/bin/sh path search broken

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:44, Larry Brigman wrote:
> On 10/17/06, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:46, Larry Brigman wrote:
> > > I have just upgrade a project I was working on from 1.1.2 to 1.2.1 and
> > > things that just worked before have stopped.
> > >
> > > All of the processing of init scripts have stopped.
> > > Login profile processing has stopped.
> > >
> > > The biggest sign that things have gone wrong is that
> > > almost all commands won't work unless I am in the same directory as
> > > busybox. I can also get things to work if I give an absolute path to
> > > the program.
> > > The only commands that I can get to work without error and without an
> > > absolute path
> > > are cd and export.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Do you use "standalone shell" option? Does it work wothout?
> > What "strace -ff -o logfile ash" shows in logfile when you try
> > to run something?

> I was running the standalone shell option but do I have to point my
> scripts at ash?
> I was able to get things running when I changed the first script that
> was executed
> prior to any tests to mount proc with /bin/mount -t proc /proc  from then on
> everything seems to work again.

I am having hard time parsing your answer. You do not seem to answer
most of my questions.

> It has to be the full syntax as mount 
> doesn't seem able
> to read /etc/fstab at this point either.

Again, what strace says?
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