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Bug#347189: marked as done (base-config Terminating (devices missing))

Your message dated Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:09:00 -0500
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and subject line closing old base-config related bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #347189,
regarding base-config Terminating (devices missing)
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Package: debootstrap
Version: 3.3.

When i try to debootstrap a new chroot under 0.3.3, call to
base-config fails with words "Terminated", where on 0.2.45 this
worked.

a# debootstrap sarge testchroot http://http.us.debian.org/debian
a# chroot testchroot /bin/bash
a-chrooted# base-config
Terminating
a-chrooted#

Workaround:
Making a diff on 0.2.45 and 0.3.3 I remarked, that many devices are
not installed anymore in 0.3.3. If I tar them on my 0.2.45 chroot
and untar then on 0.3.3, base-config works.
At present I can't tell which device exactly is missing.
For the installation of some software-packages (I tried ssh) there
seem also to be missing devices.

Any reason for this device list reduction?
I couldn't find documentation on these updates and I may not understand
fully If there need to be another step of system setup to complete
the debootstrapped systems configuration (installing also devices)..

Thanks for any info/update!

+-------------------------------+  +-------------------------------+
| Miro Dietiker                 |  | MD Systems Miro Dietiker      |
+-------------------------------+  +-------------------------------+

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--- Begin Message --- 
From what I can remember of base-config, the behavior in this bug
might have happened if TTY was set to an unusual device (ie, not
/dev/tty*), since base-config reattached script(1) to the tty.

Anyway, in the current system, debootstrap provides only a minimal
/dev. Most devices are provided at boot time via udev. From the
changelog of debootstrap 0.3.1:

    - devices.tar.gz reduced to minimal set of devices; frontends should
      setup udev or supply their own devices or similar in future

(PS, what kind of a debootstrap version is "3.3." ?!)

If you need more devices in a debootstrapped chroot, IMHO the best
option is to mount --bind /dev chroot/dev before chrooting. 
Or, you can run MAKEDEV in the chroot.

-- 
see shy jo

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