I've been doing a cross installation of debian sarge from a local disk
with debian sarge 2.4.18-bf2.4 to a target disk with debian sarge
2.6.7-1-i386.
>From a chroot prompt I successfully ran aptitude install iceWM to drag
in xfree86-common without bringing in the desktops as well. I then ran
aptitude install xserver-xfree86 and got:
...
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure, with exit status 127
Selecting previously deselected package xserver-common.
(Reading database ... 12282 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking xserver-common (from
.../xserver-xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4.i386.deb
(--unpack): subprocess preinstallation script returned error
exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86.dfsg.1-4.i386.deb
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to
recover...
Reading package lists... Done
...
I thought best to run Xinstall.sh -check to see what was up. I see
that sarge uses glibc2.2 and chose the Xinstall.sh suited to it. I
first did a test run on my local sarge 2.4.18-bf2.4 disk, which has a
working XFree86, and got:
$ ./Xinstall.sh -check
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Linux" version '2.4.18-bf2.4', architecture 'i686'.
Object format is 'ELF'. libc version is '6.3.2' (6.3).
Binary distribution name is 'Linux-ix86-glibc23'
I then tried to run it from the chroot prompt for the target
2.6.7-1-i386 with the following result:
$ ./Xinstall.sh -check
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.18-bf2.4', architecture 'i686'.
Object format is 'ELF'. ./Xinstall.sh: line 1: strings: command
not found
No Linux/ix86 binaries for this libc version
Apparently chroot sees the local kernel and not the target kernel, and
so instead of using chroot, I booted the target 2.6.7-1-i386 disk and
ran Xinstall.sh -check directly from it with the following result:
S .Xinstall.sh -check
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Linux' version '2.6.7-1-386', architecture 'i686'
Object format is 'a.out'. /opt/X/Xinstall.sh: line 1: strings:
command not found
Linux a.out is no longer supported
A search online and of bugs didn't return anything useful. What's
going on here?
Haines Brown
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