-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:36:36AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > # LANG=C.UTF8 /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash > > > /usr/sbin/chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash': No such file or > > > directory > > > > > > /usr/bin/chroot exists. So does /mnt/debinst. So does /bin/bash. > > > > /bin/bash is irrelevant in this context - the filename will be looked > > up _inside_ the chroot, so you need to check that > > /mnt/debinst/bin/bash exists (and the shared libraries it uses...) > > > > Hope this helps > > Karl > > As for existence of /bin/bash in reference to new chroot: > > $ ls -la /mnt/debinst/bin | grep bash > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 941252 Apr 22 06:22 bash > > As for libraries, bash needs these: > > $ ldd /bin/bash > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb773e000) > libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7702000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb76fe000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7599000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb773f000) > > So I create directories and copy libraries to them. I didn't understand > the first line and apparently there is no linux-gate.so.1 on my > system. Other than it, I now have: > > $ ls /mnt/debinst/lib > i386-linux-gnu ld-linux.so.2 > > $ ls /mnt/debinst/lib/i386* > i686 libtinfo.so.6 > > $ ls -la /mnt/debinst/lib/i386*/i686/cmov > ... > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1446056 Apr 22 08:47 libc.so.6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9844 Apr 22 08:49 libdl.so.2 > > Now chroot command has better luck: > > # LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/debinst/ > bash-4.2# > > I guess copying over the libraries was the answer. However, my chroot > prompt used to appear as: root@hostname:/#, so I'm not sure I'm in > chroot.
Easy: if you can't see the "rest of the world" (that is the things you haven't copied over/bind-mounted etc.) then you most probably are :-) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcaLM8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYZUACdEOM/kFg9imCKinslqUQaw6lP mHoAnilVMOCFGsBxNhEAja1AEYAIDhm7 =TLH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
