Bash fails to unpack

[jordi]

Hi!

For some reason, DAB chokes on bash's binary preinst script, and fails to unpack, using a plain Debian 6.0 template from download.proxmox.com:

server:~/dab-pve-appliances_2011-03-25/debian-6.0-standard-64# make
allocated VE 90000  
dab init
download: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian//dists/squeeze/Release

[...]

install: mawk
install: debconf
unpack: util-linux  
unpack: libcomerr2  
unpack: libpam-runtime
unpack: bsdutils
unpack: hostname
unpack: diffutils   
unpack: grep
unpack: libtext-iconv-perl
unpack: xz-utils
unpack: sysv-rc
unpack: bash
command 'vzctl exec2 90000 defenv dpkg --force-depends --unpack /bash_4.1-3_amd64.deb' failed with exit code 3
command 'vzctl exec2 90000 defenv dpkg --force-depends --unpack /bash_4.1-3_amd64.deb' failed with exit code 3
make: *** [all] Error 3

I managed to "fix this" creating a new bash package using dpkg-deb --build and replacing the original one from the DAB cache:

dpkg --control /root/cache/bash_4.1-3_amd64.deb /tmp/bash/DEBIAN
cd /tmp
dpkg -x /root/cache/bash_4.1.-3_amd64.deb bash
rm bash/DEBIAN/preinst
dpkg-deb --build bash
mv bash.deb /root/cache/bash_4.1-3_amd64.deb

I am astonished, though, that nobody else has reported this problem.

How come nobody else is seeing this?

Thanks in advance,
Jordi

 

[jordi]

I forgot to say I'm using dab 1.1-14 from pvetest.

 

[dietmar]

I am astonished, though, that nobody else has reported this problem.

Well, I just uploaded that version a few hours ago. You need to update dab-pve-appliances too. Please can you test? Although I can't imagine the cause of that bash error.

# wget http://download.proxmox.com/sources/dab-pve-appliances_2011-05-10.tar.gz