Hitting Walls While Installing Crouton

[nebcanuck]

Hi there,

I recently acquired a Chromebook and have been attempting to install Crouton. The first issue I ran into is that sudo is now disabled within the crosh shell. I have not found any way to run sudo commands there, which means that I don't believe I can use the terminal launched by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T to install Crouton.

Because of that, I tried installing Crouton using the Virtual Terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Refresh. I had some difficulty with this because I ran into an error that read "sed: can't read common/cras_messages.h: no such file or directory". I found a discussion on this forum indicating that fixing this requires using CROUTON_BRANCH=silence, which will disable sound in the chroot. I did this and it worked - the chroot was installed successfully.

Unfortunately, when I tried launching the chroot using sudo startxfce4, I received another error that said "xorg x11 servers cannot be run from frecon", and that I should try launching the chroot from inside the crosh terminal. Since the command to launch the chroot requires sudo privileges, I end up back where I started, unable to perform the required command.

I assume that I'm missing something, but I can't find a solution in the Readme, any forums I've searched, or the discussion page here. Please let me know if there's something I can do to fix this!

[dnschneid]

Well, if it makes you feel better, the fact that you can use sudo from VT2 is an improvement :)

I had some ideas about how to launch graphical sessions in this thread but I don't know if anyone tried them.

[nebcanuck]

Thank you for the quick response and the link. I will probably see if I can figure out how to pull off some of your proposals, but it's not pressing, since it's primarily a game related issue that I'm trying to sort out.

[CroutonIsFun]

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