Tim Tassonis wrote:
It took me a while, but I now finally completed my translation of the
LFS book into Ancient Greek. It is based on LFS 10.0, and only the sysv
version is done yet, Systemd is still pending due to ancient greek only
having capital letters.
Ha. Very good.
You actually did hav
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I don't recall seeing this. Are you on a relatively older system? A
timeout in a test would indicate that to me. If that is the only
problem you see in gcc, then you are probably OK to continue.
Hardware in this thing is about five years old. It's an I5 something.
After th
In Chapter 6.25, GCC-9.2.0
We're in chroot. All else went ok, and then we have:
Running /sources/gcc-9.2.0/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/atomic/atomic.exp ...
WARNING: program timed out.
FAIL: gcc.dg/atomic/c11-atomic-exec-5.c -O1 execution test
WARNING: program timed out.
FAIL: gcc.dg/atomic/c11-atomic-
This with LFS stable on Debian 10 host
Chapter 5.19, coreutils-8.31
configure: WARNING: libacl development library was not found or not usable.
configure: WARNING: GNU coreutils will be built without ACL support.
configure: WARNING: libattr development library was not found or not usable.
configur
Ken Moffat wrote:
But for your SSD I'm guessing that you might not be using fstrim
(either manually, or the ',discard' option in the fstab), and
therefore writing a new block means it has sufficiently filled up
that it needs to shuffle things about.
I thought that trim stuff was all handled auto
Ken Moffat wrote:
Do you have links to whatever speed or other efficiency this package
provides ? As a user of the sysvinit books I've never found DBus to
be an obvious cause of pain or "ooh, this is so slow!" thoughts.
All I have is word on the street. I'm no kind of analyst or
benchmark exp
Are we considering switching from traditional DBus to this
implementation? I'm told many distros are switching over, that this one
is faster and more efficient.
What says LFS?
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As I mentioned before, I'm working at building LFS for a headless
server whose primary purpose is for data storage.
Thanks, by the way, for the serial console suggestion. I'll be doing that.
As such, I'm wondering if any special consideration needs to be taken
particularly for kernel builds when at
Dave wrote:
How about a USB video dongle
Oh, didn't know such things existed. I'll look into that.
Thanks.
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I'm working on building a storage server, where I'm going to cram in
as many drives as I can. I currently have 10.
As such, I need to get rid of the video card to make room.
I'll be administering the server over ssh.
Can I build a linux version that requires no video support? And how?
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Ken Moffat wrote:
You are ignoring one important fact from Rob's original post - the
disk is only 37.3GB. To be honest, to me that looks barely usable
for storage (even with only one, probably never updated, system).
It works fine to run the system. And the system is CLI only.
The /home is on a
Xi Ruoyao wrote:
LFS book does *not* support EFI. If you followed the book, you should
use "legacy boot" instead of EFI. And, since the partition table is
GPT, you should create a "BIOS boot partition" (in section 2.4.1.3 of
LFS book) for it.
There is no such thing as legacy boot on this machin
I just want to make sure this partition layout is correct before
doing grub.
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 37.3 GiB, 400 bytes, 78125000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
D
I got my hands on a HP Z220 workstation. I was going to install LFS
and make it a raid box for network storage.
I only want one OS on the internal drive. Is it possible to install
LFS while running off a live USB stick?
My thought was to use arch linux as the temporary host. Any caveats?
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This problem is distro independent, and seems to be a kernel issue.
I have two MediaSonic esata enclosures, each with four drives.
They are connected via a two port Esata PCIE card, listed as:
01:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9128 PCIe
SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller (rev 20)
Does anything special need to be done with the kernel for optimal use
of solid state drives?
I recall something about turning on something called trimming, but
I don't remember much more than that.
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When running
"make check"
on glibc-2.27 and other such packages. Is there a way to truncate
the output so that only passes/fails are shown?
I know you can go
"make -s"
and that will suppress a lot of things during compilation but i'm not
certain that switch will work for test suites.
I run the chro
Ken Moffat wrote:
That message seems to be normal. Not sure where the '-q' came from.
I added it, so I could catch any warnigngs. It suppresses the
Checking for...
messages and makes for a much cleaner experience.
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When trying to compile expect, I got this:
config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
chmod: cannot access './install-sh': No such file or directory
Here is my command line:
./configure -q --prefix=/tools \
--with-tcl=/tools/lib \
Last year I heard that M$ was including a Ubuntu-based subsystem in its Windows
10 product. I wasn't sure this was actually going to work very well, but
apparently it does.
Can this be used to build LFS? I'm not sure it can because of the ext* file
systems you would need, but i'm curious nonethe
Do we have something like a milestone tracker that shows the
status/progress of B and LFS development?
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A: Becaus
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> The systemv discussion of bash initialization in LFS is really minimal.
> The intent for both books is to put it off to BLFS since there are so many
> variations that users may want to use.
For example I have my own bash files that I migrate from version to version.
I'm rat
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
That's too hard. Just mount the formatted /dev/sda2 as e.g.
/media.
cp -a /root/tmp/* /media
I gave that a try just to see what would happen. It led to some
unpredictable results. I got a bunch of messages about how preserving
permissions of various files in /var/log was
uns
I have built an LFS system that I now wish to migrate to my main box.
To do this, I plugged in a USB drive, mounted it to
/root/tmp
, and ran the command:
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=64K | gzip -c > tmp/drive.gz
On my main box, I will fire up a live cd, plug in my USB drive and
restore with this command
g
William Harrington wrote:
> You need to specify the Grub's root for each path to the kernel:
> If recall, that is the way to do it and not use the variable set early for
> "set root="
Thanks. That did the trick.
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Here's the situation.
I've got two LFS systems, one on /dev/sda1 and the other on
/dev/sdb1. They each have their kernels in the /boot directories on
those drives. So I don't have a separate /boot partition. A little
bit of an oversight on my part.
I know I could back up things, erase partitions an
LFS-7.10-Systemd.
In section 7.2.1.2 the book talks about creating
"/etc/systemd/network/10-eth0-dhcp.network"
. Then, in BLFS Chapter 14, - DHCPCD, it talks about disabling
systemd-networkd.service.
So, does the file referenced in LFS 7.2.1.2 still need to be
created if you install dhcpcd? Becaus
Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> You'll need to run "pwconv" and "grpconv" in the Shadow page in LFS in
> order to get the /etc/shadow file.
Thanks, that fixed it. NOw we're logged in, but with new problems
which I'll post about separately.
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Building LFS-7.10-Systemd
I installed linux-pam, reinstalled shadow, reinstalled systemd.
However, I must have missed a step somewhere, because it won't
let me log in when I reboot.
I fired up my rescue system, chrooted into the LFS one. As root
"passwd"
, and got this:
"passwd: Authentication tok
Can someone please clarify for me the differences here?
/etc/modules-load.d
/etc/modprobe.d
and the file:
/etc/sysconfig/modules
All these various module dirs are confusing.
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William Harrington wrote:
> If we get a break in real world prioritized responsibilities, then
> the book may get some excellent updates. Until then, we
> are working at a frivolous pace.
Absolutely. I did not mean that as a criticism at all.
In fact, I intend looking at the CLFS roadmap and seei
This is LFS-7.10 RC1.
I am in the chroot environment on an arch live cd.
When running binutils tests in section 6.13, I get a bunch of failures.
Since the file is long, I put it on a pastebin.
http://pastebin.com/uWiE6dt0
What went wrong here?
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e at kernel 4.7.2. I am not sure about the
security risks of running such old stuff. The copyright date is 2014. That's
what I meant by a few years behind.
> My suggestion to Rob is that he should build LFS, plus whichever
> parts of BLFS are useful to him.
This is my third build of
Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> If you don't find something, post some info for the host
> and the output of version-check.sh
I deleted /tools and started over again. This time, we had no errors. Still
not sure what steps I might have missed though.
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In conducting the sanity check in section 5.10:
echo 'int main(){}' > dummy.c
cc dummy.c
readelf -l a.out | grep ': /tools'
cc dummy.c
got the following output
/usr/bin/ld:
/mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/6.2.0/../../../crti.o:
unrecognized relocation (0x2b) in section `.init'
/us
Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> Maybe you want to try CLFS.
http://trac.clfs.org/
http://clfs.org/view/
Thanks. I'll read through there and see if I can't apply information to new
toolchan versions. Looks like CLFS is a few years behind.
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http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2016-September/050333.html
In that thread, you linked to a script collection, on github. The instructions
in there did not work (not surprising), and asking google just linked to a
bunch of pages about installing mul
I can't seem to get multilib GCC to compile properly. It stops haflway through
compiling with
"checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are
not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES."
and won't go any further. Sounds like something went wrong with binutils, but
I'm not
In chapter 6 of LFS, we have
"--disable-multilib"
specified in the configure instructions. What will happen if I don't include
that? I have some programs that I want to run which are 32 bit, and require 32
bit libs.
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lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote:
> (Top-posting as I gather that can be useful re accessibility stuff:
is that correct?)
It doesn't matter to me personally. A lot of lists for vi folks do top post
though.
I strike a compromise between the ones that do and the ones like this which
bottom post
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The way this type of thing is handled is by someone writing a hint:
Do I have to join the hints list (I'm already on way too many lists as is) or
can I send you the hint directly.
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One of the things missing from the LFS book is the inclusion of accessibility
services, such as speakup and BRLTTY. Now these services aren't exactly
essential for most users, but for those with vision impairment, we need them in
order to use the basic system.
These packages should be installed
Marcos Pansani wrote:
> From time to time on the island, is popping up a message that I believe is a
> log or warning that a certain USB device connects or disconnects ...
You can turn this off by editing
/etc/sysconfig/console
and changing loglevel to 4.
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alex lupu wrote:
​What asterisk?In
my first message on this topic I indicated that I put
blacklist snd_hda_intel*
But apparently the modprobe program does not like wildcards--at least in
that file.
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Rob wrote:
It doesn't matter. Modprobe.d automatically replaces dashes and
underscores, according to the man page. Just to be sure, however, I
tried it with both.
Interestingly, modprobe -r snd_hda_intel worked.
I fixed it. Blacklist.conf did not like the asterisk.
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On 3.19.1 kernel the module name is snd-hda-intel with `-', not `_'
Are you sure you are using the correct module name?
It doesn't matter. Modprobe.d automatically replaces dashes and
underscores, according to the man page. Just to be sure, however, I
tried it with both.
I ask here because module blacklisting is mentioned in the lfs book.
I have 3 cards on my system: an onboard and two PCI cards. I want the
onboard one to not load. It is too quiet and I can barely hear it; so it
is therefore useless for my purposes.
It is an Intel board, so in /etc/modprobe.d/b
Good morning all.
I have built and installed LFS, and a few packages from BLFS 7.7. Now I
am looking to now upgrade to 7.8. I did not see anything in the book
specifically geared toward going between LFS versions. Do I have to do
anything different when doing an upgrade rather than going from s
On 05/12/14 00:03, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
They seem to have a backup domain at http://clfs.org. I would try there.
Douglas R. Reno
Thanks.
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Site seems to have been down for a couple of weeks.
Tried mailing CLFS list but returned Undelivered.
Anybody heard any news?
Rob
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