i am completing the "installing basic system software" chapter in LFS. i type in the following to change to the chroot environment.

chroot $LFS /static/bin/env -i \
HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/static/bin \
/static/bin/bash --login

this gives me:

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if i continue entering commands, there is no feed back at the command line. just more:
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is this right, or have i missed something???

and by the way, once I'm at this prompt, I can never get out.

Try CTRL+C, usually works for me

I think that $LFS is suposed to be /mnt/ what ever you named the directory for your Linux from scratch.

Hope that helps.

I'm working my way through LFS too.

What's the output of echo $LFS?

its /mnt/lfs

Try typing it in again, very carefully. It looks like you have a leftover quote somwhere. To exit the PS2 command prompt you should type ^C (Control-C).

no, it's because you've just copied the whole block of commands straight from the book, instead of typing it out, copying one line at a time, or putting it in a shell script.

Ok, I'm going to try to help a bit here.

When the guide say "$LFS" that means you have to fill in the correct path. Example. When I done my Gentoo I created a directory in the /mnt directory called gentoo. When ever it came time to fill that in I had to put in /mnt/gentoo.

You need to replace "$LFS" with the correct path to the LFS directory.

Does that make sense? If not tell me what is in the /mnt directory and I'll try to help. I haven't been able to work on LFS lately so I may be wrong here. Somebody "bash" me if I am.

Later

Did you try to copy and paste the text from the book? I tried that and got the same result as you. I had to type it in manually. It's weird enough to be from the Twilight Zone or somthing. If you did type it, is there a space before your end of line ' \ ' ? This would cause problems as well.