Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.25 Severity: important When debootstrap can't extract devices.tar.gz for some reason, it exists with an error code 2, but doesn't say anything as to why it failed.
Following with strace, it appears the one failing is tar, because it can't extract (mknod) the devices from devices.tar.gz. This happened on my system because I was trying to debootstrap from within an lxc instance created with the default template which disabled a whole bunch of devices. Please at least handle the error and display tar's error message. A bonus point if you just ignore the error, as the failing devices here were really not important to the chroot: dev/full dev/kmem dev/loop* dev/mem dev/port dev/ram* Cheers, Mike -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 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". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101022130428.16347.31045.report...@jigen.glandium.org
