On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:04:28PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > 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*
FWIW, cdebootstrap doesn't create these expect dev/full, which it fails to create but doesn't care. Mike -- 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/20101022131903.ga16...@glandium.org
