Re: [lfs-support] LFS Dev Release Schedules

2013-01-10 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> Last year, there were changes on about 108 days. Basically, > whenever something needed fixing, and when a ticket in trac [ > mostly, package upgrades ] appeared to be ready to action. > > I'm not sure about the current situation with trac, but once the Trac and SVN are still on the old ser

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 release, Building on Debian 5 host build system...

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On 29/11/2011 11:21, David Scott Williams wrote: > BTW-- now that I have done what the book told me to do, > CC="gcc" /usr/bin/perl scripts/test-installation.pl > /sources/glibc-build/ > Your new glibc installation seems to be ok. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.14.1' > root:/sources

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 release, Building on Debian 5 host build system...

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On 29/11/2011 11:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > David Scott Williams wrote: >> Here is the section I did not do. I did not realize that it was >> mandatory (I thought it was cosmetic ;)) > Building an OS is complicated. Don't assume. There are a couple of > places where we say an item is optional, but

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 release, Building on Debian 5 host build system...

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hi David, On 29/11/2011 10:13, David Scott Williams wrote: > I feel silly replying to myself again -- but...after re-running the > check, and it coming up OK... I went ahead and went to install this > glibc... the tail end of the error message (I assume this is relating to > a manual//info?) is a

Re: LFS-6.6, Stage2, glibc, nscd.c:442

2010-05-31 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Quoth the creator: > Gerard: Read the book we wrote for our users. But, don’t be afraid to > deviate from it. After all, that’s the whole point of the project: to > make a system for yourself, not according to somebody else’s > specifications. > http://www.crazyengineers.com/

Re: Unable to boot LFS 6.4

2009-05-29 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Jaiyson, > [ 2.417123] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(2,0) > [ 2.417224] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the > available partitions: > [ 2.417360] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on unknown-block(2,0) The first thing I w

Re: use of LFS_TGT in relesed lfs 6.4 book

2009-01-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> How it happened is up to him to explain. Perhaps he didn't > make a tag for the release, and just used trunk after the > fact when making the PDF file. > > Seems there should be a checklist for making a release, I > know I have one for BLFS when I make a release. There is (a checklist). I'm sur

Re: use of LFS_TGT in relesed lfs 6.4 book

2009-01-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> Yeah, verified. It's there in the PDF file. That's really odd. I don't > know who generated the PDF, but it's definitely contaminated with stuff > from trunk which were post 6.4. That qualifies as an oops if I ever heard of one. Refresh my memory, who did the actual release tagging again for

Re: SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> Case closed. Glad to hear you got it resolved. Yes we're always interested in knowing what exactly did it if you are able to narrow it down some day. Take care, Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: S

Re: SATA PC Fails to Boot PATA Linux Drive

2008-05-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Alex, > Just a thought (while we're at it): how come a lousy 2.4.2 rescue floppy can > get to my IDE drives (read/write) without my using any special HDD driver > machinations? This may not be *the* answer to your problem, but just some notes to consider for future reference. Every kernel's

Re: could not chroot to new evironment

2008-05-16 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hi, A few replies have already been sent that mentioned a few different aspect of what went wrong in your build. I just saw your own replies that you got it figured out. Here are a few additional notes which may prove helpful for the archives. > chroot: cannot run command `/home/morfast/lfs/lf

Re: Question regarding legalities

2008-05-16 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Gregory, There is absolutely no problem with printing the book. The license of the book only requires you to retain the original copyright notice as per the link Marius already shared. - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/legalnotice.html That comes more into play when you redistr

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1142, Issue 1

2007-02-26 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Settings are correct, but it seems the cronjob that is responsible for triggering the send of a daily digest isn't activated. Currently when a digest reaches a max size it'll be sent by Mailman itself when it processes a next incoming message. Bruce, if you check the mailman section in root's f

Re: Mailman has gone wonky

2006-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ld do it. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
t; user as explained in chapter 4 before continuing with package installations from chapter 5. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

lfs-book renders once a day from now on

2005-11-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ement is being worked on. Justin Knierim and I have been talking and figuring out the best way to go about it. Details will be forthcoming soon -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: Anybody getting ssh bruce force attacks?

2005-11-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Rats. Wrong list, meant to send to lfs-security, not -support. Can't even claim a typo on this one. Thinko? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfroms

Anybody getting ssh bruce force attacks?

2005-11-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ll for work, and "oops I can't login until I'm home again which will be in a few days. Sorry boss, you'll just have to live with the downed service until then." That's not going to go over very well. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you

Re: A Hotplug question

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ent with it. If you set the level to '1' (dmesg -n 1), the console will receive no messages except kernel panic messages. All messages, including the ones that aren't printed, still go to the system log daemon as usual. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the sol

Re: gcc fails tests (lots) in LFS 6.1 Ch. 6

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Beekmans
html This Community Service Announcement(TM) was brought to you by... Regards Greg -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GCC4 ch. 6: compiler produces unrunnable binaries

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Beekmans
GCC4 compiles Glibc (or how the current instructions in LFS might be buggy for this application and miscompile Glibc) you should be able to find it in the mailinglist archives. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscrat

Re: GCC4 ch. 6: compiler produces unrunnable binaries

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Beekmans
'm contemplating getting rid of it altogether if something can't be figured out soon. That's a discussion for another thread. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Beekmans
the LFS book, there's a bigger problem. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Beekmans
sterday to make sure it was there as I thought it was. I checked that page and I didn't see the "Note" box. It is kind of big and obvious but somehow I overlooked it. Consider it my "duh" moment. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-23 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ted, chances of somebody being off-line while building from a regular distribution are slim in this day and age, but not impossible. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/l

Re: GCC4 ch. 6: compiler produces unrunnable binaries

2005-07-23 Thread Gerard Beekmans
am. When you execute /lib/ld-linux.so.2, what happens? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GCC4 ch. 6: compiler produces unrunnable binaries

2005-07-23 Thread Gerard Beekmans
bly won't since it's one of those things that is the expected default. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: internet connection with liveccd

2005-07-23 Thread Gerard Beekmans
t e2fsprogs once upon a time couldn't process? If I am remembering the right issue (it's been a while), that issue has have been fixed in the current e2fsprogs version that we use with LFS now. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong prob

Re: Error Patching Bash-2.05b

2005-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
That aside you're also using quite an old LFS version. You might want to move to LFS-6.0. Seeing you're only in chapter 5 you won't lose much time if you switch now. You will need to start from scratch if you switch. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution

Re: 6.11. Glibc-2.3.4-20040701 'make check' seg faults

2005-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
s evident that it's something to do with the way the packages are installed for 64-bit systems we can move it to lfs-dev when appropriate. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: Kernel Panic!

2005-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
a harddrive. If it doesn't, you may have the wrong IDE driver after all. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscri

Re: glibc -2.3.4 (sect 6.11) make error

2005-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ernal' Did you restart the glibc build from scratch by removing the glibc-build directory and starting over again from the configure stage? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listi

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ad FC3, bad. Wow that's ugly. Rumor has it that e2fsprogs-1.36 may have these new features built in as well. Maybe not. I'll add your latest notes to the bugzilla bug and we'll have to do a more thorough investigation and consider our options. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doe

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
x27;t be forgotten. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Status update with regards to the search engine: it works again

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
s at it, I also added the two latest mailinglists to the search options: hlfs-book and livecd. If you notice anything strange, fire off an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
kind of a serious show stopper. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problems while Login to LFS

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
lot of valuable lessons I have > learned from you. That's the important part: as long as you learn from it. Now it only begins. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: Problems while Login to LFS

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
of both these issues. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problems while Login to LFS

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
like: root:$1$oNt8kY9/$sHh9Yl6vT6X.q1rF9pfP7.:12656:0:9:7::: Of course the encrypted password and the numbers will be different for you. Just make sure something is there and it looks good (the same amount of colon (:) characters and such). -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't hav

Re: Kernel Panic!

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
e kernel give Serial ATA devices SCSI device nodes (i.e. > /dev/sda5). I know this caught me when I first set up LFS. That's good to keep in mind. I didn't know that either. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linu

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
/lfs/view/development/) Fedora Core 3 presented us with a number of issues lately. Either an errata page is in order or simply an updated FAQ. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-sup

Re: make modules_install gives errors

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
orgot to put it in the "cp" command? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Kernel Panic!

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
You are not booting a straight kernel, but are using an initial ramdisk (initrd) setup? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq

Re: glibc -2.3.4 (sect 6.11) make error

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
plan when you installed Perl in chapter 5. You could simply try to reinstal Perl in that chapter and try Glibc again. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: Kernel Panic!

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
and double-check to make sure you selected the right IDE drivers. Before your kernel panics, you should see messages scroll by with regards to detected hardware. It goes quick so watch closely. Check if you see any IDE messages and if it detected any harddrives and partitions. -- Gerard Be

Re: about LFS license problem

2005-02-21 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ve owners. You can't take Glibc and remove its GPL license for example, unless you modify it as your own version of Glibc. Again check the licenses to see how this work. Not every package is the same. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 20, 2005 04:52 pm, John Gay wrote: > Mine says: Senthill, if you can provide output of that same command (tune2fs -l /dev/hda4) when you run it from Fedora Core 3, then we can compare it and offer some suggestions to you that you might try out. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Li

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
atted in a standard way I'll create a partition later today. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
on that. If it was a recent thing then if google hasn't picked it up by now, searching will be a bit cumbersome. I hope to get it resolved asap. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: LFS Book 6 Kbd-1.12?

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ge to lfs-support should arrive in your mailbox right away. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
th-root-prefix="" \ --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms make make install make install-libs Exit chroot, unmount LFS, reboot into LFS and see if it works better now. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfroms

Re: make modules_install gives errors

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
r your constant support, its highly motivating! No problem. Glad to be able to help :) -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
LFS version of e2fsprogs doesn't know about. Let's check both versions first: 1) Which version of e2fsprogs did you install in chapter 6 of LFS? 2) Which version of e2fsprogs is installed in Fedora Core 3? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have t

Re: make modules_install gives errors

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
will my lfs > system work properly? The error told you what is wrong: you are missing depmod and are suggested to install module-init-tools. Did you install this package? -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Re: Can't find /tools/bin/bash for initial chroot, and /tools/bin/bash is bad too.

2005-02-20 Thread Gerard Beekmans
d to? Run "ldd /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/bash" and make sure it is not linked to libraries in /lib. It should try to find the libraries in /tools/lib. If not, then when you chroot, /lib/libc.so.6 for example doesn't exist and bash won't run. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn

Re: kde bug or?

2005-02-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ng will fix it too without reinstalling fontconfig. It's a matter of configuring fontconfig after the X installation: Add to /etc/fonts/local.conf: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and run /usr/bin/fc-cache to update fontconfig's cache. KDE should work properly now

Re: problem with su

2005-02-19 Thread Gerard Beekmans
in/su Try your su program again and see if it works now. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: kernel panic:VFS: cannot mount root fs

2005-02-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 18, 2005 02:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sir I 've already wasted 7-8 cds' due to this process.I am bein' very much By the way, have you considered rewriteable CDs? That way if a test failed you don't waste a CD. You can just format it and try again. --

Re: kernel panic:VFS: cannot mount root fs

2005-02-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
ivecd@linuxfromscratch.org mailinglist too. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page