On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:20:42PM -0500, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Version: 2.12
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> Boot method: CD
> Image version: AMD64 testing netinstall, 06 March 2006
> Date: 06 March 2006
> Installed system ok: [0 ]
<snip/>
> Comments/Problems:
>
> As I was doing the netinstall, after I fixed an Ethernet problem (See my other
> bug report), the installation of the base packages failed miserably. The
> error
> was something along the lines of "chroot /target dpkg --configure
> coreutils basepasswd".
> After a bunch of poking around, and chrooting into /target myself, and
> attempting to use
> dpkg manually, I discovered the error seems to have been that there
> was no tar executable in
> the chroot. Which is a problem. I got out of the chroot, copied over
> the CD's tar command to
> /target/bin, and switched over to the installation window. This time
> it worked flawlessly.
I'm not sure if this is #345590, insufficient dependencies by debootstrap,
or a failure in the build system for AMD64.
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