Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-12 Thread Brian Winfrey
> If you take a close look at the "Package Users" hint you will see in the > first two paragraphs of Section 6 some information about installing 'su' > in Chapter 5 of the book. In Chapter 5.17 of the book, "Coreutils-8.5," > the last paragraph and the last command deal with this. There are a > num

Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-12 Thread Dan McGhee
On 01/10/2011 07:57 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: > I am unable to get passed 6.12 Binutils due to expect -c "spawn ls" > returning the "ptys error". > > if the command is run on host system it succeeds. this indicates that > my kernel has support. > if run on host as "su lfs" it succeeds. this indicate

Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Winfrey
> > I read a thread on linux questions that recommended 'chmod a+rw > /dev/pts/0'. Does that sound like a reasonable work around? > Did not appear to work. I wonder why this is not mentioned in the hint, or did I miss it? Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: h

Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM, William Immendorf wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> I am unable to get passed 6.12 Binutils due to expect -c "spawn ls" >> returning the "ptys error". > This is normal when using the package users hint, due to the fact that > the PT

Re: Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-10 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: > I am unable to get passed 6.12 Binutils due to expect -c "spawn ls" > returning the "ptys error". This is normal when using the package users hint, due to the fact that the PTY's are incorrectly premissioned in the chroot environment. If you

Help Needed with 6.12 Binutils + "Package Users"

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Winfrey
I am unable to get passed 6.12 Binutils due to expect -c "spawn ls" returning the "ptys error". if the command is run on host system it succeeds. this indicates that my kernel has support. if run on host as "su lfs" it succeeds. this indicates that it is not due to permissions. if run upon enterin