Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.19 Severity: important For the past day or so (?), trying to create a sid chroot has resulted in debootstrap bailing with a final line of
W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/eefi/debian/chroot dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb Trying to run the chroot-ed dpkg command manually, I find that the specific error is that perl is throwing a Attempt to reload DynaLoader.pm aborted. when trying to load up Debconf. I believe this has to do with the new perl version 5.10.1 that just landed in unstable a couple days ago. At the very least, the best Google hit that I get for the set of error messages that I'm seeing is http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=45194 which seems to suggest that the problem had to do with perl 5.10 vs. 5.10.1. I'm not currently filing this bug against perl, though, because I have the new perl installed (from upgrading) in my main sid installation, and it works fine. Thus, I think it's got something to do with the order that debootstrap is trying to do things. Below is a full log of my debootstrap run. saffroncity:/home/eefi/debian# debootstrap sid /home/eefi/debian/chroot http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Found additional required dependencies: dash insserv libdb4.7 I: Found additional base dependencies: libdb4.8 I: Checking component main on http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian... I: Retrieving adduser I: Validating adduser I: Retrieving apt I: Validating apt I: Retrieving apt-utils I: Validating apt-utils I: Retrieving aptitude I: Validating aptitude I: Retrieving base-files I: Validating base-files I: Retrieving base-passwd I: Validating base-passwd I: Retrieving bash I: Validating bash I: Retrieving bsdmainutils I: Validating bsdmainutils I: Retrieving bsdutils I: Validating bsdutils I: Retrieving coreutils I: Validating coreutils I: Retrieving cpio I: Validating cpio I: Retrieving cron I: Validating cron I: Retrieving dash I: Validating dash I: Retrieving debconf I: Validating debconf I: Retrieving debconf-i18n I: Validating debconf-i18n I: Retrieving debian-archive-keyring I: Validating debian-archive-keyring I: Retrieving debianutils I: Validating debianutils I: Retrieving dhcp3-client I: Validating dhcp3-client I: Retrieving dhcp3-common I: Validating dhcp3-common I: Retrieving diffutils I: Validating diffutils I: Retrieving dmidecode I: Validating dmidecode I: Retrieving dpkg I: Validating dpkg I: Retrieving e2fslibs I: Validating e2fslibs I: Retrieving e2fsprogs I: Validating e2fsprogs I: Retrieving ed I: Validating ed I: Retrieving findutils I: Validating findutils I: Retrieving gcc-4.2-base I: Validating gcc-4.2-base I: Retrieving gcc-4.3-base I: Validating gcc-4.3-base I: Retrieving gcc-4.4-base I: Validating gcc-4.4-base I: Retrieving gnupg I: Validating gnupg I: Retrieving gpgv I: Validating gpgv I: Retrieving grep I: Validating grep I: Retrieving groff-base I: Validating groff-base I: Retrieving gzip I: Validating gzip I: Retrieving hostname I: Validating hostname I: Retrieving ifupdown I: Validating ifupdown I: Retrieving info I: Validating info I: Retrieving initscripts I: Validating initscripts I: Retrieving insserv I: Validating insserv I: Retrieving install-info I: Validating install-info I: Retrieving iproute I: Validating iproute I: Retrieving iptables I: Validating iptables I: Retrieving iputils-ping I: Validating iputils-ping I: Retrieving libacl1 I: Validating libacl1 I: Retrieving libattr1 I: Validating libattr1 I: Retrieving libblkid1 I: Validating libblkid1 I: Retrieving libbz2-1.0 I: Validating libbz2-1.0 I: Retrieving libc-bin I: Validating libc-bin I: Retrieving libc6 I: Validating libc6 I: Retrieving libcomerr2 I: Validating libcomerr2 I: Retrieving libcwidget3 I: Validating libcwidget3 I: Retrieving libdb4.7 I: Validating libdb4.7 I: Retrieving libdb4.8 I: Validating libdb4.8 I: Retrieving libdevmapper1.02.1 I: Validating libdevmapper1.02.1 I: Retrieving libept0 I: Validating libept0 I: Retrieving libgcc1 I: Validating libgcc1 I: Retrieving libgdbm3 I: Validating libgdbm3 I: Retrieving liblocale-gettext-perl I: Validating liblocale-gettext-perl I: Retrieving libncurses5 I: Validating libncurses5 I: Retrieving libncursesw5 I: Validating libncursesw5 I: Retrieving libnewt0.52 I: Validating libnewt0.52 I: Retrieving libpam-modules I: Validating libpam-modules I: Retrieving libpam-runtime I: Validating libpam-runtime I: Retrieving libpam0g I: Validating libpam0g I: Retrieving libpopt0 I: Validating libpopt0 I: Retrieving libreadline5 I: Validating libreadline5 I: Retrieving libreadline6 I: Validating libreadline6 I: Retrieving libselinux1 I: Validating libselinux1 I: Retrieving libsepol1 I: Validating libsepol1 I: Retrieving libsigc++-2.0-0c2a I: Validating libsigc++-2.0-0c2a I: Retrieving libslang2 I: Validating libslang2 I: Retrieving libss2 I: Validating libss2 I: Retrieving libssl0.9.8 I: Validating libssl0.9.8 I: Retrieving libstdc++6 I: Validating libstdc++6 I: Retrieving libtasn1-3 I: Validating libtasn1-3 I: Retrieving libtext-charwidth-perl I: Validating libtext-charwidth-perl I: Retrieving libtext-iconv-perl I: Validating libtext-iconv-perl I: Retrieving libtext-wrapi18n-perl I: Validating libtext-wrapi18n-perl I: Retrieving libunwind7 I: Validating libunwind7 I: Retrieving libusb-0.1-4 I: Validating libusb-0.1-4 I: Retrieving libuuid1 I: Validating libuuid1 I: Retrieving libvolume-id1 I: Validating libvolume-id1 I: Retrieving libwrap0 I: Validating libwrap0 I: Retrieving libxapian15 I: Validating libxapian15 I: Retrieving login I: Validating login I: Retrieving logrotate I: Validating logrotate I: Retrieving lsb-base I: Validating lsb-base I: Retrieving lzma I: Validating lzma I: Retrieving man-db I: Validating man-db I: Retrieving manpages I: Validating manpages I: Retrieving mawk I: Validating mawk I: Retrieving module-init-tools I: Validating module-init-tools I: Retrieving mount I: Validating mount I: Retrieving nano I: Validating nano I: Retrieving ncurses-base I: Validating ncurses-base I: Retrieving ncurses-bin I: Validating ncurses-bin I: Retrieving net-tools I: Validating net-tools I: Retrieving netbase I: Validating netbase I: Retrieving netcat-traditional I: Validating netcat-traditional I: Retrieving passwd I: Validating passwd I: Retrieving perl-base I: Validating perl-base I: Retrieving procps I: Validating procps I: Retrieving readline-common I: Validating readline-common I: Retrieving rsyslog I: Validating rsyslog I: Retrieving sed I: Validating sed I: Retrieving sensible-utils I: Validating sensible-utils I: Retrieving sysv-rc I: Validating sysv-rc I: Retrieving sysvinit I: Validating sysvinit I: Retrieving sysvinit-utils I: Validating sysvinit-utils I: Retrieving tar I: Validating tar I: Retrieving tasksel I: Validating tasksel I: Retrieving tasksel-data I: Validating tasksel-data I: Retrieving traceroute I: Validating traceroute I: Retrieving tzdata I: Validating tzdata I: Retrieving udev I: Validating udev I: Retrieving util-linux I: Validating util-linux I: Retrieving vim-common I: Validating vim-common I: Retrieving vim-tiny I: Validating vim-tiny I: Retrieving wget I: Validating wget I: Retrieving whiptail I: Validating whiptail I: Retrieving zlib1g I: Validating zlib1g I: Extracting base-files... I: Extracting base-passwd... I: Extracting bash... I: Extracting bsdutils... I: Extracting coreutils... I: Extracting dash... I: Extracting debconf... I: Extracting debconf-i18n... I: Extracting debianutils... I: Extracting diffutils... I: Extracting dpkg... I: Extracting e2fslibs... I: Extracting e2fsprogs... I: Extracting findutils... I: Extracting gcc-4.2-base... I: Extracting gcc-4.3-base... I: Extracting gcc-4.4-base... I: Extracting grep... I: Extracting gzip... I: Extracting hostname... I: Extracting initscripts... I: Extracting insserv... I: Extracting libacl1... I: Extracting libattr1... I: Extracting libblkid1... I: Extracting libc-bin... I: Extracting libc6... I: Extracting libcomerr2... I: Extracting libdb4.7... I: Extracting libdevmapper1.02.1... I: Extracting libgcc1... I: Extracting liblocale-gettext-perl... I: Extracting libncurses5... I: Extracting libpam-modules... I: Extracting libpam-runtime... I: Extracting libpam0g... I: Extracting libselinux1... I: Extracting libsepol1... I: Extracting libslang2... I: Extracting libss2... I: Extracting libstdc++6... I: Extracting libtext-charwidth-perl... I: Extracting libtext-iconv-perl... I: Extracting libtext-wrapi18n-perl... I: Extracting libunwind7... I: Extracting libuuid1... I: Extracting libvolume-id1... I: Extracting login... I: Extracting lsb-base... I: Extracting lzma... I: Extracting mawk... I: Extracting mount... I: Extracting ncurses-base... I: Extracting ncurses-bin... I: Extracting passwd... I: Extracting perl-base... I: Extracting procps... I: Extracting sed... I: Extracting sensible-utils... I: Extracting sysv-rc... I: Extracting sysvinit... I: Extracting sysvinit-utils... I: Extracting tar... I: Extracting tzdata... I: Extracting util-linux... I: Extracting zlib1g... I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/eefi/debian/chroot dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb saffroncity:/home/eefi/debian# chroot /home/eefi/debian/chroot dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 643 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.9-26 (using .../libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb) ... Attempt to reload DynaLoader.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Hash/Util.pm line 32. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.10/fields.pm line 122. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 10. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-26_amd64.deb saffroncity:/home/eefi/debian# -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (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/dash Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii binutils 2.19.91.20090927-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii wget 1.11.4-4 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep debootstrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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