[lfs-support] Chapter 6.6 sed problem

2013-06-23 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, I am attempting to follow the instructions in 6.6 "Creating Essential Files and Symlinks". While doing so, I can do the top 4 ln -sv commands, but when I run the sed 's/tools/usr' portion, it returns with a "unterminated 's' command". How do I fix this? I am using OpenSUSE 12.1 as my host w

[lfs-support] 6.9 Glibc-2.17 check results

2013-07-30 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, I just finished running 'make' on glibc. While running a make check, I noticed that XPG3 has 165 failed out of 3993. XPG4 has 26 failed out of 4175, UNIX98 11 failed out of 4701, XOPEN2K 10 failed out of 6825, and XOPEN2K8 8 failed out of 7083. I am running this in a VMWare Virtual Machine

[lfs-support] Can BLFS Packages that are compatible with version 7.2 work with 7.3

2013-08-02 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello Again, Can I install packages in BLFS that say that they "have been tested with 7.2"? I am working on KDE and would like to install some of the different recommended software for packages such as libmpeg. (LFS 7.3 Build Host running in VMWare Player) Thank you, Douglas Reno -- http://lin

[lfs-support] Kernel can't mount root fs

2013-08-04 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello again, After installing GRUB for booting my LFS system, I had numerous problems. I fixed those by determining the proper partition (hd0,4) instead of (hd0,2). My LFS Installation was done on /dev/sda4. After finally getting GRUB setup and working fine, I now get a kernel panic saying that it

[lfs-support] Chapter 6.7.1 header file search verification failure

2013-11-05 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, I am having a completely different output than the book says when running "grep -B4 '^ /usr/include' dummy.log", I get the following output: ignoring nonexistent directory "/tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/include" ignoring duplicate directory "/usr/incl

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.7.1 header file search verification failure

2013-11-05 Thread Douglas R . Reno
Douglas R. Reno gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, > I am having a completely different output than the book says when running "grep -B4 '^ / usr/include' dummy.log", I get the following output: > ignoring nonexistent directory "/tools/ lib/gcc/i

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.7.1 header file search verification failure

2013-11-06 Thread Douglas R. Reno
("/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib") SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib") SEARCH_DIR("/lib"); I noticed that my output here is completely off from what the book says it should be. Should I recompile GCC? On Nov 6, 2013 1:33 AM, "Pierre Labastie" wrote: > Le 06/11/2013 03

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.7.1 header file search verification failure

2013-11-06 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Yes, the Gmail web interface is horrible. I fixed my problem (I was in the end of installing GCC). I found that I incorrectly typed the CC symlink, and it was using the CC symlink from /tools/bin, not /usr/bin. Thank you all for the help Douglas Reno On Nov 6, 2013 6:16 AM, "Igor Živković" wrote

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.7.1 header file search verification failure

2013-11-06 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Thank you for telling me how to avoid top posting in Gmail, Bruce. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, After completing a successful build of LFS, I restart to get into the system for the first time and my screen turns black and then comes back on for about 1 second. I have a NVidia Vanta LT card in my PC. I am using the Nouveau drivers for the framebuffer, as I plan to install X. I have No

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
I will try it tonight when I have a chance. Is there anything specific I should be looking for? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Dan, If I were able to export the contents of dmesg to a file, could I use grep to sift through it faster? On Nov 22, 2013 10:18 AM, "Dan McGhee" wrote: > On 11/22/2013 10:01 AM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > I will try it tonight when I have a chance. Is there anything spe

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Sorry about the Top Posting, I am using my cell phone and forgot that I had to uncheck "Include text". Thank you for all your help, Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information pa

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Ken, The screen turns on and off repeatedly... I can see some text when it is on. That is how I can tell it booted successfully because I can see the login prompt for a split second. I also have logs in /var/log. Looking at the Kernel Options that you suggested (I keep a backup of my .config on a

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.3 Screen Flickering problem

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Ken, Thank you for your help. After I reconfigured the kernel and remade it taking out the driver, it now works like a charm! Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-11-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, On Ubuntu and Mint, I found out that if you run: sudo passwd root And set the password, you can run "su - root" and login as root. I do this as one of the first things when setting up a Ubuntu or Mint system because I cannot stand sudo. Hope this helps! Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfrom

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-12-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno
You want to run these commands as root (by using sudo). Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Glibc

2014-01-14 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:08 AM, William Darryl Jackson < wm.djack...@comcast.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get glibc installed on my system, so I can continue/begin > LFS. I get the same error from Glibc versions 2-17, and 18. > > */home/william/Downloads/glibc-2.18/nis/nis_file.c:

Re: [lfs-support] 5.8 Libstdc++-4.8.1

2014-01-17 Thread Douglas R. Reno
I do not believe that the LFS Livecd works on any version over 7.0 Source: LFS LiveCD project homepage Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] LFS Website for sale

2014-02-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello all, It appears that the domain www.linuxfromscratch.org is for sale. Just thought I would report it Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Website for sale

2014-02-19 Thread Douglas R. Reno
I'm sorry, it appears I typed in the URL wrong. Sorry! Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page