[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#630658: sbuild-createchroot succfails badly with invalid user

Cyril Brulebois kibi at debian.org
Thu Jun 16 00:21:03 UTC 2011


Package: sbuild
Version: 0.62.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: Unusable, unable to create a chroot, also highly confusing.

Hi.

So, having faith, I purged sbuild and schroot entirely (yay for the
failing delgroup call, by the way, and a different error than #619892 --
sbuild being the last remaining group for the sbuild user or something
similar), trying to start afresh and without any prejudices.

Now, even creating a chroot fails, or succeeds, depending on which line
one reads:
| [config file excerpt]
| I: Please rename and modify this file as required.
| mkdir /etc/sbuild/chroot
| I: sudo chroot configuration linked as
| /etc/sbuild/chroot/sid-amd64-sbuild.
| chown: invalid user: `sbuild:sbuild'
| E: Failed to set sbuild:sbuild ownership on /build
| Failed to set up chroot
| E: Error creating chroot session: skipping apt update
| I: Successfully set up sid chroot.
| I: Run "sbuild-adduser" to add new sbuild users.

Looks like yet another proof of sbuild's extreme fragility. :(


-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.113       add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                        2.13-7      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.6.0-13  GCC support library
ii  libsbuild-perl               0.62.2-1    Tool for building Debian binary pa
ii  libstdc++6                   4.6.0-13    GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  perl                         5.12.3-7+b1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                 5.12.3-7    Core Perl modules

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.32     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.16-1     tool for simulating superuser priv

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  wget                          1.12-3.1   retrieves files from the web

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/schroot/buildd/config changed [not included]
/etc/schroot/buildd/copyfiles changed [not included]
/etc/schroot/buildd/fstab changed [not included]
/etc/schroot/buildd/nssdatabases changed [not included]

^^^^^
Also, lies. I never touched those files.


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