[buildd-tools-devel] sbuild just hangs

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Jul 30 2015, Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2015-07-30 06:04:39)
>> I haven't found any sbuild mailing list, so I'm hoping someone here is able
>> to help.
>
> sbuild is team maintained now by buildd-tools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> which is probably also the mailing list you might want to contact
> about this.

Thanks. Fullquoting & crossposting.

>> I'm trying to build a debian package with sbuild, but when running it
>> just hangs:
>> 
>> ,----
>> | $ sbuild
>> | [...]
>> | ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
>> | ║ python-llfuse 0.40+dfsg-2 (amd64)                          29 Jun 2015 20:50 ║
>> | ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
>> | 
>> | Package: python-llfuse
>> | Version: 0.40+dfsg-2
>> | Source Version: 0.40+dfsg-2
>> | Distribution: UNRELEASED
>> | Machine Architecture: amd64
>> | Host Architecture: amd64
>> | Build Architecture: amd64
>> | 
>> | 
>> | ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
>> | │ Summary                                                                      │
>> | └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
> there are (unfortunately) a number of situations I encountered when sbuild
> would just hang or just fail without any sensible error message. In my case,
> the most common reason for that was that the chroot it was instructed to use
> (via the configuration file in your case because you did not specify the -d
> parameter) did not exist.
>
> If this was the problem, then please file a bug that sbuild should be more
> explicit about its failures.
>
> If this was not the reason, then restart from scratch and try to follow the
> steps on the sbuild wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild These steps have
> so far always worked for me. Once that is working you could investigate what
> you did different the time it did not work and then file a bug with
> that issue.


I followed the instructions on the wiki exactly, and sbuild actually
works fine for some packages. For other packages, however, it hangs as
described above.

Going "stepwise" from one package to another to determine what causes it
to fail seems a bit difficult - i.e. I can't just replace debian/rules
without also replacing debian/control etc.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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