On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:24:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 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.) Guys, bind-mount! mount -t bind /tmp /chroot/tmp -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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