Package: mmdebstrap Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: whonix-de...@whonix.org Dear maintainer,
# How to reproduce: sudo /home/user/whonix_dot/Whonix/help-steps/mmdebstrap --verbose --architectures=i386 stretch /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_i386 /home/user/whonix_dot/Whonix/build_sources/debian_stable_current_clearnet.list (Could probably simplified but I hope you can reproduce this easily / hope you also have usr/bin/mkdir.) # Expected result: No error. # Actual result: > I: automatically chosen mode: root > I: i386 cannot be executed, falling back to qemu-user > update-binfmts: warning: qemu-i386 not in database of installed binary > formats. > update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors > qemu-i386 is not a supported binfmt name at > /home/user/whonix_dot/Whonix/help-steps/mmdebstrap line 1838. # Misc: /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --display qemu-i386 > update-binfmts: warning: qemu-i386 not in database of installed binary > formats. > update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors I guess the issue is somewhere here: open my $fh, '-|', '/usr/sbin/update-binfmts', '--display', "qemu-$options->{qemu}" // die "failed to fork(): $!"; chomp (my $binfmts = do { local $/; <$fh> }); close $fh; if ($binfmts eq '') { die "qemu-$options->{qemu} is not a supported binfmt name"; } Removing die "qemu-$options->{qemu} is not a supported binfmt name"; helps as a workaround. I can now build i386 on amd64. Building armhf or arm64 fails. I: installing packages... /usr/sbin/chroot: failed to run command ‘dpkg’: Permission denied env --unset=APT_CONFIG /usr/sbin/chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow_arm64 dpkg --install --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives//sysvinit-utils_2.88dsf-59.9_arm64.deb ... /home/user/whonix_dot/Whonix/help-steps/mmdebstrap line 551. This might be more a user support question than actual bug. I hope you don't mind me asking here. Please kindly let me know if I should take this elsewhere please. > dpkg -l | grep qemu > ii ipxe-qemu > 1.0.0+git-20161027.b991c67-1 all PXE boot firmware - > ROM images for qemu > ii qemu 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 fast processor emulator > ii qemu-slof 20161019+dfsg-1 > all Slimline Open Firmware -- QEMU PowerPC version > ii qemu-system 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries > ii qemu-system-arm 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (arm) > ii qemu-system-common 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) > ii qemu-system-mips 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (mips) > ii qemu-system-misc 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries > (miscellaneous) > ii qemu-system-ppc 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc) > ii qemu-system-sparc 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc) > ii qemu-system-x86 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) > ii qemu-user 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU user mode emulation binaries > ii qemu-user-static 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version) > ii qemu-utils 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u5 > amd64 QEMU utilitie I am using mmdebstrap (git version) and I am still on Debian stretch. Perhaps stretch is unsupported and all of this works in buster? Kind regards, Patrick