32-bit chroot and firefox

[jseabold]

Is anyone successfully running 32-bit firefox in a chroot environment?

I need to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot to connect to a VPN. I also use this chroot environemnt to test Python development code in 32-bit environment. I do not have firefox installed outside of the chroot. I ran the following

sudo apt-get install debootstrap schroot
CHROOT=/tmp/saucy-i386; mkdir -p $CHROOT; sudo debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=sudo,wget --components=main,universe,multiverse saucy $CHROOT [URL]http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/ubuntu[/URL]

echo -e "[saucy-i386]\ndescription=Ubuntu saucy  i386 architecture\ndirectory=$CHROOT\ntype=directory\nusers=$USER\nroot-groups=root\n" | sudo bash -c 'cat - > /etc/schroot/chroot.d/saucy-i386'

I then run

schroot -c saucy-i386

Inside the chroot environment I install firefox.

sudo apt-get install firefox

Set the display

export DISPLAY=:0

Then try to run firefox.

firefox

A dialogue box pops up with the message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible." The same message pops up when I run `firefox -P` to try and create a profile.

[jseabold]

The problem was the my $HOME directory is encrypted and wasn't being mounted so it didn't find the ~/.mozilla folder. This [1] post tipped me off. I needed to edit /etc/schroot/default/fstab and change bind to rbind for home. Then install the 32-bit Java in /usr/lib within the chroot, create the symlink for mozilla, and everything seems to be working now.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ls/+bug/769595