Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

[Stephen R Marenka <stephen@marenka.net>]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:32:44PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > Well actually I meant "chroot /target" or "chroot target" gives me the 
> > error: 
> > 
> > chroot: USER=root: No such file or directory
> > 
> > I tried using the chroot that was installed with base and it worked
> > fine. :-(
> 
> It looks to me like chroot is invoking the builtin shell, sees
> input of
> 
> USER=root ...
> 
> and tries to execute the file 'USER=root', which fails and causes
> the message you see.  The reason it displays chroot: is that the
> applet_name is not properly set when calling shell_main.  I don't
> know who is feeding it the USER=root command.

It apparently got fixed in cvs (or whatever was weird is gone).

Thanks,

Stephen

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