reassign 544072 cdebootstrap thanks To be a useful bugreport, you might want to find out what happened rather than filing bug blindly to pbuilder; it's some package failing to be debootstrapped.
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:46:09 +0200, Filippo Rusconi wrote: > > Package: cowbuilder > Version: 0.57 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Freshly installed cowbuilder package (along with its pbuilder, cowdancer and > cdebootstrap dependencies) fail with messages: > > P: Unpacking package apt > P: Configuring package libbz2-1.0 > P: Configuring package libusb-0.1-4 > E: Internal error: install > E: cdebootstrap failed > W: Aborting with an error > pbuilder create failed > forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow > > All the previous steps of package download and configuration went > apparently smoothly, including the two following: > > P: Configuring package dpkg > P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d > P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-makedev > > > Note that the /var/cache/pbuilder directory was empoy when the `cowbuilder > --create' command was run. > > Because of the last error message, I wondered if the bug is not in > cdebootstrap. I thus unistalled all the packages, installed > debootstrap and then cowbuilder and run the following command: > > # cowbuilder --create --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow \ > --mirror http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ --distribution sid \ > --debootstrap debootstrap --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.cow > > Unfortunately, no better results: > > I: Configuring libtimedate-perl... > I: Configuring g++... > I: Configuring dpkg-dev... > I: Configuring build-essential... > W: Failure while configuring base packages. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. > W: Failure while configuring base packages. > E: debootstrap failed > W: Aborting with an error > pbuilder create failed > forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.cow > > > Filippo Rusconi > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on: > ii cowdancer 0.57 Copy-on-write directory tree > utili > ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii pbuilder 0.189 personal package builder for > Debia > > cowbuilder recommends no packages. > > cowbuilder suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org