schroot fails to use files in /etc/schroot/chroot.d/

[Curtis Lee Bolin]

Binary package hint: schroot

schroot fails to use the file /etc/schroot/chroot.d/karmic64.conf that I created.

$ schroot -l
W: No chroots are defined in ‘/etc/schroot/schroot.conf’

The manual for schroot says config files in the /etc/schroot/chroot.d/ will be treated the same as /etc/schroot/schroot.conf .

$ man schroot
...
       /etc/schroot/chroot.d
              Additional chroot definitions may be placed in files under this
              directory. They are treated in exactly that same manner as
              /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. Each file may contain one or more
              chroot definitions. Note that the files in this directory fol‐
              low the same naming rules as run-parts(8) when run with the
              --lsbsysinit option.

Thank You For Your TIme

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: schroot 1.4.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 14 14:36:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: schroot

[Curtis Lee Bolin (curtisleebolin)]

updated /etc/schroot/chroot.d/karmic64.conf

[karmic64]
description=Ubuntu 9.10 karmic amd64
directory=/srv/chroot/karmic64
root-users=george
type=directory
users=george

[Ryan Maki (ryan.maki)]

Try changing the name of your configuration file.

/etc/schroot/chroot.d/karmic64 (remove the .conf)

I had a similar problem with my config files because I named them with underscores. Changing underscores to dashes in the file name and [header] fixed the problem. This may be due to some syntax rules in run-parts(8), I'm not sure.

You can run the following command to get debugging output:

schroot -l -v --debug=notice

HTH

[Roger Leigh (rleigh)]

Ryan,

This is exactly the cause of the problem. From schroot(1):

       /etc/schroot/chroot.d
              Additional chroot definitions may be placed in files under this
              directory. They are treated in exactly that same manner as
              /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. Each file may contain one or more
              chroot definitions. Note that the files in this directory fol‐
              low the same naming rules as run-parts(8) when run with the
              --lsbsysinit option.

This means the file can't contain '.'s, or appear as though it's an editor backup file or backup dpkg conffile.

The Ubuntu version is outdated WRT Debian, but this documentation was added for 1.4.0.

Regards,
Roger
(upstream author)

[Roger Leigh (rleigh)]

Update: the naming rules have been relaxed in current stable releases (1.4.16+) so the filenames above will now work correctly again.

Regards,
Roger

[Александр (gg-shaman888)]

$sudo apt-get install schroot
$schroot -c test
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
$export LC_ALL=C
$schroot -c test
W: No chroots are defined in '/etc/schroot/schroot.conf' or '/etc/schroot/chroot.d'

Ubuntu 16.04.05 x64 - the error is reproduced.