Re: lfs system

I just finished building my lfs 6.8 system, and registered as a new lfs user. Just follow the rules for posting and you'll be surprised how helpful the people on lfs-support can be. Hang in there; just don't give up. It's worth the 'pain' -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

Thank you for your assistance. I did 'lsmod -v' and found a number of the drivers, compiled them and boot into my first ever LFS system. Thank you again. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubsc

Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following sample output on the screen: [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(0,0) [ 3.585205] Please append a correct "root=" boot optio

Re: inetutils-1.8 build error

Thanks. My problem was ncurses. I built and installed ncurses again and the problem was solved. Thank you. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

inetutils-1.8 build error

Hi there? Having trouble compiling inetutils-1.8 in chapter 6 of version 6.8 of the LFS book. The following is the last few lines of the error output on issuing the 'make' command: Making all in telnet make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/inetutils-1.8/telnet' CC authenc.o CC commands

Re: coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

Thank you. On 7/21/11, William Immendorf wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Frederick Muriithi > wrote: >> Is it okay to ignore the error, and if not, what's the best course of >> action? >> A search on coreutils-8.10 error on linuxfromscratch.org gives err

Re: coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

Thank you. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

coreutils-8.10 Expensive Test Error

After running the 'su-tools -s /bin/bash -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make-check" ' command in Chapter 6, one of the tests failed. The following is a number of lines from the test output: + require_root_ + uid_is_privileged_ ++ id -u + my_uid=99 + case $my_uid in + return 1 + skip_test_ 'must

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

Thank you Mr. William I. and Mr. Bruce D. The problem, I found out, was with the memory slot my DIMM was in. Changing it got me up and running again. Thank you for your time, and the links. I appreciate. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

Hi people? I downloaded the sources listed in the LFS-Book-6.8 as suggested. The build for gcc-4.5.2 however failed with a segmentation fault as shown in the list below. ../../gcc-4.5.2/libiberty/cp-demangle.c: In function 'd_demangle_callback': ../../gcc-4.5.2/libiberty/cp-demangle.c:4777: warnin

Re: gcc (first pass) compilation error

Thank you. I'll do that and get back to you with progress/error report. -- Frederick M. Muriithi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

gcc (first pass) compilation error

I am a beginning LFS student/builder. I was using the LFS livecd (Version x86-6.3-r2160) for my build. The binutils build went well. The gcc build (with the command 'make bootstrap') however, failed with the following being the last 20 lines of the error output: warning: structure `reg_info_def' u