Test was made on 64bit environment in 64bit squeeze chroot.
s...@test:/tmp$ fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze root/ 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: insserv libbz2-1.0 libdb4.8 I: Found additional base dependencies: libnfnetlink0 libsqlite3-0 libudev0 I: Checking component main on http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian... [...] I: Unpacking zlib1g... W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times. I: Unpacking libacl1... I: Unpacking libattr1... I: Unpacking base-files... I: Unpacking base-passwd... I: Unpacking bash... I: Unpacking binutils... I: Unpacking libbz2-1.0... I: Unpacking coreutils... W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times. I: Unpacking libattr1... I: Unpacking base-files... I: Unpacking base-passwd... I: Unpacking bash... I: Unpacking binutils... I: Unpacking libbz2-1.0... I: Unpacking coreutils... W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times. I: Unpacking libattr1... I: Unpacking base-files... I: Unpacking base-passwd... I: Unpacking bash... I: Unpacking binutils... I: Unpacking libbz2-1.0... I: Unpacking coreutils... W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times. I: Unpacking libattr1... I: Unpacking base-files... I: Unpacking base-passwd... I: Unpacking bash... I: Unpacking binutils... I: Unpacking libbz2-1.0... I: Unpacking coreutils... W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times.