That's by error inside a chroot that I find that if /sys is not mounted, lspci fail. This happen only in sparc64 arch (tested x86 and powerpc). With /sys not mounted [chroot-sparc64] root:/$ lspci -G Trying method 1......cannot open /sys/bus/pci...No. Trying method 2......using /proc/bus/pci...OK Decided to use linux-proc pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/02/03.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:02:03.0 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/01/03.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:01:03.0 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/01/02.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:01:02.0 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/01/01.1 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:01:01.1 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/01/01.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:01:01.0 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/00/01.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:00:01.0 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/00/01.1 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:00:01.1 pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/00/00.0 lspci: Unable to read the standard configuration space header of device 0000:00:00.0 [chroot-sparc64] root:/$ mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys [chroot-sparc64] root:/$ lspci -G Trying method 1......using /sys/bus/pci...OK Decided to use linux-sysfs 00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho UPA-PCI Bus Module [pcipsy] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge (rev 13) 00:01.1 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge (rev 13) 01:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01) 01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01) 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) 01:03.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev 03) 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) The reason should be that the format in /proc/bus/pci is different for sparc64 from other arch. [chroot-sparc64] root:/$ ls /proc/bus/pci 0000:00 0000:01 0000:02 devices [chroot-i486] root:/$ ls /proc/bus/pci 00 01 03 devices Both pciutils-3.0.0 (debian lenny) and 3.1.2 (vanilia) behave the same. I know there is a specific define for PCI_ARCH_SPARC64 in types.h. But I franckly don't know how fix the code (except that' probably in lib/proc.c). Gilles Ps keep me CC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html