Re: the issue of environment value $PS1 set under Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:40 AM, littlebat wrote: > This issue was posted onto lfs-support mailing list yesterday (see: > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2010-June/038814.html ), > unluckly I disabled the mail delivery of LFS mailing list some days ago, so I > can't continue di

Re: I managed to wipe out my host /dev/ directory

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Dan Tran wrote: > Hi Mike, > > what is your original distribution?  RedHat ES5? > > I am able do some primative shell commands thru myweb console ( lucky i guess) > > + rpm -qf /dev > filesystem-2.4.0-1 > + uname -a > Linux fortidb 2.6.18-53.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Oct

Re: Directory listing order in /etc/ld.so.conf

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Angel Tsankov wrote: > Hello, > > Does the order of directories in /etc/ld.so.conf matter? Yes. Libraries will match from the first directory they're found from /etc/ld.so.conf then /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 (on 64 bit systems). -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.o

Re: root=UUID or root=LABEL not working

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM, ell sam wrote: > I am having trouble booting from the kernel on my hd to load Linux from > my usb hd. I have installed everything and it works using the internal > hd kernel booting from grub passing the root=/dev/sdb6 to the kernel. > > I want to pass something o

Re: Persistent /dev/dsp links

2009-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Chris Burel wrote: > Hi support, > I'm trying to get my 2 audio cards to get the same dsp/dsp1 link > across reboots. I tried this approach based on their PCI id: >> cat 70-persistent-dsp.rules > # Audigy card is dsp > BUS="pci", ID="02:0a.0", NAME="dsp" > # Inte

Re: USB Hard Drive issues

2009-01-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Jack Stone wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a LFS 6.3 system which I am trying to attach a Maxtor Onetouch IV > USB hard disk too. The system recognises the disk under the udev_retry > script but only after the next init script finished running, i.e after > udevsettle r

Re: verify build files for LFS

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:08 AM, support wrote: > >> It is pointless? I don't get what you are after? It is pointless to >> download a file and then to compute an md5 and say that it is the md5 >> for that file. When you go to download a file, there is usually an md5 >> for that download and ther

Re: On Dec 14 (4 days ago) I ask for help! Message still not posted WHY?

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > After sending email asking for help I got. > > lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org > > "Your mail to 'lfs-support' with the subject > > Lfs-6.4 ch 6.9 Glibc-2.8-20080929 > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approv

Re: Where do I find the Linux-2.6.27.4 API Headers?

2008-12-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Dustin W. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Chris Staub wrote: > >> There is no package called API headers. It's the linux kernel source >> (linux-[version].tar.bz2). > > Whoops, that was dumb. I thought of that, and tried it, but of course > I had forgot

Re: Mailing lists archives

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:37 PM, William Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Is there any way to get some of the archives from the mailing > lists? They are all error 403 right now. I could be wrong, but I think Gerard disabled the archives because they were causing

Re: Chapter 6 building against /tools still?

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 20:44 +1300, Simon Geard wrote: >> My concern isn't that there are debug symbols referencing /tools - my >> concern is that they're almost certainly a sign that things are being >> linked against the wro

Re: Can't compile xorg-server. Posted here pending fixing my access to BLFS

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Ralph Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've went through this a couple of times, checking the dependancies > and all. > > Here is the config i used. > > ./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-module-dir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/ > modules --with-xkb-output=

Re: test

2008-11-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Brittany Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:43 PM, GMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> I don't know if there is a bug or feature with this mailing list. >> >> I submitted three questions using a gmail address and each one

Re: 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Wolfgang Messingschlager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Wolfgang Messingschlager >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> meanwhile I did >>> >>> - ma

Re: 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Wolfgang Messingschlager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > meanwhile I did > > - make mrproper > - make menuconfig(CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y) > - make > - make modules_install > - cp -v arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.1 > - cp -v .config /boot/config-2.6.26.1 >

Re: Help: Newbie questions about making livecd

2008-10-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Friday 10 October 2008 00:10:25 Lee Amy escreveu: >> Hello, >> >> I'm a newbie at LFS and I'm going to build my own LiveCD by this great >> project. Anyway, I hope you could tell me what I need at first. I >>

Re: KDE MIME issues

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Trent Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 11:00:13 Dan Nicholson wrote: >> strace -f -eopen kdesktop > > That's fantastic. > > I'm going to have to spend some time on this page! > http://www.linux

Re: Problem with glibc test

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Bill Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dan, > I'll check -Wall. > > Can you add a bunch of zeros and see if it still works? I was able to try > this on another system, and the problem still existed, but it needed a bit > more zeros. Ah, now I got it. Look

Re: Problem with glibc test

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Bill Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I validated this by making a little program that does nothing but prints this > using printf: > > #include > > int main() { >printf ("%-1.3s", "hello"); > } > > Same thing, no output. But if I decrease the numb

Re: LFS-6.3 chapter 5.12

2008-09-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Scott Castaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just realized that I did the 2nd pass of binutils-2.17 build from within > the source directory instead of the build directory. Is this going to be > a problem with the rest of the build? If it is, can I undo it and how,

Re: Can't cd to /sources/perl-5.8.8/ext/IO

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Satish Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chapter 5.25 perl compilation i got one error when run command make > perl utilities > > error is Can't cd to /sources/perl-5.8.8/ext/IO > > but i have /mnt/lfs/source then why it showing /sources directory on root > > > >

Re: lfs installation issue

2008-08-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Satish Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > Tell me can i install ubuntu to build lfs ? its possible to > build it? > or which OS i use to build lfs Redhat 9.0 ? Any Ubuntu would be fine. Redhat 9 should be fine, I think, but it may be too old if y

Re: Failure to boot

2008-08-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, David Goss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recompiled the kernel, but the problem persists. This is the exact error: > > Root-FFS: No NFS server available, giving up > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda4" or unkn

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Christian Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just the controller is what we need. For libata, this corresponds to >> CONFIG_ATA_PIIX. Even on 2.6.22, I think you'll want the libata SATA >> support. I've been using ata_piix on two Intel systems with >> linux-2.6.

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Christian Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Almost certainly it's because the necessary driver is not compiled >> into the kernel. The Ubuntu .config and kernel will probably not work >> for you because the drivers are modules and you need to have an >> initramf

Re: ncurses5.6 make error

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Michael Spitler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I am working with LFS Version SVN-20080604. > Only deviation is that I chose to use kernel 2.6.25.8 instead. > I am using Ubuntu 8.04 as my host system. > > Everything seems to have worked fine until I reached Ch.

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Christian Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, hope someone can help me out, it's been five years since I last used > LFS (or linux for that matter!) so I'm a bit rusty... > > I've gone through the LFS6.3 book. It all seems to go fine until I boot up > the

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/19, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Are you bind mounting the /dev partition when you enter the chroot? If >> you can't see /dev/hd* from within the chroot, then neit

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Murali, > > 1. Only one hard drive > > 2. & 3. From OUTSIDE chroot: > root [ / ]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/lfs-cd 1548144 1265408204096 87% / > /dev/

Re: GCC build error (missing separator)

2008-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:12:21AM +0930, Sharif Oerton wrote: >> On Friday 06 June 2008 02:58:03 Ken Moffat wrote: >> > When the build failed, did you not see a series of messages >> > something like "making all in foo" "maki

Re: xorg-7.1 and xorg-server-1.2.0/Mesa-6.5.2

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Richard Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know whether the above are compatible? I've inadvertently > installed Mesa-6.5.2 instead of 6.5 and xorg-server-1.1.1 does not like > some header files. It looks like _pp_ has been inserted into > slang_v

Re: interface eth0 doesn't exist

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sanjeet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > recently...when i executed /sbin/ipw3945d-start the device node got created > and i could find a directory eth0 for the device in > /sys/class/net(ipw3945 is the driver)but why doesn't it startup at > boot.

Re: Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20080423 - eth0:unknown interface

2008-05-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Mag. Leonhard Landrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I believe to have > > 1.) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet > Controller (rev a1) > 2.) 01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit > Ethernet Cont

Re: LFS 6.3 Chap. 6.16 Coreutils su-tools command not found

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying my first LFS-6.3. I use LiveCD as host > > In chapter 6.16 Coreutils... the command > > su-tools nobody ... > > give me the error > > bash : su-tools : command not found Do you have /tools/bin at the end

Re: 7.13 Configuring the network script

2008-05-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Gernot Jander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I try to install LFS-6.3 using jhalfs. All runs well until task > 129-network, where jhalfs exits with the messages: >/sys/class/net not available >/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net-rules : No such

Re: Automake 1.10 make check error section 6.27 LFS 6.3

2008-04-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get this error running make check > > 1 of 566 tests failed > (38 tests were not run) > > *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 > Leaving directory /sources/autoconf-1.10/tests > *** [check-am] Error 2 > Leaving director

Re: Flex-2.5.34

2008-04-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > The flex version present in the SVN LFS book has some compatibility > problem with old lex. Or, to be more precise (if I understood the message > I wrote clearly), the previous versions of flex did not halt on

Re: chapter 5, bash 3.2 yacc version?

2008-03-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:44 AM, J. Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > errors with yacc, command not found > error 127 > > so the question: > Bison or BYacc? which one to install and link to yacc? You want bison. It installs a yacc binary. > or, is it not worth installing either into

Re: Re: problem perl section 6.23 LFS 6.3

2008-03-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Ursprungligt meddelande > >Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Datum: 2008/03/27 21:37 > >Till: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "LFS Support List" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ärende: Re: problem perl sectio

Re: Chapter 5.7:Problems after configuring the toolchain

2008-03-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Oswin Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My host system is a Debian etch on a 64 Bit machine. I didn't catch this the first time. The LFS book does not currently support 64 bit machines. There is an experimental book which has support for non-multilib x86_64:

Re: /dev/null permissions after reboot

2008-03-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Manuel Gonzalez Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I realized that I was using the package udev-config-20080217.tar.bz2 > instead of udev-config-20070731.tar.bz2 listed in the book, once > installed the later /dev/null get the right permissions. > > I dont k

Re: 5.8 tlc link error

2008-03-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Oswin Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all :) > Sorry, my English is a bit bad, i hope you understand me anyway :) > I'm currently working with the development version of LFS, because the > stable version didn't work for me. I got linker errors all the time

Re: LFS for x86_64: x compile ?

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:53 PM, lanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then, does this imply that a full system on a ARM processor such as the > Linksys NSLU2 can only be fully built natively on that very slow > processor ? Isn't it possible to build a full system by only using > cross-compilati

Re: LFS 6.3 bootscript error when /usr on separate partition

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Michael Franzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finished building LFS 6.3 and everything is well. It starts up > fine if all directories are on one parition. However, I plan to use > several partitions for some directories due to security reasons. Some > time a

Re: LFS 6.3 - 6.12. picky question

2008-03-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, what I meant was: why bother cleaning dummy.c, a.out, and dummy.log > out of gcc-build before I remove all of gcc-build anyway? I guess there's no really good reason, but it guards against the possibility wher

Re: LFS 6.3 - 6.12. picky question

2008-03-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the end of Chapter 6.12. I gave the following commands: > rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log > cd .. > rm -rf gcc-4.1.2 > rm -rf gcc-build > > Did I just dust, vacuum, and mop before demolishing the building? > I supp

Re: chapter 6.7 /tools/bin/gcc file doesnt exist error

2008-03-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Ross Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > when i run /tools/bin/gcc --version in the chroot env i get the following: > > bash: /tools/bin/gcc: No such file or directory > > when i exit chroot and then run /tools/bin/gcc --version as root of the host > i get the

Re: Question on the ways adjusting specs file

2008-02-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The command covers all the arches we currently support: x86 and x86_64 > > for Linux. We really don't need to be adjusting the default specs for > > GNU ma

Re: Question on the ways adjusting specs file

2008-02-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering how good is the job done by the specs commands in the > book. At first I compared the commands to the former specs patch. I > found that it did less than the patch. The commands didn't check for > fi

Re: Problem in 6.10 Re-adjusting the Toolchain [LFS 6.3]

2008-02-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:05 AM, mark jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have completed the chapter 5. But I am facing one problem in chapter > 6.10 every time. After done all the steps before it, then query the following: > > > > $> grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|;

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > Eric Stout wrote: > >> (that is, tools for raid, not the specific package "raidtools".. mdadm is > >> much better in my opinion) > > > > When was the last time you used the CD? mdadm has been availab

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard_apfc6 wrote: > > - Seems like the ultimate build platform for newbs. > > That's exactly what I am against. LiveCD users create 90% of support > requests. > Noobs (not to be confused with newbs) should be

Re: /etc/hosts

2008-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Sharif Oerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble following the instructions in section 7.11. > > I'm installing on a computer that will be connected to the Internet via ADSL, > using DHCP (not sure if that's relevant or not but it's

Re: passwd problem (root)

2008-02-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:42 AM, lanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > There's an uncommon problem with trying to modify the root password at > the end of building a LFS 6.3 system. I'm sure this does not pertain > to LFS and something must be not quite right. I've never seen this >

Re: Make -j speed record

2008-02-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Wilco Beekhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use of make -j 3 really speeds up compilation on my new dual core > laptop. I noticed some problems with autoconf and make -j. > Furthermore, I checked the gentoo portage and it seems a lot of > packages are brok

Re: Shell comparison [Was: kernel 2.6.24 breaks 8-bit chars in the terminal]

2008-02-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 18, 2008 4:36 AM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, at 02:16 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > So, if you're using bash as /bin/sh, then just use ECHO=echo. Using > > the builtin echo will be less overhead then forking /bin/echo ever

Re: Help: kernel 2.6.24 breaks 8-bit chars in the terminal

2008-02-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 17, 2008 1:56 PM, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:10:13AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 6:16 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You really should get the

Re: Help: kernel 2.6.24 breaks 8-bit chars in the terminal

2008-02-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 17, 2008 6:16 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:00:12PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > > >> This is because the new kernel defaults to UTF-8 on the console. You > >> need a new version of the "console" bootscr

Re: Is LFS is a good idea as a OS (Linux) teaching tool

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Steven Locher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > Von: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:16:08PM +0100, Steven Locher wrote: > > > > > > It is not for admins, but there is a chapter (2 weeks) reserved for > > > that. My i

Re: To patch or not to patch

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Steven Locher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another newbie question: > > I just finished 5.3 compiling bin-utils and moving to 5.4. GCC. > Although there is a patch for gcc, it is not mentioned to apply > that before compiling. > > Is that right? In 5.4 GCC Pass

Re: Is LFS is a good idea as a OS (Linux) teaching tool

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 11, 2008 12:54 PM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:00:45PM +0100, Steven Locher wrote: > > I am an IT instructor with allround experience in Unixes, like Solaris, > > FreeBSD, Slackware and Debain - but never had time for LFS. I used to teach > > C and Ja

Re: Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 6, 2008 12:47 PM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for my quoting. > > jhalfs is guiding me through the end of Ch. 8. > The only step that it skip is grub loading. > That's fine. I want to install grub on my own. > > I've found my mistake: after building all, jhals

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 6, 2008 6:53 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 06/02/2008 alle 05.52 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > This sounds like a jhalfs issue. I think what's happening as that the > > chroot gets setup properly when buildin

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 6, 2008 3:57 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think i've found the mistake. > > /dev directory is semy-empty! > > # ls -la /dev > crw--- 1 root root 5, 1 5 feb 16:35 console > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 5 feb 16:35 null > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 6 feb 10:21 tty

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 5, 2008 10:57 AM, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 10:19 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 10.10 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > > So, is the problem that it&#x

Re: Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 5, 2008 10:40 AM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, at 10:10 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008 9:55 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 06.02 -0800, D

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 5, 2008 10:19 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 10.10 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > So, is the problem that it's not asking you to enter the password > > again if it's a weak password? > > It

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 5, 2008 9:55 AM, Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 06.02 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > It sounds like something bad has happened. Can you run the command > > again as "LC_ALL=C passwd root"? I can&#

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
2008/2/5 Alessandro Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, I'm new to LFS and I've got a problem. > After building correctly with JHALFS, I've tryied to change root > password inside chroot but passwd doesn't work. > > If i run: > > "passwd root", command exit imediatly with: " > Cambio della pass

Re: compilation error for inetutils-1.5 in LFS-6.3

2008-02-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Feb 3, 2008 7:46 AM, Justin O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2008 10:02 AM, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mean you're running those commands from a different system, not > > from the one that's having the problem, then those results mean nothing. > > Unless I'm

Re: Suggestions for change in setting up "lfs" user

2008-01-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 30, 2008 11:56 PM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, at 04:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Chapter 4.3 - 4.4: Is there any particular crucial reason why the bash > > startup scripts for lfs user have to be created and subsequently sourced > > ("source ~/.bash

Re: OpenSSH installation problem.

2008-01-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 30, 2008 12:35 PM, amarsoft amarsoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in chroot. I don't have those /dev/random or /dev/urandom. > > > - Original Message ---- > From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: BLFS Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OpenSSH installation problem.

2008-01-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 30, 2008 12:21 PM, amarsoft amarsoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting. > ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data > PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting. > ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data > PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting. >

Re: LFS 6 System Won't Boot

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 26, 2008 11:00 AM, Mark Olbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I put some echo statements in /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc to watch what was > happening. After running the last script in /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d it exists > normally. But I also had it display the running processes before it exited >

Re: LFS 6 System Won't Boot

2008-01-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 26, 2008 10:06 AM, Mark Olbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an oddball problem that is causing me to rip out hair :) > > My LFS 6 system, which has performed like a champ for years, suddenly stopped > booting the other day. Initially the problem was that it couldn't "see" > /dev/sda

Re: LFS 6.2 6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks

2008-01-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 21, 2008 4:06 PM, Baho Utot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on a scripting build system to build LFS 6.3 from a subversion > repository. > > I have successfully built all the chapters up to the end of 5. > > I am starting on Chapter 6. > > From Chapter 6.6. Creating Essential Files

Re: glibc-2.7 step 1 compilation error

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 15, 2008 10:38 AM, Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > LFS book : SVN-2008-0104 > uname -a : Linux saturn 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Nov 22 20:32:37 EST > 2007 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux > CPU: Intel Pentium MMX 200 > > On step 5.6 have next error while compil

Re: LFS V6.3 5.5. Linux-2.6.22.5 API Headers

2008-01-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 15, 2008 5:33 PM, Lee McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 17:22 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > It appears you're still using your host's gcc instead of the one at > > /tools/bin/gcc. Perhaps you missed the /tools/

Re: LFS V6.3 5.5. Linux-2.6.22.5 API Headers

2008-01-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 15, 2008 5:15 PM, Lee McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I'm trying to install lfs onto an Ext3 partition on a dual core > intel x86, with ubuntu 7.10 as my base system. In chapter 5.5 Linux API > Headers I get this error after running make headers_check > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt

Re: compiling perl fails

2008-01-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Jan 1, 2008 7:36 AM, Tobias Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to compile perl, i also tried to use the perl-5.10.0 instead > of the 5.8.8-package, but both of them fail with this message: > > > Making B (dynamic) > make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/perl-5.10.0/ext/B

Re: Question on upgrading gcc,glibc,binutils, and kernel

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Dec 14, 2007 2:53 PM, Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all thank you for help on the kernel configuration (I went to the > newest version). I now have two questions if you update gcc, glibc, or > binutils: Do you have to start back with 5.1 or can you build these with > older v

Re: building LFS

2007-12-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Dec 6, 2007 6:47 AM, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Feichtinger wrote these words on 12/06/07 04:42 CST: > > > > Right. > > But! If the question is asked again and again? Isn't that a hint for > > improvement? > > As I answered before, "I suppose". It just seems weird to re

Re: building LFS

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Dec 5, 2007 4:35 PM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This seems to come up on the list regularly. I, too ran afoul of this > obvious tip. In re-reading the text I notice that I must struggle to not > see it as: > > "IMPORTANT! Before issuing the build instructions for a package,

Re: Blender: How to track down origins of misconfiguration in Makefiles?

2007-12-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Dec 2, 2007 3:31 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Compilation of blender stops with: > > > cd > /usr/src/blender/blender-2.45/obj/linux-glibc2.3.6-i386/gameengine/blphys/blbullet/; > ar ruv > /usr/src/blender/blender-2.45/obj/linux-glibc2.3.6-i386/gameengine/blphys/blbullet/libblbullet.a >

Re: "su - lfs" vs "su lfs" - su starts subshell, useless for automating in scripts..

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Nov 26, 2007 10:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the things i find difficult to script is a "nice" (read pretty) > way of continuing the install script after doing "su - lfs". the 'su' > command apparently starts a subshell process, and so the new subshell > just wa

Re: Problem with $(gcc -dumpmachine)

2007-11-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Nov 9, 2007 4:56 AM, John Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my /tools directory I've got two candidates: > > /tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc > /tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2 The first one is wrong, and it should be in /tools/bin. > However my $(gcc -dumpmachine) gives me > > i486-pc-

Re: Glibc-2.3.6 configure error

2007-11-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Nov 8, 2007 11:26 PM, sizo nsibande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I just started chapter 6 of linux from scratch using version 6.2 of > the book and the accompanying LFS distro, I ran: > ../glibc-2.3.6/configure --prefix=/usr --disable-profile > --enable-add-ons --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexec

Re: symlink in 5.4

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/7/07, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting LFS 6.3 using the LFS Live 6.3 CD. > At the end of 5.4 GCC-4.1.2 - Pass 1 > I am to create a symlink. > "ln -vs gcc /tools/bin/cc" > > The context puzzles me. > I have been burned before by not reading the "! Important" parts i

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1327, Issue 1

2007-11-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/2/07, Bijan Hoomand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Dan > > Thanks for your help, the name is exactly what you mentioned, libc-dev. I > could install it and I'm feeling much better now! > I have one more question, even though it's not about installing anything, > it's about the whole concep

Re: "C compiler cannot create executables" a repeated question!

2007-11-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/1/07, Bijan Hoomand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> cat config.log > This file contains any messages produced by compilers while > running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. > > configure:611: checking host system type > configure:632: checking target

Re: Weirdness in gdm shutdown

2007-11-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/1/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet another weirdness on my desktops (xorg-7.3, gnome-2.20.latest > and specifically xorg-server-1.4.0 and gdm-2.20.1). Once I've got gdm > built, I switch my default runlevel to 5. Normally, it "just works", > but on current builds I'm seeing

Re: Two problems with first boot

2007-11-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/1/07, Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Extend your kernel command line with "loglevel=1" and/or "quiet". This will > stop many kernel messages to become visible on the console. Something I added for LFS-6.3 was a sysconfig parameter to control the kernel log level on the consol

Re: samba init script

2007-10-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Real sorry about this. I should have fixed it months ago. The problem > >is that the samba script calls our killproc() function, which > >basically just finds any process named what we asked it and start > >killing it. The problem is that

Re: need help compiling patch-2.5.4

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/12/07, bill aspell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/lfs/sources/patch-2.5.4$ 5.24.1. Installation of Patch > bash: 5.24.1.: command not found Looks like you copied the wrong part of the text. There's no command "5.24.1. Installation of Patch". I think you want "make inst

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/11/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >* Convert from DocBook to Texinfo with the docbook2x tools > >* Dump to text with a (really) simple stylesheet > >* Dump to man format with a stylesheet included in

Re: System.map not found..... I think

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
Coming in late here... On 10/6/07, Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Looking over the logs for my new LFS system I noticed something odd. Right at > the very top after klogd is started are these two lines: > > Oct 6 16:56:13 lbc1211 kernel: Cannot find map file. > Oct 6 16:56:

Re: Live 6.3 r2032 & ncurses fails - Cannot link wi

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, EJBoshinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your comment aboves raises a question. As a sanity check, from 5.1- > Important Note (2) : " > After installing each package, delete its source and build > directories, unless specifically instructed otherwise. Deleting th

Re: Live 6.3 r2032 & ncurses fails - Cannot link wit

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, EJBoshinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion. I will rebuild from the beginning once again, > starting with newly formatted, mounted, assigned etc. partitions and user & > groups on a physically separate and dedicated drive. When I come to > gcc-pass2, I

Re: Chapter 6.7, LFS 6.3

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, Elias Zoby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > root:/sources/linux-2.6.22.5# sed -i '/scsi/d' include/Kbuild > root:/sources/linux-2.6.22.5# make mrproper > /sources/linux-2.6.22.5/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: /tools/bin/gcc: No > such file or directory > But I have gcc on $LFS/tools/b

Re: Live 6.3 r2032 & ncurses fails - Cannot link with

2007-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/07, EJBoshinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>If that doesn't have /tools, then the gcc-pass2 build was definitely borked. > > > >That is exactly what is happening. gcc -dumpspecs responds with: > > > />lib/ld-linux.so.2 > > > >However, at the end of gcc-pass2, > > > >$echo 'main(){}

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