Further analysis seems to point at a xen-only problem. I have installed Gutsy Server from the CD image on a VMware VM and installed the ppa FAI with no errors:
// ***** // [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fai-setup -v Using configuration files from /etc/fai Creating FAI nfsroot in /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir. By default it needs more than 330 MBytes disk space. This may take a long time. Creating base system using debootstrap version 1.0.3build1 Calling debootstrap gutsy /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir http://archive.ub untu.com/ubuntu I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Checking component main on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu... [...] Setting up fai-client (3.2.1-0ubuntu2~ppa2~gutsy1) ... Setting up fai-nfsroot (3.2.1-0ubuntu2~ppa2~gutsy1) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libssl0.9.8 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2825kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! libssl0.9.8 Authentication warning overridden. Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-5ubuntu3 .1 [2825kB] kB 1%] 29% [1 libssl0.9.8 838077/2825kB 24%] 54% [1 li 76% [1 libssl0.9.8 2157209/2825kB 68%] 174kB/s 5s 96% [1 libssl0.9.8 2734957/2825kB 96%] 174kB/s 1s Fetched 2825kB in 10s (262kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 10429 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-5ubuntu3 (using .../libssl0.9.8_0.9.8e-5 ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libssl0.9.8 ... Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place install_packages: reading config files from directory /etc/fai Adding additional packages to /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir: [...] install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir dpkg -C install_packages: executing chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir apt-get clean `/etc/fai/apt' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/apt' `/etc/fai/apt/sources.list' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/apt/sources.list' `/etc/fai/fai.conf' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/fai.conf' `/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf' `/etc/fai/menu.lst' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/menu.lst' `/etc/fai/NFSROOT' -> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/fai/NFSROOT' Shadow passwords are now on. `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic' -> `/srv/tftp/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic' `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic' -> `/srv/tftp/fai/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic' DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable the dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon. Command mkelf-linux not found. Can not set up BOOTP booting. Please install the package mknbi and rerun fai-setup. Removing `local diversion of /sbin/discover-modprobe to /sbin/discover-modprobe.distrib' make-fai-nfsroot finished properly. Adding line to /etc/exports: /srv/fai/config 192.168.66.229/255.255.255.0(async,ro,no_subtree_check) Adding line to /etc/exports: /srv/fai/nfsroot 192.168.66.229/255.255.255.0(async,ro,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) * Re-exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon... [ OK ] FAI setup finished. // ***** // As we know, xendomu is commonly installed using debootstrap, so we may have something missing here. I had hoped to not have to get too far in the guts of it, but I suppose it's unavoidable now. :) -- dpkg seg-fault with fai-nfsroot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs