I think you need to mount /proc and /sys into chroot and configure your files of the /etc for to have essential services of the network. Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H. > A while back, I worked out a chroot prescription that allowed > me to chroot to each of my bootable partitions and run > > yum -y --downloadonly update > > in each root so as to download all the updates for all the > fedoras in cron each night. > > Lately I've been seeing this in the logs each day: > > Fetch Fedora 10 x86_64 updates... > Fetch Fedora 10 i386 updates... > http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/development/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')> > Trying other mirror. > Fetch Fedora 8 x86_64 updates... > Fetch Fedora 8 i386 updates... > > I always get the network is unreachable error when chrooting > to the 32 bit fedora 10 partition and trying to run yum. > > Is there some mysterious new filesystem that needs mounting > or something? This is the script I've been using for the > chroot: > > newroot="$1" > shift > arch="$1" > shift > if [ -d "$newroot" ] > then > mount --bind /dev $newroot/dev > mount --bind /dev/pts $newroot/dev/pts > mount --bind /dev/shm $newroot/dev/shm > mount -t proc none $newroot/proc > mount -t sysfs none $newroot/sys > chroot $newroot setarch "$arch" "$@" > umount $newroot/sys > umount $newroot/proc > umount $newroot/dev/shm > umount $newroot/dev/pts > umount $newroot/dev > else > echo "$newroot" is not a directory 1>&2 > exit 2 > fi > > Google searches say network is unreachable usually means routing > problem. Any special reason the network routing would be > busted inside a chroot suddenly? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines