Kernel 2.6.34 does not add my external disk to /etc/mtab???

2010-06-12 Thread Jeremy Henty
boot time, otherwise the device would not mount at all. Why does the script behave differently at boot time rather than afterwards? Any ideas? I'm stumped. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Python install question

2011-10-12 Thread Jeremy Henty
f enabling valgrind support I would call it a severe bug in the build system if the standard install procedure broke just because there was already an older or differently configured version of the software installed on the system. In other words, "install" should do what it

[lfs-support] Q: HOWTO: chainload from GRUB2 on /dev/sdb to GRUB2 on /dev/sda ?

2012-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
ng? Surely there is a way to get GRUB2 to do this. Thanks in advance for any help, Regards, Jeremy Henty [1] I am paraphrasing from memory so it's not *exactly* correct but the gist is right. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: HOWTO: chainload from GRUB2 on /dev/sdb to GRUB2 on /dev/sda ?

2012-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
really work and others suggest that it should just work. Gaah! Thanks for your help, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: HOWTO: chainload from GRUB2 on /dev/sdb to GRUB2 on /dev/sda ?

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Henty
ant to do that?". It seems that despite GRUB2's famous flexibility it just does not support what I want to do and no-one expects that it should. Thanks again for your help. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: HOWTO: chainload from GRUB2 on /dev/sdb to GRUB2 on /dev/sda ?

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Henty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > It's frustrating - I can only find explicit instructions for the > > case where you chainload from one GRUB2 to a second GRUB2 on the > > boot sector of a partition (ie. *not* on the MBR of another > >

Re: [lfs-support] Q: HOWTO: chainload from GRUB2 on /dev/sdb to GRUB2 on /dev/sda ?

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Henty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Try: > > grub> linux (hd0,1)/grub/core.img > grub> boot After checking the GRUB help mailing list I find that you were *almost* completely right. The command is "multiboot", not "linux". Now it just works. Thanks again

Re: [blfs-support] CUPS problem: lp: Unsupported document-format "text/plain".

2012-06-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:25:12 +0100 > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > Fixed! I had to configure ghostscript-9.05 with --with-install-cups . > > [...] > > Perhaps this is worth mentioning on the BLFS Ghostscript page? > > Cups is an option

[lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
back but they fail to detect my internal SATA disks (which surprises me - I thought SATA would just work). So, what do people recommend for a modern Live CD to rescue/host LFS? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
Yasser Zamani wrote: > I recommend Slax (http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php/); Thanks, I'm downloading it. I like the way you can download a customised version direct from the site. Neat! Reagrds, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
ackage needed IP6 to pass > tests. In addition, Slax has almost new GCC, GLibc, kernel and > generally the toolchain by default! It works very nicely. The kernel is 2.6.27.27 which is not nearly new, but it is still new enough for LFS 7.1. Thanks for the tip! Regards,

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
#x27;ll give it a go. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
Yasser Zamani wrote: > I recommend Slax (http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php/); I gracefully > finished LFS with that as host. I ran the verson check script in Slax and it could not find bison, yacc or makeinfo. Did you customise slax with extra packages? Regards, Jeremy Henty --

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
etects my disks just fine. Many thanks for doing this! Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Q: Is the map between physical SATA disks and GRUB2's hd fixed?

2012-07-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
after booting from a live CD? Or can I drop into the BIOS and asssume that it lists the drives in hd0, hd1 ... order? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: Is the map between physical SATA disks and GRUB2's hd fixed?

2012-07-21 Thread Jeremy Henty
s still /dev/sda2 , but after booting grub on the disk reports the same device map as before, namely hd0 -> /dev/sda . Surprising! Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Mounting /tmp as tmpfs

2012-08-23 Thread Jeremy Henty
if eg. /dev/shm is in memory but /tmp is not.) Also, many audio/multimedia HOWTOs advise you to have /tmp in memory but I haven't used such software in enough anger to see how useful that is. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http:/

[lfs-support] Missing 7.3 tarball entries in MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS in the mirror sites

2013-03-29 Thread Jeremy Henty
I juct checked the mirror sites listed at the bottom of http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html and all of them lack entries for the version 7.3 tarballs in their MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS files. I think this happened before. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http

Re: [lfs-support] Missing 7.3 tarball entries in MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS in the mirror sites

2013-03-30 Thread Jeremy Henty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > I juct checked the mirror sites listed at the bottom of > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html and all of them > > lack entries for the version 7.3 tarballs in their MD5SUMS and > &

[lfs-support] Q: re. LFS 7.3 errata

2013-05-15 Thread Jeremy Henty
-6.8 .) Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: re. LFS 7.3 errata

2013-05-19 Thread Jeremy Henty
William Harrington wrote: > > On May 15, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > >Quote: > > > > Changes to some distros cause the build of check-0.9.9 to fail in > > Chapter 5. The proper fix is to add --with-sysroot to the end of > >

Re: [lfs-support] Q: re. LFS 7.3 errata

2013-05-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 19/05/2013 15:31, Jeremy Henty a écrit : > > > Sorry, I am confused. Do you mean I will be OK ignoring the erratum > > or I will be OK if I follow it? And does "add --with-sysroot" mean > > literally to add "--with-sys

[lfs-support] Any reason to run "loadkeys" before building Linux?

2013-07-29 Thread Jeremy Henty
ged? Does running "loadkeys" do anything useful these days? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Broken link on "lfs-support Info Page"

2013-07-29 Thread Jeremy Henty
The link "lfs-support Archives" (http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/) in "lfs-support Info Page" (http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support/) returns "Page not found!". Hang on, I guess that before I report this I should check the mailing list archives ... **STACK L

Re: Udev Questions

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Henty
ias | wc -l 38 Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-05 Thread Jeremy Henty
t same results... Just guessing, but I think a PAM misconfiguration can cause this. Maybe you should check the contents of /etc/pam.d . Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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

2008-02-07 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:33:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 06/02/08 17:11:20, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > And have you told the Blender developers? If not then I certainly > > will, since I think your fix is clearly the right thing to do. > > Wel

Re: Connectivity, continued

2008-02-12 Thread Jeremy Henty
still responsible for handling sshd connections. Even if I am wrong about inetd being the problem, it certainly looks as though *something* is refusing to let go of port 22. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscrat

[no subject]

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Henty
atarcyrheb-sun16 . I didn't touch anything outside /boot when I upgraded. Ages ago I customised/etc/sysconfig/consoletoset KEYMAP="uk"and FONT="lat1-14" , but that's the only change. Any ideas? Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

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

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Henty
Just thought I'd add a title to my email! D'oh! On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:20:38PM +0000, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > I upgraded my LFS 6.1.1 from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24 and now all 8-bit > characters appear as a reverse-video question mark in the terminal. > At least t

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

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Henty
I guess just adding a call to "unicode_stop" to the "console" bootscript will do the job? Thanks for the tip, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Henty
Using /bin/echo produces the correct result. Thanks everyone. I installed the LFS 6.3 console script, added "ECHO=/bin/echo" near the beginning, rebooted and all is good! Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

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

2008-02-18 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:16:38PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 1:56 PM, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks everyone. I installed the LFS 6.3 console script, added > > "ECHO=/bin/echo" near the beginning, rebooted and all is good

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
lo-specific. > If you have already built the system, i think /etc/console has > default settings for the default font etc.. I set FONT="lat1-14" in /etc/sysconfig/console which gives me a few extra lines. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it > > to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. > > Works great in grub: > &g

Re: vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:05:41PM -0500, jasin wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, vga=xxx seems to be incompatible with setting > > FONT=... in /etc/sysconfig/console ! The console spungs back into > > the default VGA mode during the SysV

Q: executables in /lib/udev , is this correct?

2008-08-21 Thread Jeremy Henty
I just noticed that both my LFS 6.1 and 6.3 systems installed useful executables such as vol_id into /lib/udev rather than anywhere in my $PATH . This seems inappropriate, perhaps it should be changed? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ

Re: Q: executables in /lib/udev , is this correct?

2008-08-22 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:31:36PM -0300, Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. wrote: > Em Thursday 21 August 2008 14:51:12 Jeremy Henty escreveu: > > I just noticed that both my LFS 6.1 and 6.3 systems installed > > useful executables such as vol_id into /lib/udev rather than >

useradd now creates groups too

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Henty
I've noticed a change in the behaviour of useradd when upgrading LFS from 6.1.1 to 6.3: "useradd foo" now creates a default group "foo" and makes it the primary group of user "foo". It this meant to happen or have I messed something up?

Re: useradd now creates groups too

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Henty
Replying to myself, On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:07:28AM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > I've noticed a change in the behaviour of useradd when upgrading LFS > from 6.1.1 to 6.3: "useradd foo" now creates a default group "foo" > and makes it the primary g

Re: Glibc: cpu does not support x86_64

2008-12-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
lon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ I booted off the LFS live CD and built LFS on that. No problems. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS 6.4: mpfr is no longer available at the documented URL.

2009-02-22 Thread Jeremy Henty
ue to lacking the TICKET_CREATE privilege. Is that intentional? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS 6.4: mpfr is no longer available at the documented URL.

2009-02-23 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:58:59PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > I've set some permissions for you, Jeremy, could you check them out > ... OK, I've created a new ticket now. Thanks very much! Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-s

Error in section 6.9 of LFS 6.4 Glibc-2.8-20080929

2009-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
utside reasonable range (496950512) Should I be concerned about this? The host was under heavy load at times during the run of the test set, so maybe that was the problem? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-27 Thread Jeremy Henty
onf and friends unless you want to develop software.". So, since creating an LFS system only requires building existing software, why does it include the auto-tools? Could we not move them to BLFS? What am I missing here? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/list

Re: Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-28 Thread Jeremy Henty
Although I don't believe that there are any such > changes in current LFS, there have been many in the past. Ah! I didn't know that. That's an excellent reason for keeping them in, even if they could be stripped out of the current LFS. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-02-28 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:32:23PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote these words on 02/27/09 18:18 CST: > > What am I missing here? > > The 600 previous discussions about the same subject. Please > reference the archives and you'll probably

Re: Q: why are the auto-tools in LFS and not BLFS?

2009-03-01 Thread Jeremy Henty
#x27;t > feel to bad about it! Ah, so it is indeed my purpose to serve... as a warning to others! :-) Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: mpfr-2.3.2.tar.gz in LFS 6.4 wget list not found

2009-03-06 Thread Jeremy Henty
the LFS site. Could you mention it in a new comment to the ticket? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Best Version to Build?

2009-03-18 Thread Jeremy Henty
uot; hint though, I did the standard thing and built on a separate partition. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

FIXED!!!: [WAS] Re: Continued: Upgrading Xorg 7.2 -> 7.4, black screens, evdev and all that

2009-04-19 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 04:43:30PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 03:33:24PM +0100, Martin Ward wrote: > > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:37:13PM +0100, Martin Ward wrote: > > > > > >> think about it it migh

Any issues upgrading LFS 6.3 -> 6.5

2009-07-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
I use LFS 6.3. I also have an embryonic 6.4 system, but it looks as though I should just scrap that and go straight to 6.5. Are there any obvious issues with doing that or should it just work? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Q: changing to a UTF locale?

2009-08-10 Thread Jeremy Henty
ly to LFS 6.5 in a UTF locale Are all/any of these feasible? The biggest problem I can see is postgres, because the locale is hardwired into the server and it only supports UTF in UTF locales. Any other gotchas? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-su

Re: Q: changing to a UTF locale?

2009-08-10 Thread Jeremy Henty
UTF-8 was pretty much the default now and the LFS 6.5 book discusses UTF-8 locales without suggesting that they're particularly troublesome, so I assumed it wouldn't involve too much pain. I'll postpone thoughts of UTF-8 until LFS 6.5 is up and running. Thanks for

Re: Q: changing to a UTF locale?

2009-08-12 Thread Jeremy Henty
config/console and rebooting, or should I reinstall? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Test error: Perl, section 6.32

2009-08-13 Thread Jeremy Henty
22 CPU) Failed 1/1462 test programs. 2/187534 subtests failed. How can I investigate this further? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: error: bad value (native) for -mtune= switch

2009-09-05 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:46:45PM -0500, Shawn Eary wrote: > baseh-3.2$ echo $PATH > /toos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin Is that really "/toos/bin" rather than "/tools/bin"? Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jeremy Henty
or new /dev/sd* devices. Hence, no access to my IDE drives or my CD. I Googled for answers but found nothing definite, just lots of faff with no details. I'd love some tips as to how to fix this: my core system is SATA but I have some holiday snaps I'd like to see! Regar

Re: Keep building a broken compiler

2005-03-30 Thread Jeremy Henty
rfs stresses the CPU much more than other file systems, which can lead to the bizarre "kernel compiles crash on this file system and not on others" bug. OK, I'm guessing, obviously, but it might be worth checking out. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscrat

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread Jeremy Henty
longer follow links by clicking on them; I have to use the keyboard (up/down-arrow, Enter). Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya choice. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: lfs blog'd

2005-06-05 Thread Jeremy Henty
what LFS is for, what it's like to build and run, and why you might want to do it. It even made the point that "LFS is, in the strict definition of the term, not a distribution.", which is pretty insightful for this kind of drive-by review. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfroms

Re: Can LFS be copied from 1 hard drive to another after the build?

2005-06-15 Thread Jeremy Henty
ing slash on /mnt/lfs/ is important, don't leave it out!) Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Can LFS be copied from 1 hard drive to another after the build?

2005-06-15 Thread Jeremy Henty
to temporary directories and rsync them. Now you *know* exactly what you're copying. Works for / partitions too! Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Advice wanted: building a Linux audio/music station on LFS

2005-06-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
Hi folks, I was wondering if any of you had tips on building an LFS system for serious music/audio composing/editing work. I'll also be pinging alsa-dev etc. for help but I'd appreciate your input too. I'm a long-time happy LFS 4.1 user and I've already decided the next system will be LFS 6.x co

Re: Advice wanted: building a Linux audio/music station on LFS

2005-06-23 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:34:19AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi folks, I was wondering if any of you had tips on building an LFS > >system for serious music/audio composing/editing work. > > You should also consult the wisdom at > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good call! I'll be getting in to

Re: Advice wanted: building a Linux audio/music station on LFS

2005-06-23 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:02:16AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Why boot off Knoppix when there's a livecd made just for building > LFS? No particular reason, just that I have Knoppix lying around already, it's reckoned to be a good host platform for building LFS and I've already used it for

Re: Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread Jeremy Henty
been implemented, or whether it's the reason for rsync's internal zlib being different. Anyone know more? Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Understanding 32/64 bit issues

2005-07-28 Thread Jeremy Henty
out of it.) Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

64 bit Linux Live CDs

2005-07-31 Thread Jeremy Henty
Thanks to everyone who educated me about 32/64-bit issues. I've been having trouble finding the recommended 64-bit live CDs. I'm bewildered if I can find Gentoo's, and the download link at http://stockwith.co.uk/x86_64/> is broken. But I *have* downloaded the Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog AMD64 live CD

Re: 64 bit Linux Live CDs

2005-08-01 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > I dunno if anybody has managed to build from a ubuntu live CD. The > package versions should be ok, it's a question of whether they > include all the necessary packages and headers. Well, we'll see. I guess the good thing about Gento

Re: the first three days at LFS [was : A question about house keeping]

2005-09-19 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:30:45PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Everybody loves topping "I did something even stupider" stories. Well, if we're going to play *that* game - I once accidentally stapled my thumbs together. Beat that! Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blf

LFS 6.1.1 from Knoppix 3.7

2005-12-02 Thread Jeremy Henty
tc/gshadow with a copy of /KNOPPIX/etc/gshadow then it's OK. (NB: I also ran " chown root:shadow /etc/gshadow ; chmod 640 /etc/gshadow " .) Hope this helps. I've been a happy LFS 4.1 user for a few years now and I'm looking forward to my new LFS 6.1.1 system! Cheers, J

annexc.out - ignoring error

2005-12-03 Thread Jeremy Henty
when I succeed/fail. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- [1] http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-support/2004-January/021572.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-glibc/2001-05/msg00055.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-glibc/2002-02/msg00070.html http://www.mail-arch

Re: annexc.out - ignoring error

2005-12-04 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:59:56PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > >I'm in Chapter 6.11.1 and the glibc test script gives me: > > > >make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored) > > > > [gr

Yay! - /me punches fist in air in gesture of victory

2005-12-07 Thread Jeremy Henty
It's up! He LFS 6.1.1 . I feel good! I knew that I would! Thanks to everyone who contributed to LFS! Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inform

Re: Yay! - /me punches fist in air in gesture of victory

2005-12-07 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:25:59AM -0700, Scott wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:14:51AM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > > > It's up! He LFS 6.1.1 . > > > > Thanks for being so informative! Without thi

Linus Torvalds ate my mouse!

2006-01-20 Thread Jeremy Henty
e this until now. I updated the kernel .config by running "make oldconfig" and accepting the default answer to all questions. Any ideas? Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: How to proceed to BLFS

2006-02-05 Thread Jeremy Henty
me. YMMV of course, but this worked very well for me. BLFS includes links and gpm. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Kernel patching

2006-07-21 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:08:36AM -0700, Paul G Rogers wrote: > Sorry, thought [2.6.] was understood. IIRC the full name is > patch-2.6.12-tar.bz2 from kernel.org, of course. That's the diff between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 . Not want you want, surely? Regards, Jeremy Hent

Upgrading udev on LFS-6.1.1

2006-08-11 Thread Jeremy Henty
I run LFS-6.1.1 , upgraded to kernel-2.6.16.27 and udev-071 . Can I upgrade to udev-096 using the LFS-6.2 instructions or will it break horribly? I should disable hotplug as well, right? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1046, Issue 1

2006-08-13 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:23:31PM -0700, Paul G Rogers wrote: > >From: Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I run LFS-6.1.1 , upgraded to kernel-2.6.16.27 and udev-071 . Can > >I upgrade to udev-096 using the LFS-6.2 instructions or will it > >break > > I did

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1046, Issue 1

2006-08-15 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 04:27:26PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 8/13/06, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * I needed to run "make uninstall" in the udev-071 build tree > > before installing udev-096. If you don't do that then something > &

Re: Syslog logs - why not just one?

2006-09-24 Thread Jeremy Henty
og-ng can, and the fact that someone went to the trouble of creating syslog-ng says something, no? Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Why would a kernel upgrade change my X server resolution

2006-10-03 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:25:55PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:09:31AM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > Did you change anything in I2C settings in the new kernel > &g

Re: Why would a kernel upgrade change my X server resolution

2006-10-03 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/2/06, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > >> BTW, is there any reason not to upgrade to Xorg-6.9.0? > > > &

Re: Q: HOWTO set up XML catalogs (to build xmlto)

2006-10-08 Thread Jeremy Henty
I wrote: > Does anyone know how to diagnose and fix XML catalogs? OK, ignore this, I've just realised I have to install the DocBook XML. I'll post again if I have problems. Sorry for the noise. Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-supp

What's up with the website?

2006-11-18 Thread Jeremy Henty
As of "Fri Nov 17 16:27:38 GMT 2006": http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ returns a directory listing and http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ and http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ return pages saying "Page not found". Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: LiveCD 6.2 install trouble

2006-12-19 Thread Jeremy Henty
e \u:\w\$ as a command. Change them to single quotes "'". If you're not sure of the difference between single quotes, backquotes and double quotes in shell scripts I recommend you spend a little time studying it - it's very important and knowing it could save you a lot of ti