[xen-tools] Re: bug/wishlist "no more processes left in this runlevel"

[Henning Sprang]

Hi,

On 11/22/06, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:
> > I have no time to test it more intensely, but I believe it's a problem
> > when debootstrapping sarge with the debootstrap from etch.
>
>    If you do get the chance I'd certainly appreciate it.  Even just
>   confirming that it is sarge's debootstrap which is incapable of
>   delivering an Etch system.

O.K., I couldn't resist.

But to be clear,  it's not sarge's debootstrap that I suspected to be
unable to build a proper etch chroot, but vice versa!

Anyway, with xen-tools from etch and debootstrap 0.3.3 on etch,
building  a sarge vm, this problem doesn't exist.
In that case, there are multiple possibilities of the problem's source:
- different xen versions used.
- only newest xen-tools has the problem
- only debootstrap 0.3.3 when converted to rpm has the problem

I'll investigate that further when working further on my xen-tools and
FAI on fedora project.

The other direction, bootstrapping etch from sarge debootstrap, is
nearly 100% sure impossible. For fai i wrote a hack tu download and
unpack multiple versions  of debootstrap into /var/lib , because in
general, deboostrap mostly only works really good with the
distribution it comes with, ans maybe with older ones.

Henning