[elbe-devel] (not) very informative error message

[Manuel Traut]

Hi,

> >W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
> >W: See /var/cache/elbe/81fc6544-d386-4fbc-b47d-bdf1efcd4f3d/chroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package package is at fault)
> 
> BTW: How do you get the content of /var/cache/elbe/.../chroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log? After:
> 
>   build_dir=$(elbe control create_project ${build_name}.xml)
>   elbe control build $build_dir
>   elbe control wait_busy $build_dir
>   elbe control get_files --output $build_name $build_dir
> 
> the project directory /var/cache/elbe/... contains only log.txt and source.xml files...

You might find it in /var/cache/elbe/<uuid>/chroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log

But probably the chroot directory was deleted after detecting a failure :-/
You can avoid this by editing elbepack/rfs.py 'def debootstrap' and set the
cleanup variable in the exception handler to False.

  Manuel