I may be wrong on this BUT... I have just done a similar task for a LiveCD which I created and in order to run X programs from within a CHROOT environment I had to do 2 things...
First, on your actual box within X, run "Xnest -ac :1" Second, with in your CHROOT, run "export DISPLAY=localhost:1" or "export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1" Than you should be able to startx within your chroot and see your CHROOT X environment in the Xnest session on your main X environment. -Stephen -----Original Message----- From: James Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X programs inside chroot Greetings! I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't open display: :0.0. I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. I have mount /proc inside the chroot. At first I thought it may have been a permission problem, so I ran xhost + on the X server to disable access control. Can anyone help me out here? Oh, I build the chroot using: cdebootstrap -f minimal --arch i386 sarge /chroots/sarge-ia32 http://apt.lan0:9999/debian I then mounted /proc inside the chroot, copied /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, /etc/apt/sources.list. I then chrooted (chroot /chroots/sarge-ia32), installed openoffice and xterm. TIA James richardson
