Fails to work with 'E: Couldn't find these debs: eatmydata'

[Marius Gedminas]

I was trying to see if piuparts would be a good tool to test possible fixes for bug 618620:

1. sudo apt-get install piuparts
2. sudo piuparts -a postgrey

and then it failed with

Guessed: ubuntu
0m0.0s INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0m0.0s INFO: To quickly glance what went wrong, scroll down to the bottom of this logfile.
0m0.0s INFO: FAQ available at http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ
0m0.0s INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0m0.0s INFO: piuparts version 0.43ubuntu1 starting up.
0m0.0s INFO: Command line arguments: /usr/sbin/piuparts -a postgrey
0m0.0s INFO: Running on: Linux vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64 3.2.0-54-generic #82-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:08:42 UTC 2013 x86_64
0m0.0s DEBUG: Created temporary directory /tmp/tmpEX78nI
0m0.0s DEBUG: Setting up minimal chroot for precise at /tmp/tmpEX78nI.
0m0.0s DEBUG: Starting command: ['eatmydata', 'debootstrap', '--variant=minbase', '--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg', '--include=eatmydata', '--components=main', 'precise', '/tmp/tmpEX78nI', 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu']
0m8.1s DUMP:
  I: Retrieving Release
  I: Retrieving Release.gpg
  I: Checking Release signature
  I: Valid Release signature (key id 630239CC130E1A7FD81A27B140976EAF437D05B5)
  I: Retrieving Packages
  I: Validating Packages
  I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
  I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
  I: Found additional base dependencies: gnupg gpgv libapt-pkg4.12 libreadline6 libstdc++6 libusb-0.1-4 readline-common ubuntu-keyring
  I: Checking component main on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
  E: Couldn't find these debs: eatmydata
0m8.1s ERROR: Command failed (status=1): ['eatmydata', 'debootstrap', '--variant=minbase', '--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg', '--include=eatmydata', '--components=main', 'precise', '/tmp/tmpEX78nI', 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu']
  I: Retrieving Release
  I: Retrieving Release.gpg
  I: Checking Release signature
  I: Valid Release signature (key id 630239CC130E1A7FD81A27B140976EAF437D05B5)
  I: Retrieving Packages
  I: Validating Packages
  I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
  I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
  I: Found additional base dependencies: gnupg gpgv libapt-pkg4.12 libreadline6 libstdc++6 libusb-0.1-4 readline-common ubuntu-keyring
  I: Checking component main on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
  E: Couldn't find these debs: eatmydata

0m8.1s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpEX78nI', 'umount', '/proc']
0m8.1s DUMP:
  chroot: failed to run command `umount': No such file or directory
0m8.1s DEBUG: Command failed (status=127), but ignoring error: ['chroot', '/tmp/tmpEX78nI', 'umount', '/proc']
0m8.1s DEBUG: Removed directory tree at /tmp/tmpEX78nI

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: piuparts 0.43ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-54.82-generic 3.2.50
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-54-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 19 06:45:25 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: piuparts
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Workaround 1: use 'sudo piuparts --no-eatmydata'

Workaround 2: use 'sudo piuparts -m "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ main universe"'.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

eatmydata is in main in trusty and beyond, so this is no longer particularly relevant.