On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:05:38PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a minimal rootfs that will loads as a large ramdisk when > booting some nodes on a clustered system. I'm basically pulling pieces by > hand from a working PowerPC potato system as each node is PowerPC-based. > I only have the need to allow serial login and networking (rshd etc) so > I've stripped a lot of the sysvinit scripts out. It has /etc/init.d/rc > and rcS. It then has checkroot.sh, checkfs.sh, and bootmisc.sh running in > the single user runlevel. In runlevel 2, I just run the network scripts. > > The problem is that applications making use getpwnam() and friends can't > seem to parse my /etc/passwd (even though it is good, ripped out my > example system). When bootmisc.sh attempts to chmod the tty* devices to > root.tty, it complains about an unknown user. Further, /bin/login > complains that any user I enter is invalid and unknown. I know this must > be something really trivial that I'm missing. I've attached a dump of my > errors below. Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Let me guess - you're using a very minimal set of shared libraries here? My guess would be that the NSS modules aren't on your rootfs. Particularly /lib/libnss_files* and /etc/nsswitch.conf. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
