[Bug 807974] Re: debootstrap fails to install libc6 installing oneiric from natty

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:50:37PM -0000, dj_palindrome wrote:
> Excuse me if it is inappropriate to say this here, but a seemingly
> related series of breaking changes still persists. First, X lost all
> input devices.

This was a bug in initramfs-tools.

> Then, there was a hang on boot. The Plymouth logo stopped spinning and
> the system just croaked; the login screen never appeared.

This may have been another bug in initramfs-tools (one which was fixed
today).

> Really, this is getting to be too much.  I'm not talking about an ugly
> screen or a few missing icons.  We are approaching total unusability. 

Oneiric is a development release which is currently in the alpha stage of
its development cycle.  Total unusability is a very real and ordinary risk
of running the software at this stage.

> More often than not, dpkg receives a segfault during routine upgrades.

Sorry, that's unrelated to any of the above changes and no one else is
reporting such a problem.  The more likely culprit here would be some kind
of disk corruption or hardware failure.

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Title:
  debootstrap fails to install libc6 installing oneiric from natty

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “debootstrap” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-files” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “debootstrap” source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid
Status in “mountall” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “sysvinit” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When trying to create a minimal oneiric install from a natty release,
  I get this error:

  leonardo at debby: sudo debootstrap oneiric oneiric
  [ ... lots of Extracting here ... ]
  I: Extracting xz-utils...
  I: Extracting zlib1g...
  I: Installing core packages...
  W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/leonardo/oneiric dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-9ubuntu2_amd64.deb

  If i try to chroot and execute the dpkg command line I get:

  
  root at debby:/# dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-9ubuntu2_amd64.deb
  (Reading database ... 668 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace libc6 2.13-9ubuntu2 (using .../libc6_2.13-9ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
  debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 75.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
  debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.12 /usr/share/perl/5.12 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
  Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
  dpkg: libc6: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
   libc6 depends on libc-bin (= 2.13-9ubuntu2); however:
    Package libc-bin is not installed.
   libc6 depends on libgcc1; however:
    Package libgcc1 is not installed.
   libc6 depends on tzdata; however:
    Package tzdata is not installed.
  Setting up libc6 (2.13-9ubuntu2) ...
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
  debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 75.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
  debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.12 /usr/share/perl/5.12 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 7.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
  touch: cannot touch `/var/run/init.upgraded': No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing libc6 (--install):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   libc6

  And it seems that /var/run is missing:

  root at debby:/# ls /var
  backups  cache	lib  local  log  mail  opt  spool  tmp

   If I "mkdir /var/run" then I am able to install
  libc6 and finish oneiric installation with dpkg.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: debootstrap 1.0.29ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jul  9 14:38:42 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: debootstrap
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-21 (78 days ago)

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