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Re: debconf in a chroot



I use chroot jails with devfs and it works for me! 

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:58:51AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > > How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to
> > > deal with is:
> > > 
> > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text
> > > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
> > 
> > How are you doing it? I really haven't met this problem.
> 
> My guess, it might be devfs related?
> 
> # tty
> /dev/pts/2
> # chroot sid-chroot/
> # tyy
> not a tty
> #
> 
> This is clearly the problem ... "not a tty" ...
> 
> Hugo van der Merwe
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