Comment 0 for bug 2054925

The last couple of days, I have been unable to run a successful debootstrap for Noble Numbat.

Apparently this is caused by the addition of symlinks (/bin, /lib, /lib64 and /sbin) in base-files 13ubuntu7. According to debootstrap.log, it fails to extract said symlinks because they already exist at that point.

This can be reproduced against any up-to-date Ubuntu public archive mirror as of today.

Attached shell output of two runs of debootstrap. First run uses mirror archive.ubuntu.com (which as of this report serves base-files version 13ubuntu7), and second run uses a local custom mirror (which serves base-files 13ubuntu6). First run fails, second run succeeds.