Package: autopkgtest Version: 4.2.1 Severity: normal Hi,
as the man page suggests, I'm running: $ AUTOPKGTEST_APT_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:3142 sudo vmdebootstrap --verbose --serial-console --distribution=sid --customize=/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed --user=test/test --size=1000000000 --grub --image=autopkgtest-sid.raw Creating disk image Creating partitions Creating filesystem ext4 Mounting /dev/mapper/loop0p1 on /tmp/tmpmc1xY2 Debootstrapping sid [amd64] Give root an empty password Removing udev persistent cd and net rules Enabling systemd-networkd for DHCP Enabling systemctl-resolved for DNS Running customize script /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). WARNING: update-grub failed! Err:1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' Reading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libdbus-1-3 libeatmydata1 libexpat1 Suggested packages: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus eatmydata libdbus-1-3 libeatmydata1 libexpat1 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 509 kB of archives. After this operation, 1435 kB of additional disk space will be used. Err:1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 libdbus-1-3 amd64 1.10.12-1 Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' Err:2 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 libexpat1 amd64 2.2.0-1 Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' Err:3 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 dbus amd64 1.10.12-1 Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' Err:4 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 libeatmydata1 amd64 105-5 Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' Err:5 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 eatmydata all 105-5 Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.10.12-1_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.2.0-1_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.10.12-1_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/libeatmydata1_105-5_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/eatmydata_105-5_all.deb Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org' E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? EEEK! Something bad happened... Command failed: /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed /tmp/tmpmc1xY2 autopkgtest-sid.raw Cleaning up Umounting /tmp/tmpmc1xY2 ERROR: Command failed: /usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed /tmp/tmpmc1xY2 autopkgtest-sid.raw This problem appears with or without AUTOPKGTEST_APT_PROXY set. My host is able to resolve httpredir.debian.org just fine: $ ping -c 4 httpredir.debian.org PING httpredir.debian.org (5.153.231.35) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from httpredir-bm-01.debian.org (5.153.231.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=49.1 ms 64 bytes from httpredir-bm-01.debian.org (5.153.231.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=41 time=47.5 ms 64 bytes from httpredir-bm-01.debian.org (5.153.231.35): icmp_seq=3 ttl=41 time=45.8 ms 64 bytes from httpredir-bm-01.debian.org (5.153.231.35): icmp_seq=4 ttl=41 time=53.9 ms This is with vmdebootstrap (= 1.7-1). Thanks! cheers, josch -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.13 ii procps 2:3.3.12-2 ii python3 3.5.1-4 ii python3-debian 0.1.29 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: pn autodep8 <none> Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: ii lxc 1:2.0.5-1 pn lxd-client <none> ii qemu-system 1:2.6+dfsg-3 ii qemu-utils 1:2.6+dfsg-3 ii schroot 1.6.10-2+b1 -- no debconf information