cdeboostrap hangs while bootstrapping ubuntu 22.04 (codename jammy)

[Juozas Pocius]

Bootstrapping takes too long. Hangs while extracting gcc-12-base.

Command line:

cdebootstrap ubuntu/jammy target

Useful messages in terminal output (full terminal output attached):

P: Can't find package makedev

Files named var/lib/dpkg/available, var/lib/dpkg/diversions and var/lib/dpkg/status are 0 bytes length.

Contents of var/log/bootstrap.log (one line, 26 bytes):

P: Extracting gcc-12-base

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: cdebootstrap 0.7.7ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-25.25-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Apr 16 19:50:49 2022
SourcePackage: cdebootstrap
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Edit: It also hangs while bootstrapping Ubuntu noble, it is stuck on init-system-helpers, debug output shows it is stuck on decompressing deb file, debug log attached

[Marco Silva (katkrasinsk)]

Run on the same issue.

[Franklin "Snaipe" Mathieu (snaipewastaken)]

Ran into the same issue today. The process seems to be spinning trying to seek forward:

```
2743202 write(1<pipe:[635726132]>, "D: Decompressing gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb\n", 60 <unfinished ...>
2743083 <... epoll_pwait resumed>[{events=EPOLLIN, data={u32=1042808845, u64=9198059935901417485}}], 128, 67, NULL, 0) = 1
2743202 <... write resumed>) = 60
2743083 read(14<pipe:[635726132]>, <unfinished ...>
2743202 openat(AT_FDCWD</>, "/dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb", O_RDONLY <unfinished ...>
2743083 <... read resumed>"P: Extracting gcc-12-base\nD: Decompressing gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb\n", 32768) = 86
2743202 <... openat resumed>) = 5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>
2743083 read(14<pipe:[635726132]>, <unfinished ...>
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, <unfinished ...>
2743083 <... read resumed>0xc00056e000, 32768) = -1 EAGAIN (Ressource temporairement non disponible)
2743202 <... read resumed>"!<arch>\n", 8) = 8
2743083 epoll_pwait(4<anon_inode:[eventpoll]>, <unfinished ...>
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, <unfinished ...>
2743083 <... epoll_pwait resumed>[], 128, 0, NULL, 0) = 0
2743202 <... read resumed>"debian-binary 1647686192 0 0 100644 4 `\n", 60) = 60
2743083 epoll_pwait(4<anon_inode:[eventpoll]>, <unfinished ...>
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "2.0\n", 4) = 4
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "control.tar.zst 1647686192 0 0 100644 625 `\n", 60) = 60
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 626, SEEK_CUR) = 758
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "data.tar.zst 1647686192 0 0 100644 18062 `\n", 60) = 60
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 18880
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "", 60) = 0
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 36942
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "", 60) = 0
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 55004
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "", 60) = 0
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 73066
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "", 60) = 0
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 91128
2743202 read(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, "", 60) = 0
2743202 lseek(5</dest/var/cache/bootstrap/gcc-12-base_12-20220319-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb>, 18062, SEEK_CUR) = 109190
2743202...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Juozas Pocius (juozaspo)]

I also found that this bug also affects debian version of cdebootstrap. Debian added to affected list, linking to the new debian bug I created as no similar bug could be found.