[pocket-linux] ch 6 implementation errors ...

[rainer]

rainer wrote:

> hello,
>
> wow, how embarrassing almost nothing worked!?
>
> maybe i should backtrack a bit first in case this has any bearing. in 
> ch 5 i mistakenly downloaded the version of util-linux (2.12d instead 
> of 2.12h)previous to the one used in the instructions. it didn't work 
> as outlined, i got an error about missing libraries. so i checked with 
> ldd and added 2 (can't remember which ones)and then everything worked 
> fine.
>
> for ch 6 the new boot disk worked fine. the mount command didn't 
> return anything. uname -n command returned (none). shutdown -h now 
> returned TERm signal and KILL signal then said something like 'ran out 
> of processes'. sorry, i'm doing this from memory from another computer.
>
> i did have some script errors which the system pointed out right down 
> to the line and i corrected those. some of the scripts are really 
> short (like hostname, though it did return 'none', which means it's 
> not catching the 'else' part of the script?) - it should be hard to 
> make a mistake!? i checked from the beginning of construction, 
> scripts, making scripts executable, links and i couldn't seem to find 
> anything. it was late though and i was frustrated and that doesn't 
> help. hope to get back to PL today and go through it again. i'm 
> working completely from the command line and can't copy and paste. 
> that's probably the only reason i found those discrepancies.
>
> thanks
>
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went back and straightened it all out! praise the lord!

in 6.3.8, for some reason, i used absolute instead of relative paths 
when making my links, so it was looking for the executables on the build 
system. what can i say, it was late ...