[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#797783: Bug#797783: sbuild fails without any error message when /var/lib/sbuild is not writable in the chroot

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2015, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm still not able to reproduce your problem.
> 
> The one missing configuration option that you have and I do not is
> union-type=overlay. If I enable that in my schroot config, then I get:
> 
> 	union-type: Unknown filesystem union type ‘overlay’
> 
> So I guess more configuration is required for this?

In a jessie environment (in particular the kernel), you can use "aufs"
instead of "overlay". In stretch/sid (with a newer kernel), you need
"overlay" but it also requires a version of schroot which is only in
unstable right now...

> Can you confirm that you do not see this problem without an overlay either?

Yes, I confirm it.

Cheers,
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