Re: [lfs-support] Error compiling Tcl 8.5.11 - Segmentation fault

2012-06-27 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 2:54:55 pm Fábio Mattes wrote: > Hello lfs list, I'm from Brazil and I'm new to the list, I became > interested in lfs today and was testing to see if I could, but a problem > arose in the covenant Tcl 8.5.11 when I run make install it returns me as > follows: > > Installi

Re: Networking Is My Weakest Area--A Really Basic Question

2010-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 13:09:54 Trent Shea wrote: Possibly irrelevant stuff. Digging around the thread it looks like you may have already installed the wireless prereqs. It wouldn't hurt to confirm that you're connected to your access point though, with iwconfig wlan0. -- Rega

Re: Networking Is My Weakest Area--A Really Basic Question

2010-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 12:17:50 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > $ /sbin/ifconfig ip addr ;) -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Networking Is My Weakest Area--A Really Basic Question

2010-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 06:58:59 Dan McGhee wrote: > Bruce, if I understand what you are saying in relation to the > book--without knowing the "why" yet--if I "copy and paste" the entries > in Chapter 7.13 to my 'ifconfig.wlan0/ipv4' I should be able to connect. > Is this true? If wlan is a t

Re: Hit a Speed Bumps with Grub 2

2010-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 12:48:07 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Note the line: > > list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do > if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi >done` > > It is looking for specific kernel names in /boot. I'm pretty sure that will onl

Re: Hit a Speed Bumps with Grub 2

2010-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 06:08:46 Dan McGhee wrote: > The precise answer to your question is, no, I haven't done that yet. By > "seeing" other stuff" I'm referring to grub-mkconfig. I thought it would > "out of the box." I know I can add those menu entries, and I'm going to. > I was hoping that

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-29 Thread Trent Shea
> With "nouveau", my boot-up goes through these basic steps: My setup is KMS with intel hardware. > 1. The original/"regular" console sequence (80x25) > 2. Nouveau is loaded by UDEV > 3. At this point, the console goes blank for a sec or so. > The preceding messages are wiped out. > 4. The rema

Re: MySQL and "More Control/Package Users" Package Mgmt

2010-06-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 21:32:41 Timothy Rice wrote: > That is what I thought 'dir' was for, and I guessed that that is what > install-info did. However, it does not make sense to me that the previous > dir needs to be deleted first, before redoing install-info for all the > packages already inst

Re: MySQL and "More Control/Package Users" Package Mgmt

2010-06-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 20:09:58 Timothy Rice wrote: > Still, I don't even understand why dir needs to be rebuilt. The following > explanation in the blfs book is a little unhelpful: > "pushd ... popd: This set of commands rebuilds the /usr/share/info/dir > file as the installation failed to do s

Re: libmng-1.0.10

2010-06-03 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 03 June 2010 12:49:36 Ken Moffat wrote: > > until after qt or maybe kde. Anyhow I guess I'm just looking for a bit of > > hand holding and posting to see if a ticket regarding this is warranted. > > I used to see it (I stopped building libmng over a year ago because I > couldn't find

libmng-1.0.10

2010-06-03 Thread Trent Shea
I'm working on my first x86_64 system build using the 6.6 book, and I've run into a bit of trouble with libmng. gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libmng.so.1 -o libmng.so.1.1.0.9 \ libmng_callback_xs.o libmng_chunk_io.o libmng_chunk_descr.o libmng_chunk_prc.o libmng_chunk_xs.o libmng_cms.o libmng_

Re: 70-persistent-net.rules not created in section 7.13 of LFS 6.6 Book

2010-04-08 Thread Trent Shea
On April 8, 2010 03:17:38 am jumbophut wrote: > After running the code in section 7.13, viz: > > "for NIC in /sys/class/net/* ; do > INTERFACE=${NIC##*/} udevadm test --action=add $NIC > done" > > I cannot find the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file that > is supposed to have been

Re: LFS-6.4 Book

2010-03-31 Thread Trent Shea
On March 31, 2010 06:36:03 pm Baho Utot wrote: > I would like not to rebuild the system, I want to look at compiling > gcc-4.3.2 to see if I can be successful. > If I can build gcc-4.3.2 into /opt/gcc-4.3.2 and then use that to build > KDE3 successfully then I am good to go and I won't > have to

Re: LFS-6.4 Book

2010-03-31 Thread Trent Shea
On March 31, 2010 05:31:07 pm Ken Moffat wrote: > Quite why anyone would want to read it now, other than to compare > what has changed, is beyond me. I agree with Ken. I see you fighting with KDE-3, but it's mainly because you're building a version that's not maintained - not officially anyways..

Re: fstab dump/fs_freq

2010-03-18 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:07:19 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Marking something true when it's not used seems incorrect to me, even > > if it doesn't hurt anything. > > It is true. The partition is one that is eligible to be dumped. Just > because the only program that uses the field isn't instal

Re: fstab dump/fs_freq

2010-03-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 21:16:30 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Trent Shea wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 20:25:16 Trent Shea wrote: > >> As dump/restore is not part of LFS or BLFS should this field be 0 for > >> all rows? > > dump is a command that uses those fi

Re: fstab dump/fs_freq

2010-03-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 20:25:16 Trent Shea wrote: > As dump/restore is not part of LFS or BLFS should this field be 0 for all > rows? CCing because I think it may be appropriate to modify the book? The sample /etc/fstab in chapter 8 has the mount point listed as swap, the man pag

fstab dump/fs_freq

2010-03-17 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, As dump/restore is not part of LFS or BLFS should this field be 0 for all rows? -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Configuring the network script (Chapter 7) with Debian Lenny as host

2010-03-14 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 14 March 2010 16:19:30 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Trent Shea wrote: > > I just ran a jhalfs build for lfs-6.6 and got hung up in chapter 7's > > "configuring the network script" at the for command. There are no errors > > reported, but no rule created either

Configuring the network script (Chapter 7) with Debian Lenny as host

2010-03-14 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, I just ran a jhalfs build for lfs-6.6 and got hung up in chapter 7's "configuring the network script" at the for command. There are no errors reported, but no rule created either. I worked around this by booting to the new system and running the for command again. If someone can confirm t

Re: I posted the sys.log file

2010-02-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 20:11:54 brown wrap wrote: > I posted the last boot. I see a warning regarding the order of loading > modules, but its the errors at the end that is worrisome. > Have you tried as Andrew suggested? >From the descriptions while configuring the kernel it sounds like

Re: I finally figured out how to post the config and get a reference number

2010-02-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 18:13:14 brown wrap wrote: > > Nothing jumps out as missing, but can you give us the > > results of > > > > lspci | grep USB > > > > That may give us a clue. > > > >-- Bruce > > Here you go: > > [r...@localhost boot]# /sbin/lspci |grep USB > 00:04.0 USB Contr

Re: Help compiling Gcc (chap. 5.5)

2010-02-13 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:06:20 Timothy Legg wrote: >tar -jxf ../mpfr-2.4.1.tar.bz2 > > I was never told which directory I was supposed to be in when I executed > this, but it might have been incorrect. > There's a note about this in: /lfs-6.5-book/chapter05/generalinstructions.

Re: Unable to even start compiling

2010-01-31 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 31 January 2010 04:06:28 David Shaw wrote: > @Simon - thanks for drawing my attention back to that important notice - > I had read it, but obviously didn't fully understand the implications. > I'm not sure how it could be made clearer, though, without making it too > Janet and John. >

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-26 Thread Trent Shea
Ack, I keep hitting reply and pulling stuff off the list. Anyhow, thanks for poking me in the right direction. On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:20:48 you wrote: > No, you aren't isolated from the host until you enter chroot in Chapter Fair enough, I should have said fairly isolated at this point.

Re: Ncurses 5.7 fail to configure

2010-01-26 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:07:36 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > That's the right output. > > Just add --without-gpm to the ncurses configure line and go on from there. > >-- Bruce > I was looking at a similar issues in another thread: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2010-January/0

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-26 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 23 January 2010 09:32:12 you wrote: > On Saturday 23 January 2010 08:26:53 haiye1018 wrote: > > hello > > > > In LFS6.4 step 5.17 compile coreutils-6.12 error: > > > > > > How to edit coreutils'configure scriptsss to get rid of selinux support? > > > > Can anyone help me to fix it? > >

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 23 January 2010 10:17:21 you wrote: > I don't see any flags to disable the search for SELinux. > I should mention it's my understanding that gcc shouldn't be searching for host include files at this point, maybe someone can clarify for me though. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 23 January 2010 10:01:22 Justin P. Mattock wrote: > getfilecon sounds something from an SELinux > header file. do you have an updated > libselinux?(or maybe build disabling audit/SELinux) > I don't see any flags to disable the search for SELinux. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 23 January 2010 08:26:53 haiye1018 wrote: > hello > > In LFS6.4 step 5.17 compile coreutils-6.12 error: > > How to edit coreutils'configure scriptsss to get rid of selinux support? > > Can anyone help me to fix it? > I'm not sure the configure file is the problem. Can you try to

Re: LFS6.4 step 5.17 compiling coreutils-6.12 error

2010-01-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 23 January 2010 09:32:12 Trent Shea wrote: > echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c > cc -v dummy.c 2>&1 |grep include > rm dummy.c or don't forget: rm a.out -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/f

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:39:38 Mikie wrote: > *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld > *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. > It looks like you may have missed the section about the host system's requirements. Could you confirm that you have the binutils pac

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 03 January 2010 15:10:47 Trent Shea wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2010 15:08:30 Trent Shea wrote: > > On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:39:38 Mikie wrote: > > > *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld > > > *** Check the INSTALL file for required

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 03 January 2010 15:08:30 Trent Shea wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:39:38 Mikie wrote: > > *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld > > *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. > > It looks like you may have missed the section ab

Re: LFS 6.5: Coreutils 7.4 phase 2 Expensive tests error

2009-12-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 07:51:25 ro...@hispeed.ch wrote: > /bin/sh: line 17: cd: lib: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/coreutils-7.4' > make: *** [check] Error 2 > > For my opinion it must be a basic problem. Any help

Re: KDE4 kdebase-workspace compile error

2009-11-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday November 22 2009 11:58:26 pm Simon Geard wrote: > I'm afraid I can't > be more specific, but it may be that your X libraries are too old for > KDE (or less likely, too new). > I can confirm the 4.3 branch built against Xorg-7.5 for me. -- Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailm

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday November 23 2009 05:19:32 am stosss wrote: > Also for the record the book LFS 6.5 does not tell you that the > entries in menu.lst and fstab need to be sd now and not hd. > It really depends on how you build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. -- Trent. -- http://l

Re: RE: fsck.ext3:devices or resource busy while try to open /dev/sdb

2009-10-26 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday 26 October 2009 04:32:32 kevin631012 wrote: > I got a problem as title . > What are the contents of your fstab file? I just tried manually running fsck.ext4 on /dev/sda and a very similar message appears. -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-supp

Re: Brick Wall on Network Device Congifuration

2009-10-11 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:51:32 Dan McGhee wrote: > My forehead is bloody from this brick wall, and I'm stumped as how > to proceed. I'm looking forward to any replies. > It has been awhile, but I believe the following should get you connected: iwconfig wlan0 essid "Dandrough" -- Trent

Re: Brick Wall on Network Device Congifuration

2009-10-11 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:51:32 Dan McGhee wrote: > I want only > to connect to the internet through my router and be able to connect > automatically to "hot spots" at motels and interstate rest stops--and > at family homes. > Re-reading it looks like you probably already know what I said.

Re: broken link in the LFSbook

2009-10-05 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday 05 October 2009 09:14:04 yayo wrote: > the link http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/lug/guide.html reported in the > Prerequisites section > Looks like it should be: http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LUG/guide.html -- Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: htt

Re: zlib instructions - 'rm /lib/libz.so'?

2009-09-13 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 13 September 2009 11:43:58 Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > If I could just take the chance to ask again (sorry - but read > through the thread if you want - you'll find out why) > You just replied to the answer! If you're interested read through the FHS description of the /lib directory. I

Re: Weirdness with evdev.

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 20:03:40 Trent Shea wrote: > Note: Apparently if you start X :1 after building new drivers nothing gets > tested (and you look like a fool ;.) You need to kill all running servers? > bleh... > (and you look like a fool Actually, it's one of those days

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 12:14:02 Trent Shea wrote: > You're right GRUB looks fine. I've never had to alter grub/menu.lst with > usb devices connected, but you never know. I've run into very similar > errors when root=uuid and switching to root=/dev/blah has fixed it. I ju

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:36:12 Trent Shea wrote: > Those should probably be sdb? > > Trent. Actually, looking back are you trying to boot off the usb drive? If so, you'll probably need to compile all the usb support into the kernel too. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: Kenel Panic

2009-08-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:27:55 RaptorX wrote: > > title Slackware > > root (hd1,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-custom root=/dev/sda2 > > > > title LFS 6.4 > > root (hd1,3) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 Those should probably be sdb? Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: time command help

2009-07-22 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:32:34 Trent Shea wrote: > > CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" time { ls; } > > Actually, this doesn't work for me either, :) now I'm a little curious... I just assumed this set a variable and went on to the next command, but

Re: time command help

2009-07-22 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:26:29 Mike McCarty wrote: > CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" time { ls; } Actually, this doesn't work for me either, :) now I'm a little curious... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: time command help

2009-07-22 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:26:29 Mike McCarty wrote: > The original question related to a command like this: > > $ CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" time { ls; } The command in the original post was still not properly formatted. It should work with the space and semi colon inserted. Trent. -- http://linu

Re: time command help

2009-07-22 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 07:46:58 RaptorX wrote: > the following commands work fine: > > time ls > > time "ls" > > time 'ls' > > this one doesnt: > > time {ls} > > time { ls } > > > so do we really have to enclose in brackets? http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/functions.html time { ls; } The first s

Re: Any issues upgrading LFS 6.3 -> 6.5

2009-07-21 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 00:18:25 Jeremy Henty wrote: > Are there any > obvious issues with doing that or should it just work? There will probably still be build issues related to gcc, and then header files (usually it's just an extra include required,) at least while the BLFS editors and variou

Re: [lfs] error compiling gcc in Pass 1

2009-06-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 12 June 2009 14:56:55 Ankur Sinha wrote: > Why do I get this error? I don't think I've missed anything this time. > > I'm on a fedora 10 x86_64 system. Please see the host system requirements before investing too much time into this particular build. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: Error while compiling util-linux-ng-2.14.1 LFS Chapter 5.32

2009-04-27 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday 27 April 2009 16:58:24 jnbut...@jnbutler.com wrote: > I searched the FAQ, Errata, and the mailing list but did not find > anything about this error I'm getting while compiling > util-linux-ng-2.14.1. Everything else up to this point configured > and compiled successfully. Thanks for any h

Re: LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:19:56 stencil wrote: > Which is the better choice, -i or -s? And if it is to be > -i, is the LFS 4.4 procedure the best way of ensuring that > $LFS is set to /mnt/lfs, or should the $LFS specification be > the *only* change made to root's native environment? I don't

Re: Kernel Configuration

2009-04-08 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 13:19:12 you wrote: > Trent Shea wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:11:29 Mike McCarty wrote: > >> I'd like to try jhalfs. I tried > >> earlier, and even though I told it not to build the kernel, it > >> insisted that i

Re: Kernel Configuration

2009-04-08 Thread Trent Shea
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:11:29 Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd like to try jhalfs. I tried > earlier, and even though I told it not to build the kernel, it > insisted that it needed the .config for it. What version of jhalfs are you using? I've been using svn for a number of months (currently, 352

Re: Block Chars in man pages after completing LFS

2009-02-23 Thread Trent Shea
On February 23, 2009 08:03:58 am Ryan Isaacs wrote: > So, if my locales do seem to be correctly installed, I'm suspicious > that I executed the sed command in section 6.40 (groff). That sed > command modified font/devutf8/R.proto, but I don't seem to have that > file on my LFS system post-build. Is

Re: jhalfs issue with permissions

2009-01-05 Thread Trent Shea
On January 5, 2009 07:38:15 pm Ralph Porter wrote: >  Building target 029-gcc-pass1 >  [+|du: cannot read directory `/mnt/lfs/.Trash-root': Permission denied1 > sec du: cannot read directory `/mnt/lfs/.Trash-rporter': Permission denied > > FROM HERE IT JUST SPINS AT THE PROMPT > > i have to ctrl-c

Re: LFS 6.3 ch 5.2 questions

2008-12-01 Thread Trent Shea
On December 1, 2008 02:09:40 am Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Sorry, this sounds like it was my comment... :) What I meant was, > what Trent says feels like more of a statement about the community's > attitude than it does a statement about the OP's comments. Probably a little more credit than I'm due.

Re: LFS 6.3 ch 5.2 questions

2008-12-01 Thread Trent Shea
On November 30, 2008 11:45:45 pm you wrote: > Look #$%# I did not ask you to help me. And I am not criticising > the book. I have read the #$%# book several times it is > confusing. I followed the book exactly as written and ended up with > @%#$ up build. If you want to respond like you did then ju

Re: LFS 6.3 ch 5.2 questions

2008-11-30 Thread Trent Shea
On November 30, 2008 10:29:25 pm Stealth wrote: > Is there anything on this page (book 6.3 ch 5.2) that needs to be > done before going to 5.3 to follow the binutils build instructions? Everyone has been amazingly patient with your criticism of the book. Please take the time to re-read the follow

Re: xorg build

2008-11-09 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:58:57 Ralph Porter wrote: > Ok, so disecting this command > > grep -v '^#' ../${section}-${version}.wget | wget -i- -c \ > -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/${section}/ > md5sum -c ../${section}-${version}.md5 > > says (if i read the man pages cor

Re: Grep 2.5.3 testsuite failures

2008-10-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 23 October 2008 20:42:54 Trent Shea wrote: > Hi, > > > I've noticed two test failures (log output below.) The host system is > LFS SVN-20080711 and the build was via jhalfs SVN r3521 and LFS SVN > r8693. Ticket#2054 includes some discussion concerning this issue

Grep 2.5.3 testsuite failures

2008-10-23 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, I've noticed two test failures (log output below.) The host system is LFS SVN-20080711 and the build was via jhalfs SVN r3521 and LFS SVN r8693. Ticket#2054 includes some discussion concerning this issue. Note: My previous logs before the cs_CZ locale was added produced 1 skipped test and

Re: Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-13 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 19:27:32 Trent Shea wrote: > bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/sda of=/root/mbr1 bs=512 count=1 > bash-3.2# dd if=/dev/sda of=/root/mbr2 bs=512 count=1 > bash-3.2# diff -s mbr mbr2 > Files mbr and mbr2 are identical > bash-3.2# > > Anyhow, I'm pretty convinc

Re: Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 14:11:49 Trent Shea wrote: > I wouldn't want to start altering instructions to reflect possible > scenarios though. Well, still... It feels odd that we would be worried about the system crashing at this point (ie. the last thing we are doing:). And configu

Re: Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 14:11:49 Trent Shea wrote: > It may be more robust if the previous bootloader was grub, and the > partition layout and setup were similar, but I've never actually > tried to see if this would work. Oh, I just re-read you said _after_ the mbr was altere

Re: Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 13:54:54 Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: > What is your opinion? It may be more robust if the previous bootloader was grub, and the partition layout and setup were similar, but I've never actually tried to see if this would work. I wouldn't want to start altering instr

Re: SVN-20081011 Binutils-2.18 Tests

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 10:13:14 Randy McMurchy wrote: > But if you've already built Binutils, then don't worry about those > failures, as they are known and fixed upstream. Thanks for your time on this. I'm really just building to try and follow development and help test where I can. > Again,

Re: SVN-20081011 Binutils-2.18 Tests

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:31:44 Randy McMurchy wrote: > We've added a patch to the Binutils installation to correct > this very issue. Perhaps you're overlooking the patch > installation? The only patch I saw was related to texinfo, and it applied all three times. Was there another patch? T

Re: SVN-20081011 Binutils-2.18 Tests

2008-10-12 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 11 October 2008 22:39:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And your errors are? < snip from logs > Running /root/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-shared/shared.exp ... FAIL: shared (non PIC) FAIL: shared (non PIC, load offset) FAIL: shared (PIC main, non PIC so) === ld Summary

SVN-20081011 Binutils-2.18 Tests

2008-10-11 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, I've built up to the binutils tests in chapter six twice today and I've been getting errors on the binutils tests. The builds were with my own scripts; I'm wondering if anyone can confirm a clean run of the binutils tests before I do a manual build to confirm the errors. Thanks, Trent. -

Re: LFS 6.3 - Chapter 8.4 - Cannot install grub

2008-06-18 Thread Trent Shea
On 6/18/08, Rafael Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grub> root (hd0,0) > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > Please advise how to get out from this hole. > Thank you !! - Rafael Try to use tab to auto complete and see if you can get anything? ie root ( Trent. -- http://linuxfromscr

Re: Section 6.12 Problems (Snakes and ladders)

2007-11-19 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday 19 November 2007 07:26, John Whitmore wrote: > Problem is that > when I remade these they didn't seem to do too much, I assume that's > because make looks at things and says that it's all up to date. Typically we delete all source directories after installation, so make should be nearly

Re: can't do su-

2007-11-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 02 November 2007 16:44, alberto hernando wrote: > No, I can't. In the log, I see an attemp to log in, seems that it's > succesful, but then comes the "unable to cd /home/lfs" error and > that's all. All I can say is that it's the user lfs who can't cd, not > root. I mean, the user can be

Re: can't do su-

2007-11-02 Thread Trent Shea (Telus)
On Friday 02 November 2007 06:34, alberto hernando wrote: > Any hint of what can be going on? Strange. You can try taking a look in /var/log/auth.log to see if a failed attempt is logged. Also, can you log as the lfs user? Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: X Environment

2007-10-13 Thread Trent Shea
On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:34:14 pm Bill wrote: > Can somebody tell me how > to configure my X environment so that when I issue the startx command, I > get something larger than 640x480? I don't have the same version, but on the 6.2.5 LiveCD there are instructions in the /root/README file. I

Re: Remotely building LFS

2007-09-14 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 14 September 2007 19:51, Richard Caldwell wrote: > is it possible to login remotely via network and build LFS? It > looks to me like it should be possible up until section 6.4 'entering > chroot'. Have I got this completely wrong? I think as long as you have root access (or perhaps, enoug

Re: Multiple simultaneous ttys

2007-09-13 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:09, Richard Caldwell wrote: > my system wont allow me to open any more ttys using [CTRL]+[Fn]. I believe you need to use ALT-Fn, or CTRL+ALT+Fn. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html U

Re: 6.28. Bash-3.2 and exec /bin/bash --login +h

2007-09-06 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday 03 September 2007 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > May I offer another idea. Of course! > AIUI, you've already got one complete > build script? Yea, it's still a very rough script; each time I look at it I find something to learn. > If'n it were me, the simplest thing would be to cut

Re: 6.28. Bash-3.2 and exec /bin/bash --login +h

2007-09-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:42, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 2. is a little more sensible to me, but only because I know > of a very simple way to create the markers. I like that; a lot more flexible than my initial idea of copying the running script, doing a sed, and then running the new script. T

Re: 6.28. Bash-3.2 and exec /bin/bash --login +h

2007-09-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:45, Dan Nicholson wrote: > It depends what you do with your script and if you keep some kind of > progress marker so that the newly invoked script knows where to pick > up. That's going to be the tricky part. The only ideas I've had so far are: 1. Somehow pause the

Re: chroot error

2007-09-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 September 2007 07:42, Boovarahan (Sridhar) wrote: > Plz help me to proceed further. Did you deviate from the book at all? Like, trying to use a link at /mnt/lfs/tools? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubs

Re: 6.28. Bash-3.2 and exec /bin/bash --login +h

2007-09-02 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 02 September 2007 08:00, Dan Nicholson wrote: > That's fine. I use the temp bash all the time to do the final build. That's good to hear; the only difference I noticed was that the second bash was compiled to use the readline we install in chapter 6, and I wasn't sure if anything depend

6.28. Bash-3.2 and exec /bin/bash --login +h

2007-09-01 Thread Trent Shea
Does anyone know of any problems that could creep in if I skip "exec /bin/bash --login +h" and continuing to use the bash built in chapter 5 until I'm done chapter 6? I ask because I have no idea how to pass control of a running script to the new shell; way out of my league... Trent. -- http

Re: can't find chap 5 gcc pass2 build logs

2007-08-25 Thread Trent Shea
There are no build logs for 6.3rc-x posted (nothing since sept 2006). You can look at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/ and go through some old ones, but the program versions are different, so, I'm not sure they reflect the current book's expected results. As Chris said, carry on;

Re: executing commands via bash variables

2007-08-19 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 19 August 2007 15:11, J.R. Hass wrote: > Is there a way to store that command in a variable and then run it > from the command line via a variable? You might try playing around with an alias rather than export, but it's probably better to separate the CC= from the command. ... export CC

Re: Diffutils chapter 5 make install error

2007-08-19 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 19 August 2007 17:58, Peter Santimauro wrote: > Make install finishes with an error, saying that it cannot > create regular file  /usr/local/bin/cmp, .../bin/diff, .../bin/diff3. > ../bin/sdiff, Permission denied. Chapter 5 should be trying to install to $LFS/tools. Check if your config

Re: can't run patch glibc-2.5-branch_update-3.patch

2007-08-19 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 19 August 2007 12:21, Burt Alcantara wrote: > I created the structure as above.  First time created > /mnt/lfs/packagename.  Copied sources/glibc-2.5.tar.bz2.  Ran the > patch. Ah, see the chapter 5 introduction. Before issuing the build instructions for a package... (it's marked importa

Re: can't run patch glibc-2.5-branch_update-3.patch

2007-08-19 Thread Trent Shea
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:49, Burt Alcantara wrote: > When you run this patch, where dir are you running it from and > what is your directory structure in general? Directory structure: Sources: /mnt/lfs/sources Patches: /mnt/lfs/sources/patches Unpacked Sources: /home/lfs/packagename Build Direc

Re: glibc-2.5-tests

2007-08-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:24, Ken Moffat wrote: > So, take a look at the unexpurgated log. Thanks, I'm going to take a peek at those. Specifically, the nptl ;). > but I > mistrust your SBU measurement - 230-300 is a rather large variance That's true it's more typical to see it within 10 secon

Re: glibc-2.5-tests

2007-08-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:08, Randy McMurchy wrote: > This may be much more than you need Nope, I needed it to stare me in the face. Many thanks. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: glibc-2.5-tests

2007-08-17 Thread Trent Shea
On Friday 17 August 2007 16:36, Randy McMurchy wrote: > the time in the book as 19.5 SBU to build Sorry, that is correct. I had the gcc page open. I'm still concerned about my actual SBU time. One SBU unit for this machine is anywhere from 230-300 seconds, so, the glibc in chapter six with tests

glibc-2.5-tests

2007-08-17 Thread Trent Shea
I'm having trouble with glibc-tests. The book says that they should take around 22 SBU; I'm completing them in under 4. I'm not getting any unexpected Errors a "grep Error glibc-2.5-tests" produces: make[2]: [/root/glibc-2.5-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: *** [/root/glibc-2.5

Re: root or user, getting picky

2007-08-16 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 16 August 2007 12:05, Clyde Forrester wrote: > mkdir -v ../binutils-build > cd ../binutils-build > ../binutils-2.16.1/configure yadda yadda yadda There is an important message in the Chapter 5 Introduction: Before issuing the build instructions for a package, the package should be un

6.3-rc1 Built

2007-08-09 Thread Trent Shea
Hi, Just reporting a successful build on a VMware Server using lfslivecd-x86-6.2-5 and following the 6.3-rc1 book. I'm starting http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3-branch/ now from a Debian Etch installation. Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: h