[SOLVED] Failing to chroot in ch. 6.60

computerfreak97 · 12-29-2010, 06:47 PM

In chapter 6.60 of the book, when it says to chroot, I get an error of "chroot: cannot change root directory to : No such file of directory. I ran echo "$LFS" and it returned black (a newline). Since LFS wasn't reset since the previous chroot, that makes sense, but when I try to do chroot /mnt/lfs (what $LFS should be) it still errors with the same error, except the /mnt/lfs is before the colon.

crts · 12-29-2010, 07:00 PM

Hi,

please copy+paste the exact input/output. What do the following commands return
ls -ld /mnt
ls -ld /mnt/lfs
find / -type d -name 'tools' -exec ls -ld '{}' \;

computerfreak97 · 12-29-2010, 07:06 PM

I cant copy and paste the results but heres what it is:
ls -ld /mnt

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 04:47 /mnt

ls -ld /mnt/lfs

Code:

ls: cannot access /mnt/lfs: No such file or directory

find / -type d -name 'tools' -exec ls -ld '{}' \;
There are alot, but I think the important one is:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Dec 28 04:28 /tools

All of the other ones are in sources (and one in vim). I'm assuming that this means that I need to chroot to /, is that correct?

crts · 12-29-2010, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Dec 28 04:28 /tools

All of the other ones are in sources (and one in vim). I'm assuming that this means that I need to chroot to /, is that correct?

No, I think you are still chrooted! Either that or you did not build on a separate partiton.
Type 'exit' and post what happens. You should not get completely logged out.

computerfreak97 · 12-29-2010, 07:29 PM

now it printed logout and gave me a prompt:

Code:

root [ ~ ]#

its in red which I believe means that it is out of the other bash login. Now should I try running the chroot?

crts · 12-29-2010, 07:33 PM

Yes, now issue again the commands from my previous post
ls -ld /mnt
ls -ld /mnt/lfs

You should now be in the liveCD environment. Try chrooting again.

computerfreak97 · 12-29-2010, 07:35 PM

ls -ld /mnt

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 22:36 /mnt

ls -ld /mnt/lfs

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dec 28 04:50 /mnt/lfs

Thanks for the quick responses.

EDIT: The chroot works now. Thanks for your help.

crts · 12-29-2010, 07:50 PM

You're welcome.