I don’t want to make life difficult for Whonix Host development. If you are sure this makes annyoing build install bugs go away, I’ll go ahead and change it. Doesn’t matter to me. I’ll list packages for secure boot even if they happened to have been pulled already by current users.
@Patrick
Can’t build 15.0.0.4.-developers-only:
git verify-tag 15.0.0.4.1-developers-only
error: tag '15.0.0.4.1-developers-only' not found.
Pushed just now.
Building 15.0.0.4.1 also fails at the same step with same error.
df -h | grep pbuilder
none 2.0G 807M 1.3G 40% /var/cache/pbuilder
build command was
sudo ~/Whonix/whonix_build --build --redistribute --target iso --flavor whonix-host-xfce --freedom false
Are there any log files produced during the build I could look into that may help understand and solve this issue?
Answered here:
Another path of debugging this:
Good news.
- ‘[’ whonix-host = whonix-host ‘]’
- true ‘INFO: Skipping creation of user ‘'‘user’'’ since WHONIX_BUILD_TYPE is set to whonix-host.’
Slightly bad news. There will be another build issue.
+ dpkg-divert --divert /etc/hostname.anondist-orig --rename --package anon-base-files --add /etc/hostname
Adding 'diversion of /etc/hostname to /etc/hostname.anondist-orig by anon-base-files'
dpkg-divert: error: unable to remove copied source file '/etc/hostname': Device or resource busy
....
+ true 'ERROR: Second attempt installing whonix-host-xfce-kvm-nonfreedom did not fail?!?'
But that one is understood by me. Whonix VM builds also had this issue in past. This is only about what files are mounted when and when not and in which order to install the packages which overwrite these critical files. Issue described here:
https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/help-steps/chroot-raw
Will work on that one.
User user creation (as already mentioned) should work.
Above issue fixed in git master.
https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/commit/bdcbd0aa5efa402b90743fe5dd025dc7f1efffad
Included in git tag
15.0.0.4.3-developers-only
Untested.
15.0.0.4.5-developers-only
tag more tested (building packages now) but build not done yet.
What version should I try to build? Should I first continue debugging the fatal error in 1200 step?
Can be done “in parallel” (in different VMs). Or one thing after another.
Git tag 15.0.0.4.5-developers-only
should work fine for cowbuilder debugging - #3 by Patrick but the same tag should also be good for Whonix Host testing since I expect no more build bugs related to /etc/hostname and also user “user” creating being skipped.
15.0.0.4.5-developers-only
Whonix Host build successful. No build errors. But didn’t try to boot the actual Whonix Host build.
Building in a fresh Whonix-Workstation 15 VM now.
Build fails at 1120 step. Very cryptic error log.
Short log:
/home/user/Whonix/packages/genmkfile /home/user/Whonix
+ make_use_cowbuilder=false
+ make deb-cleanup
./usr/share/genmkfile/make-helper.bsh deb-cleanup
make: *** [usr/share/genmkfile/makefile-full:85: deb-cleanup] Error 1
++ errorhandlergeneral ERR
++ last_failed_exit_code=2
++ last_failed_bash_command='make_use_cowbuilder=false make deb-cleanup'
long log:
+ cat /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
cat: /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d: No such file or directory
+ true
+ genmkfile_installation
+ pushd /home/user/Whonix/packages/genmkfile
/home/user/Whonix/packages/genmkfile /home/user/Whonix
+ make_use_cowbuilder=false
+ make deb-cleanup
./usr/share/genmkfile/make-helper.bsh deb-cleanup
make: *** [usr/share/genmkfile/makefile-full:85: deb-cleanup] Error 1
++ errorhandlergeneral ERR
++ last_failed_exit_code=2
++ last_failed_bash_command='make_use_cowbuilder=false make deb-cleanup'
++ output_cmd_set
++ '[' -o xtrace ']'
++ output_cmd=true
++ true 'INFO: Middle of function errorhandlergeneral of ././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine.'
++ errorhandlerprocessshared ERR
++ last_script=././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine
++ trap_signal_type_previous=
++ '[' '' = '' ']'
++ trap_signal_type_previous=unset
++ trap_signal_type_last=ERR
++ whonix_build_error_counter=1
+++ benchmarktimeend 1566907746
++++ date +%s
+++ benchmarktimeend=1566908131
+++ benchmark_took_seconds=385
++++ convertsecs 385
++++ local h m s
++++ (( h=385/3600 ))
++++ true
++++ (( m=(385%3600)/60 ))
++++ (( s=385%60 ))
++++ printf '%02d:%02d:%02d\n' 0 6 25
+++ echo 00:06:25
++ benchmark_took_time=00:06:25
++ processbacktracefunction
++ true 'INFO: BEGIN: processbacktracefunction'
++ '[' -o xtrace ']'
++ set +x
++ true 'INFO: END : processbacktracefunction'
++ functiontracefunction
++ true 'INFO: BEGIN: functiontracefunction'
++ '[' -o xtrace ']'
++ set +x
++ true 'INFO: END : functiontracefunction'
++ output_cmd_set
++ '[' -o xtrace ']'
++ output_cmd=true
++ true '
############################################################
ERROR in ././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine detected!
anon_dist_build_version: 15.0.0.4.5-3-g36d2cb1643831e011984fc2fa76bfd6bb8775646
(whonix_build_error_counter: 1)
(benchmark: 00:06:25)
trap_signal_type_previous: unset
trap_signal_type_last : ERR
process_backtrace_result:
1: : /sbin/init
2: : xfce4-terminal
3: : bash
4: : sudo /home/user/Whonix/whonix_build --build --redistribute --target iso --flavor whonix-host-xfce --freedom false
5: : /bin/bash /home/user/Whonix/whonix_build --build --redistribute --target iso --flavor whonix-host-xfce --freedom false
6: : /bin/bash ././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine
function_trace_result:
main (line number: 293)
main (line number: 290)
genmkfile_installation (line number: 280)
errorhandlergeneral (line number: 334)
errorhandlerprocessshared (line number: 169)
last_failed_bash_command: make_use_cowbuilder=false make deb-cleanup
last_failed_exit_code: 2
ERROR in ././build-steps.d/1120_prepare-build-machine detected!
############################################################
I did not set make_use_cowbuilder=false
Build command:
sudo ~/Whonix/whonix_build --build --redistribute --target iso --flavor whonix-host-xfce --freedom false
And retrying in the old VM (that used to work fine) failed as expected at step 1200 when building hardened_malloc package (until then it works fine).
genmkfile bootstrap bug.
For now, install manually. That should work around that bug.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/genmkfile
sudo cp ~/Whonix/packages/genmkfile/usr/share/genmkfile/* /usr/share/genmkfile/
sudo chmod -R o+r /usr/share/genmkfile/
I will work on a fix.
Thanks, retrying
Exact same error occured again
It requires some debugging.
If that makes sense.
And then figuring out what’s going wrong. Probably GENMKFILE_PATH not being set and then set to GENMKFILE_PATH=“/usr/share/genmkfile” which does not exist prior installation.