(Sorry for the no-subject post) My /etc/apt/sources.list in the chroot looks like this:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main # deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main as created by apt-setup (I said no the the security option, not knowing if I wanted this). These files do exist in the chroot: /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/group (not /etc/groups), /etc/shadow, /proc (as described in the AMD-64 How-to). I had done nothing with /etc/mtab and its entries were: proc /proc proc rw 0 0 whereas my chroot /etc/mtab was simply /dev/sda7 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /var/chroot/sid-ia32/proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/winC ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0222 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/winD ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=0222 0 0 /home /var/chroot/sid-ia32/home none rw,bind 0 0 /tmp /var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp none rw,bind 0 0 //lmsrd01/DataDrive /mnt/lmsrd01 smbfs rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/winE vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=100,umask=000 0 0 Following ?good? advice elsewhere (http://hacktavista.com/howto/chroot_slackware.html) I did the following for the mtab file: rm -f /etc/mtab ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab the contents of /proc/mounts in the chroot are: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev2/root2 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 proc /var/chroot/sid-ia32/proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/winC ntfs ro,noatime,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0222,nls=cp437,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/winD ntfs ro,noatime,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0222,nls=cp437,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1 0 0 /dev2/root2 /var/chroot/sid-ia32/home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev2/root2 /var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp ext3 rw 0 0 //lmsrd01/DataDrive /mnt/lmsrd01 smbfs rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,file_mode=0744,dir_mode=0755 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/winE vfat rw,nodiratime,nosuid,noexec,gid=100,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 0 0 After all that I still get the same errors. apt is definitely able to connect (apt-get update downloaded some packages successfully). Any ideas? Thanks, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Phil Warrick wrote: >> I'm going with the chroot approach then. >> >> Following the AMD64 HOWTO in section "Running applications inside the >> chroot", I followed the instructions and then I wanted to try to run a >> 32-bit program. >> >> First I wanted to try to run some X-based program so I tried openoffice, >> which was not yet installed. When I tried to install it in the chroot, >> I got the following errors below. >> [...] >> Can someone indicate what might be wrong? I'm using kernel >> 2.6.8-9-amd-k8-smp on a dual Opteron system. > > Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file *in the chroot* and make sure it > can get to the 32-bit archive. Make sure that 'apt-get update' works > in the chroot. It looks to me like apt has no package lists at all. > > If you have 'dchroot' configured you can run the commands like this: > > dchroot editor /etc/apt/sources.list > > dchroot apt-get update > dchroot apt-get install openoffice.org > > Bob Don't forget /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, /etc/shadow, /etc/mtab, /proc in the chroot. MfG Goswin
