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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