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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0002556Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2015-08-17 06:442025-07-14 09:18
Reporteratdre Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeveritytweakReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionunable to reproduce 
Product Versionkali-dev 
Summary0002556: debootstrap fails on /var/mail
Description

When debootstrap fails, one has to rm /var/mail (a symbolic link to /var/spool/mail) and perform mkdir /var/mail in order to get a "Base system installed successfully" message and full completion

Steps To Reproduce

Run:

debootstrap sana /kali http://http.kali.org/kali/

Fails with:

W: Failure while configuring required packages.
W: See /kali/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package base-files is at fault)

Additional Information

The workaround to run debootstrap twice, once with the failure message in steps to reproduce, and the second time after `rm /var/mail ; mkdir /var/mail'

Activities

rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-09-03 09:25

administrator   ~0003886

I just ran "debootstrap sana" in a Kali 2 system and it worked fine for me. Maybe you were using an older version of debootstrap? Try 1.0.67+kali2.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-08-17 06:44 atdre New Issue
2015-09-03 09:25 rhertzog Note Added: 0003886
2015-09-03 09:25 rhertzog Status new => closed
2015-09-03 09:25 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2015-09-03 09:25 rhertzog Resolution open => unable to reproduce
2025-07-14 09:18 g0tmi1k Priority low => normal