Bug#626349: pbuilder/cowbuilder fails to create base image

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.199+nmu3
Severity: important

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pbuilder and cowbuilder are both failing to create base images on my
system.  I have tried with multiple distributions, with both pbuilder
and cowbuilder, and nothing works.  I would have thought that this was
probably a debootstrap issue, but I was in fact just able to create a
squeeze debootstrap image with the following command just fine:

sudo debootstrap squeeze foo http://mirror.hmc.edu/debian

I have included the head and tail of the build log below.

pbuilder is pretty thoroughly cleaning up after itself, so I'm having
a hard time figuring out why it's failing.  Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

jamie.

servo:~ 0$ sudo cowbuilder --create --distribution squeeze
 -> Invoking pbuilder
  forking: pbuilder create --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow --mirror http://mirror.hmc.edu/debian --distribution squeeze --no-targz --extrapackages cowdancer 
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Distribution is squeeze.
I: Building the build environment
I: running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving Release
...
I: Unpacking the base system...
I: Unpacking apt...
I: Unpacking binutils...
I: Unpacking build-essential...
I: Unpacking bzip2...
I: Unpacking libdb4.7...
I: Unpacking debian-archive-keyring...
I: Unpacking dpkg-dev...
I: Unpacking libdpkg-perl...
I: Unpacking libc-dev-bin...
I: Unpacking libc6-dev...
I: Unpacking cpp-4.4...
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
I: Unpacking apt...
I: Unpacking binutils...
I: Unpacking build-essential...
I: Unpacking bzip2...
I: Unpacking libdb4.7...
I: Unpacking debian-archive-keyring...
I: Unpacking dpkg-dev...
I: Unpacking libdpkg-perl...
I: Unpacking libc-dev-bin...
I: Unpacking libc6-dev...
I: Unpacking cpp-4.4...
I: Unpacking libgomp1...
I: Unpacking libstdc++6-4.4-dev...
I: Unpacking g++...
I: Unpacking gcc...
I: Unpacking libgdbm3...
I: Unpacking libgmp3c2...
I: Unpacking gnupg...
I: Unpacking linux-libc-dev...
I: Unpacking make...
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: Failure while installing base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
E: debootstrap failed
W: Aborting with an error
pbuilder create failed
  forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow 
servo:~ 1$ 

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 pbuilder depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.39     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   3.4.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.30     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                          1.12-3.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.72    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.15.1-1   tool for simulating superuser priv
ii  sudo                          1.7.4p6-1  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii  cowdancer                     0.62+nmu2  Copy-on-write directory tree utili
pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)

- -- debconf information:
* pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://mirror.hmc.edu/debian
* pbuilder/nomirror:
  pbuilder/rewrite: false

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