Re: build failures with 2.6.11

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Benton wrote: tst-cancel17.out looks like this going to cancel tf in-time going to cancel tf2 in-time in-time cancellation succeeded aio_cancel failed going to cancel tf early tf cleanup handler not called I've been seeing these too since early 2.6.11-bk kernels I've been building with. Som

Re: Drive geometry problem

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Dimitry Naldayev wrote: PS: fdisk confused becouse it want align partition on the cylinder boundary. Why? I haven't answer... It does that because DOS and Windows do it, and if fdisk made partitions that didn't align to cylinder boundaries on a disk shared between Linux and DOS/Windows things wou

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Burgess wrote: Exactly, so if we go and remove all those users and groups that we don't think are required/desired on a base LFS system then it'll cause pain for those then installing packages from BLFS that require those users/groups to be present. Admittedly, the pain is minimal (a '

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Burgess wrote: That's not the way I saw things Jim, apologies if I've misunderstood something. To me, things got delayed simply because the move to a single rules file caused folks to think "why are we setting policy in the book". The way I saw things was that we could do a simple merg

Re: lfs-bootscripts enhancement: alternate device for link up and ip/route assignment

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Nathan Coulson wrote: I was wondering if that "Is the link up command" could be modified... I mean it sounds like we could create new networking devices on the fly, or have networking devices that are only up after special commands are done. Our current scripts would choke on that. It already wor

Re: lfs-bootscripts enhancement: alternate device for link up and ip/route assignment

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: It wasn't perfect no. It was one of those cases of "I have 5 minutes to get it done, need to hack existing script to add vlan capabilities." Been there, done that :-) Your method would do the trick too yes, as long as ifconfig.eth0 gets run before ifconfig.eth0.{10,20}. It

Re: lfs-bootscripts enhancement: alternate device for link up and ip/route assignment

2005-02-28 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: However, when the link is brought up, that has to be done on the eth0 device device, not eth0.623. If you try "ip link set eth0.623 up" while eth0 itself is down, you get the "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Network is down" error. Correct. You run "ip link set up" on eth0 device first, then

Re: lfs-bootscripts enhancement: alternate device for link up and ip/route assignment

2005-02-28 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
static", which assigns IPV4 addresses to existing interfaces. This is what I use: #!/bin/sh # Begin $network_devices/services/vlan # Written by Kevin P. Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . /etc/sysconfig/rc . $rc_functions . $IFCONFIG if [ -z "$VLAN" ]; then echo "VLAN variabl

Re: Updated UDEV Config Rules

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Jim Gifford wrote: This file can be downloaded from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/udev-config-2.rules. This looks like the old file, not the new one. It still has the audio group in it, among other things. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromsc

Re: Suggestion: Install editor in /bin in case /usr not mounted

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Archaic wrote: I'm on the fence about this one. I build a static bash and someother static tools of which vim is one of them, for recovery needs, but I'm not sure if the book should recommend that or install vim in /bin in the first place. A somewhat valid argument would be sed for emergency purpos

Re: configure --with-gnu-ld

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
michelangelo wrote: there is some reason why we don't use --with-gnu-ld flag in builds? There is no reason to. The configure scripts that accept it will already automatically determine when the system's 'ld' is GNU ld; this flag is only used when you know that it is but the script cannot determin

Re: Udev-050

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Randy McMurchy wrote: Noted in the Udev-050 instructions: "This package does not come with a test suite." This is not true any longer. Running 'make test' performs a test suite of 110 individual tests. Yes, that's actually been true for quite a while now, thanks for bringing it up. -- http://linux

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Would these things best fit under a general "file systems" part or chapter where we could go more in depth on the various extra file systems available that could be mounted. Or not worry about it and if BLFS installs software that needs the usbfs mounted, it could mention

Re: Final users and groups

2005-02-19 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gerard Beekmans wrote: In this specific case I would suggest adding a group on this page. There is no software needed in BLFS like usbutils or something of the sort. But we are back in the same position; LFS does not create any users other than root, and root has access to everything. There _is_