Benedicto Garin wrote: > I'm trying to run the command below and I get some errors. I ran > this command about a month ago with no issue. Please advise. > ... > (May 12 9:03) [/home/bgarin]$/usr/sbin/chroot /chroot/rhel_AS40_x86_64 > /bin/bash > /usr/sbin/chroot /chroot/rhel_AS40_x86_64 /bin/bash > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
This is an indication that NIS/YP in your chroot system is not happy. It is reporting that it is unable to contact the NIS/YP account server. You apparently have the chroot set up where account data is in NIS/YP (formerly known as yellow pages). Likely the nis/yp server isn't available now. > The subsequent useview also fails similarly: Probably the same problem. I personally would probably start off by going into the chroot as root expecting that to work and then probing the nis/yp system to see what problems exist there. I would expect root to be able to log into it since the root account is almost always local. The command ypwhich is often useful to determine which nis/yp server the local client has bound to. If it is bound then investigate that server. If it isn't bound then that is the problem. If you are not root then you can still look at the files. Since the chroot files are available to you from the outside the next thing I would do is to look into the chroot area and try to debug the problem just by inspection. But if you are not root then you won't be able to fix anything that you find so that is just for your own curiosity. For a start look at /etc/nsswitch.conf and observe the settings for the passwd table. Since this is unlikely to be a bug related to coreutils I am going to keep the accounting updated and close the bug. Please don't take the fact that the bug is closed to mean that we don't want any more discussion. The opposite is true. If possible please report back to us on what you find. Please feel free to keep posting followups. It will continue to be tracked in the bug log. This will help others who read through it later. At any time the bug can be opened again if needed. Bob
