Ubuntu Customization Kit

cannot create /dev/null for Xubuntu 9.10

Asked by Narcis Garcia

- Environment: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 Live-CD.
- Parameters: xubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso , only "ca" language selection, and not customize nor delete Windows files.

build.log :

Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.12
Starting CD remastering on ds gen 23 17:16:57 UTC 2010
Customization dir=/home/ubuntu/tmp/customization-scripts
Mounting ISO image...
Unpacking ISO image...
Unmounting ISO image...
Mounting SquashFS image...
Unpacking SquashFS image...
Unmounting SquashFS image...
Copying customization scripts...
Copying resolv.conf...
Copying local apt cache, if available
Creating DBUS uuid
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release [44.1kB]
gpgv: Signature made Wed Oct 28 14:23:20 2009 UTC using DSA key ID 437D05B5
gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>"
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release [44.1kB]
gpgv: Signature made Fri Jan 22 15:45:53 2010 UTC using DSA key ID 437D05B5
gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>"
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages [149kB]
gpgv: Signature made Fri Jan 22 14:13:39 2010 UTC using DSA key ID 437D05B5
gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>"
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages [54.9kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages [21.9kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages [87.9kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages [1666B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources [16.3kB]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources [3944B]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources [575B]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages [6942B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Sources [46.9kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Sources [21.2kB]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Sources [3831B]
sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
Fetched 504kB in 8s (59.6kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Installing language packs (ca)...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  language-pack-ca-base language-support-writing-ca myspell-ca wcatalan
Suggested packages:
  openoffice.org iceape-browser iceweasel icedove
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  language-pack-ca language-pack-ca-base language-support-ca
  language-support-writing-ca myspell-ca wcatalan
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 171 not upgraded.
Need to get 3955kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main language-pack-ca-base 1:9.10+20091022 [1807kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main language-pack-ca 1:9.10+20091022 [2030B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main myspell-ca 0.6-7 [598kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main wcatalan 0.6-7 [1544kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main language-support-writing-ca 1:9.10+20090909 [1960B]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main language-support-ca 1:9.10+20090909 [1834B]
sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
Fetched 3955kB in 48s (81.6kB/s)
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-ca-base.
(Reading database ... 113182 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking language-pack-ca-base (from .../language-pack-ca-base_1%3a9.10+20091022_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package language-pack-ca.
Unpacking language-pack-ca (from .../language-pack-ca_1%3a9.10+20091022_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package myspell-ca.
Unpacking myspell-ca (from .../myspell-ca_0.6-7_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package wcatalan.
Unpacking wcatalan (from .../wcatalan_0.6-7_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package language-support-writing-ca.
Unpacking language-support-writing-ca (from .../language-support-writing-ca_1%3a9.10+20090909_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package language-support-ca.
Unpacking language-support-ca (from .../language-support-ca_1%3a9.10+20090909_all.deb) ...
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Setting up myspell-ca (0.6-7) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/myspell-ca.postinst: 13: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
Error: update-openoffice-dicts not present or executable. Missing dependency on dictionaries-common?
dpkg: error processing myspell-ca (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up wcatalan (0.6-7) ...
sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/var/lib/dpkg/info/wcatalan.postinst: 14: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
Error: update-default-wordlist not present or executable. Missing dependency on dictionaries-common?
dpkg: error processing wcatalan (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of language-support-writing-ca:
 language-support-writing-ca depends on myspell-ca; however:
  Package myspell-ca is not configured yet.
 language-support-writing-ca depends on wcatalan; however:
  Package wcatalan is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing language-support-writing-ca (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of language-support-ca:
 language-support-ca depends on language-support-writing-ca; however:
  Package language-support-writing-ca is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing language-support-ca (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up language-pack-ca (1:9.10+20091022) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up language-pack-ca-base (1:9.10+20091022) ...
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 207: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 208: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 212: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 212: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
Generating locales...
  ca_AD.UTF-8... /usr/sbin/locale-gen: 236: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 236: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 236: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
done
/usr/sbin/locale-gen: 236: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied

Errors were encountered while processing:
 myspell-ca
 wcatalan
 language-support-writing-ca
 language-support-ca
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
apt-get install language-pack-ca language-support-ca failed, error=100
Unmounting directory /home/ubuntu/tmp/remaster-root/tmp...
Unmounting directory /home/ubuntu/tmp/remaster-root/proc...
Unmounting directory /home/ubuntu/tmp/remaster-root/sys...
Unmounting directory /home/ubuntu/tmp/remaster-root/dev/pts...
Unmounting directory /home/ubuntu/tmp/remaster-root/var/run...
Saving apt cache
Cleaning up apt
Removing customize dir...
Cleaning up temporary directories...
Restoring /root directory...
Removing /home/username directory, if created...
Restoring resolv.conf...

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#1

Small note: to use UCK in a Live-CD, I made a link to a drive with 150G free space:
ln -s /media/usbdisk/uck-tmp $HOME/tmp

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#2

Small note: to use UCK in a Live-CD, I made a link to a drive with 150G free space:
ln -s /media/usbdisk/uck-tmp $HOME/tmp

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#3

the partition is mounted with the wrong settings, use your home directory or mount it with the same setting of /home or /root

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#4

How can I "mount" the partition in other way?
I start Live-CD, install UCK, plug a big USB drive to work, and:
mkdir /media/usbdisk/uck-tmp
ln -s /media/usbdisk/uck-tmp /home/ubuntu/tmp

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#5

i think you can't use uck within a livecd

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#6

Why?
I've tried this in a computer with 4GiB of RAM memory, and using a ext3-formatted external media for temporary UCK's work.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my computer (I cannot upgrade now for non-related reasons), and cannot rebuild 9.10 images with UCK. Is for this reason I'm trying to make use of UCK with a v9.10 Live-CD.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#7

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Artem Sagajda (asagajda) said : 		#8

I've added links to related bugs, that have fix. Check it, hope thet is solution

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Artem Sagajda (asagajda) said : 		#9

This issue was fixed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/uck/+bug/228235
When you start uck there's workaround mentioned on welcome screen:
...
Requirements:
1. about 5 GB of free disk space in /home/artem/tmp
   (on local machine and mounted with "dev,suid,exec" options)
...
so it's crucial to remount filesystem where ~/tmp folder resides with "dev,suid,exec" options
(in my case it's a filesystem on a separate partition with mount point /home, maybe you have /home inside root filesystem)

you can do it this way:

sudo mount -o remount,dev,suid,exec /home

or if you have not separate partition for /home:

sudo mount -o remount,dev,suid,exec /

Then try "Run console application" one more time.

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#10

Thanks for completing answers.