id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 1630 chroot: cannot run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory basel_mahdi545@… lfs-book@… "Linux From Scratch - Version 7.0-cross-lfs-20050902-x86_64-Multilib Host Distribution - Slackware 10.1 with kernel-2.6.13 Section - 8.4. Entering the Chroot Environment Processor - AMD64 3000+ root@slackware:/home/basel# chroot ""$LFS"" /tools/bin/env -i \ > HOME=/root TERM=""$TERM"" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ > /tools/bin/bash --login +h chroot: cannot run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory I even tried to add /mnt/lfs_x86_64 to PATH but I got another error: root@slackware:/home/basel# echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin root@slackware:/home/basel# export PATH=/mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/:$PATH root@slackware:/home/basel# chroot ""$LFS"" /tools/bin/env -i \ > HOME=/root TERM=""$TERM"" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ > /tools/bin/bash --login +h bash: /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/chroot: cannot execute binary file I was not able to execute any comman after I added /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin to PATH: root@slackware:/home/basel# ls -l /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/chroot bash: /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file I took a look at the mailing list and found the following thread: http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-support/2005-July/027736.html Jens Olav suggests that there might be some problems with sed/perl/whatever adjustments to the spec files. How do I know if it was my fault or the commands did not execute as expected. Here is the output from my machine: lfs:~$ ldd /tools/bin/bash not a dynamic executable It would be nice if there is a way to verify the output of these commands. ---------- Here is what I did initially after a reboot(this happened even before the reboot): basel@slackware:~$ su Password: root@slackware:/home/basel# export LFS=/mnt/lfs_x86_64/ root@slackware:/home/basel# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/lfs_x86_64/ root@slackware:/home/basel# ls -l /mnt/lfs_x86_64/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-05 15:28 proc drwxr-xr-x 3 lfs lfs 4152 2005-09-05 15:26 sources drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-09-05 15:28 sys drwxr-xr-x 14 lfs lfs 352 2005-09-05 14:42 tools root@slackware:/home/basel# mount -t proc proc $LFS/proc root@slackware:/home/basel# mount -t sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys root@slackware:/home/basel# mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev root@slackware:/home/basel# mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev/shm root@slackware:/home/basel# mount -f -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts $LFS/dev/pts root@slackware:/home/basel# chroot ""$LFS"" /tools/bin/env -i \ > HOME=/root TERM=""$TERM"" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ > /tools/bin/bash --login +h chroot: cannot run command `/tools/bin/env': No such file or directory However, ""ls -l"" shows that ""env"" exists: root@slackware:/home/basel# ls -l /tools/bin/en* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 74828 2005-09-05 14:32 /tools/bin/env -rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 37763 2005-09-05 14:59 /tools/bin/envsubst root@slackware:/home/basel# ls -l /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/en* -rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 74828 2005-09-05 14:32 /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/env -rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 37763 2005-09-05 14:59 /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools/bin/envsubst Here is my root partition hierarachy: root@slackware:/home/basel# ls -l / total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 2512 2005-08-14 19:58 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 568 2005-09-04 17:09 boot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2005-09-05 15:47 cross-tools -> /home/lfs/cross-tools// drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 0 2005-09-05 18:07 dev drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 4312 2005-09-05 18:34 etc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2005-09-04 17:50 home drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3008 2005-01-23 00:11 lib drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 200 2005-09-04 17:46 mnt drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2004-09-03 23:00 opt dr-xr-xr-x 87 root root 0 2005-09-05 21:07 proc drwx--x--- 6 root root 384 2005-09-04 16:59 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 5416 2004-06-07 10:22 sbin drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 2005-09-05 21:07 sys drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 648 2005-09-05 18:30 tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2005-09-05 15:47 tools -> /mnt/lfs_x86_64/tools// drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 544 2004-09-03 23:00 usr drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 472 2005-08-15 17:08 var Here is the output of mount: root@slackware:/home/basel# mount /dev/sda3 on / type reiserfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/data type reiserfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sda2 on /mnt/lfs_x86_64 type reiserfs (rw) proc on /mnt/lfs_x86_64/proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /mnt/lfs_x86_64/sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /mnt/lfs_x86_64//dev type tmpfs (rw) tmpfs on /mnt/lfs_x86_64//dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /mnt/lfs_x86_64//dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=4,mode=620) root@slackware:/home/basel#" defect closed lowest Book Branch_Cross-LFS normal invalid