Sharif Oerton wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:19:06 John Gnew wrote: > >> I had the missing separator problem. It turned out to be my /dev/null >> file was not setup correctly. >> >> Issue the following to test it. >> >> test -c /dev/null && echo Ok >> Ok >> If you do not get "OK" back, then something is wrong with /dev/null >> > > Okay, nothing is returned from that command. What are some likely causes for > this? I populated /dev as instructed with > > mount --bind /dev $LFS/dev > > and didn't receive any error messages - what could have gone wrong? > > Thanks a lot, > Sharif > I'm not sure about this but I'm thinking that /dev/null is created with udev.
The bottom line is it is allocated incorrectly. Delete it and reallocate it or if udev allocates it, delete it and reboot. ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-04-05 16:07 /dev/null -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
