Re: After upgrading pbuilder jessie-backports pbuilder stopped working

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hello,


>yesterday I upgraded pbuilder from jessie-backports on a Jessie machine:
>
>$ grep pbuilder /var/log/dpkg.log  | grep  " installed"
>2017-03-16 11:02:36 status installed pbuilder:all 0.228.5~bpo8+1
>2017-03-27 09:22:52 status installed pbuilder:all 0.228.6~bpo8+1
>Since then I get for any build:
>...
>I: Generated dsc will be overwritten by build result; not generating changes file
>I: Copying COW directory
>I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.7226
>I: forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.7226
>cp: cannot create hard link '/var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.7226/dev/ptmx' to '/var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/ptmx': Invalid cross-device link
>E: Failed cowcopy.


I got something similar some time ago, and I fixed by adding
APTCACHEHARDLINK=no

to my ~/.pbuilderrc configuration file

G.