Since lfs dev has switched to grub2,.I want to try it.
I don't know why grub2 fails to work properly on my system.
It seems to choke on partitions/filesystems on my sata hard drives.
I built grub-1.97 exactly from the instructions in lfs dev.
Searching google proved fruitless in solving the bizarr
On 11/11/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> OK, I assume you are still within the chroot environment.
No, this system has been running regularly with grub1 since January 2009.
> What is the result of:
>
> ls -l /dev/sd*
r...@lfs:~# ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-11-11 18:13 /dev/sda
br
On 11/12/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> I just had an aha!
>>
>> Try rebuilding grub without the --disable-largefile switch. Your
>> partition is 11G and that probably is causing it to fail. I don't know
>> what the threshold is. I'll investigate.
>
> man 2 open
>
>O_LARGE
On 11/12/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> I just had an aha!
>>
>> Try rebuilding grub without the --disable-largefile switch.
That worked!
Now some more things.
.. I needed to suppress probing the ancient mobo ide drive that is not
connected to avoid a 2 minute wait for it not t
On 11/11/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> # grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda11
>
> This should be /dev/sda, but I see you tried that too.
Now I really _want_ to install grub on individual partitions so that I
can chainloader to different installations like grub-legacy has let me
do for ye
On 11/12/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> The problem with GRUB Legacy is that it didn't support 64-bit systems --
> at least it have to be built from a 32-bit system. This is a major
> drawback in that virtually every new Intel/AMD system is 64-bit capable.
Ok, maybe I just keep this in my back pocket
On 11/19/09, Daniel Jäderberg wrote:
> so then i tried to install grub2 as suggested. and i followed the hint.
> 3) grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> and i still get nothing when i do the grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub2 wants the kernel name to begin with vmlinux or vmlinuz inst
On 11/19/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> We changed the cp command for the kernel to:
>cp -v arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-2.6.31.6-lfs-SVN-20091117
It worked for me to just make a symlink in boot instread ot remaking
kernel just to get a new name.
ln -s lfskernel-2.6.31.6 vmlinux-2.6.31.6
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On 11/20/09, su.sin...@mail.com wrote:
>
> What should i do now?
>
> menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30.2" {
> insmod ext2
> set root=(hd0,1)
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set e4adbac2-a338-4305-bafe-73f2adb307da
> linux/boot/vmlinux-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> }
What is
On 11/21/09, Kyle Brennan wrote:
> make[2]: *** [/tools/include/linux/errno.h] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/tools/glibc-2.5.1/iconv'
> make[1]: *** [iconv/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/tools/glibc-2.5.1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
Don't forget that it
Building development book in chapter06
Tar keeps saying:
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
tools/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.22
Did I miss something?
Is there a fix?
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Segmentation fault occurs right after stripping in chapter05.
I am building lfs trunk using jhalfs trunk.
The stripping step succeeds, but the next step which is to
restore-luser-env errors. The restore-luser-env step only has to copy
the saved $(LUSER_HOME)/.bashrc.XXX back to .bashrc, but that
On 11/23/09, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
> As I have not tried jhalfs, a question, just to be clear: you are
> running the make command via automated means, after stripping, in a
> single slurp (from the same script)?
jhalfs automates from start to finish.
I have used it to build LFS 6.2.0, 6.3, and
On 11/23/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Is there any possibility
> that there could be a memory or disk problem? Are you sure you have
> enough disk space?
Good thinking, but doesn't seem to be space issue:
top - 19:43:27 up 11:00, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 1.03, 1.04
Tasks: 77 total, 2 runnin
On 11/23/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> To check things out a little more, you can try
Er, uh, excuse my dumbness, but ...
did you mean like:
ldd /usr/bin/make
or like:
ldd /tools/bin/make
or like:
/tools/bin/ldd /tools/bin/make
... By the way, this is without the stripping ...
/tools/bin/ldd /too
I must clarify my confusion.
I am supposing that you would like for me to roll back to the point
where it is to be stripped.
Then strip.
Then run /tools/command on /tools/file
Correct?
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On 11/23/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> To check things out a little more, you can try
Note: I had built up thru gmp-ch6 which is in the chroot
Intending to umount and roll back, I get:
df -ha
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda11 11G 7.6G 2.7G 74% /
/proc
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Have you tried booting int memtest86+
> and checking your memory?
>
I don't know whereis or howto memtest86+.
I guess this will be a multi-day adventure.
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On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> linux fan wrote:
>> On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> Have you tried booting into memtest86+
>>> and checking your memory?
Thanks for that!
Eliminated one memory bank at a time until it didn't fail before test #5.
Rolled back
On 11/24/09, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:24:53AM -0700, Trent Shea wrote:
>
>> It really depends on how you build your kernel; hd* is still valid,
>> as far as I'm aware.
>
> That's not my experience. My /dev/hd* devices disappeared when I
> upgraded 2.6.27 to 2.6.28
On 11/24/09, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:29 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote:
>> The last thing is to start a flame here; I still see a
>> need for floppies on Linux
Agree there is a need for floppies.
I just used a floppy to boot memtest86+ which found a bad memory bank
was bugg
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'd start over. Having a suspect base is not a good idea. Try jhalfs
> to automate the build.
Yes jhalfs has been working for me.
Starting over from mke2fs.
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On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> That works for you, but for most people, it's far easier to use a usb
> thumb drive with capacities in GB to do the same thing.
>
I know that it is impossible to believe, but I have yet to purchase my
first usb thumb drive.
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On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:
> The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate
> things. For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX
> see Simon's response to another thread.
>
> /dev/hdX (from the old IDE drivers) is now regarded as legacy, except
> for old ppc maci
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> If you are getting a kernel panic, it's not grub. Grub did it's job and
> loaded the kernel, then the kernel had a problem.
Agree.
But, there are 2 places that cause kernel panic:
1) grub's kernel/linux line, the root=/dev/[is_incorrect] parameter
2) fstab's: [
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I don't know where you live, but I've seen them given away as
> promotions. Otherwise they are very common at $10 or less.
Some day, I might get one.
I don't care what udev does as long as it doesn't cause problems.
I've got the 16 fd things in dev and was never
On 11/24/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> linux fan wrote:
>> Intending to umount and roll back, I get:
>>
>> df -ha
>> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda11 11G 7.6G 2.7G 74% /
>> /proc0 0 0
On 11/25/09, su.sinnes wrote:
> is there anything i can do?
We've all been down this road before ... whatever we do, grub doesn't
seem to work ...
You have gotten grub to load a kernel ... that is getting close.
The key marked "PrtScr SysRq" can stop the display from scrolling
while booting --
On 11/25/09, su.sinnes wrote:
> it did not work i think it's because im on a laptop and i need to hold
> down the fn key to use prt sc and sysrq, and it is not supported.
> neither did ctrl + s
OOPS, I might have typed before I had my coffee ...
I might have meant the "Pause Break" key ... let m
On 11/23/09, su.sinnes wrote:
> Hi im stuck with grub, as soon as i restart i get into the grub shell
I reserve the right to be wrong, but ...
While you can't compile the old grub under 64bit, you could still use
the old grub ... can't you?
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On 11/28/09, stosss wrote:
> I am only using the lfs 6.3 LiveCD (this is the newest and last lfs
> LiveCD released) so I will have a working environment to build lfs
Unless I am mistaken, everything in ch6-8 is done within chroot.
Then it is imperative to be certain that
6.2. Preparing Virtual Ke
On 11/28/09, Baho Utot wrote:
> make test | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Check.log
> make install | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Install.log
Logging helps so much when things go wrong.
As already mentioned
> Scripting an LFS build is *hard*
> 1. Use jhalfs. That is the most consistent way to do things
> and it k
On 11/29/09, Alberto Hernando wrote:
> ... The error is the same, VFS
> can't find a valid root system, "please add a valid root option". I
> .. and /etc/fstab is as the book says.
If /etc/fstab is as the book says (verbatim), it won't work.
You must interpolate
/dev/ / defaults
On 11/29/09, linux fan wrote:
> The "VFS can't find ..." suggests that the boot loader (grub/lilo)
> done its job and the kernel was loading until it choked on the
> filesystem fstab told it,
If the message is exactly:
Kernel panic -not syncing VFS: unable to mount root
On 12/3/09, Simon Geard wrote:
> Wow... if you *do* get a new LFS build running on that, I'd be curious
> to know how long it took...
My first guess is 11 days or so.
Calculating from:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~sbu
MHz=100
one_sbu=5848
lfs_6_5_sbus=153
seconds=899422
time=10,9:50:22
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On 12/3/09, Mike McCarty wrote:
> You don't necessarily have to build on that machine. However,
> I realize that may be part of the "challenge".
Hmm, if LFS 6.5 cross compiles, could you build it on a fast machine
for the slow machine and then put it on the slow machine with rsync or
something?
-
On 12/14/09, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Try the fix Ken suggested (CONFIG_HZ_100) and make sure you turn off the
> SMP option. That has a lot of extra code you don't need.
>
Is there a way to 'nice' the build so that it doesn't use all 100% cpu?
Does the clock moving only a tick or two during the en
On 12/15/09, William Immendorf wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Pixel 73 wrote:
>> I am doing LFS 6.3. Everything went well until Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2.
>> When
> Please don't use LFS 6.3, unless your host system is old enough to
> build it. I recommend LFS 6.5 from now on.
>
I disagre
On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
> How can I analyze which of my previous steps went wrong?
Did the make command really complete without errors?
I always try to keep a log containing all the output because the
screen scrolls by, and later, I wish I could see the errors that went
by so that I can sea
On 12/15/09, linux fan wrote:
> As long as you didn't do 'make install', it is possible to remove the
> directory extracted from the source tarball, then extract the source
> tarball again, and do the package over with a clean sources. I think
I forgot ... with gcc, you
On 12/15/09, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Pixel 73 wrote:
>> I am using LFS LiveCD 6.3. So that should be no problem then, right?
>>
>>
>
> You can use any distro which can build the tools, which is any
> distro I know of. Ignore the peanut gallery.
>
Yes, and you can use
On 12/16/09, stosss wrote:
>>> On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
>> Thank you very much for your help. What can I do, if I already did 'make
>> install'? How can I uninstall again?
In linux, attempted uninstall risks more harm than good unless you
really know what might break which is usually not the
On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
> But now I found out, that the startfiles show up when I am entering the
> following command:
>
> grep -o '/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log
(Can you see above how I trimmed the '>' quoted text to just the part
I want to resond to?)
Show us the output of this co
On 12/17/09, linux fan wrote:
> On 12/17/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
> Are you sure you had the configure command exactly as in the
> book ?
>
And I'm thinking ... I usually copy/paste each entire grey block and
look at i before pressing enter. Notice that the backslashes \ at the
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
> 6. Any deviations from the document?
>
> As far as I remember, I have stuck to the text. However, I did create a
> separate build folder for Pass 2 called binutils-build2. I assumed that the
> bui
On 12/17/09, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
> Plus, when I gave the /sbin/swapon command, I got the message that my
> exisiting swap partition was busy
swapon: /dev/: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
I think that just means it is already using that swap partition.
You can see what swap it is
On 12/18/09, Pixel 73 wrote:
>> trim the '>' quoted text to just the part
>> want to resond to
==
==
>
> grep '/lib.*/crt[1in].*succeeded' dummy.log
>
> is:
> attempt to open /bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o
> succeeded
> att
On 12/28/09, Mikie wrote:
>> I have difficulty understanding *why* you want to do this mass extraction.
>
> It's that much less typing.
>
For least typing, jhalfs lets you just type "make" and it does all
untarring and building.
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On 1/9/10, Abhinav Chaturvedi wrote:
> So I guess I am looking for someone to tell me - perhaps reassure me - that
> I could build my own shareable (on a disk) distro that could compete
> (outperform?) standard linux distros. I understand I would need to do other
> stuff - like arrange for an inst
On 1/12/10, jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com wrote:
> so, in the name of progress, i like to solict advice on what to do next,
LFS-6.4 and earlier had:
for NIC in /sys/class/net/* ; do
INTERFACE=${NIC##*/} udevadm test --action=add --subsystem=net $NIC
done
I wonder why subsystem was later remov
On 1/12/10, jmsc...@setex.ipcallback.com wrote:
> not clear that adding --subsystem would force INTERFACE to be exported to
Hmm,
Output of ls -d /sys/class/net/*
/sys/class/net/eth0 /sys/class/net/lo
Output of ls -dl /sys/class/net/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-01-12 03:44 /sys/class/net/et
On 1/12/10, linux fan wrote:
> Just experimenting ...
It almost seems like export/import is fouled up.
The following block should print:
bar
..
foo="" &&
echo 'echo $foo' > fubar &&
chmod 755 fubar &&
foo=bar ./fubar &&
echo ".$foo
On 1/24/10, Rambabu Dasari wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to build Linux from Scratch(LFS), while booting the kernel
> throughing the following error.
>
> [4.586704] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> [4.592188] Failed to execute /init
>
6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes,
On 1/27/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 27/01/10 19:13, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> does your home directory have the proper permissions?
>> i.g. chown name:name /home/name
>>
>
> In LFS we compile in $LFS/sources which should have been chown lfs when
> you created the user lfs
>
I tested unpacking
On 1/27/10, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> Oops..
> I didn't really follow the book step by step.
The best results are by following the book instructions. Especially in
chapter 6 those first steps must be done correctly:
Set $LFS correctly
Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems
Entering the Chroot En
On 2/8/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Indeed. I was wrong. They do work with libata. They were older machines
> that were working fine so I avoided the headache of altering their
> kernel configs. My first couple of attempts at getting libata to work
> ended wit
On 2/12/10, brown wrap wrote:
> So I changed the grub.conf to:
>
> title GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32.7-lfs-6.6-rc1
> root (hd2,1)
> kernel /vmlinux-2.6.32.7-lfs-6.6-rc1 root=/dev/sdc2
>
I think Grub2 wants it to say:
root (hd2,2)
linux /vmlinux-2.6.32.7-lfs-6.6
On 2/17/10, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> If the community's expectations are that we have the most current
> release of every package in the most recent BLFS book, then the
> expectations are too high and are unreasonable.
I agree.
I think the most important thing is that following step by step
in th
On 2/23/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Do you source /etc/profile in ~/.bashrc?
Not the perfect answer, but it led to the answer.
Actually, /etc/bashrc should be sourced in ~/.bashrc and it was,
but I had missed creating /etc/bashrc in "The Bash Shell Startup Files",
and /etc/bashrc:
" # Provides pro
Is it just me, or why does bootscripts no longer create setclock link
/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S25setclock ?
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On 2/23/10, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> linux fan wrote:
>> Is it just me, or why does bootscripts no longer create setclock link
>> /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S25setclock ?
>
> It was removed about nine months ago because it is set by udev.
... supposed to be set by udev ...
But w
On 2/16/10, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I tend to use 5GB or less for a desktop system.
> If you plan to build *all* of gnome, or *all* of kde,
> that probably isn't enough space, but in my case
> I'd probably put /boot (100MB is big), swap if any,
> and 2 or 3 versions of '/' on the 20GB drive.
I did m
On 3/16/10, David Gay wrote:
> cc: unrecognized option '-mtune=generic'
>
> Any idea which step may have introduced this problem?
grep -i -r "mtune" /BOOK/LFS-6.6-XML/*
only reports:
chapter05/glibc
chapter06/introduction
chapter06/glibc
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On 3/18/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On 18/03/10 19:24, Scott Kopel wrote:
>> So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to
>> get the kernel to recognize my ide drives?
I have old system with IDE drives and addon cards for sata dirves.
The systems sees tht IDE drives as
On 3/19/10, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I wonder if "head" is closing the input pipe when it has read
> all it needs, and that's causing the error. I can't reproduce
> that problem with my host system, however.
It is tar-1.23 and not head
head --version
head (GNU coreutils) 8.4
tar -xf tar-1.23.tar.
On 3/21/10, brown wrap wrote:
> I'd be happy to get any keyboard and mouse to work.
I wonder is your usb problem just the keyboard and the mouse?
In my config
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
I always thought XTKBD was obsoleted long ago.
To me, "serial" refer
On 3/22/10, linux fan wrote:
> -When- does the keyboard start to not work?
If it works at a console login but not in X-windows, that happened to me,
and I reconfigured xorg-server to fix the scenario where dbus and hal
were installed, but I was not running them, and thus the xorg-ser
On 3/22/10, brown wrap wrote:
> So now I went back to building a clean kernel that will at least boot again.
Possibly try
rm .config
make defconfig ARCH=x86_64
Then make menuconfig
and select things you know that you will need built into the kernel.
Try to avoid making any alterations to any inp
On 3/22/10, brown wrap wrote:
> Today I booted up the LFS 6.3 DVD and its works as well. I found its .config
> and tried to use it to build a kernal:
>
>
> make mrproper
>
> Copied it to .config
>
> make oldconfig
>
> make
>
> make modules_install
>
> and then copied everything to its place in the
On 3/23/10, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 11:39 -0700, brown wrap wrote:
>> I tried that. NO inputs work. Not USB or PS/2 mouse and old XT keyboard.
>
> Ok, that's something. If no input devices work, that might point to
> options under "HID Devices" not being enabled (HID = Human Int
On 3/23/10, linux fan wrote:
> --
> brown pastebin sys.log has
> http://pastebin.com/EGZYEdMe
>
> Mar 16 22:46:27 guajome-dome kernel: [9.460024] ehci_hcd
> :00:04.1: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the
> wrong IR
On 3/24/10, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I've finally got round to trying to install grub2 on one of my boxes.
I messed with grub2 a little.
I tried the 'kernel /core.img' method to get to grub2 from legacy.
'set' shows the settings somewhat like bash.
'set pager=1' ... I think pages output instead
On 3/25/10, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 2. From somewhere, the prefix is set to (hd0,15)/boot/grub. I've no
> idea where this is set, and trying to set it at the start of grub.cfg
> didn't work. So, I've created that path for it -
>
> mkdir /boot/boot
> ln -s ../grub /boot/boot/grub
Yep.
I always had
On 3/25/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
> HAL is not part of LFS, you should direct questions about things in BLFS to
> blfs-supp...@linuxfromscratch.org
I configure HAL with
--disable-console-kit \
--disable-policy-kit
Otherwise new hal expects them and if they are to be insta
On 4/12/10, lux-integ wrote:
> could this be related and does anyone have any ideas for swift resolution
I don't have libxklavier and it built.
Going off topic:
I don't like the giant balloon tooltips over the panel.
I like it better with this patch for kdelibs even though it also
affects di
On 4/14/10, lux-integ wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 07:53:42 pm Trent Shea wrote:
>> Also,
>> /opt/kde/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindX11.cmake which gets installed by
>> kdelibs - not really sure if both files get used...
> all to no avail.
> I do not know if the 'name' used is a problem or ot
On 5/20/10, Kyle Brennan wrote:
> though. I did work in the sources directory. I got to GLibC and it ran
> for about 45 minutes and then it threw this error at me: make: *** [all]
> Error 2
> It just came out of the /mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-2.11.1 directory. which
Wouldn't it be out of /mnt/lfs
On 5/25/10, mhenriqu...@terra.cl wrote:
>
> just to bother, the book mention something about that somewhere?, do I
> miss something...
>
Ch 5.3. General Compilation Instructions has an *Important* note to
delete the unpacked-source and build directories after installing
unless otherwise specified
On 5/26/10, Simon Geard wrote:
> I can't really see how things can be improved (short of blinking red
> text on *every* page), but it does seem like half the problems we deal
> with are from people not following it. Are people not even reading that
> entire "General Compilation Instructions" page
On 5/27/10, JimD. wrote:
> On this topic, I too had a notion that what I call "Lab Notes" would have
> been an improvement and perhaps call users attention to important
> procedures.
>
I like that.
In the BLFS book, each package has "user notes" that link to a wiki
page if it exists. Those are not
On 5/27/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
[Ken Moffat]
>> getting from a .config that worked in 2.6.18 to one that works in
>> 2.6.32. Particularly, libata [ most ide drives now use libata and
>> therefore /dev/sdXn instead of hdXn ].
[Paul Rogers]
> Yes, I've seen that in some of the other distros I've go
On 5/28/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
> gcc package for that __stack_chk_guard variable, assuming it was
> defined there. It's not. Could someone please grep their include
> directory and let me know where it is defined? I haven't found it on
> my system.
grep -r -c "_stack_chk_guard" /usr/include (
On 5/28/10, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Good advice. I'd actually recommend 'make oldconfig' and then make
> notes on *everything* that might be questionable, research, then set or
> not in menuconfig, but that's just a variation - the important thing is not
> to try to jump through too many different
On 5/29/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
> Since I cut and paste the book instructions into my build script
> template, albeit with ample instruction and organization for use in
> cloning the system too, I can provide them for the Stage 1 & 2 builds of
> gcc and glibc, if it would help to see EXACTLY what I
On 5/29/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
> No fun. 1.4GHz P-3, 512MB. Besides, as I wrote, I really want to have
> a clean migration path. Maybe 6.1 to 6.6 is too far a jump, but it
> matched the HSR with the exception of kernel version.
>
> Besides I rather think the LiveCD starts the NIC/network, mine
On 5/29/10, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> $ nm -a /mnt/lfs/tools/lib/libssp.so.0.0.0|grep stack
> 1000 T __stack_chk_fail
> 1040 t __stack_chk_fail_local
> 00201d60 B __stack_chk_guard
>
nm -a /usr/lib/libssp.so.0.0.0 | grep stack
shows similar output on backups with linux
On 5/31/10, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> You don't have any standing to 'expect' anything from us. You can
> suggest, but with your attitude, my reaction is to push back and say no,
> even if that's wrong.
>
>-- Bruce
I support and congratulate Paul Roger's package management ability to
clone and L
On 5/31/10, x2...@lycos.com wrote:
>
> Most of the posters with problems do seem to have,
> for whatever reason, strayed from the path of righteousness
> and not followed the book closely enough.
Quoth the creator:
Gerard: Read the book we wrote for our users. But, don’t be afraid to
deviat
On 6/1/10, David Expósito wrote:
> /usr/lib/libXfont.so: undefined reference to `ft_isdigit'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
"In newer versions of Freetype2, the ft_isdigit macro has been removed."
When building libXfont-1.2.8 in ch. 23.8 Xorg-Libraries you were supposed to do:
sed -i 's/(
On 6/1/10, Baho Utot wrote:
>>
>> Volunteers welcomed.
>
> I'll volunteer...I can mess up anything :)
> I am going to try it again as I am a gluten for punishment.
>
>From one punishment lubber 't another:
Consider using the HSR that are now in LFS-DEV for your testing.
The reason I say so, is
On 6/2/10, mhenriqu...@terra.cl wrote:
> One minor issue that is bugging me, is that there is something wrong
> about the sda1 and ext3 filesystem about the dates, since each time that
> I turn on the virtual machine the system stop at booting telling me that
> the check date on the filesystem is
On 6/2/10, linux fan wrote:
> system, /etc/sysconfig/clock had UTC=1.
> As a consequence, timestamps were "in the past".
Or would that be "in the future".
My timezone is America/New_York in /etc/localtime.
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On 6/2/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
> To be a proper "trailer" you need to have a system with ONLY the
> minimum requirements for the book. Otherwise you aren't proving
> building will work with only those.
I don't think you will find any volunteers to perform the intricate
and time-consuming labor.
On 6/2/10, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Paul Rogers wrote:
>> I reported it doesn't work with 6.1, that's as close as I had. And the
>> response I got was, paraphrasing, "use 6.3, it's known to work". There
>> seemed to be a complete lack of recognition of it being a problem with
>> the book. Frankly,
On 6/2/10, Danny Engelbarts wrote:
> ... a 6.3 system is required than the book should state 6.3 until proven
> otherwise.
That is just exactly what the DEV book now requires.
Unfortunately, now we don't get to find out exactly why the original problem
"undefined reference to __stack_chk_guard
On 6/2/10, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> The version of glibc within chroot certainly should support ssp but the
> two reports we have didn't seem to find it automatically. Others cannot
> duplicate the problem. If we had consistent errors on most builds, we
> could fix it.
Could there be slight varian
On 6/4/10, Paul Rogers wrote:
>> So the problem was the Chapter 5 gcc?
>
> I'm not sure that follows.
Seems to.
Intending to attempt to duplicate __stack_chk_guard error in chapter 6
while building lfs-6.6 from lfs-6.1.1 ...
The theory being that the host gcc/glibc "ideal" gets passed to the
to
On 6/4/10, linux fan wrote:
>>> So the problem was the Chapter 5 gcc?
>>
>> I'm not sure that follows.
>
> Seems to.
>
> ... I decide to break out of it, and try something
> ... This diff in commands
> ===
# Hack to solve glibc __stack_chk_guard cross compile ( < 2.4 :)
# this schpeel in LFS-6.6 ch5 gcc-pass1 and ch5 gcc-pass2 after unpack:
glibc=$(ls /lib/libc-*.so)
read j1 v[0] v[1] v[2] j2 <<< ${glibc//[-.]/ }
if (( v[0] < 2 )) || (( v[1] < 4 )) && [ -f gcc/configure ]; then
# kick it
sed -i
On 6/8/10, Andrew Benton wrote:
>
> shouldn't that be
> if (( ${v[0]} < 2 )) && (( ${v[1]} < 4 ))
>
or maybe (( v[0] == 2 )) && (( v[1] < 4 ))
... bash (( allowed me to omit $ and {} around variables/arrays ))
But in the target lfs-6.6, glibc > 2.4 is true, so the test isn't even needed.
That
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