: [lfs-support] shutdown hangs after upgrading glibc

On 02/22/16 22:05, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:55:42PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all Due to CVE-2015-7547, I have upgraded glibc to a patched version on three systems now and after the upgrade the reboot hung on two of them. After a power cycle, they both came up nicely

[lfs-support] shutdown hangs after upgrading glibc

Hi all Due to CVE-2015-7547, I have upgraded glibc to a patched version on three systems now and after the upgrade the reboot hung on two of them. After a power cycle, they both came up nicely again. On the third, I reloaded init by calling init u before the reboot and the reboot went

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

- IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up

Re: [lfs-support] suggestion

On 10/25/15 20:00, James E. Lang wrote: -Original Message- From: Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch <mailto:st...@decentral.ch>> To: lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org <mailto:lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:51 Subject: Re: [lfs-s

Re: [lfs-support] unified usr directory

On 25.08.2015 11:07, Simon Kitching wrote: On 08/25/2015 10:36 AM, Simon Geard wrote: On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 15:29 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: If distros like RedHat were really looking for consistency, they would use /bin, /lib, and /sbin, and remove them from /usr. What they really are doing

[lfs-support] Multilib support for an lfs system

Hi all I've successully build an 64-bit lfs/blfs system that also runs very nicely and leaves next to nothing desired. Sadly, I'm getting to the point of having to use some binary-only stuff like skype and printer drivers that only exist in 32-bit variants, forcing me to have some sort of

Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support for an lfs system

On 24.08.2015 18:12, Chris Staub wrote: On 08/24/2015 08:27 AM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I've successully build an 64-bit lfs/blfs system that also runs very nicely and leaves next to nothing desired. Sadly, I'm getting to the point of having to use some binary-only stuff like skype

Re: [lfs-support] Multilib support for an lfs system

On 24.08.2015 19:01, Chris Staub wrote: On 08/24/2015 12:48 PM, Tim Tassonis wrote: On 24.08.2015 18:12, Chris Staub wrote: On 08/24/2015 08:27 AM, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I've successully build an 64-bit lfs/blfs system that also runs very nicely and leaves next to nothing desired. Sadly

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book URL

On March 12, 2015 11:18:53 PM Ekotek Office off...@ekotek.rs wrote: Heya, the URL http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ is still pointing to 7.6. Is this intentionally or by error? You might want to refresh your browser cache, it's definitely pointing to 7.7... Cheers Tim

Re: [lfs-support] How to create an alias interface with LFS networt bootscripts

IP's on one interface. On 02/07/15 04:13, Tim Tassonis wrote: Hi all I would like to create an alias interface in the form of eth0:0 to set a a second ip address on the interface. I tried the (obvious): cat /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0:0 EOF ONBOOT=yes IFACE=eth0:0 SERVICE=ipv4-static IP

Re: [lfs-support] Tricking ifup security flaw

a hacker already has root. Not at all. The fact remains, whatever is in the SERVICE variable will be executed with root priveleges by init, however it got that way, whatever damage it may wreak, and it's not necessary. -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich

[lfs-support] LFS with PAM

Hi all I'm now just building my second LFS 7.6 system where I decided to integrate PAM into the build, to not having to install shadow and libcap twice in order for PAM to work. My order, diverting from the book, was: - ncurses (same) - attr (same) - acl (same) - pam (new) - sed (new) - libcap

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 20141104-systemd

undermines. With many thanks to _all_ developers, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers edgaralw...@gmx.de GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo

Re: [lfs-support] LFS with PAM

On 10/07/2014 09:23 AM, Simon Geard wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 19:56 +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote: My question for future installation is: Are there known problems if I integrate pam already in the initial lfs install, not then having to reinstall shadow and libcap. I would then change

[lfs-support] LFS with PAM

- 6.23. Linux-PAM-1.1.8 - 6.24. Libcap-2.24 (with instructions from blfs) - 6.25. Sed-4.2.2 - 6.26. Shadow-4.2.1 (with instructions from blfs) ... Is this supported as well? Kind regards Tim -- decentral.ch - IT Stuff Tim Tassonis Dennlerstasse 36 8047 Zürich st...@decentral.ch +41 79 229 36 17