Hi, On sam, aoû 27, 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Is the problem because zsh sets SHELL to zsh, and > zsh is not available inside chroot?
Yes. In general, I think that pbuilder should clean as many things as possible when used, for example: - pbuilder login should run a login shell instead of a simple shell (when you login, you land in / instead of /root) - all pbuilder executions should call "env -i". But I'm not the author of pbuilder, so I'm only concerned with actual issues such as the $SHELL breakage I mentionned. I'm surprized no-one complained about it until now. > Why does one want to execute $SHELL anyway? Looking a bit closer at the issue, it seems more and more related to pbuilder itself, here's what happens: - sbp - pbuilder setups the environment and goes to the point where it fetches and installs build-depends - pbuilder copies the source files and extracts them: -> new cache content libpspell-dev_0.60.3-5_i386.deb added -> new cache content libxslt1.1_1.1.14-1_i386.deb added Copying source file -> copying [../gedit_2.10.5-1.dsc] -> copying [../gedit_2.10.5.orig.tar.gz] -> copying [../gedit_2.10.5-1.diff.gz] Extracting source No shell pbuilder: Failed extracting the source -> Aborting with an error -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem This is from pbuilder-buildpackage: if echo "( cd tmp/buildd; /usr/bin/dpkg-source -x $(basename $PACKAGENAME) )" | $CHROOTEXEC $SUTOUSER ; then : # success else echo "pbuilder: Failed extracting the source" >&2. I think the problem is with $SUTOUSER which is set to "su -p $BUILDUSERNAME". As su(1) explains, su will clean environment things up, such as $SHELL, unless -p is used. -m, -p, --preserve-environment do not reset environment variables, and keep the same shell The current issue is with $SHELL, but you might want to address issues with the other vars too and reset them to sane values too. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come, your destiny awaits!