Bug#728500: apt-get fails: mkstemp (2: No such file or directory)
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.7.9
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
this bug belongs to apt 0.9.12.1 which is the current testing version.
I debootstraped jessie in an stable LVM cryptsetup environment.
Afterwards I did some configuation, chrooted in the new system and did an
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease [162 kB]
100% [1 InRelease gpgv 162 kB]Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_InIgn
http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main Sources [6600 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/non-free Sources [100 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/contrib Sources [51.3 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6257 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages [78.9 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages [45.9 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en [37.8 kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4169 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en [69.8 kB]
Fetched 17.6 MB in 41s (420 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
W: GPG error: http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease: Could not execute
'gpgv' to verify signature (is gpgv installed?)
E: Couldn't create temporary file to work with
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_Release - mkstemp (2:
No such file or directory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I understood the error this way:
gpgv is installed and I found that mkstemp is not installed.(It is found in
gnulib and not in coreutils like mktemp)
Of course gnulib couldn't be istalled because of this bug. So I'm trapped.
I downloaded it manually and tried to:
dpkg --force depends --install gnulib_20130805+stable-1_all.deb
but this didn't work, too.
I hope a dependency on gnulib should solve the problem, or is there a different
way to tell debootstrap that gnulib is needed?
Thanks for your attention
Christian Meyer
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