Re: Installation Report (failure)
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Erich Waelde wrote:
> > New year, new images, new luck, new exciting features:
> >
> > used image from ~manty:
> > sarge-i386-netinst-20031231.iso (2003-12-31 17:00)
> > 2c806ec1e53ac891b431ab0a6a84bfab
> >
> >
> > Everything works fine until "Installation of Basesystem"
> > installation returned Error 127
> >
> > tail /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > libgnutls7
> > exim4-daemon-light
> > mailx
> > at
> > exim4
>
> This will be fixed in approximatly 1.5 hours.
>
> > HOWEVER:
> > /target/bin/sleep is available
> > and
> > chroot /target
> > sleep 2
> > exit
> > works.
> > So
> > cp /target/bin/sleep /bin
> > cp /target/lib/librt* /lib
> > sleep 2
> > now works as well
>
> I've never tried to work out what is trying to call sleep where and fix
> it; it only happens on error anyway.
It is debootstrap, in file 'functions', in repeat()
We should take that sleep out, or add sleep to busybox - people keep
assuming that their install failed because 'sleep' wasn't found.
Richard
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