Error processing base-files,base-passwd (memory exhausted)

[Yaman Battikhi]

This installer fails when try to start the install base files. I have seen similar bug but different reasons

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/grub-installer/+bug/695842

Here the error msg:

Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: Unpacking base-files (from .../base-files_5.0.0ubuntu20_i386.deb) ...
Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: dpkg: regarding .../base-files_5.0.0ubuntu20_i386.deb containing base-files, pre-dependency problem:
Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: base-files pre-depends on awk
Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: awk is not installed.
Mar 2 12:33:02 debootstrap: dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem!
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: Selecting previously deselected package base-passwd.
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: Unpacking base-passwd (from .../base-passwd_3.5.22_i386.deb) ...
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: Setting up base-passwd (3.5.22) ...
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: dpkg: base-passwd: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.8); however:
Mar 2 12:33:04 debootstrap: Package libc6 is not installed.
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: cp:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: memory exhausted
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: Setting up base-files (5.0.0ubuntu20) ...
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--install):
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: dpkg: base-files: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: base-files depends on awk; however:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: Package awk is not installed.
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: base-files depends on base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4); however:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: Package base-passwd is not configured yet.
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: base-files depends on libpam-modules (>= 0.79-3ubuntu3); however:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: Package libpam-modules is not installed.
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: cp:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: memory exhausted
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: dpkg: error processing base-files (--install):
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing:
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: base-passwd
Mar 2 12:33:05 debootstrap: base-files
Mar 2 12:36:53 init: starting pid 317, tty '/dev/tty3': '-/bin/sh'
Mar 2 12:39:27 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/debootstrap-failed
Mar 2 12:39:28 main-menu[337]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1
Mar 2 12:39:28 main-menu[337]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.

[Yaman Battikhi (yaman-bat)]

Add another log with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer option

[Yaman Battikhi (yaman-bat)]

After doing more debugging it turn out that chroot /target cp file1 file2 command fails to execute and report cp: memory exhausted

When running the copy command without using chroot it worked

I have tried this running the postinst script after i unpacked the base-file deb package, then I try to runt the command using tty2 terminal after the installation failed

[Yaman Battikhi (yaman-bat)]

it appear that /target/bin/cp file got corrupted during the installation process. I try to work around this by copying the /bin/cp to target/bin/cp using tty2 terminal during installation process. This cause the base-file and baise-password to install successfully, hoever the installation process failed again later in for the same reason after it progress to 46%!!

The installation image is clean as it did install successfully on other machines.