[Unionfs] Problems with x86-64 smp and dynamically linked executables

Josef Sipek jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Wed Nov 15 01:48:42 EST 2006


On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Stefano Zanarini wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having some problems with unionfs, I have done a live-cd based on
> opensuse 10.0 (kernel 2.6.13-15-smp) on 64 bit  machines, I do a
> pivot_root and a chroot on a dir mounted in unionfs which become my new
> root (just like others like slax do) and all works fine on single
> processors 32 bit machines,but when I try to do the same thing on a 64 bit
> smp one I can only launch statically linked binaries (like chroot compiled
> statically or init) but when I try to launch program dinamically linked
> once chrooted I get an error of execve failed.  I'm using unionfs 1.1.5
> (the only that compiles with 2.6.13) .
> 
> Any ideas ? Is it a known issue of old relases ?

What happens if you try 64bit machine with a single processor?

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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