Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.230.4
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Hi,

I tried to upgrade my Docker-based pbuilder containers from stretch to
buster. However it appears that pbuilder and/or debootstrap do not work
properly inside Docker containers any longer due to issues with mounting
special filesystems such as proc and devpts.

The issue can be reproduced easily in a Debian Buster based container:

# docker run --privileged -it debian:buster /bin/bash

root@d81f634fe4a0:/# cat /proc/mounts
overlay / overlay 
rw,relatime,lowerdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l/TPOD4JNRBNCTMXNHYCY5XVRBQ3:/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l/TSD62UVCIJQ2LJ4XTUHKTVEK77,upperdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/aa29cac2d0ebecfb12fdd71a9952845140052615f2bd746c4336daa8d7a4d533/diff,workdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/aa29cac2d0ebecfb12fdd71a9952845140052615f2bd746c4336daa8d7a4d533/work
 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,size=65536k,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd
 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/pids cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/resolv.conf ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/hostname ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/hosts ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=65536k 0 0
devpts /dev/console devpts 
rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=666 0 0

root@d81f634fe4a0:/# apt-get update && apt-get -y --no-install-recommends 
install pbuilder

[...]

root@d81f634fe4a0:/# pbuilder create --distribution buster
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
W: cgroups are not available on the host, not using them.
I: Distribution is buster.
I: Current time: Tue Jun 18 13:27:34 UTC 2019
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1560864454
I: Building the build environment
I: running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving InRelease 
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 16E90B3FDF65EDE3AA7F323C04EE7237B7D453EC)
I: Retrieving Packages 
I: Validating Packages 
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://deb.debian.org/debian...
I: Retrieving libacl1 2.2.53-4
I: Validating libacl1 2.2.53-4

[...]

W: Failure trying to run: chroot "/var/cache/pbuilder/build/489" mount -t proc 
proc /proc
W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/build/489/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details

[...]

Setting up aptitude (0.8.11-7) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/aptitude-curses to provide 
/usr/bin/aptitude (aptitude) in auto mode
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10) ...
I: Copying back the cached apt archive contents
I: new cache content 'aptitude-common_0.8.11-7_all.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libboost-iostreams1.67.0_1.67.0-13_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'aptitude_0.8.11-7_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libsqlite3-0_3.27.2-3_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libxapian30_1.4.11-1_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libcwidget3v5_0.5.17-11_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libboost-system1.67.0_1.67.0-13_amd64.deb' added
I: new cache content 'libsigc++-2.0-0v5_2.10.1-2_amd64.deb' added
mount: failed to read mtab: No such file or directory
mount: failed to read mtab: No such file or directory
I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem
I: unmounting dev/shm filesystem
I: unmounting proc filesystem
I: unmounting sys filesystem
I: creating base tarball [/var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz]
mount: failed to read mtab: No such file or directory
I: cleaning the build env 
I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build/489 and its subdirectories
rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/489/dev/ptmx': Device or resource 
busy
mount: failed to read mtab: No such file or directory
I: cleaning the build env 
I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build/489 and its subdirectories
rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/489/dev/ptmx': Device or resource 
busy
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/489/dev': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/489': Directory not empty

root@d81f634fe4a0:/# cat /proc/mounts
cat: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory

root@d81f634fe4a0:/# mount proc /proc -t proc
root@d81f634fe4a0:/# cat /proc/mounts
overlay / overlay 
rw,relatime,lowerdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l/TPOD4JNRBNCTMXNHYCY5XVRBQ3:/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l/TSD62UVCIJQ2LJ4XTUHKTVEK77,upperdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/aa29cac2d0ebecfb12fdd71a9952845140052615f2bd746c4336daa8d7a4d533/diff,workdir=/var/lib/docker/overlay2/aa29cac2d0ebecfb12fdd71a9952845140052615f2bd746c4336daa8d7a4d533/work
 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,size=65536k,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd
 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/pids cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup 
rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/resolv.conf ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/hostname ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdb /etc/hosts ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=300,data=ordered 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=65536k 0 0
devpts /dev/console devpts 
rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=666 0 0
devpts /var/cache/pbuilder/build/489/dev/ptmx devpts 
rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=666 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0


debootstrap.log contains the following message regarding the proc mount

mount: /proc: mount(2) system call failed: Too many levels of symbolic links.

Thank you for looking into this issue. Until then I'll continue to use
the stretch-based pbuilder container and use it to build packages for buster.

Best regards

Tobias

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.1.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  debootstrap            1.0.114
ii  dpkg-dev               1.19.7

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
pn  devscripts  <none>
pn  eatmydata   <none>
pn  fakeroot    <none>
ii  iproute2    4.20.0-2
pn  sudo        <none>

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer   <none>
pn  gdebi-core  <none>

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