Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1299, Issue 1 [Re: gcc 4.1.2 bootstrap error]

2007-10-01 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 01-10-07 15:28: > On 10/1/07, Benedikt Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is x86 the only architecture LFS compiles on successfully (apart from CLFS >> efforts)? > > Yes. LFS-7.0 should hopefully have support for x86_64. > > -- > Dan I take it then that would be for bui

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 1299, Issue 1 [Re: gcc 4.1.2 bootstrap error]

2007-10-01 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 01-10-07 20:26: > On 10/1/07, Bauke Jan Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote on 01-10-07 15:28: >>> On 10/1/07, Benedikt Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Is x86 the only architecture LFS compiles on

Re: Problem with Chap 5.7

2007-10-05 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Bill wrote on 06-10-07 00:44: > Folks, > > I'm having a problem that I can't seem to get by, and I hope some one > can get me past this. I've consistently had this same problem each time > I've tried to work through the book, always failing at the same spot. > To try and remove as many variables

Re: Chapter 6 Glibc Make error

2007-10-14 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Matthew Sewell wrote on 14-10-07 21:54: > Please forgive me if this has already been discussed: > > > I just had an error attempting to build Glibs as per chapter 6. > > - > no gen-translit.pl < C-translit.h.in > C-translit.h.tmp > /bin/sh: line 1: no: command not fou

Re: lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2014 6.23. Perl-5.8.8 make fails

2007-10-20 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Danny Engelbarts wrote on 21-10-07 00:10: > Hi, > > While building perl on my system with the x86_64-6.3-r2014 livecd i got the > following error: > > make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by > `miniperlmain.o'. > Stop. > > I was able to resolve this error using the patch in this mail;

Re: No ttys, no login shell

2007-10-25 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Marius Meinert wrote on 25-10-07 13:05: > I'm using version 6.3. I*ve gone throug the whole udev-chapter, but > the error stil exists. I also checked /dev, it exists and even /de/v/ > null but only /dev/null and /dev/console, the 2 nods created in > chapter 6.2.1, but I looked in /dev/ with a

Re: No ttys, no login shell

2007-10-25 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Marius Meinert wrote on 25-10-07 13:35: > On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: > >> Marius Meinert wrote on 25-10-07 13:05: >> >>> I'm using version 6.3. I*ve gone throug the whole udev-chapter, but >>> the error stil exists. I also checked

Re: Urgent help needed

2007-12-07 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Rajeev Bansal wrote on 06-12-07 09:22: > Hi All, > > I am trying to boot up 2.6.20-15 Kernel ( Ubuntu Kernel) using my > custom initramfs. But I am getting Kernel Panic when I boot using my > Init script. I am mentioning my init script below. I have followed the > FC7 init script, I really don

Re: LFS 6 System Won't Boot

2008-01-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Mark Olbert wrote on 26-01-08 19:06: > But now I have a different one: the filesystems mount properly How do you know, when the system hangs?. Kernel boot messages? How about checking cables, bios. bjd -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: Problem with LFS 6.3

2008-02-06 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Alessandro Corbelli wrote on 06-02-08 10:29: > Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle 10.57 -0800, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: >> I had a look at the shadow source, and it seems that the messages for >> "New password: " and "Re-enter new password: " are not making it to >> the screen. These should be printed

Re: Various Issues Followup

2008-02-12 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Mark Olbert wrote on 12-02-08 16:54: > Oops, forgot to include this: > > When attempting to connect to ssh on the new LFS system (from the old > system): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mark# ssh -v -l mark wiggle_butt > OpenSSH_4.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 > debug1: Reading configuration data /

Re: Problem building binutils

2008-02-14 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Robert Mcleod wrote on 14-02-08 08:00: > Chris Staub wrote: >> Robert Mcleod wrote: >> >>> I haven't built an LFS system in a while. It was probably book 5 if I >>> remember correctly. Anyway, back then I didn't have any problems. Today >>> using book 6.3 I've fallen over at the very first ste

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Jeremy Huntwork wrote on 25-02-08 16:37: > Hello Everyone, > > It has recently been suggested to me that the LFS LiveCD project be > killed. The main arguments for this are, essentially: > > 1) It is currently unmaintained > 2) It removes the essential prerequisite of being able to configure a

Re: 5.14.1. Installation of Bash

2008-03-19 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Borre van Doorninck wrote on 20-03-08 01:07: > rm -f ru.gmo && : -c --statistics -o ru.gmo ru.po The -c --statistics part it would seem should be parameters to msgfmt, I think. However, apparently that program was not found by some configure process, and hence was replaced by the shell builtin ':

Re: Chapter 5 part 7 adjusting the toolchain

2006-10-03 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
this is just a 'blind' comment based on just what you mention here, but I'd say apparently output from $(gcc -dumpmachine) is null. That may be a clue to resolution. What does gcc -dumpmachine from the command-line at this point say? Thank you in advance Dr Simon Nee

Re: LFS 6.2 - USB and SCSI problem during bootup

2006-10-04 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
James Stavrou wrote: Hello to everyone - i am a first time lfs user and so far i haven't had any issues by following the book until now. I was able to compile the kernel and boot without using the lfs livecd but when i got to the login prompt i got several usb error -110. At the same time, wh

Re: error compiling Glibc-2.3.6

2006-10-07 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Lu_Mia Lu_Mia wrote: when I compile it I get this: In file included from version.c:33: /home/lfs/glibc-build/csu/version-info.h:2: error: missing terminating " character /home/lfs/glibc-build/csu/version-info.h:3: error: missing terminating " character /home/lfs/glibc-build/csu/version-info.h:

Re: error compiling Glibc-2.3.6

2006-10-07 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
I just got glibc-2.3.6 and version-info.h seems to be intact. I wonder how the omissions in your version of version-info.h occured. Here's mine: $> cat version-info.h "Compiled on a Linux 2.6.16 system on 2006-04-13.\n" "Available extensions:\n" " GNU libio by Per Bothner\n" " crypt

Re: error compiling Glibc-2.3.6

2006-10-07 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Bauke Jan Douma wrote: I just got glibc-2.3.6 and version-info.h seems to be intact. I wonder how the omissions in your version of version-info.h occured. Here's mine: $> cat version-info.h "Compiled on a Linux 2.6.16 system on 2006-04-13.\n" "Available extensions:\n&qu

Re: error compiling Glibc-2.3.6

2006-10-07 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Lu_Mia Lu_Mia wrote: i added \n" but it still gives me the same error. after i do "make" it changes the file to the way it was before i added the \n". This leads us back to the Makefile I suppose, /csu/Makefile which is where version-info.h is generated: The relative fragment should look lik

Re: LFS 6.2-3 GUI Problem

2006-10-16 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
boovarahan boovarahan wrote: I have given below my xorg.conf file from LFS. Let me know why I am unable to get the GUI. " Section "Module" Load"glx" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"dri" Load"extmod" Load"freetype

Re: SPECFILE: ambiguous redirect

2006-10-23 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Denis Silin wrote: Hello! There is a problem with actions from ch. 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain. This command gives an error - bash: $SPECFILE: ambiguous redirect. It seems that there is no file "specs" on the LFS partition at all. What may be wrong and how to correct it? lfs:~$ SPECFILE='dirn

Re: Keyboard

2006-11-11 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
I ran dmesg | grep -i keyboard and got - AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard on ISA0060/Serio0 I've tried enabling every serial device I could find in config Enabled PS/2 [deletia] Sorry. Forgot to say it still doesnt' work. I did check and enabled all the USB controllers You mean the modules

Re: Upgrading lfs

2006-11-22 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19-11-06 14:17: Hi everybody, Does someone know how I can upgrade glibc from 2.3.4 to 2.5 wighout This is just as simple almost as installing any application package. Just follow the build instructions. If you need a configure/build script to get you started, let m

Re: Upgrading lfs

2006-11-22 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dave Abergel wrote on 22-11-06 11:55: Hi This is just as simple almost as installing any application package. Just follow the build instructions. If you need a configure/build script to get you started, let me know. I'm about 99% sure that this is not true. I know that upgrades of glibc can

Re: ld built without --hash-style, Ch5, Fedora Core 6 -> glibc config failure

2006-11-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Amadeus wrote on 26-11-06 17:16: Amadeus wrote: Greg Schafer wrote: configure:1980: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:1996: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 1>&5 /home/lfs/binutils/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--hash-style=gnu' /home/lfs/binutils/bin/ld: use the --help optio

Re: HELP

2006-11-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Aizi Gnagni wrote on 26-11-06 18:09: This error come up when testing with the command: make -k check 2>&1 | tee glibc-check-log grep Error glibc-check-log, Linux From Scratch - Version 6.2, chapter 6.9.1 Installation of Glibc, section: Test the results. In the event I do continue the building wi

Re: HELP

2006-11-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote on 26-11-06 20:26: On Sunday 26 November 2006 21:25, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: In the event I do continue the building with the command "make install" after getting this failure reports as mentioned above then I receive the failure report in the "INSTALL

Re: Useradd

2006-11-29 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Geoffrey Thomas wrote on 29-11-06 04:41: After a few keyboard issues, I now have a LFS system that boots without problems. I can login as root and cruise through directories and use basic commands. When I add a user with useradd, all the info goes into the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files Wh

Re: Useradd

2006-11-30 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
There is no /etc/shells. Did I miss that in the installation somewhere? No I did not install PAM. When I add a user, the auth.log reads: new user: test5, UID1002, GID1002, home=/home/test5, shell=/bin/bash I used passwd to add a password The log reads password for test5 changed by root. A

Re: Useradd

2006-11-30 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Geoffrey Thomas wrote on 30-11-06 02:46: Cannot execute /bin/bash. Permission denied I can use deluser, which removes all but the home directory. The permissions on /bin and /bin/bash are 755 with root being the owner. Geoff And while we're at it, how about permissions on (possible)other libs

Re: Useradd

2006-11-30 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30-11-06 20:47: Geoffrey Thomas wrote on 30-11-06 02:46: Cannot execute /bin/bash. Permission denied I can use deluser, which removes all but the home directory. The permissions on /bin and /bin/bash are 755 with root being the owner. Geoff And while we're at it, how

Re: Bash 3.1 make fails

2006-12-01 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
yardcat wrote on 01-12-06 17:17: I'm building LFS 6.2 on another i386 box using PC Linux as host and everything has been going fine until running make in the compilation of - 5.14.Bash-3.1. I get this error; lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/bash-3.1$ make yacc -d ./parse.y make: yacc: Command not found

Re: Useradd

2006-12-01 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Geoffrey Thomas wrote on 01-12-06 23:50: On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 11/29/06, Geoffrey Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After boot, I get a login request and put in root and password. This logs me in and bash prompt comes up. I added user test13 and changed password

Re: Useradd

2006-12-01 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Geoffrey Thomas wrote on 01-12-06 23:50: On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 11/29/06, Geoffrey Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After boot, I get a login request and put in root and password. This logs me in and bash prompt comes up. I added user test13 and changed password

Re: Determining chipset

2006-12-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Ivan Petrov wrote on 26-12-06 07:27: > Hello! > I'd like to build a minimal kernel without modules. > How can I determine what chipset is on my computer? > Best regards, Ivan If you can boot the thing, download a RIP recovery CD (might come in handy later anyway...). Then run lspci -vvv > lspci.o

Re: Hello and a question

2006-12-29 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
travis formoso wrote on 29-12-06 17:55: > Thanks Shane - I will take a look. > >> From: "Shane D. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: LFS Support List >> To: LFS Support List >> Subject: Re: Hello and a question >> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:49:26 -0700 >> >> I too ran into this problem. I

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-03 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 04-01-07 02:13: > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it > is only enabled if you're using PAM. BLFS has support for building > shadow against PAM and/or cracklib. Read the warnings, though. You > don't want to get into a situation where you ca

Re: BLFS, XFree86 v4.5.0 (correction on the version) sorry typo

2007-01-04 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Joseph Oaks wrote on 05-01-07 06:37: >> cd ./config/imake && make -f Makefile.proto imakeonly >> make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/xc-build/config/imake' >> gcc DefaultGcc2i386Opt-I../../include -I../../exports/include/X11 >> -I../.. -I../../exports/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ >> -D_POSI

Re: Error Grub

2007-01-18 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Vince Greg wrote on 19-01-07 07:42: > Thank you for these information but can you give me exactly the complete > command of fdisk for my partition because I don't want to lose all my work > > Is it dangerous for my datas and all the work I do??? Yes, this can be dangerous. Be sure to backup every

Re: pkgsrc tips (Was Re: Proper choice of package management strategy)

2007-01-20 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Randy McMurchy wrote on 20-01-07 21:30: > Nadav Vinik wrote these words on 01/20/07 14:23 CST: >> [snip the 12 top-posted lines and over 200 lines of previous comments] > > This conversation is really good, and will be great for the archives, > however, it would be nice if you guys could stop top

Re: GCC second pass make error

2007-01-28 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Steffen H. Larsen wrote on 28-01-07 12:49: > okay it still makes the same error I'm gonna try and write down the > last 30 lines ^^ [..deletia...] > hopes this helps took quite some time to write down and I have tried > to make it totally alike maybee some spaces here and there aren't > exact the

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-05 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 06-02-07 03:18: > I don't know if that's really a standard. In the SuSE partition I > have, it's called boot.local. And it's run just about last from their > "boot" script, the equivalent to our /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc. But, I think > for maximum compatibility with our bootscrip

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-06 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
TheOldFellow wrote on 06-02-07 08:30: > Bauke Jan Douma wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote on 06-02-07 03:18: >> I always thought rc.local, if and when present, was indeed >> supposed to be run /last/ in the boot process -- see e.g.: >> >> http://www.freeos.com/articl

Re: rc.local doesn't get run?

2007-02-06 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
TheOldFellow wrote on 06-02-07 09:41: > LFS is whatever YOU make it. The Linux Kernel is just part of LFS. > > Don't get mad at me, I wan't trying to get at you :-) You just seemed > to be saying that these things happened "'cos they did" - when actually, > when you understand them, they happen

Re: Grub filesystem type unknown

2007-02-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Steffen H. Larsen wrote on 10-02-07 22:27: > hi I'm allmost done with making a LFS system but now it create this error when > trying to make it bootable in grub when using this command: > root (hd0) > > Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk > > why does it do that ? can any tell me any cause

Re: GRUB hosed, frantic

2007-02-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Randy McMurchy wrote on 10-02-07 23:04: > Colin Dean wrote these words on 02/10/07 15:53 CST: > >> Ideas/help/anything welcome. > > In times like those, I usually rely on my friends Jim Beam, Johnny > Walker and Jack Daniels. Oh yeah, I sometimes get counsel from my > dear Old Grand Dad. Lemme g

Re: Udev Errors?

2007-02-14 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Galaxy Travel wrote on 15-02-07 00:25: >> Also, as a newbie, I'd suggest you read up on the netiquette. >> Particularly, the part about trimming replies. It will be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette >> >> -- >> Dan > Ok I did that, thanks Now im having a

Re: Oops--someone feel like sharing their /usr/share/man directory?

2007-03-08 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Colin Dean wrote on 08-03-07 20:41: > I just completely and boneheadedly hosed /usr/share/man while working on > a CLFS system. > > I really don't want to have to unpack all the package source files again > and extract the man pages out of them. > > Any generous soul willing to package up their

Re: gcc-4.0.3 make error

2007-03-15 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
sizo nsibande wrote on 15-03-07 06:54: > Thanks a lot, this worked, much appreciation! > > On 3/12/07, JIM CAMERON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- sizo nsibande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> /sources/gcc-build/gcc/include/limits.h:122:61: >>> error: limits.h: No >>> such file or directory >>

Re: (chp 6.22) perl-5.8.8 make error on line 159

2007-03-15 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
sizo nsibande wrote on 15-03-07 11:52: > "make[1]: Entering directory `/sources/perl-5.8.8/x2p' > makefile:159: *** missing separator. Stop. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/perl-5.8.8/x2p' > make: *** [x2p/s2p] Error 2 > root:/sources/perl-5.8.8#" > > I am using an i686 and have followed t

Re: Util-Linux Login Problem

2007-04-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10-04-07 22:58: > Hi guys > > I'm building a LFS based system and there is one thing I want to do and > I've looked everywhere except here. I hope someone knows the answer :) > I have compiled agetty and login from Util-Linux and PAM support is > disabled. > > I have

Re: Util-Linux Login Problem

2007-04-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-04-07 00:06: > I'm not sure if this is what you exactly want to do. > > If you want to have a shell without any login just add the > 'init=/bin/bash' kernel prameter. > > If you want to have just one single login remove some lines from your > /etc/inittab file. >

Re: Util-Linux Login Problem

2007-04-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Bauke Jan Douma wrote on 11-04-07 00:15: > I would assume when using init=/bin/sh you're running as uid 0 (i.e. root). > But I suppose there's no utmp entry written, and maybe that's why ssh > complains. Interesting... No, that's not it. Next guess: when init=/bin

Re: Optimization

2007-04-16 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
William Harrington wrote on 16-04-07 19:12: > Binaries, that link to libs that are optimized, will use the > optimized code the library provides. That is what was meant. Which > means if you optimize a library, problems could arise where > segmentation faults occur from that library and not

Re: Headers problems

2007-06-09 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Tijnema wrote on 09-06-07 23:01: >> I just realized what you said here. What you can touch at this point is >> *not* the CPU at all. It is essentially the carrier. The CPU is the >> little raised portion in the center of the "carrier". It is the only >> part that will normally get very hot. The out

Re: Headers problems

2007-06-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Tijnema wrote on 10-06-07 02:09: > Either reply friendly, or don't reply. I know i can buy a new PC and > everything works fine. But that's not the point of this discussion. If > you don't like it, don't join the discussion. Yes I was getting irritated because I got the impression you were more r

Re: Text stops before end of screen

2007-06-16 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Colin Kemp wrote on 14-06-07 01:17: > it doesnt do it when i use X from the CD 6.2, just the text-console. > also, the 6.1.1 cd doesnt do it, but i have to change the video > driver in xorg.conf from i810 to nv for X to work, so i think its the > driver. But im not sure how to change the dri

Re: pidofproc function in functions script

2007-07-02 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 02-07-07 21:29: > but it was broken somehow. Still have to investigate that. So, yeah > the test should come after the for loop, but the for loop needs to be > fixed, too. It might have to have two loops to account for multiple > pids. > > while read line; do > for pid in