debootstrap-image project for Linux fails with segfault
On one of my machines creating a Linux container fails:
W: Failure trying to run: chroot "/var/tmp/tmp.HiqNC7Q599/base-image" dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.26_amd64.deb
W: See /var/tmp/tmp.HiqNC7Q599/base-image/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details
And that log says:
2020-05-17 19:15:26 URL:http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.7.dfsg-13_amd64.deb [87392/87392] -> "/var/tmp/tmp.uv7kNeRkLc/base-image//var/cache/apt/archives/partial/zlib1g_1%3a1.2.7.dfsg-13_amd64.deb" [1]
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg':
missing description
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 5 package 'dpkg':
missing architecture
Segmentation fault
I originally hit this when trying to solve #34242 (moved). To have a chance to repro one needs the fix for #34242 (moved), too.