Bug#355799: installation-report: install fails because chroot fails due to lack of tar
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.12
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
Date: 06 March 2006
Machine: Gateway laptop, 7405GX
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0 ]
Detect network card: [0 ]
Configure network: [0 ]
Detect CD: [0 ]
Load installer modules: [0 ]
Detect hard drives: [0 ]
Partition hard drives: [0 ]
Create file systems: [0 ]
Mount partitions: [0 ]
Install base system: [E ]
Install boot loader: [0 ]
Installed system ok: [0 ]
Comments/Problems:
As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably. The error
was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
coreutils basepasswd".
After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
attempting to use
dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
was no tar executable in
the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
the CD's tar command to
/target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
it worked flawlessly.
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
installation-report depends on no packages.
Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii reportbug 3.18 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
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maru@elan:~$ cat bug
Subject: installation-report: install fails because chroot fails due
to lack of tar
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.12
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
*** Please type your report below this line ***
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
Date: 06 March 2006
Machine: Gateway laptop, 7405GX
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0 ]
Detect network card: [0 ]
Configure network: [0 ]
Detect CD: [0 ]
Load installer modules: [0 ]
Detect hard drives: [0 ]
Partition hard drives: [0 ]
Create file systems: [0 ]
Mount partitions: [0 ]
Install base system: [E ]
Install boot loader: [0 ]
Installed system ok: [0 ]
Comments/Problems:
As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably. The error
was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
coreutils basepasswd".
After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
attempting to use
dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
was no tar executable in
the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
the CD's tar command to
/target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
it worked flawlessly.
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
installation-report depends on no packages.
Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii reportbug 3.18 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
-- no debconf information
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