Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: [snip] > Now I presume this is because /dev is absent from the chroot and it's > trying to use /dev/fd/0 -- the device that acts like stdin.  What do I do > to set things up so that I have a valid /dev?  The /dev outside the > chroot is set up b

Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Hendrik Boom wrote: >On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:01:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> I upgrade inside the chroot so the unupgraded system can go on serving >>> my users while the upgrade happens. >>> >>> Now I presume this is because /dev is absent from the chroot and it's >>> trying to use /dev/fd/0 --

Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:01:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> I upgrade inside the chroot so the unupgraded system can go on serving >> my users while the upgrade happens. > >> This time I encountered a new problem: > >> dpkg-preconfigure: unable to open stdin > >> Now I presume this is because /dev is a

Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-10 Thread Tom H
> I upgrade inside the chroot so the unupgraded system can go on serving my > users while the upgrade happens. > This time I encountered a new problem: > dpkg-preconfigure: unable to open stdin > Now I presume this is because /dev is absent from the chroot and it's > trying to use /dev/fd/0 -- t