Hi Amit, First of all, thanks a lot for the patience you show in trying to help. I am especially indebted for the information concerning the incompatibility between the debootstrap of the stable distribution and the install of the 32-bit chroot system. As I know (some of) my limitations, I prefer to start with a stable distribution and progress gradually towards the system I really need. In the present case, as the sarge is unofficial, and etch is official, the logic of the decision to install sarge is questionable, but, anyway that is what I did. In view of the same limitations, I like to have a system to fall back on, in case I botch seriously the working system. The inability to reinstall the system worried me seriously. So, first thing I did after receiving your letter was to go to that system, upgrade debootstrap to testing and repeat the attempt to debootstrap the 32-bit chroot subsystem. This time it went smoothly. I did not proceed yet with debugging my old system. One of your remarks suggested a possibility which I have yet to check: you mentioned that some versions of dchroot operate only on binaries while others only on scripts. If among the milions of installs and upgrades that I did much too hastily these last days, I inadvertently changed the version of dchroot, that might cause its present paralysis (though I'd expect some error message). Hope to be able to report progress in the following days. Cheers, Avraham
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