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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: installation-report: install fails because chroot fails due to lack of tar
- From: "Maru Dubshinki" <marudubshinki@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:20:42 -0500
- Message-id: <f5238c30603071520l6d6a89d9v3a1e84952be4f69b@mail.gmail.com>
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.12
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
Date: 06 March 2006
Machine: Gateway laptop, 7405GX
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0 ]
Detect network card: [0 ]
Configure network: [0 ]
Detect CD: [0 ]
Load installer modules: [0 ]
Detect hard drives: [0 ]
Partition hard drives: [0 ]
Create file systems: [0 ]
Mount partitions: [0 ]
Install base system: [E ]
Install boot loader: [0 ]
Installed system ok: [0 ]
Comments/Problems:
As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably. The error
was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
coreutils basepasswd".
After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
attempting to use
dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
was no tar executable in
the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
the CD's tar command to
/target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
it worked flawlessly.
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
installation-report depends on no packages.
Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii reportbug 3.18 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
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maru@elan:~$ cat bug
Subject: installation-report: install fails because chroot fails due
to lack of tar
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.12
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
*** Please type your report below this line ***
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
Date: 06 March 2006
Machine: Gateway laptop, 7405GX
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0 ]
Detect network card: [0 ]
Configure network: [0 ]
Detect CD: [0 ]
Load installer modules: [0 ]
Detect hard drives: [0 ]
Partition hard drives: [0 ]
Create file systems: [0 ]
Mount partitions: [0 ]
Install base system: [E ]
Install boot loader: [0 ]
Installed system ok: [0 ]
Comments/Problems:
As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably. The error
was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
coreutils basepasswd".
After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
attempting to use
dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
was no tar executable in
the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
the CD's tar command to
/target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
it worked flawlessly.
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
installation-report depends on no packages.
Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii reportbug 3.18 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
-- no debconf information
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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