Hello Alex,
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 19:55 -0500, Alexander Spitzer wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Thanks for your reply. > Here is the output: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 930472 Dec 13 22:58 /tools/bin/bash Permissions look good. > > > and: > GNU bash, version 4.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > > > This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > The executable is runnable and fully patched up. > > I am running it as root but I am not sure if I entered root the > correct way. From my daily user I typed "sudo -i" and entered my root > password. The command "su -" didn't work for me because I do not know > the root user password (which should be different from MY root/sudo > password). > I use 'sudo' rather than 'su' myself and don't recall seeing this error, so I'm guessing that's not the issue. Maybe try without the '-i' switch, so just 'sudo chroot ...' or use 'sudo -s' to open a root shell and try there. > > In addition, if it may pertain in any way, the LFS partition is on a > 4GB USB flash drive. > That should be fine, as long as it's not FAT formatted. Thanks, Michael -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
