Re: Re: Trouble installing sid via debootstrap
Thanks Joey for the response. I tried again using sarge, got somewhat
better but still similar results.
No problems running debootstrap now.
Unsetting LANG eliminated warnings from dpkg-reconfigure.
/usr/sbin/base-config new still terminated immediately with the message:
"Terminated"
Setting up sources.list manually I was able to get a kernel. Kernel
installation complained that "/dev/hda1 is not a block device". It
turns out there was no entry for hda1 in /dev. I made one, and that
cured the kernel installation complaint.
I downloaded strace, and ran base-config under strace, which identified
the problem there as a lack of /dev/ptyp0 and /dev/ttyp0. Adding those
by hand enabled "base-config new" to run.
So the underlying problem appears to be a lack of entries in /dev.
Running dpkg -l indicates that "makedev" is among the installed packages:
. . .
ii makedev 2.3.1-77 creates device
files in /dev
. . .
Even after creating by hand /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, /dev/ptyp0 and
/dev/ttyp0, /dev still only has:
# ls /dev
agpgart dsp3 loop5 midi2 pts ram16 rmidi1 tty0
audio full loop6 midi3 ptyp0 ram2 rmidi2 ttyp0
audio1 hda loop7 mixer ram ram3 rmidi3 urandom
audio2 hda1 MAKEDEV mixer1 ram0 ram4 sequencer xconsole
audio3 initctl mem mixer2 ram1 ram5 shm zero
audioctl kmem midi0 mixer3 ram10 ram6 smpte0
console loop0 midi00 mpu401data ram11 ram7 smpte1
core loop1 midi01 mpu401stat ram12 ram8 smpte2
dsp loop2 midi02 null ram13 ram9 smpte3
dsp1 loop3 midi03 port ram14 random sndstat
dsp2 loop4 midi1 ppp ram15 rmidi0 tty
Does anyone know a fix for the install process to get all the right
devices? Should I report a bug against something? Thanks again for any
further help on this.
Cheers,
Cris
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