[Gllug] apt-get failing in chrooted python script...

[Christof Meerwald]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:58:03 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:21:58AM +0100, general_email wrote:
>>=20
>> BTW, for reference, the path to the script is...=20
>> /home/r0g/AAA_BACKED_UP/Code/projects/Techbench/remaster/remasternate.py
> OK, that explains the error message.  As I said in my other e-mails, the
> getcwd() function is returning a broken value.  Now you have to find out
> why os.chroot isn't setting up the chroot entirely correctly (why the
> pre-chroot value for the cwd is leaking in).

see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/chroot.2.html

  "This call does not change the current working directory, so that
   after the call '.' can be outside the tree rooted at '/'."

So you'll probably want to do a os.chdir('/') after the chroot.


Christof

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