[lfs-support] systemd behaviour

2021-04-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
sysV install behaves like expected and ssh-agent stays alive. How would I start ssh-agent so that it will survive logoff? An additional layer of "nohup"? Stay healthy, Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/li

[lfs-support] backscrolling with shift+cursor

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, om some older LFS versions I could flip back 2 or 3 pages of screen content, and this feature seems to have gone with 10.0. Is this some option I missed to turn on which is optional now? I thought this was very convenient. Stay healthy, Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing

Re: [lfs-support] ssh connect fails at kexinit msg 20 preauth

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Seeling
e latest release anymore. The file for patching is no longer there in 8.5. Just updated a test machine to 8.5 and it works. Thanks again for helping. Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscr

Re: [lfs-support] ssh connect fails at kexinit msg 20 preauth

2021-03-30 Thread Thomas Seeling
sed to work. At first I suspected something strange had happened to the builtin list of kex protocols. Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

[lfs-support] ssh connect fails at kexinit msg 20 preauth

2021-03-29 Thread Thomas Seeling
as some hints for me please? Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top

Re: [lfs-support] Boot scripts: request for comments

2021-03-19 Thread Thomas Seeling
old method unconditionally shut down the network and then tried to unmount NFS drives. Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: [lfs-support] how to find out grub boot path

2021-02-21 Thread Thomas Seeling
all" I know the grub.cfg from the current patition is being used at the next reboot. I want to know which grub.cfg was used to get to the currently running instance of my OS. Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.l

Re: [lfs-support] how to find out grub boot path

2021-02-19 Thread Thomas Seeling
partitions (similar to the concept of Android A/B emmc layout). I want to find out the boot process breadcrumb to be sure where things are getting installed to. Stay healthy, Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://l

[lfs-support] how to find out grub boot path

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas Seeling
But: if I choose manually to boot from e.g. /dev/sda5, it would still have used the grub.cfg from /dev/sda1, and if I wanted to change boot parameters I'd have to edit /dev/sda1 grub.cfg. Is there a query function that I can use to find out how my system got bootstrapped? stay healthy, Thomas

Re: [lfs-support] compiling Glibc-2.31 inside the "chroot" cage.

2020-05-11 Thread Thomas Trepl
ng directory '/sources/glibc-2.31/intl' > make [1]: *** [Makefile: 470: intl / subdir_lib] Error 2 > make [1]: Leaving directory '/sources/glibc-2.31' > make: *** [Makefile: 9: all] Error 2 > (lfs chroot) root: /sources/glibc-2.31/build# > May be caused by the deviati

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-Version 9.1-systemd «5.10. GCC-9.2.0 - Pass 2»

2020-05-11 Thread Thomas Trepl
es not have gcc-10.1.0, it should be (as the headline states) version 9.2.0 Don't deviate from book. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A:

Re: [lfs-support] /tmp permissions resets after reboot

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > which in my SlackBuild scripts, I am using the /tmp directory to untar > What would be the correct way of untarring in /tmp ? create a subdirectory below /tmp, this will work. Stay healthy, Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? --

Re: [lfs-support] /tmp permissions resets after reboot

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Seeling
n I try to avoid creating archives with commands like "tar cf file.tar ." and always enumerate specific filenames and directory names. Hunting this down might be fun. A q&d solution would be to add a S99 startup file which resets directory permissions ;) Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a

Re: [lfs-support] su: Cannot drop the controlling terminal - 6.25 GCC

2020-04-12 Thread Thomas Trepl
which are mentioned in this thread, > when I was trying to wrap my head around the controlling terminal: > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-from-scratch-13/su-cannot-drop-the-controlling-terminal-6-25-gcc-4175671731/ > > Admittedly, I still don't really under

[lfs-support] OT: folding@home / corona

2020-04-05 Thread Thomas Trepl
run. You might want to have a look into the script first as there are three parameters to set for your environment. Happy folding ;-) -- Thomas (running two VMs with 4 CPUs each for FAH) setup-fah.sh Description: application/shellscript -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs

Re: [lfs-support] add fstrim? (was: Re: build time comparison)

2020-03-07 Thread Thomas Seeling
work machine is a RHEL and fstrim was only added recently with the 7 series (I'm on 7.7 right now). When I was running RHEL 6 I booted a live unix from USB and ran fstrim manually. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfroms

Re: [lfs-support] add fstrim? (was: Re: build time comparison)

2020-03-07 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Samstag, den 07.03.2020, 20:07 +0800 schrieb Xi Ruoyao: > On 2020-03-07 12:47 +0100, Thomas Seeling wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > > > I thought that trim stuff was all handled automagically by kernels now. > > > isn't very long since fedora were decid

[lfs-support] add fstrim? (was: Re: build time comparison)

2020-03-07 Thread Thomas Seeling
it daily. fstrim is neither in LFS nor BLFS book. It's a small download from sourceforge, latest release from 2010 is 0.2. It's a worthy addition - most systems nowaday and since a few years come with SSD and not HD any longer. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing

Re: [lfs-support] build time comparison

2020-03-06 Thread Thomas Seeling
artition (I'm using a concept similar to Android's A/B system). It's been a long time since I built LFS on a different host system. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support

[lfs-support] build time comparison

2020-03-06 Thread Thomas Seeling
r for the SSD build? I was using the same jhalfs configuration file for the latest 9.1 build. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubs

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 9.1 build gcc stage2 fails

2020-03-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
w, currently building 040-gcc-pass2, so it went past 035-gcc-pass1 this time. Thanks! Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 9.1 build gcc stage2 fails

2020-03-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
d it compiles. When running make again it then fails at the next make target, gmp. So I assume your hint about using the latest jhalfs from svn might lead to somewhere, I'm trying right now. In an hour I'll know more (this is an old P4 i686 I'm experimenting with). Tschau...Thomas -

[lfs-support] LFS 9.1 build gcc stage2 fails

2020-03-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
build-directory tells me that ld cannot find crt1.o. Anyone else encountered the same problem? The same jhalfs installation could build LFS 9.0 fine some weeks ago. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo

Re: [lfs-support] compile 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit LFS?

2019-12-12 Thread Thomas Seeling
install kernel and modules from the same compile but that should be the usual case. PS: is System.map required for normal operation or is it only required for devs doing some sort of bug tracking? I'm tempted to omit the file. Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a pas

Re: [lfs-support] compile 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit LFS?

2019-12-11 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > make i386_defconfig > make menu config (to customize the kernel) would it be sufficient to use the exact .config file from the previous compile on a 32-bit system? Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? --

[lfs-support] compile 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit LFS?

2019-12-11 Thread Thomas Seeling
ompile for another CPU? Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A:

[lfs-support] kernel compilation requires cpio?

2019-11-30 Thread Thomas Seeling
c? Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up th

Re: [lfs-support] Bug in xsltproc [XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)]

2019-11-21 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Donnerstag, den 21.11.2019, 19:17 +0100 schrieb Thomas Trepl: > Hi again, > > just as a follow-up: > > I asked the Apache/FOP guys about that issue: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201911.mbox/ajax/%3C4d044e44a7a07fcf688ffda8e

[lfs-support] Bug in xsltproc [XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)]

2019-11-21 Thread Thomas Trepl
with which version of xsltproc the bug came in; hopefully that testing won't required too much time... Btw, added BLFS-Support list since it is not really LFS- but more BLFS-related. I initially put the thread here as i thought the admins did some woodoo on higgs in the XSL-stack. -- Thomas

Re: [lfs-support] XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)

2019-11-16 Thread Thomas Trepl
ll of them, title as well as subtitle etc. At least there is an effect. I don't know how to get that varying depending on title/subtitle and such. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the ab

Re: [lfs-support] XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)

2019-11-16 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Freitag, den 15.11.2019, 21:43 +0100 schrieb Pierre Labastie: > Le 15/11/2019 à 21:00, Thomas Trepl a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > ... > > The issue is when generating PDF, the book title on the very first > > page has standard font size. It's bold, but sta

[lfs-support] XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)

2019-11-15 Thread Thomas Trepl
pt" space-before="18.6624pt" font-weight="bold" font-family="{$title.fontset}"> but it makes no difference. My toolchain is Linux, xsltproc, fop(2.4), stylesheets-1.79.2. Any ideas how to solve that?

Re: [lfs-support] atheros firmware

2019-05-15 Thread Thomas Seeling
es about which files are getting loaded? Tschau...Thomas -- Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time? -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on t

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.4 Perl segfaults during build

2019-05-09 Thread Thomas Trepl
- for both, i686 and x86_64. Since years, I have not installed other distros than LFS (except on the VM host) and had never issues with using perl. I take this as another indication to my thesis above that the segfault messages are not nice but they are covered and can be ignored. Thoughts? -- Tho

Re: [lfs-support] Moving working LFS to a different computer

2019-04-28 Thread Thomas Trepl
time do have same processor type of course. That said, compared to other OSs (like one from Redmond), Linux is easy to move, just tar it up and extract it on target, set IP address and boot... -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/bl

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.4 6.34. Bash-5.0

2019-04-05 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Freitag, den 05.04.2019, 10:21 -0400 schrieb baho- u...@columbus.rr.com: > Missing from the install instructions: > > ln -vs bash /bin/sh > > Review chapter "6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks" - its there. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] Colorize

2019-03-23 Thread Thomas Trepl
\l >->->->->-> end The "Linux From Scratch" appears in yellow. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread thomas
Am 2019-03-19 10:31, schrieb Frans de Boer: On 19-03-19 10:19, Michael Shell wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:15:25 +0100 thomas wrote: Renaming /tools to another name will be appropriate to come over this issue. Perhaps a more functionally descriptive name would also help in other ways

Re: [lfs-support] Potential damage of $LFS/tools setting in section 4.2 and 4.3 of LFS book.

2019-03-19 Thread thomas
es created in chapt5 are not usable. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Fail to Boot at End Trace...

2019-03-18 Thread thomas
tem to boot and the partition layout including info about which partition contains which file system. Indeed, it looks like we not too far from success, but you never know... ;-) -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.h

Re: [lfs-support] System Configuration on a USB stick?

2019-03-16 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Samstag, den 16.03.2019, 09:52 + schrieb Richard Melville: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 21:23, Thomas Trepl > wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 15.03.2019, 14:00 -0700 schrieb Pei Jia: > > > > > > Hello: > > > Finally, I successfully built

Re: [lfs-support] System Configuration on a USB stick?

2019-03-15 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Freitag, den 15.03.2019, 14:00 -0700 schrieb Pei Jia: > > Hello: > Finally, I successfully built LFS, and now I come to Chapter 7 System > Configuration. > Chapter 7: System Configuration > Chapter 8: Making the LFS System Bootable > Chapter 9: The END > > My question is: > Is chapter 7 Syste

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS 8.4 rc

2019-02-16 Thread Thomas Trepl
FONT="Lat2-Terminus16 -m 8859-15" # End /etc/sysconfig/console - in my /etc/sysconfig/console. Note the UNICODE="1". With this, lat0-16 works fine, while my favorite font is the Terminus. Would you try it with UNICODE=1 again and tell the result? Btw, thats something for

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 8.3 GRUB Compilation Errors

2019-02-07 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > For those attempting to install GRUB from the tarball, (I suspect > very few) isn't this the main point of "linux from scratch"? I've *always* built grub from the tarball when building a new LFS system. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a

Re: [lfs-support] gcc not found, beginning of ch6, LFS-8.3

2019-01-17 Thread Thomas Seeling
ot;CC=... make" would make the CC variable visible for the make command as would "export CC=... make" Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linux

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-02 Thread Thomas Seeling
de verification. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list.

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-01 Thread Thomas Seeling
s/sysmacros.h missing Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-01 Thread Thomas Seeling
e "documentation" part of packages separately so that it's possible to filter out the whole doc part if unwanted? Currently I'm running a jhalfs test drive with BLFS and I have to edit a lot of scripts to remove doxygen, texi, dvi, pdf, ps, ... parts. Tschau...Thomas -- &qu

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-01 Thread Thomas Seeling
rent needs, tweaking here and there. I still think jhalfs is a great tool and I like the concepts behind it very much. I'm a big fan of Makefiles anyway ;). It's surprising how many packages break with recent gcc releases. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footp

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-01 Thread Thomas Seeling
/openssh-7.7p1/README.platform' 'README.privsep' -> '/usr/share/doc/openssh-7.7p1/README.privsep' 'README.tun' -> '/usr/share/doc/openssh-7.7p1/README.tun' Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa

Re: [lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2019-01-01 Thread Thomas Seeling
eyboard input. I worked around this by copying the password line for root from /etc/shadow to /mnt/lfs/etc/shadow. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf

[lfs-support] some observations about LFS 8.3 + jhalfs

2018-12-31 Thread Thomas Seeling
scripts in case something happens to be readonly. Apart from that I'm quite happy with jhalfs. Thanks and have a happy new year. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: [lfs-support] Minimum Hardware configuration for a Custom PC

2018-12-06 Thread Thomas Trepl
PU should be fine. I'd recommend to have an eye on that. I use allways 12GB disk space for partitions to build LFS in - so nearly all available disks nowadays should be fine. A 32GB mSATA is a bit small, but every size above should be fine also. But that depends on wha

Re: [lfs-support] Help: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2018-12-01 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Samstag, den 01.12.2018, 03:20 + schrieb Jimmy Zhang: > > > On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 8:15:30 PM EST, renodr > wrote: > > > On 2018-11-28 14:56, thomas wrote: > > Am 2018-11-28 19:57, schrieb Jimmy Zhang: > >> Hi, > >> I followed the

Re: [lfs-support] Help: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)

2018-11-28 Thread thomas
tself like PATA or SATA. Check the kernel configuration for that. -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order

Re: [lfs-support] build TAR fails miserably

2018-11-26 Thread Thomas Trepl
e to include to get a definition of MB_LEN_MAX. > But this would only disturb the namespace. So we define our own > version here. */ > #define __STDLIB_MB_LEN_MAX16 > #if defined MB_LEN_MAX && MB_LEN_MAX != __STDLIB_MB_LEN_MAX > # error "Assumed value of

Re: [lfs-support] Error with grub-install

2018-10-06 Thread Thomas Trepl
b/util/grub-module- verifier.c index 9179285..a79271f 100644 --- a/util/grub-module-verifier.c +++ b/util/grub-module-verifier.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct grub_module_verifier_arch archs[] = { -1 }, (int[]){ R_X86_64_PC32, + R_X86_64_PLT32, -1 } }, It would be co

Re: [lfs-support] Framebuffer on Virtualbox

2018-09-20 Thread Thomas Trepl
--> Virtual Box Graphics Card Note that staging drivers are not yet finalized, they might work, but might NOT work too! Save way is to leave that staging stuff unchecked and install the VBox guest additions afterwards using stuff provided by Oracle at https://download.virtualbox

Re: [lfs-support] Info on package bzip2-1.0.6 in LFS 8.2

2018-09-06 Thread Thomas Trepl
isapperance of bzip2.org happened timely just between 8.2 and 8.3. In 8.2 we have the old link (previously working well) and in the 8.3, we allready use another location (LFSs own server). So, if you nowadays use 8.2 (which is perfectly ok), you fill stumble over that issue that bzip2.

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Version 8.3 released, livecd, PXE

2018-09-05 Thread Thomas Seeling
laborate please? Or point to some nice instructions? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: [lfs-support] Terms of Intel's EULA for Spectre patches

2018-08-24 Thread Thomas Seeling
ister.co.uk/2018/08/23/intel_microcode_license/ Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

Re: [lfs-support] Terms of Intel's EULA for Spectre patches

2018-08-24 Thread Thomas Seeling
a closed beta test. German c't magazine has reached out yesterday to Intel to clarify whether this statement is accidental or intentional. Debian currently refuses to ship the patches while other distributions are braver ;) Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing f

Re: [lfs-support] Failure while building libstdc++

2018-08-13 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Montag, den 13.08.2018, 11:28 +0800 schrieb norman: > 在 2018年08月10日 16:41, Thomas Trepl 写道: > > Am Freitag, den 10.08.2018, 15:57 +0800 schrieb norman: > > > No, it's failed, > > > > > > lfs@home:/mnt/lfs/build/tmp$ $LFS_TGT-gcc dummy.c > > &

Re: [lfs-support] Failure while building libstdc++

2018-08-10 Thread Thomas Trepl
Did you logout/login between building one of the first packages so some environment vars got lost? (Btw, when posting to LFS mailing lists, its appreciated if you do not "top-post" - just add answers *below* the mail history, not on top. If a thread gets longer, its easier to follow by readi

Re: [lfs-support] reset video hardware settings

2018-07-23 Thread Thomas Seeling
port on the KVM is not the active one it is 1024x768 and not the real setting that the monitor reports to the KVM switch. I'd later like to force that exact video mode. The kernel does it somehow and if possible I want to have that functionality on manual request. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do

[lfs-support] reset video hardware settings

2018-07-23 Thread Thomas Seeling
le at all? I have tried to follow the steps in the "console" init script but this didn't help me - it sets a font, but not the basic video mode. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: Open

Re: [lfs-support] compile 4.17.7 32 bit

2018-07-18 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > Wrong - the patch _was_ the fix for 32-bit. 4.17.8 is out now. good news. 4.17.8 in fact works on my 32 bit machine. I tried out gzip kernel compression instead of xz but that didn't help. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the

[lfs-support] compile 4.17.7 32 bit

2018-07-17 Thread Thomas Seeling
else having problems with the latest kernel under some circumstances? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: [lfs-support] expect5.45.4 error Ubuntu 16.04

2018-03-19 Thread Thomas Seeling
it). You have to install some *-devel packages but the book explains that. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: ht

Re: [lfs-support] Host system requiremens

2018-03-16 Thread Thomas Trepl
ere P2 is still standard. So they cannot easily switch to P3 (and drop P2 support). But yes, having two Pythons on the machine is not that cool... -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.2-rc1

2018-02-21 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > We are using gcc 7.3.0. How did you come to think something else? Did I misread the announcement for rc1? I thought I spotted gcc 7._0_.0 in that mail. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Descrip

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.2-rc1

2018-02-21 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, are you really using gcc 7.0.0 in the upcoming LFS release? I thought we're heading for gcc 7.3 with retpoline support. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: [lfs-support] A speedup with 4.14 and later kernels (against Meltdown)

2018-02-15 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > Thomas, I'm not quite sure what you are asking me to do. I save all > my config files for reference. I've got a 4.14.1 kernel building now, > made with oldconfig using the 4.13.16 config file and defaults for > all new options. What exactly do you want me t

Re: [lfs-support] A speedup with 4.14 and later kernels (against Meltdown)

2018-02-15 Thread Thomas Seeling
u compile the new kernel with "make oldconfig" to query your exact current kernel settings (if the running kernel was compiled to support this)? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: [lfs-support] Problems with su when building LFS

2018-02-12 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo, > su: must be run from a terminal what are the defaults in your sudo.conf? Have you switched on requiretty? You could selectively (or globally) switch it off. Defaults:timtas !requiretty Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands

[lfs-support] compile 32 bit kernel on 64 bit lfs

2018-02-05 Thread Thomas Seeling
achine? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the a

Re: [lfs-support] New lfs build and spectre/retpoline

2018-02-05 Thread Thomas Seeling
ding practices and in fact it does this quite often. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfroms

Re: [lfs-support] ncurses 6.1

2018-02-05 Thread Thomas Seeling
o this is much less intrusive than the suggested patch. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf

[lfs-support] ncurses 6.1

2018-02-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
he ncurses tar file. Anyway lynx can be compiled if you add the cpp define NCURSES_INTERNALS either to src/makefile or on the commandline with CFLAGS. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a footprint on the sands of time?" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/l

Re: [lfs-support] binutils-2.20 and grub

2018-02-03 Thread Thomas Seeling
Hallo On 02/03/2018 04:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> configure needs the following switch on 32 bit systems: >>>> --enable-64-bit-bfd >>> >>> Thomas, Have you tested you built grub? jhalfs logfile tells me that grub was built, and after grub-install

Re: [lfs-support] binutils-2.20 and grub

2018-02-02 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Freitag, den 02.02.2018, 15:03 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > Thomas Seeling wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > > > I rebuilt LFS from SVN with kernel 4.15 gcc 7.3 on i686. > > > > # head -n7 /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > > vendor

Re: [lfs-support] Full retpoline mitigation on older systems

2018-02-02 Thread Thomas Seeling
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Re: [lfs-support] compile failure grub i386

2018-01-31 Thread Thomas Seeling
nutils' configure on a 32-bit machine (see > https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.29/as/i386_002dOptions.html): > --enable-64-bit-bfd > --enable-targets=x86-64 I'll try to rebuild binutils. So far it didn't hurt me because I had a working grub installation from LFS 8.1 but

Re: [lfs-support] compile failure grub i386

2018-01-31 Thread thomas
Am 2018-01-31 11:33, schrieb Thomas Seeling: Hallo, I have a suspicion that grub 2.02 cannot be compiled with gcc 7.3. grub is step 127 in the jhalfs Makefile so I assume gcc is working in general, I'm well into ch. 6 of the LFS-svn book. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wa

[lfs-support] compile failure grub i386

2018-01-31 Thread Thomas Seeling
es/8.x/grub-2.02/grub-core' make[1]: *** [Makefile:10904: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/8.x/grub-2.02' make: *** [Makefile:3130: all] Error 2 Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.

[lfs-support] Meltdown and Spectre

2018-01-24 Thread Thomas Seeling
rchive again. news are that all CPUs with speculative execution or branch prediction are vulnerable. This will then go as far back as Pentium-Pro and Pentium II which date approx. 1995. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.

Re: [lfs-support] reset console size/mode

2018-01-18 Thread Thomas Seeling
like setfont but they do not change the physical screen resolution. Your suggestion is helpful but still only a workaround to make the shell aware of the change - I'd like to undo the resolution change caused by the KVM hiccup. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing

[lfs-support] kernel 4.14.14 compile needs gcc patches?

2018-01-17 Thread Thomas Seeling
variables? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

[lfs-support] reset console size/mode

2018-01-17 Thread Thomas Seeling
to force a reset of the screen without rebooting? I notice the resolution change happens quite early during kernel start but I was hoping there is a command to repeat it later. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Descrip

Re: [lfs-support] Intel microcode updates adding confusion?

2018-01-15 Thread Thomas Seeling
initrd mkdir -p kernel/x86/microcode cp -v /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/* kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin find . | cpio -o -H newc > /boot/microcode.img Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation

2018-01-11 Thread Thomas Trepl
Another poster > said he *thought* the problem started with the Westmere generation. Gentoo writes: "... Currently, the KPTI patch-set is only available for 64-bit Gentoo operating systems. Some 32-bit operating systems (for example if you are using 4gb/4gb memory split) are immune b

Re: [lfs-support] kpti - no performance impact?

2018-01-09 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Dienstag, den 09.01.2018, 19:36 + schrieb Ken Moffat: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:13:39AM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: > > Interesting that Intel (https://newsroom.intel.de/news-releases/ind > > ustr > > y-testing-shows-recently-released-security-updates-not-impacting-

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation

2018-01-09 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Dienstag, den 09.01.2018, 08:12 +0100 schrieb Thomas Trepl: > Am Montag, den 08.01.2018, 16:14 -0800 schrieb Paul Rogers: > > I've just patched one of my older Core2 "Conroe", LFS-7.7, up to > > 4.4.110. It's an i686 system. With each minor-version patch &

[lfs-support] kpti - no performance impact?

2018-01-08 Thread Thomas Trepl
1 1 1,00 162-fstab 1 1 1,00 300-linux-kernel 4079 4654 1,14 >> Total 7391 8424 1,13 Looks like doing a LFS build is not a "real world" thing in Intel's unde

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation

2018-01-08 Thread Thomas Trepl
I > kept does not contain the string "kaiser", nor does /boot/System.map. > > Any ideas? TIA. > You could check dmesg after reboot. If there is a line like [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled then it should be active. At least on x64_64 such

[lfs-support] some thoughts on building lfs 8.0 + 8.1

2018-01-08 Thread Thomas Seeling
e] fix is simple: - || xloc.file == '0' || xloc.file[0] == 'xff' + || xloc.file[0] == '0' || xloc.file[0] == 'xff' Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: [lfs-support] (no subject)

2017-08-15 Thread Thomas Seeling
unionfs to make it writable and persistent. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] Issue on boot for LFS system

2017-07-27 Thread Thomas Seeling
knetbsd /boot/memtest86+.elf } Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.ht

Re: [lfs-support] Issue on boot for LFS system

2017-07-27 Thread Thomas Seeling
boot into memtest86 and have it run some thorough tests for at least overnight or 24 hours? Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/l

Re: [lfs-support] 5.20. Diffutils-3.6 - mysterious sed

2017-06-26 Thread Thomas Seeling
nless you use gcc >= 7 you won't notice. Tschau...Thomas -- "Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

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