[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#802752: vmdebootstrap: /dev/pts needs to be mounted?

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

Package: vmdebootstrap
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

While using vmdebootstrap for building FreedomBox images, a customization
script that installs additional packages is executed.  From the log collected
during installation, the following error message can be seen.

[...]
Fetched 3534 kB in 4s (846 kB/s)
E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (2: No such file or
directory)
Selecting previously unselected package binutils.
(Reading database ... 44176 files and directories currently installed.)
[...]

As far as we can tell, from the testing we have done, this does not lead to any
error in the final image or any error during the building of the image.  So, we
treat it more like a warning.

It looks like devpts filesystem should be mounted to get rid of the image.  I
see that we are mounting devfs, proc and sysfs to make sure grub is installed
properly, so I thought that mounting this as well might not be bad.

Thank you,

--
Sunil



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages vmdebootstrap depends on:
ii  debootstrap         1.0.72
ii  extlinux            3:6.03+dfsg-10
ii  kpartx              0.5.0+git0.770e6d0d-3
ii  mbr                 1.1.11-5+b1
ii  parted              3.2-7
ii  python              2.7.9-1
ii  python-cliapp       1.20150829-1
ii  python-distro-info  0.14
ii  python2.7           2.7.10-4
pn  python:any          <none>
ii  qemu-utils          1:2.4+dfsg-4

Versions of packages vmdebootstrap recommends:
ii  grub2-common      2.02~beta2-28
ii  python-guestfs    1:1.28.12-1+b1
ii  qemu-system       1:2.4+dfsg-4
ii  qemu-user-static  1:2.4+dfsg-4
ii  squashfs-tools    1:4.3-2

Versions of packages vmdebootstrap suggests:
pn  u-boot:armhf  <none>

-- no debconf information