Bug#569784: debootstrap: cannot build a clean Lenny chroot anymore

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

tag 569784 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Sunday 14 February 2010, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Today, while trying to build a clean Lenny chroot using pbuilder, I
> noticed that debootstrap complained of failure to configure packages,
> mentioning that it will try 5 times before completely giving up.

For me lenny installs just fine using the same version of debootstrap.

Can you reproduce the problem using the following command:
   # debootstrap lenny lenny/ http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian
   (using your own target dir and mirror)

If so, please send the debootstrap log (from the target directory).
Can you also reproduce if you use a different mirror?

If not, please either close the BR or reassign to pbuilder for further 
investigation by its maintainer.

> Instead, what happens is that the host becomes unresponsive and has to
> be force- rebooted (ACPI reset button).

That sounds rather dramatic. I'd be very surprised if debootstrap itself is 
causing that.

Cheers,
FJP