On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:22:24 +0300 Georgios M. Zarkadas wrote: > Hi, Hi everyone! First of all: thanks to Georgios and to Osamu for their kind replies. I have good news: I managed to start X inside my pbuilder-managed chroot environment! :-) It was tricky and dirty, but it worked. Moreover, the X session was not fully functional (xterm was not able to start, as getpty returned an error: I had to start GVim and type in commands through its :! shell...). Anyway, I was able to perform the tests I had in mind. If someone is interested in what was missing in my previous attempts, I had to do the following (before su - niceguy ): # mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys # vim /etc/init.d/udev (turn the first if statement in mount_tmpfs() into a comment, so that the script does not attempt to remount /dev after incorrectly assuming it is already mounted) # /etc/init.d/udev start For this to succeed, I also had to stop udev *outside* the chroot environment: # /etc/init.d/udev stop # umount /dev All in all, it was very unpractical and dirty. I would *not* recommend this procedure to anyone... > > From the answers of the other participants of this thread so far, I > think that the simpler solution for your case is to: > > i) Make a minimal sid installation in a usb hard disk with only the > packages contained in the chroot plus the ones you want to test. > > ii) Boot the real hardware (the box with the graphics card) from the usb > disk, start X the usual way and perform the tests. [...] > This does not answer your original question of course (I don't have a > good answer to that either) but it will allow you to do the job, with a > different type of throw-away test environment. I agree with Georgios' suggestion: next time I need something like this, I'll look into live-build and try to create a custom Debian Live with the packages I need. Once this customized Debian Live image is written to a USB stick, I will be able to boot the real hardware from the USB mass storage device and perform all the tests I want. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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