On Tuesday 24 May 2005 02:00, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > 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 > > [snip] > > > > Is there any way around this problem using hostfs? Would devfs > > > help? > > > > Probably yes, or even (on 2.6) udev... > > OK, that seems to work (with some effort). > > Now the problem I have is that all operations involving the passwd > file fail: > > (none):/etc# pwconv > pwconv: can't lock passwd file On my system, pwconv tries to create /etc/.pwd.lock. Try if "touch /etc/.pwd.lock" or "echo > /etc/.pwd.lock" succeeds, and watch permissions both inside and outside UML. > Any ideas on this? Hmm, from reading your setup, I'd suggest also changing gids... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso" Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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