Comments on: Setup a chroot environment on Ubuntu with debootstrap

By: Root of all Evil

Root of all Evil — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:52:40 +0000

Unfortunately, the AWESOME tool that Chroot is (or was) seems to have been destroyed by the abomination that is SystemD.
Here I am trying to create a remastered ISO respin for myself using a Chroot tool, and I can’t run graphical applications inside of it.
Things like Thunar and Terminal will run inside of the chroot environment (throwing error messages) but things like xfce4-panel and xfce4-settings-manager will not (“not able to connect to xfconf”, “there is already a running instance”, etc etc)
Because of systemd, chroot thinks that it already have these processes running because it is mistaking processed inside of chroot to processes external to it – a thing that should never happen – and in fact, they never happened before.
Xfce is particularly bad with SystemD, don’t know about other desktops, but Xfce is having problems even saving user settings across reboots. That is the state of Linux in 2020. OMG, I don’t even know where to start from…
This is guide is from 2013, pretty outdated by now (and dare I say made obsolete to all distros that use systemd)
Is there any new updated guide to take systemd in consideration?
Have you messed with Chroot during these last 7 years? (on a system with systemd)
Any useful info that you might heard around the block?
What a pain in the ass all of this is. Completely unnecessary and avoidable hassle.

By: marius

marius — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:16:41 +0000

schroot -c precise_i386 -u root IS ASKING FOR PASSWORD

By: Shawn Donnelly

Shawn Donnelly — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:42:00 +0000

I am new to linux…I was just wondering if it was mandatory to install chroot environment to properly install virtualbox on a linux host machine?

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:49:00 +0000

I am trying to log into my first chroot with this command:

schroot -c precise_i386 -u root

I keep getting authentication errors. I am using my user password when prompted…still doesnt work. Any advice?

Jeff

By: Ricardo Eureka

Ricardo Eureka — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:14:00 +0000

In reply to ubuntuman. Thank you very much for your update. The article was written in an earlier version.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:04:00 +0000

awesome article, thx man!

By: ubuntuman

ubuntuman — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:12:00 +0000

In ubuntu 13.04/13.10 in the config file “location=path-to-chroot” is deprecated. The new term is “directory=path-to-chroot”. FYI for anyone running into errors! http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man5/schroot.conf.5.html

By: Anon Yser

Anon Yser — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:21:00 +0000

you explain this many times better than other websites i’ve read on how to chroot

By: Gustavo H. Mascarenhas Machado

Gustavo H. Mascarenhas Machado — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:20:00 +0000

What a coincidence, I was just looking for something about chroot, lol!

Nice article, thanks!