Hi list, First of, this is for fun and learning, so do not break your head about this ;) I'm trying to setup a debian vserver on a gentoo host. After some googling (where did I read this before:) I found the debian-newvserver.sh script, a script that debootstraps a debian vserver on a given dir. I guess there are people here that know this script ;P. I changed it to install a debian-amd64 sarge system (at least I tried to..). But the script breaks while excuting the (/usr/lib64/debootstrap/scripts/)sarge install script, it breaks doing the (dpkg) extract part, note I added the DBG ;)
Bla bla, I: Validating wget I: Validating whiptail I: Validating zlib1g I: Validating zlib1g I: Validating zlib1g DBG: extract required I: Extracting base-files... tar: ./lib: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors debian-newvserver.sh.1: error: debootstrap failure. Cannot continue. # ls -al total 1 drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 856 Feb 18 15:59 . d--------- 7 root root 280 Apr 27 20:42 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 248 Feb 18 15:59 etc drwxrwsr-x 2 root 50 48 Feb 18 15:59 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Apr 26 23:52 test drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 tmp drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 264 Feb 18 15:59 usr drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 264 Feb 18 15:59 var # mkdir lib mkdir: cannot create directory `lib': Permission denied # rmdir test # mkdir test # mkdir lib mkdir: cannot create directory `lib': Permission denied # ls -al ./lib ls: ./lib: Permission denied # ls -al total 1 drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 856 Apr 27 21:17 . d--------- 7 root root 280 Apr 27 20:42 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 248 Feb 18 15:59 etc drwxrwsr-x 2 root 50 48 Feb 18 15:59 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Apr 27 21:17 test drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 Feb 18 15:59 tmp drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 264 Feb 18 15:59 usr drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 264 Feb 18 15:59 var # Is it me, my system or does dpkg play tricks on me ;)? I've been playing with this and done it multiple times, umounting the partition helped getting rid of this error (I also assumed it tried to create ./lib in the vserver root dir) and I could mkdir ./lib by hand in the vserver root dir. Although the error didn't change while ./lib existed, I would have expected a already exists error, but it kept repeating whats above. Its along time since I've setup or used a debian system since i started emerging my software ;), so I'm not sure whats going on here. There are quiet some pitfalls here I guess, so my obvious question, has anyone done this and willing to share experiences? If not what do you think could be going on here? Cheers, -Arjen Oh just thought of this, would it be a problem trying to do this using reiserfs like I do, I don't think so but you never know ;) _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
