Hi,

I cannot create or update chroots (for sid or unstable) with cowbuilder anymore, neither on Debian 12 nor 11.

$ sudo cowbuilder create
I: Invoking pbuilder
I: forking: pbuilder create --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow --mirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ --distribution sid --no-targz --extrapackages cowdancer
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Distribution is sid.
I: Current time: Mon Oct 30 17:13:56 CET 2023
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1698682436
I: Building the build environment
I: running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Target architecture can be executed
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 4CB50190207B4758A3F73A796ED0E7B82643E131)
I: Retrieving Packages
...

I: Unpacking usr-is-merged...
I: Unpacking zlib1g:amd64...
W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times.
W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb is at fault)
(this is tried another 4 times)
...
I: Unpacking zlib1g:amd64...
W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted up to five times.
W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb is at fault)
E: debootstrap failed
E: Tail of debootstrap.log:
util-linux pre-depends on libmount1 (>= 2.39.1)
libmount1:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)
libpam0g:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)
libselinux1:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libsmartcols1 (>= 2.38)
libsmartcols1:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libsystemd0
libsystemd0:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libtinfo6 (>= 6)
libtinfo6:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libudev1 (>= 183)
libudev1:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
libuuid1:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb containing util-linux, pre-dependency problem:
util-linux pre-depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
zlib1g:amd64 is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
Preparing to unpack .../util-linux_2.39.2-4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking util-linux (2.39.2-4) over (2.39.2-4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../zlib1g_1%3a1.2.13.dfsg-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking zlib1g:amd64 (1:1.2.13.dfsg-3) over (1:1.2.13.dfsg-3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb
E: End of debootstrap.log
W: Aborting with an error
E: pbuilder create failed
I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks a lot for the help.

Best,

Markus

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On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:

W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb is at fault)

Try
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--merged-usr"

in your ~/.pbuilderrc

In trixie and sid, all chroots, including those to build packages, are already supposed
to be usr-merged.

What's the recommended way to convert ones created earlier? Recreate?
Install usrmerge?

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El 30/10/23 a las 17:21, Markus Blatt escribió:

W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb is at fault)

Try

DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--merged-usr"

in your ~/.pbuilderrc

In trixie and sid, all chroots, including those to build packages, are already supposed
to be usr-merged.

Thanks.

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Try
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--merged-usr"

in your ~/.pbuilderrc

In trixie and sid, all chroots, including those to build packages,
are already supposed
to be usr-merged.

Enabling proposed-updates on Debian 11 or 12, to get the new
debootstrap, will also allow to create new unstable/testing chroots out
of the box, without config changes.

--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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El 30/10/23 a las 18:42, Andrey Rakhmatullin escribió:

What's the recommended way to convert ones created earlier? Recreate?
Install usrmerge?

In this case I'd recommend recreating the chroots, if only because
after this change in debootstrap the chroot will be cleaner:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1472578/accepted-debootstrap-10133-source-into-unstable/

Thanks.

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I have the same problem with sbuild. My assumption is that it is some problem with the usr-is-merged package that will be fixed with some future update.

On Monday, October 30, 2023 9:21:35 AM MST Markus Blatt wrote:

Hi,

I cannot create or update chroots (for sid or unstable) with cowbuilder anymore, neither on Debian 12 nor 11.

--
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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Hi Luca,

Am Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 05:50:19PM +0000 schrieb Luca Boccassi:

Try
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--merged-usr"

in your ~/.pbuilderrc

In trixie and sid, all chroots, including those to build packages,
are already supposed
to be usr-merged.

Enabling proposed-updates on Debian 11 or 12, to get the new
debootstrap, will also allow to create new unstable/testing chroots out
of the box, without config changes.a

Thanks a lot,that helped. Still on bookworm here.

Best,

Markus

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