> > I'm not quite sure why unpacking is failing. > > > > Do you do mount /var with noexec, or other funky stuff? > > It's a bind mount. The partition that it's on was mounted nodev. I > remounted with dev, but it still fails the same way.
1. Can you give mount -v output? 2. You may want to run debootstrap through strace to see what system call is failing. Depending on your problem, you may need to debug your kernel Bind-mounting is a bit of a difficult kernel feature to play with. regards, junichi -- Junichi Uekawa, Debian Developer http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/ 183A 70FC 4732 1B87 57A5 CE82 D837 7D4E E81E 55C1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]