Sorry for my wrong interpretation because the strace strip the arguments. Its not treating '/home/debian/Desktop/rootfs' as mirror.
I see the difference here: prebuild package: [pid 2777] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "wget -q -O /home/debian/Desktop/rootfs/var/cache/bootstrap/_dists_._Release http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca/debian/dists/stable/Release"], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address) My build package- working properly: [pid 2774] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "wget -q -O /home/debian/Desktop/rootfs/var/cache/bootstrap/_dists_._Release http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca/debian/dists/stable/Release"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0 updated strace output with full arguments: http://pastebin.com/zF6APidH On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Kumar Sukhani <kumarsukh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am executing following command on wheezy running on BeagleBone Black: > > cdebootstrap-static > --configdir=/home/debian/Desktop/usr/share/cdebootstrap-static stable > /home/debian/Desktop/rootfs http://mirrors.ece.ubc.ca/debian > > error log: http://pastebin.com/QZUE8AA7 > > Its treating '/home/debian/Desktop/rootfs' as mirror. > > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 05:37:16PM +0530, Kumar Sukhani wrote: >> > The armel and armhf version of cdebootstrap-static is giving following >> error >> > "P: Retrieving Release >> > E: Execution failed: Bad address >> > E: Couldn't download Release! " >> >> Please show the result of "strace -f …". >> >> Bastian >> >> -- >> The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. >> -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8 >> > > > > -- > Kumar Sukhani > -- Kumar Sukhani