Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)
edwardsa <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil> writes:
> While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues
> should be raised:
>
> 1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve
> as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant
> binding. a chrooted application only views the files within the
> chroot. So, for example the directory /usr/share/doc will show the
> limited documentation within the chroot.
>
> 2. I have had very limited success loading a full and satisfying set
> of fonts in the chroot. I have another post on this difficulty but, to
> recapitulate, when I try to install, for example, xfonts-75dpi on the
> chroot, I get the following response:
>
> chalcogenide:/# apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
> xfs xserver
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xfonts-75dpi
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/3470kB of archives.
> After unpacking 4645kB of additional disk space will be used.
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-75dpi.
> (Reading database ... 26278 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xfonts-75dpi (from .../xfonts-75dpi_1%3a1.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
> Setting up xfonts-75dpi (1.0.0-2) ...
> warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
> warning: /etc/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
> warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
>
That is something caused by the xfonts-75dpi package and not the
chroot. It does look odd and you might want to file a bug.
MfG
Goswin
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