Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Bryan Kadzban wrote: >>> ...Wait, this might be the issue. chapter06/kernfs.html says: >>> >>> mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts >>> >>> but my fstab has: >>> >>> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 >>> >>> The mount probably needs -o gid=4,mode=620 added. If you add that, >>> do both the tests start working? >> >> You really need to keep up to date a little more. We changed tty to >> gid 5 quite a while ago (April 2012). > > Ugh, I know I need to keep more up to date. Still on glibc 2.10.1 too. > I don't think I've rebuilt this system in something like 4 years. :-/ > > (The reason I haven't is that I use this as my main system, so > rebuilding LFS means also rebuilding a lot of BLFS, or at least enough > to get ff, thunderbird, and chrome (with nacl) working, and preferably a > bunch of games too.) > > I should probably just make another LV to build recent books into and > use for this kind of investigation, leaving the main system to ... well, > shall we say, age. :-P
Well my main system aged quite well from 2005 to 2012. I finally updated it because I needed to update glibc from 2.6. >> In any case, remounting /dev/pts with the proper options did work for >> ./testpt. Rerunning the util-linux tests with the /dev/pts mounted >> with the proper options did indeed allow the non-root tests to pass. > > OK, let me submit that change then. > >>> ...And now that I say that, I think I have a change hanging around >>> in my local svn repo that I never submitted, that adds this to this >>> chapter 6 mount command. If it fixes this, I should probably >>> submit it. >> >> I'll go ahead and make the change to the book. > > ...Or let you do it. :-) That's already done. > I had a couple of explanatory paragraphs on top of just adding the -o > flag, so I'll sync your change in and add them too. That would be fine. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
