> You need to set > export LANG=C > in the chroot. luatex dies when LANG is unset.
To be more specific: * debootstrap does not install and generate any locales * you probably have some LANG setting in your parent environment * when you chroot into it, the LANG setting remains, but there is not locale defined in the chroot for that, thus calls to setlocale (3) fail. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13