[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#475515: Bug#475515: [schroot] impossible to use loopback mounts

Roger Leigh rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org
Tue Apr 15 20:34:03 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:18:30PM +0200, Emanuele Aina wrote:
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> schroot checks in schroot-releaselock/schroot-releaselock-main.cc that
> the configured block device is really a block device, failing if not so:
> 
>   if (!S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))
>     throw error(this->opts->device, DEVICE_NOTBLOCK);
> 
> This breaks for me as I'd like to mount a loopback filesystem by specifying
> "-o loop" in the mount options, so I'm currently doing the mount manually.

Please could you provide some details about your schroot configuration and what
you are trying to do?

As far as I understand, the loopback mounts use /dev/loopn, which should
be real block devices.


Thanks,
Roger

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