Re: Rootstrap Failing - is it the debbootstrap problem? or a comms problem
You should file a bug report. I did so last night, against dbootstrap
and installer, which have been consistently failing for me.
> I noticed someone on here said they had had a problem with
> debbootstrap failing. I must admit, that I had tried to build a
> chroot environment on my machine in despairation after failing to get
> user-mode-linux to run and found that it failed on me.
>
> However, I persevered with uml and have managed to get a
> user-mode-linux system up and running with rootstrap (I know its
> running and the network works because I am pinging it). However after
> running for a few hours (stuck on the line with I: at the front) it
> eventually gives up with the uninformative error message shown below.
> The best I can deduce is that its failed somewhere in the debian
> module.
>
>
> Using rootstrap module debian from:
> /usr/lib/rootstrap/modules/debian
> I: Retrieving
> http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/
> Release
> E: Failed getting release file
> http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/
> debian/dists/sid/Release
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/rootstrap/builder", line 66, in ?
> dispatch(module, modulevars)
> File "/usr/lib/rootstrap/builder", line 44, in dispatch
> raise "rootstrap: Module '%s' failed, status: %d" %
> (module,status) rootstrap: Module 'debian' failed, status: 1
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> I mounted on the loop device the resultant file that had been created
> as the supposidely new filesystem and discovered that it only has
> /var/lib/apt/lists directory has been created and this is empty. The
> rest of the filesystem is empty.
>
> During the long wait, an ifconfig showed a tap device created and a
> small, but rather low speed traffic crossing that boundary. I am not
> 100% convinced that communications from within the uml is getting out
> without lots of timeouts.
>
> Any ideas how I can get a better picture of what is happening?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Chandler
> alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
>
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