Re: Questions about Etch in chroot.

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:34:53PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>  
>
> > 1) I have noticed that some commands, like 'uptime', do nothing in the 
> > chroot.  No errors, just no output.  
> >    
>
> Try mounting /proc within the chroot:
>
> mount /proc /proc -t proc
>
> That will get a number of other commands working, too, like ps and top.
>  
I do have proc mounted!  BTW, neither ps, nor top work.  Also, I have 
installed lvm2, since that I use lvm to create all partitions but / 
(mounted in my Sarge system prior to doing the chroot), and the various 
lvm commands do not work, either, such as:

$ pvdisplay
No program "pvdisplay" found for your current version of LVM

but if I use tab completion at the bash prompt, as in:

# p
pager       perl        pidof       play        printenv    pvcreate    
pvscan     
pam_getenv  perl5.8.8   ping        plipconfig  printf      pvdisplay   
pwck       
pam_tally   pg          ping6       pmap        ps          pvmove      
pwconv     
passwd      pgrep       pinky       popd        ptx         pvremove    
pwd        
paste       pic         pivot_root  poweroff    pushd       pvresize    
pwdx       
pathchk     pico        pkill       pr          pvchange    pvs         
pwunconv

you can see that pvdisplay is certainly there.  Why doesn't my system 
like it?

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