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title="NEW --- - systemd-nspawn only checks for etc/os-release"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64014">64014</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>systemd-nspawn only checks for etc/os-release
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<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>minor
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>ijanos@gmail.com
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Product</th>
<td>systemd
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<pre>After the latest systemd upgrade, systemd-nspawn refused to run my
debootstrapped Debian Squeeze directory because it “doesn't look like an OS
root directory”.
It turned out that the OS detection logic changed from checking for the
DIR/bin/sh file to check the existence of DIR/etc/os-release file, so the
solution was easy enough, I had to create that file.
However, I don't think /etc/os-release is widespread enough to use it
exclusively, maybe systemd-nspawn could fallback to check /bin/sh if os-release
doesn't exists.
Or, if you stick to this decision, please put it in the man page or add a more
verbose error message, because I had to use strace to find out which file was
missing.</pre>
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