Hi all,

I have tried LFS before and failed for a variety of reasons, but I am persistant.
My problem may well be connected to the fact that my laptop had a problem returning from hibernation and did a full restart. When I fired up a terminal, although $LFS was still set to /mnt/lfs, and lfs user and group still existed, when I did ls against $LFS as user lfs it was empty (I had previously built up to 5.27 Make-3.82).
In Nautilus I found sources and tools directories and so copied them as root in the terminal to $LFS (/mnt/lfs). I then switched to user lfs and tried to build patch-2.6.1. Configure was fine, make was fine, make check had no errors, all passes, but when I did make install I got the following:

lfs@phoenix /mnt/lfs/sources/patch-2.6.1 $ make install
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /tools/bin /tools/share/man/man1
/tools/bin/install -c src/patch /tools/bin/`echo patch | sed 's,x,x,'`
/tools/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/tools/bin/patch': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

It looks like a permissions error, but the 3 previous steps, configure and make and make check, all worked fine.

I am building LFS 7.1 and using linux mint lisa.

Hope someone can help, otherwise I will have to start from scratch (sorry for the pun).

jack

Hi

!st is it possible to stop your machine from going into hibernate? either in the bios or settings in mint.

2nd as it rebooted maybe you should of remounted everything. As per book

Hi jackplughd,

Both points mentioned by spiky0011 are also valid. Have a look at the mount commands first, it might be that all is still there but not yet mounted (re-visit chapter 2 and only execute the mount command(s)).

If that doesn't solve the problem:

You mention copying files as root user, which might be a (big?) problem. All of chapter 5 is done as user lfs, which explains the permission denied messages when trying to install them.

You might try setting the permissions for all in $LFS to lfs/lfs. I'm not 100% sure that this will solve the permission denied errors, I would personally start from scratch. If you do want ti give it a try (as root user): Hope this helps.

All,

Thanks for the replies.

Spikey0011: I could disable hibernation but would prefer not to. Up until this point my machine had hibernated a number of times and not had a problem when I came to resume the LFS build. However if this problem reoccurs then I will certainly go with your suggestion.
I followed your suggestion or remounting but don't really know whether this contributed to the solution, but it can't have hurt.

druuna: I went with your suggestion of globally changing the file permissions, and re ran make install. It worked fine this time.

Thanks again for all the help people. I am sure to need more help along the way, so see you later.

jack