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01001010110

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Registered: 2022-02-20

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chroot: failed to run command /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or [SOLVED]

Hi.

Usually I try to scour the web for answers whenever I encounter an issue, but this time I couldn’t find anything. Thank you in advance for your help.

chroot: failed to run command /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or directory

Preface: So, firstly I don’t even use zsh on my system, I use bash. Recently I purchased a new SSD to accompany my HDD that my Arch box was running from. I wanted to use both, with

/, swap & /boot

running from the SDD for a little performance upgrade whilst /home was running from the HDD (videos, pics etc). I managed to get as far as editing

/etc/fstab

when I realised I wasn’t able to mount / unmount the disks I had partitioned anymore. I had been able to up until I ran

sudo mount -a

I then thought it was best to chroot via a live image from a usb, as I could manually unmount / mount while not within the partition itself.

In chroot:

mount | grep /dev

mkdir /rescue

mkdir /rescue/boot

mkdir /rescue/proc

mkdir /rescue/sys

mkdir /rescue/dev

mkdir /rescue/dev/pts

cryptsetup open —type luks /dev/sda3 root

mount /dev/mapper/root /rescue

mount /dev/sda1 /rescue/boot

(efi boot partition)^

mount -t proc proc /rescue/proc

mount -t sysfs sys /rescue/sys

mount -o bind /dev /rescue/dev

mount -t devpts pts /rescue/dev/pts

chroot /rescue

And that’s when I received the error message (above). I have tried switching to bash whilst in the live boot but still receive the same message. I have scoured the web and 99% of what I came across was to do with

/bin/bash

- not zsh. So I’m stuck. Still sat in the live boot as I don’t want to leave just yet to find out the solution is here. Again - thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

Last edited by 01001010110 (2022-02-22 16:53:57)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: chroot: failed to run command /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or [SOLVED]

from the chroot man page:

If no command is given, run '"$SHELL" -i'

Since you're in zsh on the ISO, that's what it calls if you don't specify anything.