Package: python-mini-buildd Version: 1.0.18 Severity: normal I upgraded my Debian build machine to sid for latest 1.0.18 and found it impossible to create any dir chroots.
The Daemon Log says: 2016-09-12 17:49:53,970 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stderr: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp’: File exists 2016-09-12 17:49:53,971 mini_buildd.misc (0646): ERROR : Call failed: sudo -n /bin/mkdir --verbose /var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp 2016-09-12 17:49:53,972 mini_buildd.misc (0682): ERROR : Sequence failed at: 0 (rolling back) [... misc normal stdout output traceback truncated ...] 2016-09-12 17:49:54,299 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Retrieving libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 2016-09-12 17:49:54,300 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 2016-09-12 17:49:54,300 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: W: Retrying failed download of http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/attr/libattr1_2.4.47-2_amd64.deb 2016-09-12 17:49:54,301 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Retrieving libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 2016-09-12 17:49:54,301 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating libattr1 1:2.4.47-2 2016-09-12 17:49:54,301 mini_buildd.misc (0646): ERROR : Call failed: sudo -n /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=buildd --keyring=/var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/keyring.gpg --arch=amd64 jessie /var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ 2016-09-12 17:49:54,302 mini_buildd.misc (0682): ERROR : Sequence failed at: 1 (rolling back) 2016-09-12 17:49:54,316 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stderr: umount: /var/lib/mini-buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp/proc: mountpoint not found 2016-09-12 17:49:54,316 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stderr: umount: /var/lib/mini-buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp/sys: mountpoint not found 2016-09-12 17:49:54,317 mini_buildd.misc (0646): ERROR : Call failed: sudo -n /bin/umount -v /var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp/proc /var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp/sys 2016-09-12 17:49:54,347 mini_buildd.models.base (0077): ERROR : prepare failed: Debian 'jessie:amd64' (overlay): Command '[u'sudo', u'-n', u'/usr/sbin/debootstrap', u'--variant=buildd', u'--keyring=/var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/keyring.gpg', u'--arch=amd64', u'jessie', u'/var/lib/mini-buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp', u'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/']' returned non-zero exit status 2 [base:364] If we try everything later, *if* any of the file fails to download, everything would fail after the re-try (see above for "libattr1" package). The package which fails to download may change(e.g., the example above is the libattr1 package, and the next time it could be coreutils: *** Another attempt to build jessie dir chroot: [ ... normal logs truncated ...] 2016-09-12 18:03:28,356 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating libdebconfclient0 0.192 2016-09-12 18:03:28,357 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Retrieving libcloog-isl4 0.18.2-1+b2 2016-09-12 18:03:28,357 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating libcloog-isl4 0.18.2-1+b2 2016-09-12 18:03:28,358 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Retrieving coreutils 8.23-4 2016-09-12 18:03:28,358 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating coreutils 8.23-4 2016-09-12 18:03:28,358 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: W: Retrying failed download of http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_8.23-4_amd64.deb 2016-09-12 18:03:28,359 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Retrieving coreutils 8.23-4 2016-09-12 18:03:28,359 mini_buildd.misc (0576): ERROR : Call stdout: I: Validating coreutils 8.23-4 2016-09-12 18:03:28,360 mini_buildd.misc (0646): ERROR : Call failed: sudo -n /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=buildd --keyring=/var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/keyring.gpg --arch=amd64 jessie /var/lib/mini- buildd/var/chroots/jessie/amd64/tmp http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ 2016-09-12 18:03:28,360 mini_buildd.misc (0682): ERROR : Sequence failed at: 1 (rolling back) ) Looks like it is a logical bug in mini-buildd. The whole debootstrap command should not fail (or even pass) if there is an attempt to retry failed download package. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
