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>