On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:03:58AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> > Hi,
> > running:
> >
> > $ fakeroot fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot sid bla
> >
> > (something like this is used by debirf to create the initramfs)
> > currently fails with:
> >
> > preparing to replace coreutils 8.1-1 (using .../coreutils_8.1-1_i386.deb)
> > ...
> > Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
> > dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:754: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size'
> > failed.
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> >
> > The code in dpkg that fails is:
> > > if (r < 0)
> > > r = readlink(fnamevb.buf, symlinkfn.buf, symlinkfn.size);
> > > if (r < 0)
> > > ohshite(_("unable to read link `%.255s'"), ti->Name);
> > > assert(r == stab.st_size);
>
> Where does stab come from and what kind of stat call populates it?
That's in the same function "linktosameexistingdir":
| statr= lstat(fnamevb.buf,&stab);
>
> > Running the same without fakeroot (as root) works as expected. Any
> > ideas?
>
> You mean running debootstrap as root or running fakechroot
> debootstrap as root?
Running:
# fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot sid bla
as root works as expected.
-- Guido
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