On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:38:36AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> I guess this probably belongs on -support, but I'll ask here first.
> Tried building 8.3, except with a 4.14.67 kernel and headers this
> week, on a box which usually runs as a desktop but is temporarily
> configured as a server (to check for problems before doing a real
> upgrade).
>
> 1. /var/lib/hwclock
>
> For some reason /var/lib/hwclock does not exist, so I figured this
> must be a kernel .config problem. Went into the kernel, but make
> menuconfig moaned that I needed ncurses-dev : there was a similar
> fix for 4.19-rc1 in the past day or so. When I built the kernel for
> the first time I zcat'd /proc/config.gz to .config and made
> oldconfig.
>
> Anyway, all the expected RTC options appear to be present.
>
> Looking at my latest 8.3-rc2 desktop, with 4.18.5, I see that there
> too /var/lib/hwclock is missing - the difference is that I haven't
> tried to shut that down, I hibernate it.
>
I've created a patch to the sysv bootscript to hopefully shut up the
error message:
--- setclock.orig 2018-09-02 03:15:49.591619721 +0100
+++ setclock 2018-09-02 03:16:34.638823114 +0100
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
stop)
log_info_msg "Setting hardware clock..."
+ mkdir -p /var/lib/hwclock
hwclock --systohc ${CLOCKPARAMS} >/dev/null
evaluate_retval
;;
No idea if it will help.
But as to the ncurses-dev problem, I wonder if it was because I
built the kernel as root. Trying 'make menuconfig' on a virgin
4.18.5 on a desktop has no problem. Using a virgin 4.14.67 as a
user was "interesting" - untar 4.14, cd, try to apply 4.14.67 patch,
after a few files it started to tell me the patch would create a
documentation file which already existed (at least two files, then
I gave up - the second was for l1tf which is not in 4.14.0).
Blew that away, fresh 4.14 extract, dry run of patch ok, applied ok.
And menuconfig works.
Perhaps I was trying to run menuconfig as a user in a directory
owned by root, and inability to write was the actual error. But the
initial problem applying part of the patch is disconcerting.
ĸen
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