Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Uthayanan
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Firerat wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2012 6:24 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > > > > After doing the above process, my output > > > > ls -l /tools > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 17 05:58 /tools -> /mnt/lfs/tools/ > > > > -- > > Regards, > > s uthay > > > yeah, that l

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Firerat
On Jan 17, 2012 6:24 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > After doing the above process, my output > > ls -l /tools > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 17 05:58 /tools -> /mnt/lfs/tools/ > > -- > Regards, > s uthay > yeah, that looks correct now Worth checking that whenever you start chapter5 -- http://lin

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Uthayanan
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Firerat wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2012 5:21 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > > lfsuthayan@ubuntu:/$ ls -l /tools > > total 48 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 12288 Jan 16 11:22 bin > > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 4096 Jan 16 04:18 etc > > drwxr-xr-x 4 lfsuthayan lfs

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Firerat
On Jan 17, 2012 5:21 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > lfsuthayan@ubuntu:/$ ls -l /tools > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 12288 Jan 16 11:22 bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 lfsuthayan lfs 4096 Jan 16 04:18 etc > drwxr-xr-x 4 lfsuthayan lfs 4096 Jan 10 09:26 i686-lfs-linux-gnu > drwxr-xr-x 4 lfsuthayan lf

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Uthayanan
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Firerat wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2012 5:03 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > > > Dear group, > > > > I successfully installed all the packages and decided to move in to > building phase. But I got this great disappointment which is my > /mnt/lfs/tools > > directory is emp

Re: [lfs-support] Use VM to do LFS

2012-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Li, David wrote: > I had an impression that LFS doesn't support initramfs creation (or > it doesn't provide instructions how to do it). Not yet. We are going to add that relatively soon. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

Re: [lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Firerat
On Jan 17, 2012 5:03 AM, "Uthayanan" wrote: > > Dear group, > > I successfully installed all the packages and decided to move in to building phase. But I got this great disappointment which is my /mnt/lfs/tools > directory is empty. What could be the reason ? Any suggestion to fix this ? > > Pleas

Re: [lfs-support] Uncertainty about fstab...

2012-01-16 Thread David Cox
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > David Cox wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs > wrote: > > > >> David Cox wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I've just finished lfs-dev with no problems to report. Just created > the > >>> fstab and am poised to reboot, b

[lfs-support] Tools directory is empty

2012-01-16 Thread Uthayanan
Dear group, I successfully installed all the packages and decided to move in to building phase. But I got this great disappointment which is my /mnt/lfs/tools directory is empty. What could be the reason ? Any suggestion to fix this ? Please help me on this. -- Regards, s uthay -- http://linux

Re: [lfs-support] Use VM to do LFS

2012-01-16 Thread Li, David
Steve, Are you trying to create initramfs in addition to the kernel image? Were you ever able to mount the initramfs as the final file system? I had an impression that LFS doesn't support initramfs creation (or it doesn't provide instructions how to do it). David >Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 1

Re: [lfs-support] Uncertainty about fstab...

2012-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Cox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> David Cox wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've just finished lfs-dev with no problems to report. Just created the >>> fstab and am poised to reboot, but I'm unclear on some things. >>> >>> How is fstab expected to map to roo

Re: [lfs-support] Uncertainty about fstab...

2012-01-16 Thread David Cox
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > David Cox wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just finished lfs-dev with no problems to report. Just created the > > fstab and am poised to reboot, but I'm unclear on some things. > > > > How is fstab expected to map to root? The directions spe

Re: [lfs-support] Uncertainty about fstab...

2012-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Cox wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just finished lfs-dev with no problems to report. Just created the > fstab and am poised to reboot, but I'm unclear on some things. > > How is fstab expected to map to root? The directions specify sda2 > mount-point be /, but all compiled binaries exist under

[lfs-support] Uncertainty about fstab...

2012-01-16 Thread David Cox
Hi all, I've just finished lfs-dev with no problems to report. Just created the fstab and am poised to reboot, but I'm unclear on some things. How is fstab expected to map to root? The directions specify sda2 mount-point be /, but all compiled binaries exist under /mnt/lfs. Sorry about the bas

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

2012-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Steve Crosby wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kevin Wise wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:54 +1300, Steve Crosby wrote: >>> http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ >>> >>> all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. >> Hello Steve, Not quite sure what could b

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Crosby
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kevin Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:54 +1300, Steve Crosby wrote: >> http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ >> >> all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. > > Hello Steve, Not quite sure what could be the problem there. I tr

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Wise
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:54 +1300, Steve Crosby wrote: > http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ > > all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. Hello Steve, Not quite sure what could be the problem there. I tried the link here and had no problem. Server could have had

[lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Crosby
http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure

2012-01-16 Thread Дмитрий Шеховцов
>> >>Hello. >> >> I follow LFS 7.0 book. >> After Glibc-2.14.1 has been installed (chapter 6.9) chroot fails with >> "Segmentation fault" error. >> If I rename $LFS/lib to $LFS/lib_ just before chrooting then chroot >> is completed OK. > >Why does $LFS/lib exist before you chroot? In the bo

Re: [blfs-support] firefox build error

2012-01-16 Thread jasonpsage
>One thing I learned from the LFS - BLFS project is that an enormous amount >of work goes into setting up a working distro. Makes me appreciate what the >maintainers of popular distro's goes through each time they release a 'new' >version. Here Here >I've ended up with openbox as WM and a few oth

Re: [blfs-support] firefox build error

2012-01-16 Thread mais lfs
@Andrew Benton: I can fully understand the 'hope' part. One thing I learned from the LFS - BLFS project is that an enormous amount of work goes into setting up a working distro. Makes me appreciate what the maintainers of popular distro's goes through each time they release a 'new' version. I've

Re: [lfs-support] How to respond to individual mail in a batch/digest mode?

2012-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Li, David wrote: > Hi, > > I have been wondering about this for a while. I subscribe to the > daily digest but it's frustrating when it comes to reply to > individual mails. Is there a good way to do this without changing the > subscription mode? Start a reply. Change the Subject to the appropria

[lfs-support] How to respond to individual mail in a batch/digest mode?

2012-01-16 Thread Li, David
Hi, I have been wondering about this for a while. I subscribe to the daily digest but it's frustrating when it comes to reply to individual mails. Is there a good way to do this without changing the subscription mode? David -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:10:30 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > I installed every thing successfully up to 5.28 (patches) . During the make > process I got this following warning. > > /mnt/lfs/Sources/patch-2.6.1/src/patch.c:1542: warning: the use of `mktemp' > is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' > lfsutha

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-16 Thread Uthayanan
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:50:06 +0530 > Uthayanan wrote: > > > version-check.sh: line 22: /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory > > Don't worry about this. Ubuntu's libc is fine. > > > version-check.sh: line 32: makeinfo: command not found

Re: [lfs-support] Use VM to do LFS

2012-01-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:03 -0800, Li, David wrote: > I am new to LFS and am very interested in using a virtual machine (e.g > virtual box vm). Is this something documented in the book already. > Does this mean it's doable? As far as building LFS is concerned, a VM is no different to any other sys

Re: [blfs-support] No Phonon backends listed in system settings

2012-01-16 Thread Martin Ward
On 16/01/12 10:07, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:52:03 + > Martin Ward wrote: > >> I had this problem as well, the way i solved it was to have the phonon >> engine in the qt4 directory, and the backends in the kde hierarchy > Hi, > this puts the backends indeed in the

Re: [lfs-support] Error during Glibc Installation

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:50:06 +0530 Uthayanan wrote: > version-check.sh: line 22: /lib/libc.so.6: No such file or directory Don't worry about this. Ubuntu's libc is fine. > version-check.sh: line 32: makeinfo: command not found > Texinfo: You need to install texinfo. Andy -- http://linuxfroms

Re: [blfs-support] No Phonon backends listed in system settings

2012-01-16 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:52:03 + Martin Ward wrote: > I had this problem as well, the way i solved it was to have the phonon > engine in the qt4 directory, and the backends in the kde hierarchy Hi, this puts the backends indeed in the $KDEDIR/share/kde4/services/phononbackends where they are

Re: [lfs-support] Chroot failure

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:34:32 +0400 Дмитрий Шеховцов wrote: > >Hello. > > I follow LFS 7.0 book. > After Glibc-2.14.1 has been installed (chapter 6.9) chroot fails with > "Segmentation fault" error. > If I rename $LFS/lib to $LFS/lib_ just before chrooting then chroot is > completed OK. W