Hello, I am not sure which list I should direct this question to: it's a problem I am facing because I need to try and reproduce some bugs inside a throw-away test environment (without risking to crash my real boxes). If there's a better Debian list where I can ask this question, please suggest: I apologize in advance, if this is the case.
What I am trying to do (and failing miserably at) is to start an X session inside a throw-away sid chroot environment. The chroot environment has already been set up long ago and I keep it updated. A description of how I set up the sid chroot environment (by using pbuilder) may be found at http://www.inventati.org/frx/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_programming.html#setting-up-chroots-for-building-debian-packages Here's what I tried. I closed my real X session, and logged in on my first virtual console. From there, I logged into my sid chroot (in a throw-away manner): $ sudo pbuilder login --configfile ~/.pbuilder/sid.conf Then, inside the chroot, I installed the needed packages, among which: # aptitude install xorg # aptitude install fluxbox I created a temporary regular user: # adduser --disabled-login niceguy # adduser niceguy video # adduser niceguy adm # passwd niceguy and prepared a simple ~/.xsession file: # cat ~niceguy/.xsession fluxbox & MANAGERPID=$! xset r rate 400 40 xset b off wait $MANAGERPID savelog -p -c 4 ~/.xsession-errors I changed "allowed_users=console" into "allowed_users=anybody" in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and then became the regular user (but please note that I got the same errors as root!): # su - niceguy $ startx I got an error that told me that X could not open tty0. Indeed there's no /dev/tty0 in my sid chroot: it seems that only /dev/tty is present. Please note that I don't have external directories bind-mounted in the chroot environment, since the pbuilder documentation seems to say that it is considered harmful for the throw-away mode: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html#chroot I tried to manually create the device file: # mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0 # chown niceguy:tty /dev/tty0 After that, X refused to start with a different error message: cannot open virtual console 7... Please, someone more knowledgeable than me, tell me where I went wrong! I searched the web about running X inside chroot environments, but I failed to find useful hints about my issue. Thanks for any help you may provide! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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