On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:49:04PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > The backwards incompatibility of libc in unstable combined with my use > of a commercial X server leaves me...a little stuck. Attempts to simply > use the old libraries by overriding LD_LIBRARY_PATH have failed. Another > suggestion was to run the server chroot() with old libraries. > > Yes, this works, at least the server starts, but apparently no one can > talk to it. Perhaps because /tmp/.X11-unix is in the chroot'd > partition. > > Am I doomed to fail, or can this be made to work? I can't think of any solutions off the top of my head. Anyone else? (Hmm, maybe you could use tmpfs for /tmp, and mount the same one in both the real root and the chroot? I've never tried this myself.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Humor is a rubber sword - it allows Debian GNU/Linux | you to make a point without drawing branden@debian.org | blood. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Mary Hirsch
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