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Re: Problem running screen in chroot


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: Problem running screen in chroot
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:10:33 -0800
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head0r wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i tried putting screen in a chrooted environment. I copied the
> /etc/passwd and the libs listed by "ldd /usr/bin/screen".
> But when i try starting the screen in the chroot, i get the following
> error message:
> 
> getpwuid() can't identify your account!
> 
> I tried different users, even as root it won't start. Did i miss a
> library? I'm trying to run it under Debian 4.0r4, Screen version 4.00.03
> (FAU) 23-Oct-06.

Might use strace to determine what getpwuid() is trying to do (but can't).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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