Sounds like a transient error, sid is broken sometimes. Is it still broken? It should be fixed either in debootstrap / cdebootstrap, or the broken packages which fails to install. Nothing much to be done from pbuilder side.
At Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:55:27 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > > Package: pbuilder > Version: 0.181 > Severity: important > > When trying to run `pbuilder --create` in Lenny, it fails to create chroot > with > following errors.. > > W: /home/kartik/.pbuilderrc does not exist > Distribution is sid. > Building the build environment > -> running cdebootstrap > /usr/bin/cdebootstrap > P: Retrieving Release > P: Retrieving Release.gpg > P: Validating Release > I: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny) > <[email protected]>" > P: Parsing Release > P: Retrieving Packages.gz > P: Validating Packages.gz > P: Parsing Packages > ...... > <snip>...... > ........ > P: Deconfiguring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt > P: Deconfiguring helper cdebootstrap-helper-makedev > P: Writing apt sources.list > P: Writing hosts > P: Writing resolv.conf > -> debootstrap finished > -> copying local configuration > -> Installing apt-lines > Refreshing the base.tgz > -> upgrading packages > -> mounting /proc filesystem > -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem > -> policy-rc.d already exists > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org sid Release.gpg [835B] > Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org sid Release [94.4kB] > Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages [6016kB] > Fetched 6111kB in 2min 39s (38.3kB/s) > > > Reading package lists... Done > dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove lilo which isn't installed. > Obtaining the cached apt archive contents > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > build-essential is already the newest version. > dpkg-dev is already the newest version. > apt is already the newest version. > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.7 but it is not installable > Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.26+b1) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages > -> Aborting with an error > -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem > -> unmounting proc filesystem > -> cleaning the build env > -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//11827 and its > subdirectories > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.2 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages pbuilder depends on: > ii cdebootstrap 0.5.4 Bootstrap a Debian system > ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management > sy > ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific > t > ii gcc 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler > ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web > > Versions of packages pbuilder recommends: > ii cowdancer 0.47 Copy-on-write directory tree > utili > ii devscripts 2.10.35lenny3 scripts to make the life of a > Debi > ii fakeroot 1.11 Gives a fake root environment > ii sudo 1.6.9p17-2 Provide limited super user > privile > > Versions of packages pbuilder suggests: > pn pbuilder-uml <none> (no description available) > > -- debconf information: > pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://ftp.debian.org/ > pbuilder/nomirror: > pbuilder/rewrite: false > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pbuilder-maint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pbuilder-maint > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

