[Buildroot] init: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Jul 7 20:45:46 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> writes:

Hi,

 Ossy> After passing init=/bin/sh to the kernel, I ran into a similar error:
 Ossy> [    4.387550] eth0: link up, 100 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
 Ossy> [    4.716652] Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.106
 Ossy> [    4.727962] Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.106
 Ossy> [    4.739261] VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:12.
 Ossy> [    4.745153] Freeing init memory: 112K
 Ossy> sh: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
 Ossy> sh: For help, type: `sh --help'.

 Peter> Hmm, Did something overwrite your busybox binary? It should be around
 Peter> ~500KB big.

 Peter> What does strings -n 25 bin/busybox|head give?

Seems like it:

ln -s /bin/bunzip2 sh; ./sh
sh: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
sh: For help, type: `sh --help'.

I guess something went wrong with the recent conversion of the bzip2
package. Will test.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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