Hi Julien, On Di, 2016-09-20 at 21:09 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
(...) > > It always exits here with exit code 2, without any further error > > message (not even when using --verbose). > > > There should be a log inside the target directory. ah, sure ;). debootstrap/debootstrap.log says: --- gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:01:30 2015 CEST gpgv: using RSA key AED4B06F473041FA gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmas...@debian.org>" gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:05:42 2015 CEST gpgv: using RSA key 64481591B98321F9 gpgv: Good signature from "Squeeze Stable Release Key <debian-rele...@lists.debian.org>" tar: ./usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz: Cannot create symlink to 'dash.1.gz': File exists tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to 'dash': File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:01:30 2015 CEST gpgv: using RSA key AED4B06F473041FA gpgv: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmas...@debian.org>" gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr 25 13:05:42 2015 CEST gpgv: using RSA key 64481591B98321F9 gpgv: Good signature from "Squeeze Stable Release Key <debian-rele...@lists.debian.org>" tar: ./lib/libacl.so.1.1.0: Cannot open: File exists tar: ./usr/share/doc/libacl1/copyright: Cannot open: File exists tar: ./usr/share/doc/libacl1/changelog.Debian.gz: Cannot open: File exists tar: ./usr/share/doc/libacl1/changelog.gz: Cannot open: File exists tar: ./lib/libacl.so.1: Cannot create symlink to 'libacl.so.1.1.0': File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors --- Hth! S