Re: VMware errrors.
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: You must run ldconfig after making the symlinks. Normally, this should be done automatically at the time you install the .deb package... ldconfig sets symlinks according to configuration in /etc/ld.so.conf. If this is done in a chroot then it configures it according to the chroot's /etc/ld.so.conf file. For programs running in the chroot that is fine. But if you are running i686 outside the chroot then the outside the chroot area must know about the libraries in this other location. To programs running outside they don't know anything about chroots. They only know what the /etc/ld.so.conf tells the dynamic loader about and at that time it just looks like libraries in a unique filesystem location. My /etc/ld.so.conf looks like this: /usr/X11R6/lib /emul/ia32-linux/lib /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib /emul/ia32-linux/usr/local/lib That also means that when ldconfig is run in the system normally, outside of the chroot, that it will set up the symlinks (again) for anything inside the chroot too. That is fine. Just noting that it happens twice, effectively. An alternative method would be to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the ia32 libraries. That should work too. But better not to require environment variables to run programs. So normally a program installed in the chroot is available immediately by programs outside the chroot and there is no need to run ldconfig explicitly. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: VMware errrors.
Jan-Benedict == Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan-Benedict On Thu, 2004-11-04 18:03:35 -0600, A. P. Kennedy Jan-Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Jan-Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kernel is 2.6.8.1 and all needed debs to support vmware are installed in my chroot directory, and the correct lib directories are placed in /etc/ld.so.conf Jan-Benedict Are also all needed symlinks in place? Thanks that did the trick with strace to find out what vmware was looking for and then added the symlinks for ln -s /ia32/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/* /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib This will work also for folks that don't have chroot installed. dpkg -X libgdk-pixbuf2_0.22.0-7_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux ln -s /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/* /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib Interesting I tried using chroot in place of /emul/ia32-linux and that did not work at all. I guess I have a lot to learn about this library stuff. You must run ldconfig after making the symlinks. Still have this error but I suspect it is a another missing lib or config file. Can't really figure it out with strace. Will take another look. Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers Thanks, Alan
