Simon, Thanks for your quick response.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 10:47:09AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Does pbuilder not make /proc available in the usual way, or mount it with > unusual/restrictive options, or something like that? I don't see anything particularly restrictive or unexpected here: mark@apollo:/tmp% sudo cowbuilder login --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid.cow [sudo] password for mark: I: Copying COW directory I: forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.28612 I: forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.28612 I: removed stale ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.28612/.ilist I: Invoking pbuilder I: forking: pbuilder login --bindmounts /home/mark/src/debian/build --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.28612 --mirror http://deb.debian.org/debian --distribution sid --no-targz --internal-chrootexec 'chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.28612 cow-shell' I: Running in no-targz mode I: copying local configuration W: --override-config is not set; not updating apt.conf Read the manpage for details. I: mounting /proc filesystem I: mounting /sys filesystem I: creating /{dev,run}/shm I: mounting /dev/pts filesystem I: redirecting /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx I: mounting /dev/pts/8 over /dev/console I: Mounting /home/mark/src/debian/build I: policy-rc.d already exists I: Obtaining the cached apt archive contents I: entering the shell root@apollo:/# mount /proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,inode64) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=666) devpts on /dev/ptmx type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=666) devpts on /dev/console type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=600,ptmxmode=000) Mark
