dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi Michael!

Here you are ...

Using configuration files from /etc/fai
Creating FAI nfsroot in /srv/fai/nfsroot.
By default it needs more than 250 MBytes disk space.
This may take a long time.
/srv/fai/nfsroot already exists. Removing /srv/fai/nfsroot
Creating base system using debootstrap version 0.3.3.3
Calling debootstrap etch /srv/fai/nfsroot http://ftp.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://ftp.debian.org/debian...
I: Retrieving adduser
I: Validating adduser
I: Retrieving apt
I: Validating apt
[...]
I: Extracting util-linux...
I: Extracting zlib1g...
Aborting
dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory

Actually, debug=1 does not seem to provide too much extra output.

I spent several hours trying to find the problem myself last night, 
hacking the make-fai-nfsroot script for extra debugging output. (The 
output above comes from an unmodified version.)

What I completely fail to understand is:

1. If I execute debootstrap manually using exactly the same command line 
(cut&paste) as the script, it works without any complaint. So what is 
different when I call the debootstrap from make-fai-nfsroot????

2. I tried to uncomment the only line I found which calls dpkg-divert, 
which is:

fdivert /sbin/start-stop-daemon /sbin/discover-modprobe

in upgrade_nfsroot.

It still comes back with the same error message.

Next I put an extra echo after that call to debootstrap. I found that 
obviously it's debootstrap itself which is trying to call dpkg-divert.

Where would that diversions file come from?

Regards,
Torsten


Michael Tautschnig schrieb:
>>Dear list!
>>
>>I knew I had this problem when I created my first FAI server. 
>>Unfortunately, I forgot what I did to fix it.
>>
>>So this is FAI 3.1.8 on Etch on AMD64. I have installed fai-quickstart and 
>>tried to run fai-setup. The make-fai-nfsroot fails with:
>>
>>Creating FAI nfsroot in /srv/fai/nfsroot.
>>By default it needs more than 250 MBytes disk space.
>>This may take a long time.
>>Creating base system using debootstrap version 0.3.3.2etch1
>>Calling debootstrap etch /srv/fai/nfsroot http://ftp.debian.org/debian
>>Aborting
>>dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory
>>
>>Yes, I am using the official Debian mirror and I did not change anything 
>>from the default configuration.
>>
> 
> 
> Could you provide a little more info by pasting the output of 
> debug=1 make-fai-nfsroot -v
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
>