32-Bit Chroot How-To

[exp(x)]

my usb-gamepad only works with a generic driver(2 buttons, 2 axis!!!) in chroot, although it works perfect in my normal enviroment.

I have the same problem with my xbox controller. If you figure anything out, post here.

[pvgorp]

Hi all,
I've followed your instructions but cannot apt-get install anything after "dchroot -d".

The system complains:
> dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `postfix' in statusoverride file

Have I missed something? Note that I'm using shadowed passwords.

Thanks for your advice,
Pieter Van Gorp

[pvgorp]

I solved the problem by creating a user 'postfix' in group 'postdrop':
adduser --ingroup postdrop postfix

This was suggested in another thread.

Cheers,
Pieter.

[jrblevin]

In response to the perl locale problems mentioned earlier (perl: warning: Setting locale failed), installing language-pack-en-base seemed to fix it for me.

[jinxed]

n00b question:
Everthing went well... even ran synaptic, but after restarting my machine, I can't run anything using X. Here's my output...

(synaptic:11343): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Any ideas?

[jinxed]

n00b question:
Everthing went well... even ran synaptic, but after restarting my machine, I can't run anything using X. Here's my output...

(synaptic:11343): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Any ideas?

Nevermind... I'm a moron

forgot to use the -d option...

[mune]

I have been reading this looooong thread but I haven't found any answer to my (simple) problem.

I applied the how-to and it worked fine (btw GREAT thanks a lot).

My problem is that the 32 bit applications (such as firefox32) are in english and not in my own language (as all other apps).

Does anybody have a tip?

Thanks

Fede

[mune]

I can live with en_US messages.

I had big big huge problem: all the applications x32 couldn't print. Now it is worse.

I thought "I do a smart thing: I install cups+gnome-cups-manager, in the 32 environment and I'll be allset".

I end up that I can't print from the original 64 bit environment and I still can't print from the x32 application.

What can I do, now?

Thanks

Fede

[DragonOrta]

When ever I run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and select and of the en_US locales, I get this error.

root@dragon64:/# dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

I've also tried setting to a different english, such as GB, but I still get that error.

[slim_chiply]

I can live with en_US messages.

I had big big huge problem: all the applications x32 couldn't print. Now it is worse.

I thought "I do a smart thing: I install cups+gnome-cups-manager, in the 32 environment and I'll be allset".

I end up that I can't print from the original 64 bit environment and I still can't print from the x32 application.

What can I do, now?

Thanks

Fede

I had the same problem. I found that there were 2 different problems not allowing me to print. The first: upgrading my kernel to 2.6.12-10-amd64-generic caused all printing to stop. I reverted to the previous kernel ( 2.6.12-9-amd64-generic) and printing started again.

The second problem was printing in my chroot. I saw on another thread that I should also install cupsys-bsd in my chroot environment. That seems to have solved the problem of not printing.