[Bug 2054925] Re: Debootstrap fails for Noble with base-files 13ubuntu7

[Julian Andres Klode]

Steve I'm sorry but I cannot reproduce this. I have verified this
countless of times during working on this and I am also unable to verify
this here:


# apt policy debootstrap
debootstrap:
  Installed: 1.0.134ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.0.134ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.134ubuntu1 500
        500 https://debian.charite.de/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        500 https://debian.charite.de/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

# rm -r /tmp/nobletest/ && sudo debootstrap --variant=minbase noble /tmp/nobletest   &> debootstrap.log
# grep base-files debootstrap.log 
I: Retrieving base-files 13ubuntu7
I: Validating base-files 13ubuntu7
I: Extracting base-files...
I: Unpacking base-files...
I: Configuring base-files...
# tail debootstrap.log 
I: Configuring libtasn1-6:amd64...
I: Configuring libstdc++6:amd64...
I: Configuring libhogweed6:amd64...
I: Configuring libidn2-0:amd64...
I: Configuring libapt-pkg6.0:amd64...
I: Configuring libp11-kit0:amd64...
I: Configuring libgnutls30:amd64...
I: Configuring apt...
I: Configuring libc-bin...
I: Base system installed successfully.


Your debootstrap log looks fine, it extracts base-files first. At this point, /tmp/nobletest should be empty. Unless I suppose you use a old broken version of debootstrap that used to create the symlinks before extracting the packages?


debootstrap (1.0.130) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Helmut Grohne ]
  * implement merged-/usr by post-merging. Closes: #1049898

 -- Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>  Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:02:59 +0100


** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)

** No longer affects: base-files (Ubuntu Jammy)

** Changed in: debootstrap (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Debootstrap fails for Noble with base-files 13ubuntu7

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in debootstrap source package in Focal:
  Triaged
Status in debootstrap source package in Jammy:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The last couple of days, I have been unable to run a successful
  debootstrap for Noble Numbat.

  Apparently this is caused by the addition of symlinks (/bin, /lib,
  /lib64 and /sbin) in base-files 13ubuntu7. According to
  debootstrap.log, it fails to extract said symlinks because they
  already exist at that point.

  This can be reproduced against any up-to-date Ubuntu public archive
  mirror as of today.

  Attached shell output of two runs of debootstrap. First run uses
  mirror archive.ubuntu.com (which as of this report serves base-files
  version 13ubuntu7), and second run uses a local custom mirror (which
  serves base-files 13ubuntu6). First run fails, second run succeeds.

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