Subject: Thank-you! (was: Re: autopkgtest-virt-lxc/bookworm: can no longer test trixie/sid)

From: Richard Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:29:02 +0000

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 15:21:45 +0100 Simon McVittie <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Actual result: bookworm testbed succeeds. sid and trixie testbeds fail
> with an error message similar to:
>
> > <VirtSubproc>: failure: (down) ['mkdir', '-m', '777',
> > '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.XXXXXXXX/downtmp'] failed (exit status 1, stderr
> > 'mkdir: cannot create directory '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.XXXXXXXX/downtmp':
> > No such file or directory\n')
>
> Successful workaround: upgrade autopkgtest (and no other packages) from
> bookworm-backports, and run autopkgtest again. (Re-running
> autopkgtest-build-lxc with the updated autopkgtest is not required.)

just wanted to say thank-you for reporting this and including the
workaround -- i use stable and ran into this,
and your message solved it for me