chdist fails with "E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libattr1"

but strace shows no obvious error

[pid 30109] read(10, ""..., 1024) = 0
[pid 30109] lseek(10, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
[pid 30109] read(10, "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0\nnone /sys "..., 1024) = 1024
[pid 30109] stat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
[pid 30109] stat("/boot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
[pid 30109] stat("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
[pid 30109] close(10) = 0
[pid 30109] munmap(0x7f3c54c02000, 4096) = 0
[pid 30109] write(1, "Do you want to continue [Y/n]? "..., 31Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ) = 31
[pid 30109] fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0
[pid 30109] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f3c54c02000
[pid 30109] read(0,
"\n"..., 1024) = 1
) = 2] write(1, "\r\r"..., 2
[pid 30109] close(4) = 0
[pid 30109] brk(0xb30000) = 0xb30000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb77000) = 0xb77000
[pid 30109] brk(0xae9000) = 0xae9000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb30000) = 0xb30000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb77000) = 0xb77000
[pid 30109] brk(0xae9000) = 0xae9000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb42000) = 0xb42000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb88000) = 0xb88000
[pid 30109] brk(0xbcf000) = 0xbcf000
[pid 30109] brk(0xafb000) = 0xafb000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb42000) = 0xb42000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb88000) = 0xb88000
[pid 30109] brk(0xbcf000) = 0xbcf000
[pid 30109] brk(0xafb000) = 0xafb000
[pid 30109] brk(0xb42000) = 0xb42000
[pid 30109] close(9) = 0
[pid 30109] close(8) = 0
[pid 30109] close(7) = 0
[pid 30109] close(6) = 0
[pid 30109] close(5) = 0
[pid 30109] munmap(0x7f3c54c04000, 1736704) = 0
[pid 30109] munmap(0x7f3c56b0e000, 176128) = 0
[pid 30109] munmap(0x7f3c54dac000, 868352) = 0
[pid 30109] munmap(0x7f3c54e80000, 12643501) = 0
[pid 30109] write(2, "E: "..., 3E: ) = 3
[pid 30109] write(2, "Internal Error, Could not perform"..., 73Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libattr1) = 73
[pid 30109] write(2, "\n"..., 1
) = 1
[pid 30109] close(3) = 0
[pid 30109] exit_group(100) = ?
Process 30109 detached
[pid 30108] <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 100}], 0, NULL) = 30109
[pid 30108] --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
[pid 30108] exit_group(100) = ?
Process 30107 resumed
Process 30108 detached
<... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 100}], 0, NULL) = 30108
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
read(3, ""..., 4) = 0
close(3) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?

Perhaps this is just a limitation that you simply can't install packages, because it's not a real chroot? It would be nice if that was documented and/or gave a better message.

Surprisingly(?) I get the same error when trying to install with just --dry-run, which it seems to me should not need any privileges or special setup...

This is also reproducible with --dry-run in a newly created environment.

try -f

2009/11/26 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> try -f

no better

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