From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 09:04:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83831065686 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:04:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihai.dontu@gmail.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (mail.bitdefender.com [91.199.104.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F388FC15 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:04:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihai.dontu@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 31377 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Aug 2008 11:57:26 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.14.115?) (10.10.14.115) by mail.bitdefender.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Aug 2008 11:57:25 +0300 From: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= Organization: Home To: Kris Kennaway Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:57:24 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200808251853.28659.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> <48B2DF1C.7030309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48B2DF1C.7030309@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808261157.25273.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 3.0.0 on mail.bitdefender.com, sigver: 7.20678 X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, build 2.6.20.52672, bayes score: 500(0), pbayes score: 0(0), neunet score: 0(0), flags: [VALID_REPLY], total: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 chroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:04:09 -0000 On Monday 25 August 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Mihai Donțu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just installed a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I need a FreeBSD > > 5.4-RELEASE chroot to build something in it (hw shortage). All nice and > > dandy, until I hit a /dev problem: > > > > # svn up > > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/project' > > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/project': SSL negotiation failed: SSL disabled due > > to lack of entropy (https://svn.host.com) > > > > # ls -l /dev/random > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 249, 0 Aug 25 16:19 /dev/random > > > > # cat /dev/random > > cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket > > > > # rm /dev/random > > > > # mknod /dev/mknod random c 0 10 root:wheel > > > > # chmod 0666 /dev/random > > > > # ls -l /dev/random > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Aug 25 18:28 /dev/random > > > > # cat /dev/random > > cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket > > > > Clearly, all those years of Linux chroot-ing have affected my brain, but > > Google isn't very helpful either. :) Could someone, please, hint me about > > what I'm doing wrong? > > mount a devfs instance to create the devices (see mount_devfs) instead > of trying to mknod them by hand. Works like magic. :) Thanks! -- Mihai Donțu