Bug#186443: base-installer: can't find /target/etc/fstab
Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:29:11AM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> > Package: base-installer
> > Version: N/A; reported 2003-03-26
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package uninstallable
> >
> > I was testing Tollef's daily build of the net-inst images from today,
> > 2003/03/26, and after hacking around the missing mkswap,
> you need to download the busybox-cvs-udeb package manually. This package
> contains the mkswap command.
Ok, this worked.
> > I ran into this error in base-installer's postinst:
> >
> > cp: /target/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> yes, please.
>
> Please check, if the fstab generation file exists:
> /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/40fstab
> If it's exist try to run it from hand on console 2 (tty2) and check teh
> output, maybe this program failes with some errors.
I was able to run this successfully ($?=0) from tty2, with no error
messages. It created the correct /target/etc/fstab. How can I diagnose
why this didn't get automatically done?
> Did you have mounted something under /etc?
no.
> Sorry for the questions, but I don't know the contents and the start of the
> autobuilded images.
no problem. I get them from Toleff's site <http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/daily/>. In this case you would want to check the 2003-03-26 directory instead of daily.
Let me know what the next step is. I can reproduce this ad nauseum...
Thanks for your help!
Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe
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