[syslinux] pxelinux aborts booting

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Aug 16 10:00:58 PDT 2002


Christian Hoefer wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2002 09:03, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>>nobody
>>>Aug 15 21:52:37 saturn in.tftpd[565]: cannot set groups for user
>>>nobody
>>>
>>>from the source i see that it needs access to /etc/groups, but
>>>this file is world readable on my machine, as usual.
>>>
>>>I did create tftpd:tftpd as suggested in the docu but got the
>>>same error (for user tftp of course).
>>
>>If you're running it with the -u option tftpd will be expected to
>>be running initially as root (so it can change the user ID.)
>>
>>	-hpa
> 
> 
> Thanks alot for your quick response Peter. I mailed to your personal
> address by accident - intented to send to the list.
> 
> With my tftp problem there is no progress for hours however, just to
> let you know. I keep trying things:
> starting from inetd, starting from inetd -> tcpd, strarting from root
> shell ... with/without -u
> 

Try starting under strace -f.

	-hpa





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