On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:07:24 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > I'm hoping this is not going to be too philosophical, so I'll enlist the facts > > first (please let me know if I got any of them wrong): > > > > debootstrap'ing a system fails, because > > > > - chown root:root ... won't work when invoked from base-files' postinst > > - version 7.7 of base-files is the first to actually have this call when invoked > > from within (c)debootstrap > > Regarding previous point, it should be noted that base-files postinst > has a lot of chown calls. I would like to know how it is possible that > only the recently added is the one that fails and not the others > (if that's really the case). > I suppose none of the others are being executed as all of them are guarded by some combination of checks? > BTW: I don't know what is the proper way to debug this (private > repository using reprepro?). Can anybody confirm that the chown that > fails is exactly the one at the very end? > Indeed it could be a very different one. I'm attaching a full log with the postinst script having set -evx. It might be obvious, but this is being run on a wheezy system. > > So let's see what Debian Policy says in 3.8 Essential packages: > > > > "[...] Since dpkg will not prevent upgrading of other packages while an > > essential package is in an unconfigured state, all essential packages must > > supply all of their core functionality even when unconfigured. If the package > > cannot satisfy this requirement it must not be tagged as essential, and any > > packages depending on this package must instead have explicit dependency fields > > as appropriate. [...]" > > This is about dpkg when making upgrades. It means that once an > essential package is properly configured, it should not stop working > because of it being "unconfigured" by dpkg (whatever that means). > > I think it does not apply here. > Then maybe take the first sentence in 3.8 Essential packages instead: "Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality that must be available and usable on the system at all times, even when packages are in the "Unpacked" state." If not this one (and not the one above), which bit of policy are you then relying on when you do the chown calls? > [ snipped philosophical stuff. I would much prefer to have free time > to work on this rather than discuss about it. Really ]. > As you please. I was just hoping to find potential options other than "revert the change in base-files." Best, Michael
root@mt-farm05:~# mkdir /srv/sid-base.cow
root@mt-farm05:~# pbuilder create --aptcache /srv/jenkins-slave/aptcache --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --buildplace /srv/sid-base.cow --mirror ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian --distribution sid --no-targz --extrapackages cowdancer
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Distribution is sid.
I: Current time: Mon Oct 27 11:44:42 GMT 2014
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1414410282
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I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot /srv/sid-base.cow/. dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.8_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.36_amd64.deb
W: See /srv/sid-base.cow/./debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package package is at fault)
E: debootstrap failed
W: Aborting with an error
root@mt-farm05:~# chroot /srv/sid-base.cow/
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_GB.UTF-8)
root@mt-farm05:/# mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
root@mt-farm05:/# mv /etc/group /etc/group.old
root@mt-farm05:/# sed -i '2s/set -e/set -evx/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst
root@mt-farm05:/# /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst configure 7.8
install_local_dir() {
if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
mkdir -p $1
fi
if [ -f /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local ]; then
chown root:staff $1 2> /dev/null || true
chmod 2775 $1 2> /dev/null || true
fi
}
install_from_default() {
if [ ! -f $2 ]; then
cp -p $1 $2
fi
}
install_directory() {
if [ ! -d /$1 ]; then
mkdir /$1
chown root:$3 /$1
chmod $2 /$1
fi
}
migrate_directory() {
if [ ! -L $1 ]; then
rmdir $1
ln -s $2 $1
fi
}
update_to_current_default() {
if [ -f /etc/$1 ]; then
md5=`md5sum /etc/$1 | cut -f 1 -d " "`
if grep -q "$md5" /usr/share/base-files/$1.md5sums; then
if ! cmp -s /usr/share/base-files/$1 /etc/$1; then
cp -p /usr/share/base-files/$1 /etc/$1
echo Updating /etc/$1 to current default.
fi
fi
fi
}
if [ ! -e /etc/dpkg/origins/default ]; then
if [ -e /etc/dpkg/origins/debian ]; then
ln -sf debian /etc/dpkg/origins/default
fi
fi
+ [ ! -e /etc/dpkg/origins/default ]
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ "$2" = "" ]; then
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/staff-group-for-usr-local \
/etc/staff-group-for-usr-local
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/dot.profile /root/.profile
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc /root/.bashrc
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/profile /etc/profile
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/motd /etc/motd
install_directory mnt 755 root
install_directory srv 755 root
install_directory opt 755 root
install_directory etc/opt 755 root
install_directory var/opt 755 root
install_directory media 755 root
install_directory var/mail 2775 mail
if [ ! -L /var/spool/mail ]; then
ln -s ../mail /var/spool/mail
fi
install_directory run/lock 1777 root
migrate_directory /var/run /run
migrate_directory /var/lock /run/lock
install_local_dir /usr/local
install_local_dir /usr/local/share
install_local_dir /usr/local/share/man
install_local_dir /usr/local/bin
install_local_dir /usr/local/games
install_local_dir /usr/local/lib
install_local_dir /usr/local/include
install_local_dir /usr/local/sbin
install_local_dir /usr/local/src
install_local_dir /usr/local/etc
ln -sf share/man /usr/local/man
if [ ! -f /var/log/wtmp ]; then
echo -n>/var/log/wtmp
fi
if [ ! -f /var/log/btmp ]; then
echo -n>/var/log/btmp
fi
if [ ! -f /var/log/lastlog ]; then
echo -n>/var/log/lastlog
fi
chown root:utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/btmp /var/log/lastlog
chmod 664 /var/log/wtmp /var/log/lastlog
chmod 660 /var/log/btmp
if [ ! -f /var/run/utmp ]; then
echo -n>/var/run/utmp
fi
chown root:utmp /var/run/utmp
chmod 664 /var/run/utmp
fi
+ [ configure = configure ]
+ [ 7.8 = ]
if [ ! -d /var/lib/dpkg ]; then
mkdir -m 755 -p /var/lib/dpkg
chown root:root /var/lib/dpkg
fi
+ [ ! -d /var/lib/dpkg ]
if [ ! -f /var/lib/dpkg/status ]; then
echo > /var/lib/dpkg/status
chmod 644 /var/lib/dpkg/status
chown root:root /var/lib/dpkg/status
fi
+ [ ! -f /var/lib/dpkg/status ]
if [ ! -f /usr/info/dir ] && [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ]; then
install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir
chmod 644 /usr/share/info/dir
chown root:root /usr/share/info/dir
fi
+ [ ! -f /usr/info/dir ]
+ [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ]
+ install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir
+ [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ]
+ cp -p /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir
+ chmod 644 /usr/share/info/dir
+ chown root:root /usr/share/info/dir
chown: invalid user: 'root:root'
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