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Re: chroot problem with certain apps



Hi,
This may seem silly.  I had the same problems, that is k3b not working
and selective things running on 32bit chroot.  Oddly this stopped when I
changed from windowmaker to the kde desktop.  In short it could be your
gui causing the problems.

Gavin.



On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:21 -0800, Ric Otte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed 32bit sid in a chroot at /var/chroot/sid-ia32 as explained
> in the AMD64 HOWTO.  It seems to work, and I can do various things in
> the chroot (such as run acrobat reader, etc.).  I also installed i386
> debian on an unusued partition, and most things work when I chroot
> into that.  What I cannot do is run certain programs, such as k3b and
> skype in either chroots, even though I can run them when I boot into
> my i386 partition.  (I can't run k3b normally, which is why I tried to
> run it in a chroot, and why I finally did a i386 install on the other
> partition).  When I run skype or k3b in the chroot, they shows up in
> the window, but the mouse has no effect on it; I can't click on
> anything in the program.  When I run "strace skype" I get an endless
> loop of:
>     select(6, [3 5], [], [], {0, 99619})    = 0 (Timeout)
>     gettimeofday({1111765453, 528985}, NULL) = 0
>     gettimeofday({1111765453, 529021}, NULL) = 0
> When I run "strace k3b" i get a similar endless loop:
>     select(17, [3 4 6 8 9 12 16], [], [], {0, 49528}) = 0 (Timeout)
>     gettimeofday({1111765287, 679388}, NULL) = 0
>     gettimeofday({1111765287, 679425}, NULL) = 0
> When not in chroot and I run "strace k3b", I get endless loops of:
>     select(17, [3 4 6 8 9 12 16], [], [], {0, 49722}) = 0 (Timeout)
>     ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) 
> I can't understand why these programs would work when I boot into
> i386, but not work under a chroot.  Since k3b won't work normally
> (without chroot), I wonder if I'm needing to fix something outside the
> chroot and in my normal system settings.
> (I've noticed that both programs depend on libgt3c102-mt)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Ric
> 
> 



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