Bug#820550: debian-installer-8-netboot-armhf: fails to install the base system
Package: debian-installer-8-netboot-armhf
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
System information are not good as i use reportbug from by PC.
I am trying to reinstall Debian Jessie on a cubieboard2 with netboot installer
(already installed last year) but install hangs after partitionning with this
message:
Install the base system
Debootstrap warning
Warning: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.37_armhf.deb
The syslog says:
~ # tail -n 40 /var/log/syslog
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
/lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: line 88:
/lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
/lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232): line 88:
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
/lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
/lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232): line 88:
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
/lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Apr 9 18:41:30 main-menu[168]: (process:3232):
Apr 9 18:41:32 main-menu[168]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Signature made Sat Apr 2 09:56:05 2016 UTC using
RSA key ID 46925553
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic
Signing Key (7.0/wheezy) <ftpmaster@debian.org>"
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Signature made Sat Apr 2 09:56:05 2016 UTC using
RSA key ID 2B90D010
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic
Signing Key (8/jessie) <ftpmaster@debian.org>"
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Signature made Sat Apr 2 10:02:07 2016 UTC using
RSA key ID 518E17E1
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: gpgv:
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap: Good signature from "Jessie Stable Release Key
<debian-release@lists.debian.org>"
Apr 9 18:41:33 debootstrap:
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status'
near line 5 package 'dpkg':
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: missing description
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status'
near line 5 package 'dpkg':
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: missing architecture
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
Apr 9 18:43:11 debootstrap: unknown user 'root' in statoverride file
Apr 9 18:44:38 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer
/debootstrap-failed
Apr 9 18:44:39 main-menu[168]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed
with error code 1
Apr 9 18:44:39 main-menu[168]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
Apr 9 18:44:40 main-menu[168]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from
'high' to 'medium'
Apr 9 18:44:40 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Apr 9 18:44:46 main-menu[168]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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