Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread spiky
On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote: I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but cant get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14.

Re: [lfs-support] Can't get LFS to boot, fsck.ext4 no such file or directory while trying to open ....

2013-03-24 Thread spiky
On 24/03/13 00:57, TJ Olaes wrote: Good evening. Hope someone can help me see something I'm missing, I've been googling all day trying to get LFS to boot up and have made some progress but this one is stumping me. Currently, I have at least one problem, which is that the boot sequence fails at

Re: [lfs-support] make error in Coreutils

2013-03-13 Thread spiky
On 13/03/13 17:47, Rubin Saifi wrote: here is the error -- root:/sources/coreutils-8.19# make CDPATH=${ZSH_VERSION+.}: cd . /bin/sh /sources/coreutils-8.19/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.12a -I m4 /sources/coreutils-8.19/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.12a: command not

Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

2013-03-03 Thread spiky
On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu 12.10? I cannot get past the 5.5 GCC section. Always ends up in an error. Three times tried. Maybe post the output of the version-script -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

2013-03-03 Thread spiky
On 03/03/13 19:51, Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 02:37 PM, spiky wrote: On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu 12.10? I cannot get past the 5.5 GCC section. Always ends up in an error. Three times tried. Maybe post the output

Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

2013-03-03 Thread spiky
On 03/03/13 20:31, Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 02:57 PM, Denis Mugnier wrote: On 03/03/13 20:51, Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 02:37 PM, spiky wrote: On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu 12.10? I cannot get past the 5.5 GCC section

Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

2013-03-03 Thread spiky
On 03/03/13 20:58, Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 03:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 02:37 PM, spiky wrote: On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu 12.10? I cannot get past the 5.5 GCC section. Always ends up

Re: [lfs-support] Booting LFS Error Kernel Panic

2012-12-18 Thread spiky
On 18/12/12 01:24, Alexander Spitzer wrote: Hello all, I am having a hard time booting my LFS system, which is on a USB drive. I installed grub on /dev/sdc (the usb relative to the host) and the bios successfully finds GRUB. After around 2.3 seconds, the boot process hangs after printing

Re: [lfs-support] http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.xz

2012-11-23 Thread spiky
On 23/11/12 22:23, Thomas de Roo wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an alternative source for xz? http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.xz seems to be down. Groet, Thomas Whats the problem with that ? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.xz

2012-11-23 Thread spiky
On 23/11/12 22:34, spiky wrote: On 23/11/12 22:23, Thomas de Roo wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an alternative source for xz? http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.xz seems to be down. Groet, Thomas Whats the problem with that ? ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/../pub/lfs/lfs-packages/7.2

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel panic lfs-7.2

2012-10-27 Thread spiky
On 25/10/12 23:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: On 25/10/12 22:50, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:03:46PM +0100, spiky wrote: Hi Ok I,m having real trouble booting my lfs system. Long storey with lfs 7.2 won I rebuilt the kernel after moving to new laptop. Root is on sda3

[lfs-support] Kernel panic lfs-7.2

2012-10-25 Thread spiky
Hi Ok I,m having real trouble booting my lfs system. Long storey with lfs 7.2 wont boot, I have now dd a working lfs-7.0 system, from another laptop which I have done before. on to this laptop replacing 7.2. I adjusted fstab file as needed for new partitions. I have tried booting from grub

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel panic lfs-7.2

2012-10-25 Thread spiky
On 25/10/12 22:50, Ken Moffat wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:03:46PM +0100, spiky wrote: Hi Ok I,m having real trouble booting my lfs system. Long storey with lfs 7.2 wont boot, I have now dd a working lfs-7.0 system, from another laptop which I have done before. on to this laptop

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5.4 Binutils-2.22 Patch issue

2012-10-13 Thread spiky
On 13/10/12 20:10, San blue wrote: Hi Colleagues, When i'm executing the patch for Binutils-2.22, i'm getting the below error : -- lfs:/mnt/lfs/tools$ patch -Np1 -i ../sources/binutils-2.22-build_fix-1.patch can't find file

[lfs-support] chapter06/inetutils link error

2012-10-12 Thread spiky
Page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/inetutils.html there is a link http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/inetutils.html that returns page not found -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] Compiling GCC pass 1 of Linux From Scratch

2012-10-08 Thread spiky
On 08/10/12 13:08, Arvind S Raj wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying Linux from scratch and am really excited about it. I have encountered an error when I compile GCC. The error is http://paste.pound-python.org/show/26539/. I noticed that many others have faced this error(a few threads in the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread spiky
On 20/09/12 18:55, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Members, I do hope this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now and

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread spiky
On 02/09/12 11:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now reading through the chapter 7. In section 7.2 it says that I can ignore this section if I only has one network interface, so basically the entire section 7.2 I can ignore (7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3). And

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Book 7 | chapter 7 what to ignore

2012-09-02 Thread spiky
On 02/09/12 11:30, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: I'm not using any network cards specifically. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, spiky martynvid...@aol.com mailto:martynvid...@aol.com wrote: On 02/09/12 11:05, Oshadha Gunawardena wrote: Ok, so I managed to do up to the chapter 6 and now

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel is not booting

2012-07-14 Thread spiky
On 14/07/12 16:14, gmspro wrote: #grub.cfg menuentry 'Custom' { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd1,msdos8)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2d1bcc50-c7f9-4d2a-8ab4-dba8795b78e9 linux/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb8 rootfstype=ext4 ro quiet } What's wrong

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

2012-07-08 Thread spiky
On 08/07/12 19:44, Yasser Zamani wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:18:21 +0100 From: onepo...@starurchin.org To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS? Yasser Zamani wrote: I

Re: [lfs-support] Problem following LFS Version 7.1 - 6.7 Linux-3.2.6 API Header

2012-07-04 Thread spiky
On 04/07/12 20:52, Toby Ferguson wrote: I finished 6.6 Creating Essential Files and Symlinks. All seems good. But when I get to chapter 6.7 I have no idea what to do - there's no makefile around, and none under the / directory, so far as I can tell. It seems to me that there're some

Re: [lfs-support] Problem following LFS Version 7.1 - 6.7 Linux-3.2.6 API Header

2012-07-04 Thread spiky
On 04/07/12 21:15, Toby Ferguson wrote: Ah - I thought I'd installed everything - so you're saying I have to do the 'unpack/cd/install/rm' cycle, but as the root user in the chroot'd environment? OK - I can do that I guess. Thanks. Toby On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, spiky martynvid

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 errors

2012-07-01 Thread spiky
On 30/06/12 07:10, spiky wrote: On 30/06/12 01:07, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 6/29/2012 6:46 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:12:22PM +0100, spiky wrote: The host is there beta of next release, 32bit , kernel 3.2.0-26-generic-pae I installed the 3.5rc4 in previous chapter 6.7 I

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.1 gcc build failure

2012-07-01 Thread spiky
On 01/07/12 09:32, Archie Arevalo wrote: Hello, my first time on the list and my first time to attempt LFS, I've looked around but I'm not sure what I am looking for. I have followed the instructions precisely and got binutils installed. Excerpt from http://pastebin.com/dGg0gaGi make[2]:

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 errors

2012-06-30 Thread spiky
On 30/06/12 01:07, Eleanore Boyd wrote: On 6/29/2012 6:46 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:12:22PM +0100, spiky wrote: The host is there beta of next release, 32bit , kernel 3.2.0-26-generic-pae I installed the 3.5rc4 in previous chapter 6.7 I was in 2 minds weather to carry

[lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 errors

2012-06-29 Thread spiky
Building svn 20120623 glibc-2.15 chapter 6.9 I have used the latest kernel 3.5rc4 ( could this cause the problem) Host Ubuntu 12.10 compliant The Whole build so far has been error free. This is the error at the end of TIMEOUTFACTOR=16 make -k check 21 | tee glibc-check-log make[1]: Target

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 6.9 errors

2012-06-29 Thread spiky
On 29/06/12 23:03, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:42:12PM +0100, spiky wrote: Building svn 20120623 glibc-2.15 chapter 6.9 I have used the latest kernel 3.5rc4 ( could this cause the problem) Possibly. Host Ubuntu 12.10 compliant That's a -rc or 'prerelease' of their next

Re: [lfs-support] Populating /etc/rc.d

2012-06-16 Thread spiky
On 16/06/12 15:44, joao.more...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, A quick question : I've reached chapter 7, and I didn't realize when the /etc/rc.d directories were populated... I went back to reading chapter 6 but I couldn't find it. I thought probably sysvinit-2.88dsf, but I just unpacked that

Re: [lfs-support] Not getting any output in dummy.c after GCC pass2 installation...please help...urgent

2012-03-23 Thread spiky
On 23/03/12 08:26, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Sumeet Shekhar sshekhar.s...@gmail.com mailto:sshekhar.s...@gmail.com wrote: I am not getting any output while running the program dummy.c after GCC pass2 installation. Also it says that create gcc-build

Re: [lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread spiky
On 29/01/12 09:14, mohit jain wrote: Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it and provide a remedy. I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package and the error faced is attached as a text file

Re: [lfs-support] glibc tests errors

2012-01-02 Thread spiky
On 02/01/12 21:48, mais lfs wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com mailto:zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:57:49PM +0200, mais lfs wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5 gcc 2nd build

2012-01-02 Thread spiky
On 02/01/12 22:57, James Forcier wrote: I am working on the 2nd build of gcc in Chapter 5, LFS 7.0. It says that the patch gcc-4.6.1-startfiles_fix-1 should be applied; should the patch applied to the first build of gcc (gcc-4.6.1-cross_compile-1) also be applied? No just the patch it asks for

Re: [blfs-support] metacity error

2011-12-29 Thread spiky
On 29/12/11 17:11, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: Hi I,m building Metacity-2.30.1 I recieved an error while running make. libmetacity_private_la-boxes.lo] Error 1 leaving metacity-2.30.1/src. I checked the src there is no libmetacity_private_la-boxes I have not had a chance to try

Re: [blfs-support] Pygtk-2.17.0 error with Pygobject-3.0.3

2011-12-28 Thread spiky
On 28/12/11 10:30, Simon Geard wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:48 +, spiky wrote: I would like to know if there is a problem with Pygtk-2.17.0 and Pygobject-3.0.3? I had an install error I reverted back to Pygobject-2.21.3 with success Yes. The newer Pygobject 3 series isn't compatible

[blfs-support] Pygtk-2.17.0 error with Pygobject-3.0.3

2011-12-27 Thread spiky
I would like to know if there is a problem with Pygtk-2.17.0 and Pygobject-3.0.3? I had an install error I reverted back to Pygobject-2.21.3 with success -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: [lfs-support] ld:Cannot find -lgcc_eh when compiling Glibc

2011-12-09 Thread spiky
On 08/12/11 12:31, 王斌 wrote: Hello, everybody. I have figured out this problem. I forgot to link libgcc.a to lgcc_eh after I installed gcc. In anoter word, type the command: ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name | \ sed 's/libgcc/_eh/'` 在 2011年12月8日 下午7:46,王斌

Re: [lfs-support] libc.so.6

2011-11-21 Thread spiky
On 20/11/11 14:02, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:32:57 +0800 Zhu Bicenzhubi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am check the host requirement to build LFS. after issuing the version-check.sh on error is occured: I am using a 32 bit ubuntu 11.10. version-check.sh: line 22:

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 01:26 +, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:53:11 + spiky martynvid...@aol.com wrote: I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab grub.cfg in lots

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 11:50, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spikymartynvid...@aol.com wrote: Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) linux /boot/vmlinux-3.1-7.0 (it found with tab)root=/devsda1

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 12:36, Alain Toussaint wrote: hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). ^^ Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? Alain I formatted the partition with gparted to ext4 swap is swap home ext4 Martyn --

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 12:38, spiky wrote: On 13/11/11 12:36, Alain Toussaint wrote: hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). ^^ Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? Alain I formatted the partition with gparted to ext4 swap is swap home ext4 Martyn Ok I have

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 17:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spikymartynvid...@aol.com wrote: Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) That seems right. The msdos part is the boot

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread spiky
On 13/11/11 17:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:34 + spikymartynvid...@aol.com wrote: Ok I used grub prompt it showed the usb drive hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). then entered set root=(hd0,msdos) That seems right. The msdos part is the boot

built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread spiky
I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, grub.cfg # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod ext2 set root=(hd2,1) menuentry

Re: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-12 Thread spiky
On 12/11/11 23:17, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: I have built lfs7 with linux 3.1rc4. I cant boot it when on sdc. If drive is put in laptop on IDE it will boot. I have set the fstab grub.cfg in lots of different ways still no joy, grub.cfg # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

2011-11-07 Thread spiky
On 07/11/11 20:27, Yaser Amini wrote: Try to execute command separately First: CC=$LFS_TGT-gcc -B/tools/lib/ \ AR=$LFS_TGT-ar RANLIB=$LFS_TGT-ranlib Second: ../binutils-2.21.1/configure --prefix=/tools \ --disable-nls --with-lib-path=/tools/lib It worked for me

Gcc errors

2011-10-28 Thread spiky
Hi I have been building lfs 7rc2, Host Ubuntu 11.04 complient. I have built up to 6.17 gcc. I restarted machine today so as to carry on the build of gcc, After completing chapters 2.4, check echo $LFS correct output, chapter 6.2.2 and finally 6.4 chroot, all commands up to 6.4 were copy/paste.

Re: Gcc errors

2011-10-28 Thread spiky
On 28/10/11 19:46, spiky wrote: Hi I have been building lfs 7rc2, Host Ubuntu 11.04 complient. I have built up to 6.17 gcc. I restarted machine today so as to carry on the build of gcc, After completing chapters 2.4, check echo $LFS correct output, chapter 6.2.2 and finally 6.4 chroot, all

Re: lfs 7 rc2

2011-10-18 Thread spiky
On 17/10/11 23:02, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: On 17/10/11 22:40, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: I,m using Ubuntu 11.04 I ran the version script and fixed all dependencies. I having a problem with Version 7.0-rc2 glibc-2.14.1 and the patches. I have used both patches as per book, Just

lfs 7 rc2

2011-10-17 Thread spiky
I,m using Ubuntu 11.04 I ran the version script and fixed all dependencies. I having a problem with Version 7.0-rc2 glibc-2.14.1 and the patches. I have used both patches as per book, Just 1 Question the patches do go in untarred dir glibc-2.14.1? checking cpuid.h presence... yes configure:

Re: lfs 7 rc2

2011-10-17 Thread spiky
On 17/10/11 22:40, Bruce Dubbs wrote: spiky wrote: I,m using Ubuntu 11.04 I ran the version script and fixed all dependencies. I having a problem with Version 7.0-rc2 glibc-2.14.1 and the patches. I have used both patches as per book, Just 1 Question the patches do go in untarred dir