Michael, After some disk shuffling on one of the buildd's I hit the following when rebuilding the chroot with debootstrap:
# debootstrap --variant=buildd sid /srv/chroot/sid http://ports.debian.net/debian ... lots of messages ... I: Configuring libdpkg-perl... I: Configuring dpkg-dev... W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. W: Failure while configuring base packages. I was still able to schroot into the chroot. I found the following sources.list file: deb http://debootstrap.invalid/ sid main Which I replaced with: deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid main deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main deb http://incoming.debian-ports.org/buildd sid main deb-src http://incoming.debian-ports.org/buildd sid main Then I ran: apt-get update apt-get -f install And the packages there were remaining to process were: The following extra packages will be installed: cpp-4.6 g++-4.6 gcc-4.6 gcc-4.6-base libgcc1 libgomp1 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.6-dev Suggested packages: gcc-4.6-locales gcc-4.6-doc libstdc++6-4.6-dbg libmudflap0-4.6-dev libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libquadmath-dbg libmudflap0-dbg libstdc++6-4.6-doc The following packages will be upgraded: cpp-4.6 g++-4.6 gcc-4.6 gcc-4.6-base libgcc1 libgomp1 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.6-dev After that I installed the debian-ports-archive-keyring, finished the configuration of debconf, and had a working chroot. Not sure what the deal with with debootstrap or really how to debug it. Any suggestions? Bill -- Bill MacAllister Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/29667100f0b389d1ef0a6...@trainmaster.stanford.edu