Re: daily pestering about s390 and sparc buildd failure

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:

> Thomas, meet dchroot, dchroot, meet Thomas.
> 
> (base)apollock@vore:~$ dchroot -l
> Available chroots: unstable testing stable oldstable sid sarge woody potato

Curious.
tb@vore:~/foo$ man dchroot
No manual entry for dchroot
tb@vore:~/foo$ dchroot --help
Usage: dchroot <chroot>
Available chroots: unstable testing stable oldstable sid sarge woody potato
tb@vore:~/foo$ dchroot sid
Executing shell in chroot: /org/vore.debian.org/chroots/user/sid
(unstable)tb@vore:~$ apt-get install li  xlibs-dev
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?


So that's splendid, but doesn't help me debug anything.

Perhaps this is obvious to y'all, but in the absence of someone who
says "I volunteer to figure out why this is failing", I have to try
myself, and the seemingly obvious tools are escaping me.

Thomas