Hi! I am running into the exact same problem when trying to create a unstable chroot using debootstrap on one of our sh4 machines using the following command line:
debootstrap --no-check-gpg --include=apt,nano,aptitude,vim unstable unstable-sh4-20150220-3 ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian With the error message being: Setting up systemd (215-12) ... Initializing machine ID from random generator. chfn: PAM: Critical error - immediate abort adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f systemd Time Synchronization systemd-timesync' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 The problem are apparently the missing quotes in the above command: root@yamato:/# /usr/bin/chfn -f systemd Time Synchronization systemd-timesync chfn: user 'Time' does not exist root@yamato:/# Adding them fixes the problem: root@yamato:/# /usr/bin/chfn -f "systemd Time Synchronization" systemd-timesync root@yamato:/# I checked the systemd postinst and this script does indeed contain quotes. For some reasons which I don't understand, adduser invokes chfn in during the debootstrap process without the quotes. And what's even more crazy, the exact same command line does work on m68k or amd64 machines, for example. The sh4 machine is up-to-date, so it can be outdated packages either (unless I overlooked something). Any ideas? PS: I would suggest merging 745082, 763391 and 774332. They seem to describe the exact same bug. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org