Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
Roger Leigh wrote: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I open a terminal from an X-Window it does not accept entries and after a minute displays a message, "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal." In some cases there was a message like failed to creat

Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
andy baxter wrote: #!/bin/bash # # testing-shell - start a root shell chrooted to the testing release. # must be run as root JAIL_ROOT=/jail # modify this to point to your chrooted directory. PROGRAM=$0 if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ] ; then echo "Must be run as root" exit fi if [

Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
Roger Leigh wrote: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I installed this chrooted version of Etch as described in Debian Reference - Debian tips, sections 8.6.35.1-4. From the console (Ctl-Alt-F8) I can enter commands and edit files with no problems. From X-Window (CTL-ATL-F9) I c

Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I open a terminal from an X-Window it does not accept entries and > after a minute displays a message, "There was an error creating a > child process for this terminal." In some cases there was a message > like failed to create child process x

Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-07-27 Thread Thomas H. George
When I open a terminal from an X-Window it does not accept entries and after a minute displays a message, "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal." In some cases there was a message like failed to create child process x-terminal-emulator. There is in fact a soft link fr