On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:50PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:51:59 -0500 George Kumengi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Everything works fine until I get a "Base system installation error""
debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)
Virtual Console 3 says: tar: Unrecognised file type
The error means busybox doesnt know if the file being extracted is a
regular file or directory or symlink etc, which is very strange, ive not
seen the error triggered before (and i wrote the code).
I would really like to know what triggered it. Any idea which debian package or tarfile it was trying to extract ?
I don't know which package is at fault, but it sounds like fallout from bug 230872.
I see this too, furthermore, i seem to be no more given the choice of installing testing or unstable.
Anyway, i just wanted to say that it would be very helpfull if the debootstrap failure message would include also a mention to the package which triggered the failure.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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I experienced this same error last night using the sarge businesscard daily from 02/16/2004, and the package was perl-base. The error behaved exactly the same when I tried the mirror at ftp.us.debian.org using ftp and again when I tried the mirror at mirror.kernel.org using http. It may be mirrors.kernel.org, but you know which one I mean. My notes say mirror.kernel.org, but I am not sure they're correct.
Regards, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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