Comment 1 for bug 2064372

I did manage to create a cpio archive of /var/log/dist-upgrade directory with:

root@multivac:/var/log/dist-upgrade# find . -type f -print | cpio -ov > /tmp/dist-upgrade.cpio
./history.log
./apt.log
./apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz
./main.log
./apt-term.log
./eipp.log.xz
./lspci.txt
3017 blocks

Hope it helps.

Note that ls works if I don't give it any flags.