On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:07, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:43:44AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I checked the archives for this, and couldn't find it, which seems > > odd to me, as it's happened to me every time I've managed to get a > > root hostfs mount working, across two versions of UML and various > > other things. > > > > When I get a prompt and try to log in, I get: > > > > Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Illegal seek > > This seems to work fine if I run UML as root. Note that all the > dev files are owned by the user running UML. Probably even if the tty is owned by the user running UML (which might become false over time due to PAM tricks) the requested operation is privileged on the host... don't know why however. I remember that hostfs did try to open the host files for some operations... I fixed that at some time, but the fix surely is not on 2.4.26-3um (see my site for later releases). > Is there any way around this problem using hostfs? Would devfs > help? Probably yes, or even (on 2.6) udev... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso" Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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