Re: agent_genkey failed trying to build stretch on Ubuntu 16.04

[Erik van Linstee <erik@vanlinsteeict.nl>]

On 09-10-17 12:08, Erik van Linstee wrote:

Hi,

I have set up a build system on Ubuntu 16.04 that works well if I try to build for Wheezy or Jessie, but that fails if I build for Stretch.

The build fails in the chroot stage after reading the package lists.

Reading package lists...
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/root/.gnupg'
gpg: keybox '/root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: agent_genkey failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: key generation failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/root/.gnupg'
gpg: no default secret key: No secret key
gpg: signing failed: No secret key

<< snip >>

Hoping for suggestions of what to try next. Right now my only constraint is that I have to work with Ubuntu 16.04.

To answer my own question. It appears that the live-build tools on Ubuntu are too old.

I have created a Stretch chroot with debootstrap and installed the official Stretch live-build package and the problem is gone.

It did confront me with another problem, though, which is that the hooks that used to live in config/hooks/ now live in config/hooks/normal and config/hooks/live. This is not something that is immediately obvious, since most of the online documentation does not mention it.

I had to inspect the source code to find out and then still, a Google search did not render any results.

I finally found the corrected documentation in the unstable manual at https://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/live-manual/unstable/manual/html/live-manual.en.html

Erik