On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:20:17 +0200, Norman Walsh wrote:
> With the (current in unstable) binary incompatibility in libc, I'm
> having trouble getting my old commercial X server running. One
> suggestion was to run it chroot with the old libc libraries. I can see
> how this would theoretically allow me to update the rest of the system.
>
> So I gave it a try, I setup an /AccelX directory with the commercial
> binaries and configuration files and the necessary libraries. It took a
> little fiddling to get /proc mounted under /AccelX and to recreate the
> obviously necessary devices under /AccelX/dev (console, mem, null,
> psaux, tty0, tty7, and xsvc) but I figured it out eventually.
mount --bind /dev /AccelX/dev
mount --bind /proc /AccelX/proc
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X
> server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> So clearly applications can't talk to the X server. Because I didn't
> create some necessary device? Because I've overlooked something obvious?
> Clues appreciated.
I guess the apps aren't able to find the X sockets. With my X server
(XF86), those are in /tmp/.X11-unix/. Maybe
mount --bind /tmp /AccelX/tmp
before launching the X server?
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