[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#496246: Impossible to launch X applications in schroot

[Aniruddha]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: important

No matter what I try I can't lauch X applications from a schroot. I get the following message:

$ schroot -p  acroread
W: Group ‘zumsel’ not found
I: [sid32-9db4ed8f-f2f1-4455-adda-e2479f92e593 chroot] Running command: “acroread”

(acroread-en:6023): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

I've setup a working schroot in the past,  but apparantly something changed which prevents X apps from launching. I used this guide to setup the chroot:
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html 

My schroot.conf:
[sid32]
description=Debian Sid i386 (sid32)
location=/var/chroot/sid
priority=3
groups=zumsel,root
root-groups=root,aniruddha
aliases=default,unstable,ia32 
personality=linux32
type=plain
run-exec-scripts=true
run-setup-scripts=true

#[sid]
#description=Debian sid (unstable)
#location=/var/chroot/sid
#priority=3
#users=aniruddha
#groups=
#root-groups=root
#aliases=unstable,default


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.34.1   1.34.1-11    filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-program-options1.3 1.34.1-11    program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1        1.34.1-11    regular expression library for C++
ii  libc6                       2.7-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.1-2    GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                 1.0.3-1.2+b1 Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                    1.0.1-2      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.1-2      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                    1.41.0-3     universally unique id library
ii  schroot-common              1.2.1-1      common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages schroot suggests:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.10     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
pn  lvm2                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  unzip                         5.52-12    De-archiver for .zip files

-- no debconf information