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** Description changed: When following the Install CD customization procedure (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization) I fail to get an installable image. - Even with no changes in the CD tree, the created image fails to install. The same procedure worked before precise, I had success with natty and lucid. - The installation stops at (see attached image). - If I go back to the installation menu and select Base install, then it succeds. Unfortunatelly, debootstrap.log didn't help me much, so I created a special debootstrap package with lots of debug messages. It turned out that both packages (base-files and base-passwd) got installed, but still, somehow the dpkg installing them failed. + Even with no changes in the CD tree, the created image fails to install. The same procedure worked before precise, I had success with natty and lucid. + The installation stops at installing base-files and base-passwd (see attached image). + If I go back to the installation menu and select Install the base system, then it succeds. Unfortunatelly, debootstrap.log gets deleted by this time, so I created a special debootstrap package with lots of debug messages. It turned out that both packages (base-files and base-passwd) got installed, but still, somehow the dpkg installing them failed. It turned out, that base-passwd has a postinstall script that - during system installation - populates /etc/passwd and /etc/group copying the files from /usr/share/base-passwd if [ ! -e /etc/passwd ] ; then - cp /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master /etc/passwd + cp /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master /etc/passwd fi if [ ! -e /etc/group ] ; then - cp /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master /etc/group + cp /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master /etc/group fi On the other hand, base-files also has a postinstall script changes the owner of /var/lib/dpkg if [ ! -d /var/lib/dpkg ]; then - mkdir -m 755 -p /var/lib/dpkg - chown root:root /var/lib/dpkg + mkdir -m 755 -p /var/lib/dpkg + chown root:root /var/lib/dpkg fi + + In my log this shows as: + + echo + + chown: invalid user: `root:root' + dpkg: error processing base-files (--install): + subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 + dpkg: base-passwd: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested: + base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.8); however: + Package libc6 is not installed. + Setting up base-passwd (3.5.24) ... + install base-files + + which indicates that the /target/etc/passwd is not yet populated and + chown cannot resolv root:root. For some unknown reason, the postinstall script of base-files runs BEFORE the postinstall script of base-passwd in my installation, altough it does no such thing in the standard precise installation. The code fragment that does this installation is: - x_core_install base-files base-passwd + x_core_install base-files base-passwd (in a debootstrap script called precise - a link to a long unchanged script called gutsy) Modifying this script to have the two packages installed separatelly did the trick: - x_core_install base-passwd - x_core_install base-files + x_core_install base-passwd + x_core_install base-files Now, I can install my customized distro. I would like your opinion on what could have gone wrong about it: - Why the standard Ubuntu precise installs flawlessly while my reconstructed distro doesn't? How is it, that the same procedure used to create a custom distro suddenly went wrong with no apparent change in the components? + Why the standard Ubuntu precise installs flawlessly while my reconstructed distro doesn't? How is it, that the same procedure used to create a custom distro suddenly went wrong with no apparent change in the components? Ok, there might have been changes, but this area is very poorly documented so I had to trial and error to find out how things work (and I still might be wrong). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001131 Title: debootstrap fails to install customized Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/+bug/1001131/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
