Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread DJ Lucas
Dan Nicholson wrote: ln is a classic hangup for newbies. man ln, and play around with it on some dummy files. The syntax above is right if you have the file /tools/bin/tclsh8.4. You can issue it from any directory, too. Yes, the important part to find is that the link is relative to it's o

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
I have /tools/bin/msgfmt, seems to work. The -O3 version made and installed completely... unless I really missed something and this was happening from the start. I'm going to quickly try a complete re-make of glibc... maybe it never did finish... this was 5 days ago now but I think I would have re

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Michael Chrostowski wrote: Hrm... I tried doing a make install on another version of glibc I had around that was compiled with -O2 and it gave error O_O /bin/sh: no: command not found /tools/bin/msgfmt missing ? (from the minimal gettext installation in chapter 5). I t

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
Unfortunately everything looks alright, that is both returned /tools/lib/libc.so.6 or ld-linux.so.2. the dummy log showed it looked in a few places for libc, but it found it so I assume that means everything is ok. Hrm... I tried doing a make install on another version of glibc I had around that

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/06, Michael Chrostowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using scripts for mounting the right stuff, chroot'ing, then > mounting more. I mean it should work to my knowledge. I double checked > all of it... what's really bugging me is that /tools/bin/localedef > works in the chroot but not i

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
I did get errors on my make check for glibc... a lot of Error 127 and Error 1's, basically it would complain about a few missing tests, then skip some other tests becuase the first few were missing. Total there were like 17... is that something odd? I thought since it was just missing files... I d

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
I'm using scripts for mounting the right stuff, chroot'ing, then mounting more. I mean it should work to my knowledge. I double checked all of it... what's really bugging me is that /tools/bin/localedef works in the chroot but not in outside of it, and the other files (/usr/bin/localedef as well as

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/06, Michael Chrostowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/28/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ldd /usr/bin/localedef > /tools/bin/ldd: line 124: /usr/bin/localedef: No such file or directory I'm a bit boggled, but could you go back to Ch. 6.6 and make sure that all of the s

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
On 1/28/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/28/06, Michael Chrostowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > bash: /usr/bin/localedef: No such file or directory. > > Could you do "ldd /usr/bin/localedef" and "readelf -d /usr/bin/localedef"? > Hmm... ldd /usr/bin/localedef /tools/bin/l

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/06, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Samedi 28 Janvier 2006 16:22, Jeremy Monnet a écrit: > > Jeremy (another french user of lfs ;-) BTW, are you the 'kikinovak' > > who writes articles in the french linux magazines ?) > > I am indeed. Hey, I'm a celebrity! A huge step for me, a

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le Samedi 28 Janvier 2006 16:22, Jeremy Monnet a écrit : > Jeremy (another french user of lfs ;-) BTW, are you the 'kikinovak' > who writes articles in the french linux magazines ?) I am indeed. Hey, I'm a celebrity! A huge step for me, a small step for humanity:oD "Kiki Novak" is my pen name. H

Re: Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/06, Michael Chrostowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bash: /usr/bin/localedef: No such file or directory. Could you do "ldd /usr/bin/localedef" and "readelf -d /usr/bin/localedef"? > > Which really to me seems like a message /usr/bin/localedef is > returning (since it does exist) yet it

Localedef not working after final Glibc-2.3.6 install

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Chrostowski
Hi, I got to the middle of stage 6.12 using SVN20051217 (Glibc-2.3.6 locale installation section) and I am running into some bizarre issues. doing the localdef command in my chroot environment returns bash: /usr/bin/localedef: No such file or directory. Which really to me seems like a message /

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Monnet wrote: >>Ah yes, one other question: is it possible to configure the network otherwise >>on the LiveCD? I have a small home network, with 192.168.1.1 acting as a >>gateway. We're on dialup here, and the connection is shared via IP >>masquerading. How could I attribute a static IP (192

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Clemens Haupt
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:52, you wrote: >How could I attribute a > static IP (192.168.1.4), gateway address (192.168.1.1) Most of Linux distributions have something similar to /usr/share/doc/howto/en/mini/DHCD.gz where it is explained to have any address fixed to a certain MAC address. Rout

Re: Minimal specs for LiveCD?

2006-01-28 Thread Paul G Rogers
>> Besides my three working machines (three Pentium IV PCs, one of them >> a laptop, all running Slackware 10.2), I also have an old Pentium II >> 233 MHz / 12 GB HD / 128 MB RAM in the attic. I'd like to fiddle with LFS >> on this machine, and I wonder if the LiveCD will boot on this machine. > >I

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 1/28/06, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ln -sv tclsh8.4 /tools/bin/tclsh > > I'm not exactly sure about this. What am I supposed to create here? A > symlink /tools/bin/tclsh pointing to /usr/bin/tclsh8.4? In that case, the > command should be issued from within /usr/bin, but the book d

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Selon Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 1/28/06, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After installing Tcl, I have a binary /usr/bin/tclsh8.4. Now, the book > > recommends to create a symlink like this: > > How did that happen? You should be installing with --prefix=/tools in > Ch

Re: tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/06, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After installing Tcl, I have a binary /usr/bin/tclsh8.4. Now, the book > recommends to create a symlink like this: How did that happen? You should be installing with --prefix=/tools in Ch.5. And if you were the lfs user, you wouldn't be able

Boot problem

2006-01-28 Thread boovarahan boovarahan
Hi ! I solved the boot problem issue by re-installing shadow package again. Now I can login as root using a password. Boovarahan S -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

tclsh symlink + static IP config using LiveCD

2006-01-28 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I spent the best part of this rainy morning working through the LFS book slowly, step by step, encouraged by three purring cats and my loving wife bringing me coffee occasionally. I played around a bit with the LiveCD and found it excellent. Booted without problems, edited xorg.conf (for

LFS booting problem

2006-01-28 Thread boovarahan boovarahan
Hi ! Somehow I have got rid of the network error while booting my new LFS system but I could not login. I do get the login prompt and when I type "root" and press enter, the system pauses for a moment and then comes to the login prompt again. Please guide me. Boovarahan S -- http://linuxfromscra

Terminal darkens on tty switch

2006-01-28 Thread Josh Adell
Hello all. I've got the base install of 6.1.1 up and running. I can boot into the system and all is a go. My problem comes when I switch to a different virtual terminal (alt+1, alt+2, etc.) As long as I stay on tty1 the foreground color of the shell is white as I want it to be. As soon a