I use chroot jails with devfs and it works for me! On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:58:51AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to > > > deal with is: > > > > > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text > > > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) > > > > How are you doing it? I really haven't met this problem. > > My guess, it might be devfs related? > > # tty > /dev/pts/2 > # chroot sid-chroot/ > # tyy > not a tty > # > > This is clearly the problem ... "not a tty" ... > > Hugo van der Merwe > -- > To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. > 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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