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

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:18:59 +0100, Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net> said:

    > I tried this on a physical box rather than a vserver, and it worked. So 
    > it looks like there is some operation involved which fails on a vserver. 
    > The question would be: Which one.
IIRC you need to be root to call debootstrap. Maybe inside a vserver
you are not "really" root.

Use strace to find the syscall which fails.

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regards Thomas