Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes: >> Quick random guess: Could pbuilder be providing either no stdin, or >> something silly for stdin? > > It's possible, but the command invoked doesn't (shouldn't?!) read from > stdin. I'll check this out... Good golly, Miss Molly, that's it. It does indeed blow chunks if the input is /dev/null (whether within a chroot or just a normal native build). Thomas