On 2/28/19 8:42 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > You probably have the permissions of /root set up such that it's non-readable > by any non-root user?
correct! I have /root with 0700, I can confirm that changing that to 0755 fixes it (or doing it anywhere else on the FS where the directory is 0755). > That would also mean that this is not a new problem but one that always has > existed. You probably not attempted to put the chroot into /root before you > upgraded to version 0.4.0? absolutely. > You could also test if disabling the apt sandboxing feature fixes the problem > for you by adding the following option to mmdebstrap: > > --aptopt='APT::Sandbox::User "root"' so technically this isn't a bug in mmdebstrap, may I suggest to put a note with this e.g. into the manpage or README.Debian or something like that? Regards, Daniel