Re: [lfs-support] systemd versus sysvinit

2014-02-17 Thread Richard
As a new and inexperienced member of an established community, I try to keep my mouth shut and avoid interfering. Occasionally I feel strongly enough on a subject to speak out and I hope that the below does not upset too many people... > - Original Message - > From: Frans de Boer > ...

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-24 Thread Richard Melville
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:05:14PM +, Richard Melville wrote: > > Ken, I'm using vesafb on a web server with no Xorg, and I just use the > > console. I realise that my kernel was quite old but as I like to check > > every configuration option (often becaus

Re: [blfs-support] /dev/fb0 not being created on boot

2013-11-22 Thread Richard Melville
hat option, reconfigured, and now it all works as expected. Regarding vga=792, that still works for me. If I substitute video=1024x768 the command is ignored an I get a large, ugly font. I'm currently using grub-2.0, so I can't understand what the problem is likely to be. Any idea

Re: [lfs-support] 8.3 - Kernel Build

2013-11-06 Thread Richard
- Original Message - > From: Ken Moffat ... > To clarify: consider the situation where you suspect you have a > kernel bug.  Say you are now on 3.12.0 and had previously used > 3.11.5.  As a first step, boot 3.11.5 [ assuming you kept it around, > of course ] to see if things are differe

[lfs-support] 8.3 - Kernel Build

2013-11-06 Thread Richard
and I had a brief flirtation with gentoo which I am sure also store kernel source below /usr/src/linux? Again, many thanks, Richard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] gcc tests

2013-11-01 Thread Richard
> > From: William Harrington >To: Richard ; LFS Support List > ... >> # of expected passes92870 >> # of expected failures259 >> # of unsupported tests1096 ... ># of expected passes            92152 ># of expected failures 

Re: [lfs-support] gcc tests

2013-10-31 Thread Richard
> > From: Ken Moffat ... >Are you using the 7.4 book or svn ?  If you are using gcc-4.8.2 >then I have no data to offer. ... I am (I hope!) using the plain, normal, generic, unadulterated LFS 7.4 - which means that I just compiled gcc 4.8.1. I will proceed under

[lfs-support] gcc tests

2013-10-31 Thread Richard
Hello again, I have finally completed the leviathan task of my first gcc compilation and test. I am encouraged to have only one unexpected failure outside libmudflap. This leaves me with two questions. 1. How bad is that error? I have inferred that it is probably infrequent - but it does no h

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-29 Thread Richard
>>> I think I neglected to shut down the networking on the host system - so the >>> posix tests did not fail. I did not realise that network isolation was a >>> requirement. I do not have that machine with me here at work - so I will >>> check later. >>> >> >>   That is interesting.  And very pu

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
On Mon, 28/10/13, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' might > > be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test suite ended > > mid-way. > > > > Why do you think it ended mid-way ? Your output from the make > check command

Re: [lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
On Mon, 28/10/13, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > I have inferred from the book that 'cputimer1' and 'run-conformtest' > > might be 'acceptable' failures, but I was surprised that the test > > suite ended mid-way. > > It didn't. It finished running. Aha! I see. So I just misinterpreted the messages.

[lfs-support] glibc test failures. Acceptable?

2013-10-28 Thread Richard
Hello experts, I am attempting my first LFS build; which will (hopefully) be 7.4, built on a host system of slackware-14. All went well up until chapter 6. I am unsure as to whether or not the errors in the glibc fall into the acceptable variety or not. glibc appeared to build well enough. Hav

Re: [lfs-support] BLFS Version 7.4 is released

2013-09-14 Thread Richard Melville
Excellent news :-) However, may I just point out that there's a broken libungif link on the Emacs-24.3 page. Maybe it should point here: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Libungif Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq

Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm

2013-08-20 Thread Richard Coffee
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:57:14 -0800 > Richard Coffee wrote: > >> My setup is virtually identical, except POLLDEV was set to Module. Am >> recompiling kernel now for it. Hope it makes a difference. Thanks. >> > > You can cat each device in /dev/input/

Re: [lfs-support] Boot problem

2013-08-19 Thread Richard
> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:37:21 -0500 > From: Bruce Dubbs > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Boot problem > To: LFS Support List > Message-ID: <5210dc21.3070...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Richard wrote: >> >

Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm

2013-08-18 Thread Richard Coffee
SCREEN sizes matter. > > # > # Input device support > # > CONFIG_INPUT=y > # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set > CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV=y > # CONFIG_INPUT_SPARSEKMAP is not set > # CONFIG_INPUT_MATRIXKMAP is not set > ...stuff trimmed > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOI

Re: [lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm

2013-08-18 Thread Richard Coffee
fferences I've spotted. Manually creating the link didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that it's a symptom and not the cause. I've also looked through the /lib/udev directory files, and tried turning off psaux in the kernel. :( richard __

[lfs-support] Boot problem

2013-08-18 Thread Richard
re of this particular problem? I assume it is a kernel bug of some kind. I haven't been able to get any useful information from the logs, everything just seems to stop at the above point. Thanks, Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

[lfs-support] 7.3 trackball not working with gpm

2013-08-18 Thread Richard Coffee
ause there is no mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS installs I've done. Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact same settings as I've used in previous kernels. Any advice would be appreciated. richard __

[lfs-support] LFS Dev Release Schedules

2013-01-09 Thread Richard Hamilton
I'm thinking about building a new LFS system based on the development. How often are the development updated? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] bash vs dash

2013-01-05 Thread Richard Coffee
(readlink /bin/sh) == dash ] && echo FIX ME! or perhaps: if [ $(readlink /bin/sh) == dash ]; then echo FIX ME! fi just my two cents. richard FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and fam

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS Error Kernel Panic

2012-12-21 Thread Richard Melville
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 14:53 +0000, Richard Melville wrote: > > > I think that was understood; when they said that it was "stupid" it > > was surely meant that there could be some confusion in the use of > > similar terms. > > Possibly, though if

Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Melville
low a 256 character font if that is what you need. > > ?en > Thanks for the help and the link Ken; I'll have a play when I have more time. I'm still using "vga=792" on the grub kernel boot line to get the right (for me) sized screen fonts. Is that still

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS Error Kernel Panic

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Melville
> > > Now it would be nice for it to work using UUIDs so the booting can > > be independent of host system. > > You need to use an initrd of that. See BLFS. > >-- Bruce > > Would't using GPT instead of MBR be a viable alternative? Richard -- http://lin

Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Melville
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:00:38PM +, Richard Melville wrote: >> When I use backspace in the terminal/console and then re-type I get white >> blocking. I'm fairly sure that I installed the patches when I built the >> keyboard package. Any advice? It's r

[lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap

2012-12-15 Thread Richard Melville
When I use backspace in the terminal/console and then re-type I get white blocking. I'm fairly sure that I installed the patches when I built the keyboard package. Any advice? It's really annoying. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] Strsnge udev-181 behaviour

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Melville
> Richard Melville wrote: > > I have one Ethernet adapter (Intel 82574L Gigabit) but udev has found two > > complete with MAC addresses. The phantom version is installed on eth0 > and > > the real version is installed on eth1. I've searched the system for the

[lfs-support] Srange udev-181 behaviour

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Melville
else experienced this behaviour? The only other case I can find is somebody on a Raspberry Pi list who experienced the same phantom creation with udev and his wireless adapter. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq

Re: [lfs-support] vi for chapter 6

2012-10-06 Thread Richard Melville
gt; EOF > > cat > test "EOF" > TEST=$PWD > EOF > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington > > Thanks for the explanation William; I had no idea that was the case. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] vi for chapter 6

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Melville
quot; always in quotes; I've found EOF without quotes to work just fine. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Test failures in automake-1.12.3 : sorted!

2012-09-30 Thread Richard Melville
2 *without* python installed I received no such error:- == Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.12.2 == # TOTAL: 2852 # PASS: 2648 # SKIP: 164 # XFAIL: 40 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 == Richard

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-24 Thread Richard Melville
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 07:01:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > I realise that I'm building the dev edition, but my host is Linux Mint > > Cinnamon 64 bit and the host requirements appeared to fit better. Also it > > looked as though the dev edition was

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-21 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: > > > Finally -- some recognition that there is a potential problem with this > > build. I disagree that it "works okay for x86 and x86_64" because I > > reported here that the MPC configure error appeared randomly on my x86_64 > >

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Melville
as we do in chapter 6. I still believe that there is some sort of race condition happening by building the three packages in the tree at the same time, but I've been too busy of late to test for that. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Symlinking /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: > > I've noticed that this was recommended way back on LFS 3.3 but now seems > to > > have been dropped. As all the distros appear to have caught up with LFS > by > > having this symlink what are the current views here on creating it? I'

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Melville
elow the error > message if I remember right) and try to build it yourself in > > /mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/mpc/ > > using the gcc command line from config.log. Somewhere in the process you > should see something that gives you a clue! > > Tim > > Thanks Tim, those t

[lfs-support] Symlinking /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts

2012-09-06 Thread Richard Melville
ms to have been inconclusive. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
wing the book new things are learned? > > > > Helping others is always good. > > Oh, I agree with you fully, don't get me wrong, but people should be > starting at the start, not the end. > > -- > Jasmine Iwanek > > > What is that supposed to mean? Really, if you have nothing useful to say then don't say anything. Thanks for your positive post Baho. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
should not be having to support people who > didn't follow the book instructions (or as was pointed out by bruce) > didn't look before they leaped, after all, if you're unable to find the > time to do even one build by hand, what hope do you have to find th

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
> > On 2012-09-05 10:43, Richard Melville wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply Steve ( and Eleanor earlier). ?Picking up on > > what Bruce said about the possibility of race conditions relating to > > building GCC with MAKEFLAGS set to -j > 1, Im wondering if

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Melville
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Richard Melville > wrote: > >> I extracted all of these packages from within the GCC-4.7.1 folder > > > > > > I'd still be interested to know why we build GMP, MPC, and MPFR inside > GCC > > except

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-04 Thread Richard Melville
kages. It can > cause race conditions that sometimes cause a failure. > > I suppose we can put a warning about this in the gcc sections, but we'd > need it in three places. > >-- Bruce > > There's already a warning near the beginning of the book. Richard -- ht

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

2012-09-03 Thread Richard Melville
ed the whole instruction set and it still failed at the same point that you've found. Bruce suggested wrapping the commands in a script so you can see what's happening, and that seems like a good idea, however I had already built it by then by doing nothing different -- just trying

Re: [lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-21 Thread Richard Melville
# XFAIL: 40 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 == Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-20 Thread Richard Melville
t; > Thanks for the really detailed replies Ken -- it's much appreciated. I'm building this when I have the spare time; I'll see if I can run the tests tonight and get back to you. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-20 Thread Richard Melville
> > Richard Melville wrote: > > Failed 2 tests out of 2202, 99.91% okay. > > ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-zip-only.t > > ../cpan/Time-Local/t/Local.t > > > > I'm guessing that this is not a problem. Any views appreciated. > > Tha

[lfs-support] Perl-5.16.1 test failures in Ch 6 SVN-20120816

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Melville
Failed 2 tests out of 2202, 99.91% okay. ../cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-zip-only.t ../cpan/Time-Local/t/Local.t I'm guessing that this is not a problem. Any views appreciated. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Melville
Bruce -- what was the thinking behind using SU from Shadow instead of Coreutils? Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Melville
On 08/17/2012 02:04 PM, Richard Melville wrote: > > Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. > > > > I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group > > and changed permissions but when I run:- > > su nobody -

Re: [lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-18 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: > > Some help with this would be great -- I just can't understand it. > > > > I ran the tests as root which ran OK. I've added the temporary group and > > changed permissions but when I run:- > > > > su nobody -s /bin/bash -c

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > > > I do have a question, however, regarding vulnerabilities in old packages. > > Does anybody know of a good website that lists vulnerabilities as they > are > > found. That would enable

[lfs-support] coreutils-8.17 tests run as "nobody" fails

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
e: command not found. Any ideas anyone? Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] upgrading 2-year-old sys

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
have to agree -- I'm still running a venerable LFS 6.1.1 build which is quite capable of supporting, for example, the latest Erlang and Postgres packages. I do have a question, however, regarding vulnerabilities in old packages. Does anybody know of a good website that lists vulnerabilities as th

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: > >> Just went through this step in linux mint 32bit in vmware and found > >>> no issues. > >>> > >>> That's because it's an intermittent bug. I've just had the same > >>> problem using Linux Mint Cinn

Re: [lfs-support] Help with GCC Compile Pass 1 errors

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Melville
sometimes it doesn't. If you look back through > > the posts in the mailing list you will see that a number of people > > have experienced this bug irrespective of host used. > > > > Richard > > Hello Richard, > > If the person does make again, does the syste

[lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Melville
> > Richard Melville wrote: > > Can anybody tell me why the above happens? I'm using Chrome on the host > to > > follow the book. Chrome won't restart and I'm now using Firefox. I > > noticed that the symlink was also removed from the host /dev d

[lfs-support] Google Chrome disappears after running script to remove $LFS/dev/shm symlink

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Melville
lted. I thought that the script would just remove the $LFS/dev symlink. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.6.2 on 32 bit Mint13 mpfr error

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Melville
hrough the posts in the mailing list you will see that a number of people have experienced this bug irrespective of host used. Richard Explain the exact commands used at the command line and > any environment variables you may have changed. > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington > &g

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Richard Melville
-gnu That can't be right can it? They seem to hold duplicated content. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-09 Thread Richard Melville
> > > Richard Melville wrote: > > I realise that I'm building the dev edition, but my host is Linux Mint > > Cinnamon 64 bit and the host requirements appeared to fit better. Also it > > looked as though the dev edition was at a reasonably stable stage. > >

[lfs-support] GCC-4.7.1-Pass 2 MPC configure fails

2012-08-08 Thread Richard Melville
e sanity checks were OK. MPFR and GMP have compiled OK with the libraries installed in .libs. I've even checked to make sure that the MPFR libraries were 64 bit, and now I've run out of ideas. I'd be really grateful for any help. I've tried rebuilding GCC four times now with

Re: Clock Problems

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Melville
Mykal Fink wrote:- > > I replaced the battery and the behavior didn't change. But at least, for a very small outlay, you can now rule out battery problems, and you don't have to worry about losing time when the box is unplugged. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

Re: Clock Problems

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Melville
Sorry, I meant to say "no time problems whatsoever regarding the battery." Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Clock Problems

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Melville
I agree with everything that's been said, but why not just *buy the battery*; then you'll have no time concerns whatsoever. In the UK they cost from about £1 upwards, depending on the type. I really can't see what the problem is. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailm

Re: Clock Problems

2009-12-11 Thread Richard Melville
your system time accurate. > It's a very old motherboard; a dying cmos battery will affect the hardware clock which in turn will affect the system clock. You could try replacing the battery (usually a "coin cell"); they're not very expensive. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Stormy Peters and the Gnome Foundation

2009-12-03 Thread Richard Melville
ow enough about it. Although I wasn't able to glean much information regarding the above questions it was really good to meet Stormy Peters and to be able to discuss the work of The Gnome Foundation with her. Thanks again for your questions. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: Stormy Peters and the Gnome Foundation

2009-12-02 Thread Richard Melville
Thanks to Simon, Alan and Jason for the feedback; I'll put the two questions to Stormy. Simon, I take your point but my only thoughts on the relationship between Windows and Gnome was that they both have registries and they can both become corrupted. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-27 Thread Richard Melville
n. Recycle them and treat yourself to something new, small, quiet, and relatively powerful. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-26 Thread Richard Melville
itable bulky AC/DC adapter > taking up several wall sockets. > > > Simon. > Mine (a very small slimline drive) is powered from the USB port. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Melville
hing that is built on outdated and unreliable technology. If I had my way I would round up all the floppy disks in the world and burn them, thus doing everybody a favour. And while I was at it I would throw all those clunky old fax machines onto the same fire. Richard -- http://lin

Re: Terminator

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Melville
ng it a bit buggy) I thought that I'd give it a go when I'm less busy. For anybody interested you can find it here http://bit.ly/4vucpc Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub-1.97 problems

2009-11-13 Thread Richard Melville
> I kept building kernels, and /boot partition kept filling up, and > eventually I switched to just using a /boot directory on the root /. > > I've found that LVM is excellent for managing partitions that need to be resized. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Upgrading udev

2009-10-20 Thread Richard Melville
27;t boot into that copy) then you can delete that copy and you still have the master. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Melville
dros partition. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Melville
and some web surfing and email, so I haven't done much with it. Maybe you could create another partition and install LFS on that partition from a USB flash drive. Then you could adjust grub accordingly -- just an idea. However, storage space may be a problem. Richard -- http://linuxfr

Re: Fail in compiling GCC

2009-08-17 Thread Nicolas Richard
Amir Khezrian a écrit : > Hi Hello, > first of all, thank you for your helps. I did all according to the book > but, during the compilation of "gcc" i encountered with some errors. > these are the last lines that are shown during the compilation of gcc : Did you read them ? > /usr/bin/install

Re: userspace error

2009-07-19 Thread Richard Melville
; /dev/sda6swap swap pri=1 0 > 0 Bruce, I've just noticed that you have /boot listed in your fstab shown above, but this is not necessary as it is called from Grub. IMHO it is better that /boot remains unmounted whilst the system

Re: userspace error

2009-07-16 Thread Richard Melville
Ken Moffat wrote:- > If /boot is a separate filesystem, you can use the version of grub > installed by your host system. I would always recommend a separate /boot partition whatever the build. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: userspace error

2009-07-16 Thread Richard Melville
Ken Moffat wrote:- > If /boot is a separate filesystem, you can use the version of grub > installed by your host system. I would always recommend a separate /boot partition whatever the build. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: glibc-2.5.1 installation fails

2009-06-25 Thread Richard Melville
William Immendorf wrote: > BUT, if stabilaty on recent systems is your goal, you should use 6.4. William, it's no good just repeating the same thing like a mantra -- show us the proof. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscr

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

2009-03-26 Thread Richard Russell
nding umount commands in $LFS/ root/.bash_logout to automatically put your LFS environment into a complete state whenever you enter the LFS partition and clear up after you when come out again. Regard Richard Russell On 23/03/09 01:17:45, Dan Tran wrote: > Hello, > > I am a first ti

Re: kernel configuration and installation

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Melville
ck. I didn't mean for this to sound too critical. I believe that the LFS/BLFS project is an incredible learning environment. It has certainly taught me a great deal about Linux and I hope that it has a long life ahead of it. I'd like to thank everybody involved in it. Richard -- htt

Re: Swapon not working

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Melville
if you didn't create /proc/config.gz ) > > > > Yeah, sorry for the noise. Not sure what I was doing with grep -- my only excuse is that it was Friday evening and I was tired. Kernel is now re-configured and re-built and all is OK. Thanks Lauri and Ken. Richard -- http://linuxfr

Swapon not working

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Melville
be enabled in the kernel but I can find no reference to it in the kernel .config. I'd be really grateful for some help as I'm right at the final stage of my BLFS build. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: kernel configuration and installation

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Melville
DJ I'm not sure if it is still current practice but it appears to be -- I was building the very latest version. Thanks to both of you for the help, but I'm still unclear as to whether there is a workaround when the necessary headers aren't included with the package. Thanks Richard

Re: kernel configuration and installation

2008-10-30 Thread Richard Melville
t the solution is here? Should we install the new kernel headers into a separate sub-directory and change the source code to point to the new sub-directory rather than to /usr/include/linux, or would this just not work? I'd appreciate your, or anybody else's, view on the subject. Rich

Re: Failure to boot

2008-08-12 Thread Richard Melville
re using to boot LFS then your LFS entry on the second line should read root (hd0,1), *not* root (hda0,3). As far as I know grub only recognises the "hd" disk nomenclature, so even if the kernel sees your disks as "sd" grub will still see them as "hd", so the above is c

Re: grub hangs without error message on mac mini

2008-04-29 Thread Richard Melville
is some similar > hardware and there isn't a problem either. > > > So, why is grub hanging there (I rebooted after 10 minutes)? What might > I do to solve the problem? What is grub waiting for? > > > Thanks for any help, > Andreas > > Just a though

Re: Via epia ex15000g framebuffer @1024x768

2008-04-29 Thread Richard Melville
tes to 1024x768-24; note *vga=* in this instance, not *video=*. I don't think that vesafb operates at a 32 bit colour depth. Richard Melville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Installation of bash

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Melville
d be parameters > to msgfmt, I think. However, apparently that program was not > found by some configure process, and hence was replaced by > the shell builtin ':' command, which does nothing but exit 0 > (see 'help :'). > > That in itself should be noted.

Re: GRUB Problem

2008-03-14 Thread Richard Melville
r, then you do not need to re-build and re-install GRUB because you already have a working version, in which case you just need to add LFS to your existing menu.lst. Richard Melville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GRUB Problem

2008-03-13 Thread Richard Melville
e.g. (hd0,0) ==hda1. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "when I use GRUB"; do you mean when you boot LFS? Richard Melville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub Hangs

2008-03-12 Thread Richard Melville
process to be fairly forgiving; even my first attempt at producing a .config file was a success. The first draft, if successful, can always be tweaked later by scrutinising dmesg. Richard Melville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub Hangs

2008-03-10 Thread Richard Melville
tion steps as if starting from scratch? > > Edward > Why not just use the latest stable kernel? I'm using 2.6.24 with LFS 6.2 and it works well. Richard Melville -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xfdesktop from CBLFS

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Melville
> XFCE is no longer supported in BLFS (and you didn't even specify its > version!). > There is some activity on the XFCE mailing list, but it is mostly about the > upcoming 4.6 release. > > > Any idea why XFCE is no longer supported in BLFS? Richard -- http://li

Re: mounts

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Caldwell
- Original Message From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LFS Support List Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 8:25:05 AM Subject: Re: mounts Richard Caldwell wrote: > Hi, >I'm building using liveCD6.3 and I'm currently on section '6.14 Sed-4.1.5

mounts

2007-11-06 Thread Richard Caldwell
sysfs $LFS/sys Do my mounts look OK? It appears to me that devpts should be mounted on /mnt/lfs/dev/pts but instead its mounted on /dev/pts. Do the other mounts look OK? /dev doesn't look quite right to me either but I'm not sure? Thanks Richard -- http://linuxfrom

Building lfs via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Caldwell
e the command is still running? Thanks Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Logging in after logout(no reboot!)

2007-10-08 Thread Richard Caldwell
es setup from 6.2 to 6.6 and they seem OK? I'm very apprehensive about messing up my install as I've done this before and couldn't start again for months due to time constraints! Thanks Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: directfb

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Melville
, although this was about eighteen months ago. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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