sbuild schroot fails

Question

I am trying to package an Ubuntu package as a Debian package. For maintainability I am trying to use sbuild.

I go through the first five steps, but when I try to build I get chroot errors.

These are the steps:

   1 sudo apt-get install sbuild
   2 sudo mkdir /root/.gnupg # To work around #792100
   3 sudo sbuild-update --keygen
   4 sudo sbuild-adduser $LOGNAME
   5  ... *logout* and *re-login* or use `newgrp sbuild` in your current shell
   6 sudo sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/srv/chroot/unstable-amd64.tar.gz unstable `mktemp -d` http://httpredir.debian.org/debian

The sbuild-createchrrot command that I use is: CODE: SELECT ALL

sudo sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz jessie `mktemp -d` http://httpredir.debian.org/debian
I: SUITE: jessie
I: TARGET: /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X
I: MIRROR: http://httpredir.debian.org/debian
I: Running debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=buildd --verbose --include=fakeroot,build-essential,debfoster --components=main --resolve-deps jessie /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X http://httpredir.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release 
I: Retrieving Release.gpg 
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 75DDC3C4A499F1A18CB5F3C8CBF8D6FD518E17E1)
I: Retrieving Packages 
I: Validating Packages 
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional required dependencies: acl adduser dmsetup insserv libaudit-common libaudit1 libbz2-1.0 libcap2 libcap2-bin libcryptsetup4 libdb5.3 libdebconfclient0 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcrypt20 libgpg-error0 libkmod2 libncursesw5 libprocps3 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libslang2 libsystemd0 libudev1 libustr-1.0-1 procps systemd systemd-sysv udev 
I: Found additional base dependencies: binutils bzip2 cpp cpp-4.9 debian-archive-keyring dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.9 gcc gcc-4.9 gnupg gpgv libapt-pkg4.12 libasan1 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libcloog-isl4 libdpkg-perl libfakeroot libgc1c2 libgcc-4.9-dev libgdbm3 libgmp10 libgomp1 libisl10 libitm1 liblsan0 libmpc3 libmpfr4 libquadmath0 libreadline6 libstdc++-4.9-dev libstdc++6 libtimedate-perl libtsan0 libubsan0 libusb-0.1-4 linux-libc-dev make patch perl perl-modules readline-common xz-utils 
I: Checking component main on http://httpredir.debian.org/debian...
I: Retrieving acl 2.2.52-2
I: Validating acl 2.2.52-2
I: Retrieving libacl1 2.2.52-2
I: Validating libacl1 2.2.52-2
I: Retrieving adduser 3.113+nmu3
I: Validating adduser 3.113+nmu3
I: Retrieving apt 1.0.9.8.2
I: Validating apt 1.0.9.8.2
I: Retrieving libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.

It continues until it finishes, I am not sure if these are errors, but this happens right before I regain control over the terminal.

I: Base system installed successfully.
I: Configured /etc/hosts:
   ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   │127.0.0.1 hn localhost
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I: Configured /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d:
   ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   │#!/bin/sh
   │echo "All runlevel operations denied by policy" >&2
   │exit 101
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I: Configured APT /etc/apt/sources.list:
   ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   │deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
   │deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I: Please add any additional APT sources to /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X/etc/apt/sources.list
I: Setting reference package list.
I: Updating chroot.
Ign http://httpredir.debian.org jessie InRelease      
Hit http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release
Get:1 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7058 kB]
Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6763 kB]                                                                                                            
Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4582 kB]                                                                                                            
Fetched 18.4 MB in 21s (837 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I: chroot /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X has been removed.
I: Successfully set up jessie chroot.
I: Run "sbuild-adduser" to add new sbuild users.

After that I try to run:

sbuild -d jessie filename.dsc

Then I get this error:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ simplescreenrecorder 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1 (amd64)            07 Feb 2016 04:15 ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Package: simplescreenrecorder
Version: 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1
Source Version: 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1
Distribution: jessie
Machine Architecture: amd64
Host Architecture: amd64
Build Architecture: amd64

E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Summary                                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Then the cursor just sits there blinking.

What is wrong with the chroot? How come sbuild isn't setting it up properly? How do I fix this to use sbuild?

sbuild:
  Installed: 0.65.2-1
  Candidate: 0.65.2-1
  Version table:
     0.66.0-5~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.65.2-1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

schroot:
  Installed: 1.6.10-1+b1
  Candidate: 1.6.10-1+b1
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.10-1+b1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Edit:

I do not have the below file or folders nor do I really know how to manually create them. The wiki didn't really say much about these files.

E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory

edit this is the contents of my /etc/schroot folder

tree /etc/schroot/
/etc/schroot/
├── buildd
├── chroot.d
│   └── jessie-amd64-sbuild-k92zq_
├── default
├── desktop
├── minimal
├── sbuild
└── setup.d
    └── 99check -> 00check

7 directories, 2 files

this is the content of that jessie-amd64 file

cat /etc/schroot/chroot.d/jessie-amd64-sbuild-k92zq_ 
[jessie-amd64-sbuild]
type=file
description=Debian jessie/amd64 autobuilder
file=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz
groups=root,sbuild
root-groups=root,sbuild
profile=sbuild

when I run

schroot -c jessie-amd64-sbuild
E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory

schroot -c jessie-amd64
E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory

They still just give an error even though I am using the -c command, it's complaining about the schroot.conf file.

I've tried to write this to the schroot.conf file

cat /etc/schroot/schroot.conf 
[jessie-amd64]
type=file
description=Debian jessie/amd64 autobuilder
file=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz
groups=root,sbuild
root-groups=root,sbuild
profile=sbuild

then tried to run schroot -c /etc/schroot/schroot.conf

schroot -c jessie-amd64
E: /srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory

then I get the above error.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '16 at 19:17

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You are expected to rename the /etc/schroot/chroot.d/jessie-amd64-sbuild-k92zq_ file created by sbuild-createchroot to jessie-amd64-sbuild (that is, just drop the random suffix). You may also edit it if you wish. They you should be able to schroot -c jessie-amd64-sbuild and sbuild -d jessie whatever.dsc. You use tarball chroots, which do require some time to instantiate and clean up; make sure you're patient enough.

answered Feb 07 '16 at 19:17

Ferenc Wágner

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that still didn't work. looking at the documentation again debian also recommends cowbuilder. I installed that, set it up similar to sbuild and built a debian package on the first go. `sudo dist=jessie arch=amd64 cowbuilder --build simplescreenrecorder_0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1.dsc --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/jessie-amd64/` I am not sure why sbuild isn't working for me but cowbuild does the job so problem solved. Thanks for the advice. – user1610950 Feb 09 '16 at 00:42

sbuild schroot fails

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