On 2008-12-11 12:42 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi > > I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp > http://localhost/sid" which aborts on the following problem: > > <start> > I: Unpacking wget... > I: Unpacking whiptail... > W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted > up to five times. > <end>
No more explicit error messages? > when chrooting into environment, and issueing "apt-get install", I see > a whole lot of locales warnings: > > <start> > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 77 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "en_ZA.UTF-8" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory This is harmless noise that Perl spits out. Either export LC_ALL=C or install and configure the locales package in the chroot to avoid it. > Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) No disaster either, this can be avoided by mounting /dev/pts inside the chroot. I do # mount -t devpts devpts /path/to/chroot/dev/pts before chrooting. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]