[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#856434: sbuild: Fails to build anything in Debian chroots, Ubuntu ones work fine

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: important

Fails with a lot of errors for Debian chroots, but it works perfectly fine
with Ubuntu ones. Not sure what's going wrong here. I think this has been
going on for months, but I often forget about it because I don't do much
binary building anymore (mostly just letting CI pass & upload source these
days).

Attached is a complete log from a Debian chroot and the head of a build
in an ubuntu chroot

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Install build-essential                                                      |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Setup apt archive
-----------------

Merged Build-Depends: build-essential, fakeroot
Filtered Build-Depends: build-essential, fakeroot
dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy' in '/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-jU5m8u/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy.deb'.
dpkg-deb: error: failed to make temporary file (control member): No such file or directory
Dummy package creation failed
E: Setting up apt archive failed/usr/bin/du: cannot access '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>': No such file or directory
E: read_command failed to execute du
E: Cannot determine space needed for /<<PKGBUILDDIR>> (du failed)

Setup apt archive
-----------------

Merged Build-Depends: dose-distcheck
Filtered Build-Depends: dose-distcheck
dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-dose3-dummy' in '/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-jU5m8u/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-dose3-dummy.deb'.
dpkg-deb: error: failed to make temporary file (control member): No such file or directory
Dummy package creation failed
E: Setting up apt archive failedE: Failed to explain bd-uninstallable


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.73.0-4
pn  perl:any        <none>

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  autopkgtest  4.3
ii  debootstrap  1.0.88
ii  schroot      1.6.10-3

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  1.7.28.8-0.3
ii  kmod       23-2
ii  wget       1.19.1-1

-- no debconf information

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