Re: Locales Problem?

2009-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Tomáš Skočdopole wrote: > 2009/1/30 tom : >> Im getting this and im lost: >> >> perl:warning: Please check that your locale settings: >> >> perl: warning: Falling back to standard locale >> >> How do I set this? >> >> Sorry im a newbie >> -- >> http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

cannot open root device hda3

2009-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ralph Porter wrote: > Hello folks. > > I'm working lfs book 6.4 (have already done 6.3) and am tying first time boot. > > error: > VFS: cannont open root device hda3 or unknow block (2,0) > > please append a correct "root" boot option: here are the available partions > > kernel panic - not sync

jhalfs issue with permissions

2009-01-05 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ralph Porter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Ralph Porter wrote: >> >>> mk_LUSER >>> You are going to log into the user account lfs >>> sudo requires a password >>> Password: >>> Sorry, try again. >> Since you didn't explicitly say it, we'll go for the obvious first.

Re: LFS 6.3 chpt 5.7 step cmd problem

2008-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Stealth wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2008 02:17:30 pm Herman Gerritsen wrote: >>> gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/ld-linux.so.2@/tools&@g' \ >>> >>> > `dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/specs >>> >>> and I get: >>> >>> sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/specs:

Re: LANG Env Varable

2008-11-11 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Adam Roach wrote: > Ralph Porter wrote: >> A little lost here. >> >> Some how I have managed to set the environment var. for LANG to >> en_us.iso88591, however in /etc/profile i have coded en_US.iso88591. >> >> Where else is this set? >> >> I do not have a .profile in ~/rporter >> >> thanks in ad

8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-11-01 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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

Re: kernel configuration and installation

2008-11-01 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:10:50PM +, Richard Melville wrote: >>> I've never looked at VLC. Looking at /usr/include/linux seems >>> a reasonable thing for a configure script to be doing. Which kernel >>> headers did you use when building glibc, and what is now reported to

Re: 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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 ar

Re: 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:53:12PM +0100, Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >>> Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> I have meanwhile tried to build a ke

Can't compile man pages...

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
GMail wrote: > Hello folks, > Its time to chroot and make the man pages...this is what is in the > directory. > > root:/man-db-2.4.4# ls > ABOUT-NLS aclocal.m4 configure.ac libman-db.lsm stamp-h.in > GNUmakefile.in config.h.in docs libdb manual tools > README

gcc failure

2008-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Rodolfo Perez wrote: > Rob > > I'm using the LFS 6.3 book. > > After all I don't know how to "unset any environmental > variables ..:-( According to the LFS Book, I have to do it only when I'm > on page 53!. (gcc pass 2). But my error is already on page 46 (Adjusting > the toolchain) > Anyway, ho

8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:53:12PM +0100, Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >> Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> I have meanwhile tried to build a kernel with EXT2 and EXT3 within the >> kernel. >> &

8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: > Hi all, > > > before I overwrite my MBR I want to test the new generated kernel on the > my Debian host system (which uses grub as well). > The Debian host system has the following EXT3 partitions: > > - /dev/hdb20: / > - /dev/hdb23:

8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
modules, isn't it? Thanks in advance for your help Wolfgang Messingschlager -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Making the LFS System Bootable

2008-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Hi all, I suggest before issuing within grub setup (hd0) the file /boot/grub/menu.lst should be created. This is much safer, because it can happen that the system crashes between overwriting the MBT and creating /boot/grub/menu.lst. What is your opinion? Wolfgang -- http://linuxfromscra

Restoring grub on MBR

2008-09-22 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
randhir phagura wrote: > Wolfgang wrote on 22 Sep 08: > >> Hi Randhir, > >> that is correct that you cannot boot if the MBR is gone or corrupt. But >> in this case you need only a bootable medium e.g. LFS live CD/DVD and >> then you can repair the MBR with dd command. > >> Another alternativ

Re: Re-establishing boot process from MBR

2008-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
randhir phagura wrote: > Wolfgang wrote on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 > >> Hi Randhir > >> very interesting info. But if you install often or sometimes Windows I >> prefer to create the partitions on Linux and then save the MBR in a file >> with the dd command e.g. > >> TS=`date +%Y%m%d` >> dd if=/dev/

Restoring grub on MBR

2008-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
randhir phagura wrote: > Howto: Re-establishing boot > process from MBR > > == > > Introduction: > -- > In a multi-OS boot system, booting is done from

LFS 6.3: chapter 6.11. Binutils-2.17 problems

2008-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Frank Peters wrote: > On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:51:34 +0200 > Wolfgang Messingschlager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I tried to build binutils version 2.17 >> >> cc1: warnings being treated as errors >> > > The problem is th

LFS 6.3: chapter 6.11. Binutils-2.17 problems

2008-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
gas/read.c:1810: warning: 'stopc' may be used uninitialized in this function I have checked gas/read.c from binutils-2.18. Here all the lines char stopc; was changed to char stopc = 0; Shall I use binutiles-2.18 or shall I replace "char stopc;" by "char stopc =

Re: make -k check during check of Glibc-2.5.1

2008-08-02 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 04:46:10PM +0200, Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >> >> for your detailed answer. So in summary you think that I have should >> have a problem. the problem is more to trust the glibc checks. > I think you will most likely hav

make -k check during check of Glibc-2.5.1

2008-08-02 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:30:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Messingschlager wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> my host Linux system (AMD Athlon 2000 Hz) is a debian etch system with >> >> - gcc 4.1.1-15 >> - kernel 2.6.18-5-686 >>

make -k check during check of Glibc-2.5.1

2008-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Messingschlager
Hi all, my host Linux system (AMD Athlon 2000 Hz) is a debian etch system with - gcc 4.1.1-15 - kernel 2.6.18-5-686 - libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 I tried to build a LFS system from the LFS 6.3 book. However during page 6.9 (Installation of Glibc) the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.