Hi

I'm having problems with scratchbox, the error appear when i try login to system. The log is:

Welcome to Scratchbox, the cross-compilation toolkit!

Use 'sb-menu' to change your compilation target.
See /scratchbox/doc/ for documentation.

ERROR: Operation not permitted
chroot(/mnt/scratchbox/users/lizard)
ERROR: Operation not permitted
chroot(/mnt/scratchbox/users/lizard)


I think the problem is in chroot-uid...I hope somebody who has had this problem can help me. Thanks you

Which distro are you installing on?

Thanks Jussik for your response...

I use debian (testing) I add I can use chroot manually without any problem, but not chroot-uid of scratchbox.

I also forgot say i installed scratchbox in other partition using a symbolic link in /scratchbox.

Well! it's resolved, thanks jussik, but i remember it's in other partition, I tested installing in root partition and done! In the webpage of scratchbox say that it can install in other partition, but i dont know... :S

hi,xeos
How do you resolve this problem,I have the same error,and I have no enough space in /,so I only use the symbal link.

As i told agile. I resolve this problem mounting partition at begining because linux don't allow make chroot() on other one.

One way to do it is to use 'mount bind'. this is transparent for chroot, it's a common way to access something out of the chroot.
With this, you are able to mount one directory outside the chroot on another one, inside the chroot. A link woulnt work.

In my case I had still 500MEGS on / after installing scrathbox. fine
Then i wanted to compile libqt. This needs more than one gig.
so i moved my directory containing my src directory to another disk
then added this to /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl:
sboxrel=`dirname $sbinpath`
SBOX_DIR=`readlink -f $sboxrel`
if ! mount | grep -q "/mnt/hda2/src_sbox" ; then
mount /mnt/hda2/src_sbox/ /scratchbox/users/lke/home/lke/src/ -o bind
fi

for i in register_misc_runner sbox_mount_all sbox_umount_all ; do
if ! [ -x $SBOX_DIR/sbin/$i ]; then
echo "Scratchbox: $SBOX_DIR/sbin/$i is missing!"
exit 1
fi
done

With this, physically my sources are in /mnt/hda2/src_sbox and when i enter in scratchbox , it sees them in ~/src

From what I read things will get even simpler with scratchbox2.

Hope it helps