I have just completed my build of LFS 7.3, that is, just fixed my last known problem, and have a working system that talks to the internet. I ran into two problems that I believe were not of my own making.
1. Missing letters on the keyboard: After I did the first chroot type login during the build process, the lower-case 'c' and the upper-case 'E' were not being recognized. Neither typing nor copy/paste would get either letter into a terminal command. Some searching found a suggestion that the inputrc file could be bad. After locating the file and seeing what it contained, replacing it seemed low risk. So I copied in the file from the Linux Mint 14 host system, and the problem disappeared. There are a number of differences between the two files, and I have no idea which fixed my problem. 2. Missing Realtek ethernet controller firmware patches: My system has a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 09). It requires the r8169 kernel driver. When I booted the LFS system, this error occurred: r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2) I found several patch files in the Linux Mint 14 host system, copied them into LFS, and the error disappeared. Just thought I'd let you know. I don't know that they can actually be considered bugs. May just be my unique system. Dave
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