That was my first thought as well.. And also to make sure he's running it as root... but it would do you no good.. the Services in Gnome would be trying to mess with and access the /etc/init.d/ files inside Debian and have no relevance to the services being started in the Maemo Side. And the root in chroot may not have access to managing the processes started by root in Maemo.. Not sure on that one..

The Debian chroot doesn't start any Services per-say that aren't Gnome's itself so that configuration panel is really not relevant to the Easy Debian...

Though I could be overlooking something simple..