When started from an 'su' shell, genkernel can not format initrd. The error is reported as: ------------ /usr/bin/genkernel: line 49: MAKEDEV: command not found /usr/bin/genkernel: line 50: MAKEDEV: command not found ... gen_die(): could not format initrd-loop ------------ When started from an login root shell, initrd is correctly formatted. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (from an user kernel) sudo bash 2. genkernel all 3. Actual Results: initrd-x.y.z file not written in /boot Expected Results: initrd-x.y.z file in /boot
OK, can you please upgrade to the latest baselayout in Portage and tell us if you still get this?
most likely you need to do 'su -' NOT 'su' to get to a root shell. Otherwise /sbin and /usr/sbin will NOT be in your path. -Brad
This also makes genkernel not work with sudo, which is my preferred method of sysadmining. Wouldn't a trivial fix be to use /sbin/MAKEDEV instead of just MAKEDEV? Or is there more to this? I thought it was good practice to use absolute paths anyway, when doing something requiring root privileges.
