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I'm a chroot novice trying to make a simple chroot jail but am banging my head against the same problem time and time again... Any help would be massively appreciated

I've created a directory /usr/chroot that I want to use as a jail and created subdirectories under it and copied the dependencies of /bin/bash into it:

[root@WIG001-001 ~]# cd /usr/chroot/
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# ls
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# mkdir bin etc lib var home


[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# ldd /bin/bash        
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff99dba000)        
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00000037a2000000)        
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000000379fc00000)        
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x000000379f800000)        
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000000379f400000)

[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /udr/csr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libc.so.6 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /bin/bash bin  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# pwd  
/usr/chroot  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# /usr/sbin/chroot .  
/usr/sbin/chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory  


it looks like the /bin/bash created under /usr/chroot is fine as the below works:  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# su - nobody -s /usr/chroot/bin/bash  
-bash-4.0$

Can anyone give me any idea where to go from here?

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  • Is this a typo in the question or an error in the steps you performed? cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /udr/csr/chroot/lib/ (should be /usr instead of /udr)
    – Dennis Williamson
    Jul 20, 2010 at 21:22
  • That's an artefact from using Putty to log the telnet session, sorry. As you suggest, the actual command entered was cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /usr/chroot/lib/
    – Mike Atkinson
    Jul 20, 2010 at 21:45

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The error message is misleading: /bin/bash: No such file or directory can mean either that /bin/bash doesn't exist, or that the dynamic loader used by /bin/bash doesn't exist. (You'll also get this message for a script if the interpreter on the #! line doesn't exist.)

/bin/bash is looking for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 but you provided /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2. Make /usr/chroot/lib64 a symbolic to lib or vice versa.

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  • Sorry, I really appreciate the help & I'm sure you're right, but I'm still confused! I'm not sure where you see /bin/bash is being provided with /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 & I'm further confused as /usr/chroot/lib64 doesn't exist. Would it be too cheeky to ask for a list of commands? I understand sym links & how to create them, but am really confused by what's happening here and what you're suggesting to correct it. Thanks very much for your help!
    – Mike Atkinson
    Jul 20, 2010 at 21:05
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    @Mike: Look at your cp commands: you copied files from /lib64 in the base system into /lib in the chroot. But the bash binary is still looking for ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in /lib64 (which you haven't created), not /lib. You'll save yourself headaches by making /lib and /lib64 equivalent in the chroot, so run ln -s lib /usr/chroot/lib64. As for why the error message is about bash and not about ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, see my first paragraph.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Jul 20, 2010 at 22:16
  • That works perfectly, thank you so much for taking the time, it's massively appreciated!
    – Mike Atkinson
    Jul 21, 2010 at 6:51
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    AFAIK the output of ldd shows you where it ends up finding the shared library, not necessarily where it looks for it. Fx. in my case ldd gave me a path in /usr/lib, but putting the file there did not work. Instead I had to put it in /lib. I assume this is because on my system /lib/ is a symlink to /usr/lib, and so ldd apparently resolves that symlink. If you experience errors I suggest putting the file in either and symlinking to the directory from the other one, say from /lib to /usr/lib or vice versa.
    – miyalys
    Mar 20, 2018 at 20:28
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    @miyalys If /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib then putting a file in /usr/lib puts it in /lib, since those are the same directory! At a hunch, it didn't work at first because the loader keeps a cache of the contents of /lib and /usr/lib, and it started working when the cache was rebuilt. Running ldconfig rebuilds the cache, and it may have been done by you or automatically e.g. by a package manager when you installed a software update.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Mar 20, 2018 at 21:11
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Just do this: mv /usr/chroot/lib /usr/chroot/lib64

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I also faced the same error. Best way is to find the difference between rescue image (live CD) "/" content and "/mnt/sysimage" content.

Issue got resolved by coping /bin and /sbin from "/" directory to "/mnt/sysimage" where it was accidentally deleted.

#cp -r /bin /sbin /mnt/sysimage
#reboot
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you shoud try copy .bashrc file in home directory. and it will help surely.

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    This is nonsense.
    – Sven
    Apr 13, 2018 at 8:55

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