Public bug reported:
It's not clear where the bug is in this, but I was doing a LTS release
upgrade and svscan was already installed and running, but when the
upgrade tried to set up the new one the old one was still running so it
failed with a fatal error. Even after manually editing inittab to
d
Public bug reported:
When trying to run debootstrap (version 1.0.28) to install a new current
Ubuntu system on a new partition from a running Debian 4.0 (kernel
2.6.18-5) system I get the following error:
) sudo debootstrap --arch i386 lucid /mnt/newsys
...
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failu
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746699/+attachment/1960475/+files/dpkg.strace.tgz
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Title:
failure trying to
Actually, as I was putting this together I realized a way I might be
able to work around what was going on, and I just tried it and it seems
to have worked. By copying 'tar' from the local system to /usr/bin/tar
in the new system I can put a working tar before the problematic tar in
the path, and
