I figured this out. It turns out that the "." directories /. and /.. had permissions 700 when they should have been 755.
If you know why this should be I would be interested. root's umask is 0002. ~Michael On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:53:40AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > I copied my root file system onto a seperate partition. When I try to > boot into new partition as / I cannot login. > > I get the error: > cannot cd /home/user > > When I boot normally and chroot into the new partition and run login I > get: > > cannot determine tty name > > I copied devices ( and everything else ) with `cp -a` I have done this > before many times without a problem. > > What should I be looking at to understand what is happening? > > ~Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]