On Saturday 30 April 2005 18:54, Javier Kohen wrote: > Hi Damon, > > El s�b, 30-04-2005 a las 17:43 -0500, Damon Chesser escribi�: > > "There is also an easier way to run applications inside the chroot with > > the dchroot. Leave the chroot and install the dchroot package." > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# apt-get install dchroot > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > > dchroot > > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 10.4kB of archives. > > After unpacking 90.1kB of additional disk space will be used. > > Get:1 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sid/main dchroot 0.11 > > [10.4kB] Fetched 10.4kB in 0s (13.7kB/s) > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string > > at /usr/share/perl5/De bconf/Config.pm line 16. > > dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `root' in statusoverride file > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > I assume that you're trying to install dchroot inside your IA32 chroot. > You should install it outside (well, if your intention is to use it to > run programs in the IA32 chroot). Also, make sure that you have > valid /etc/passwd, groups and shadow files inside the chroot; not having > those could explain that user root is unknown. You can usually copy the > ones from the base system. Again, your words have helped me out. Yes I was trying to install it in my 64 bit os, not he 32chroot. The issue was I did not copy the /etc/group.passwd,shadow into the 32chroot, I MOVED them. Oops. That would explain the lack of knowing who user "root" was. Thanks again. Someday I might be able to compile and assemble things with out direct adult supervision!
-- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
