Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
Roger Leigh wrote: > So, there you have it. Now what?So some part of the filesystem is knackered, and we can't know theextent of the damage for sure.  Since it happened suring adist-upgrade, it's most likely some part of the packages upgraded at that time.I would suggest something like:  # for pkg

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-06 Thread Roger Leigh
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before doing this, I wish to recount a large development. I tried > this morning to do _anything_ in what I thought to be the ash > cli. This is why I think it is bash: I tried dpkg --configure -a and > it said _bash_ couldn't find some folder or oth

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
On 05/08/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:>> > Also, install strace, and run "strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot > > /mnt/hda3" and check the results of the log.  Put it up f

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-05 Thread Roger Leigh
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, install strace, and run "strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot > > /mnt/hda3" and check the results of the log. Put it up for download > > somewhere, and we can take a

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you try reading the manual page?  Just type script and run theprogram.Ah. Alright. I'm running it. Now you'll be able to see all of the permutations and silly things I'm doing! :0)  > Also, install strace, and run "strace -f -F -o /tmp/lo

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after > > mount /dev/ hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Excepti

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread David R. Litwin
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after> mount /dev/ hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. Please post an exact transcript, so we can see what happens.script(1)

Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after > mount /dev/ hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. Please post an exact transcript, so we can see what happens. script(1) can do this. Also, install strace, and run "s

chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-03 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello vaunted list:I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. apt-get is now busted after I tried to install ntp (I did manage to get ntpdate) and forcing in various ways (installing and uninstalling) is doing ex