> Following Debian Reference 8.6.35.1-3 I have created a directory
> /sid-32bit, used debootstrap to populate it with sid i386, modified
> inittab to make F8 open a console for the chroot and added "do
> s/vt7/vt9" in the [servers] section of gdm.conf.
How are your chroot's /sys, /proc, and /dev trees populated?
The best is probably to "mount -t bind /foo /sid-32bit/foo" them.
> Problem #1. Only one display can run at a time. That is, to run the
> chroot display (F8, /etc/init.d/gdm start) I must first stop the main
> display (F1, /etc/init.d/gdm stop) so it is not posible to toggle
> between the main display (F7) and the chroot display (F9).
Could it just be something like the fact that both displays try to
use :0 ? I'd guess not since nowadays X servers typically don't open up
any TCP port anymore but only use a Unix socket in /tmp, so there
shouldn't be any conflict. But you may want to try it anyway.
> Problem #2. If I have the chroot display running (F9) and toggle to the
> chroot console (F8) the display crashes and must be restarted.
Sounds like a bug ;-)
> Problem #3. There are some problems with the chroot display. Iceape
> runs and the web is accessable but any attempt to start a terminal
> window fails (does nothing) although xterm is install.
Try and find some way to get the stderr output, or even run your xterm
under strace to see where it fails.
> Perhaps there is a better place to ask these questions?
Maybe some xorg mailing-list like gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg would come
up with good suggestions.
Stefan
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