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

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>]

2010/2/14 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.

What I get is (pasted via a terminal running SSH):

[...]
I: Extracting sysvinit...
I: Extracting tar...
I: Extracting tzdata...
I: Extracting bsdutils...
I: Extracting mount...
I: Extracting util-linux...
I: Extracting zlib1g...
I: Installing core packages...
I: Unpacking required packages...
I: Unpacking libacl1...
I: Unpacking libattr1...
I: Unpacking base-files...
I: Unpacking base-passwd...
I: Unpacking bash...
I: Unpacking coreutils...
I: Unpacking libdb4.6...
I: Unpacking debconf-i18n...
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted
up to five times.

> 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)

I ran the following:

$ sudo debootstrap lenny lenny/ http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian

And got the same error as above when launching debootstrap via pbuilder.

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

I tried again using the above Dutch mirror and it simply failed later
in the same process:

I: Unpacking passwd...
I: Unpacking libslang2...
I: Unpacking initscripts...
I: Unpacking sysv-rc...
W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted
up to five times.

The relevant part of deboostrap.log is:

Unpacking login (from .../login_1%3a4.1.1-6+lenny1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package passwd.
Unpacking passwd (from .../passwd_1%3a4.1.1-6+lenny1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libslang2.
Unpacking libslang2 (from .../libslang2_2.1.3-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package initscripts.
Unpacking initscripts (from .../initscripts_2.86.ds1-61_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package sysv-rc.
Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86.ds1-61_all.deb) ...
/usr/share/debootstrap/functions: line 745:  7076 Segmentation fault
   chroot "$TARGET" "$@"

Cheers!
Martin-Éric