On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:26:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > For some days now, I've been trying to complete a successful > installation of Sid into a VMware box, with the 20040209 version of > the debian installer boot floppies. > > However, every install I try eventually bombs out at the "installing > base system" stage, with an error "The debootstrap program exited with > an error (return value 1)". Checking out /var/log/messages shows as > last line: > > tar: Unrecognised file type > > Then I ran debootstrap from the Alt-F2 shell, as follows: > > debootstrap --arch i386 sid /target > > which first checks and validates all debs OK, but then fails while > unpacking: > > ... > I: Extracting libblkid1... > I: Extracting e2fsprogs... > tar: Unrecognised file type > > When I unpack the said e2fsprogs_1.34+1.35-WIP-2004.01.31-2_i386.deb > file, it turns out that the contained data.tar.gz file contains a hard > link, which doesn't seem to be supported by busybox's tar: > > # ar -x > /target/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.34\+1.35-WIP-2004.01.31-2_i386.deb > # tar -xvzf data.tar.gz > . > ./sbin > ./mke2fs > ./mkfs.ext2 > tar: Unrecognised file type > > Note that this is BusyBox v1.00-pre5 (Debian 20040101-6). After some > searching around, I found this commit: > > > http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c#rev1.31 > > and this busybox-cvs-udeb bug report: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=233627 > > So it seems there have been some problems before with different tar > formats, and I guess they are caused by some "too old" or "too new" > format tar files being released lately? I hope either the tar files > or busybox can be fixed. The former seems quite unlikely, but the > latter shouldn't be too hard. > > I know I did complete a few debian-installer installations > successfully before, some weeks ago, so this must have been a quite > recent thing. Now that I'm writing this, some messages "tar: removing > leading / from paths" also come to my mind... > > Please accept my apologies if this has been covered before, but Google > and the mail archive search turned up nothing for the obvious > keywords. So from now on, they hopefully will. ;)
See bug 233627. -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ftbfs.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
