Can't launch chroot after moving debian to sd card

[Taylormsz]

sudo edit-chroot -m /media/removable/sdcard debian
sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -b -p "/media/removable/sdcard/"
sudo enter-chroot

Please paste the output of the following command here: sudo edit-chroot -all
No chroots found in /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots

Please describe your issue:

I moved my debian to my sd card with the first command, then tried to sudo enter-chroot but it couldn't find the chroot. So I used the second command hoping to rebuild it, it did create a bin folder under my sdcard, but it still couldn't find chroot.
Before moving debian I tried to install a new chroot and changing the sym link of /usr/local/chroots to /media/removable/sdcard/chroots/chroots with sudo ln -s -f /media/removable/sdcard/chroots/chroots, which resulted in the symlinks in /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots to change to the sdcard destinations as well, chroots to chroots/chroots, bin to chroots/bin. I didn't realize this before moving debian...

If known, describe the steps to reproduce the issue:

T___T what do I do to get my chroots folder back cause it's not anywhere now,,,

[DennisLfromGA]

@Taylormsz,

Can you show us the output of: ls -l /media/removable/sdcard

I think most likely your entire chroot is now under /media/removable/sdcard/debian/.
If so, since crouton needs both a /chroots/ & /bin/ folder hieracrchy, I would suggest doing the following to move it:

sudo mkdir -p /media/removable/sdcard/chroots/
sudo mv /media/removable/sdcard/debian/ /media/removable/sdcard/chroots/
sudo cp -a /usr/local/bin /media/removable/sdcard/

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA

[Taylormsz]

@DennisLfromGA

Hi Dennis! Thank you so much for the reply!

here's what's in the sdcard directory:
chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/crouton-master $ ls -l /media/removable/sdcard/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 16:39 bin
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Oct 2 23:35 debian
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 9 14:21 lost+found

I think I deleted chroots directory from the sdcard after the attempted installation/deletion of the new chroot because I wanted to clear the card for moving my debian over...
Hence this is what's in the debian folder now:
chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/crouton-master $ ls -l /media/removable/sdcard/debian/
total 76
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 05:03 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 05:03 dev
drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 4096 Dec 9 15:56 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:16 home
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:12 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 15:56 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:12 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 21 18:33 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 05:03 proc
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Nov 27 13:11 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:15 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 20:08 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:12 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 05:03 sys
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 05:03 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:12 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:12 var

I tried installing a new chroot on another sd card but I kept running into keyring issues, I did wipe the installation cache and download another copy of crouton but I still don't have the keyring folder, all I have is key-debug but I don't know how to fix it...
chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/crouton-master $ ls /usr/share/key
request-key-debug.sh
chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/crouton-master $ ls /usr/share/keyutils/
request-key-debug.sh

If I messed up too bad I am more than willing and happy to start over. I am sorry about the trouble...

T___T

[DennisLfromGA]

@Taylormsz,

Your external sdcard crouton directories are almost correct. The /bin folder is in the right place but the /chroots folder is missing it seems. To get your debian chroot setup correctly try the following:

sudo mkdir /media/removable/sdcard/chroots 
sudo mv /media/removable/sdcard/debian  /media/removable/sdcard/chroots

If that succeeded you should have the following on the sdcard:

/media/removable/sdcard/bin
/media/removable/sdcard/chroots/debian

Of course, the debian folder will have several sub-folders as you show above.

At this point you may be able to do a crouton update to fix your keyring issues, do that with:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -n debian -p /media/removable/sdcard -u

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA

[Taylormsz]

@DennisLfromGA

OMG it worked like a charm! Thank you so much!! ^___^

Entered chroot with:
sudo sh /media/removable/sdcard/bin/enter-chroot -n debian

Everything runs smoothly now!! Thank you again!!

[DennisLfromGA]

You're very welcome, glad it's all ironed out.

(closing this issue since it seems to be resolved)