On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 07:36:19PM +0000, Prusty, Badrikesh wrote:
1. If fakeroot is not invoked, by editing Debian/control file and setting
"Rules-Requires-Root: no" it doesn't freeze. . (fakeroot version in Bookworm:
1.31-1.2)
2. When the freeze happens, the CPU usage jumps to 100% and stays there.
3. If I target to build Trixie packages inside the container, it doesn't
freeze. (fakeroot version in Trixie: 1.37-1)
Similar issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072521
The issue was resolved in fakeroot version 1.35-1 or later, available in Debian
Trixie.
I believe at this point the only official solution would be
a bookworm-backports version.
