Re: pbuilder/chroot problems

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-11-09 01:06 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a pbuilder environment on my laptop, and it's failing 
> with this error:
> W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/bss/debootstrap-test 
> dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb
>
> I tried etch instead of sid, thinking it might be some unstable breakage, and 
> got an error that only differed in the version of libc6.
>
> The error looked to be coming for debootstrap, so I tried debootstrapping 
> manually (variant=buildd) and got the same error.
>
> Then, I attempted to to the chroot command directly, and got a bit more 
> verbose output ending in:
> Setting up libc6 (2.7-16) ...
> sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
> sh: /dev/null: Permission denied

My crystal ball tells me that /home is mounted with the `nodev' option.
Correct?

Sven