Just to follow up about this bug: I ran into this while trying to use fakechroot to do a debootstrap of a debian lenny system, which choked on the installation of the bash package with a message like this:
Setting up bash (3.1dfsg-9) ...
chmod: changing permissions of `/etc/shells.tmp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing bash (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
It took me a while to narrow down the cause of the failure, but what i
came up with is in the original bug report.
The inability to do a debootstrap under fakechroot causes serious
problems for a package ("debirf") i'm working on with another
developer, which is how i hit this in the first place.
You can see the original trouble ticket from the debirf project here:
http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/ticket/90
Anyway, i just wanted to note some justification for the "important"
tag, if /bin/rm failing wasn't already important enough.
Let me know if i can help, and thanks again for fakechroot! It's a
great tool.
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