I got r 839 built fine. I updated to 1014 and the build failed the same as when SUBDIRS was set to both emdebian and debian. 1014 only tries SUBDIR = emdebian and the build fails as below. Any hints? Thanks. -- Charles snip snip snip make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs' for subdir in emdebian; do\ (cd $subdir && make all) || exit 1;\ done make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' mkdir -p ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/sources/packages #in order to use fakeroot we have to clean out rootfs first (cd ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian && rm -rf emdebian-grip-rootfs) Config file used for multistrap: multistrap-balloon.conf em_multistrap 0.0.6 using multistrap-balloon.conf em_multistrap building 'armel' multistrap on 'i386' snip snip snip Get:12 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Sources [2,308kB] Fetched 8,273kB in 6min 18s (21.8kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B NO_PUBKEY 4D270D06F42584E6 W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main Packages (../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/www.emdebian.org_grip_dists_lenny_main_binary-armel_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages (../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/www.emdebian.org_grip_dists_lenny-proposed-updates_main_binary-armel_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Packages (../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-armel_Packages) apt-get -y -o Apt::Architecture=armel -o Apt::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true -o Apt::Get::Download-Only=true -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false -o Dir=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/ -o Dir::Etc=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/ -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list -o Dir::State=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/apt/ -o Dir::State::Status=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/lib/dpkg//status -o Dir::Cache=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/var/cache/apt/ install udev ntpdate balloon3-config apt emdebian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring emdebian-archive-keyring base-files base-passwd dpkg libattr1 libc6 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libvolume-id0 perl-base tzdata base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs findutils gcc-4.3-base grep grip-config gzip hostname initscripts libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libcap1 libcomerr2 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid1 libvolume-id0 login lsb-base makedev mawk mktemp mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin passwd perl-base procps sed sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tzdata util-linux zlib1g Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: adduser avahi-autoipd dash debconf debconf-i18n dhcp3-client dhcp3-common gnupg gpgv ifupdown libbz2-1.0 libdaemon0 libdb4.6 libiw29 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libpopt0 libreadline5 libssl0.9.8 libusb-0.1-4 lrzsz lzma module-init-tools nano net-tools netbase readline-common wget whiptail wireless-tools Suggested packages: aptitude synaptic gnome-apt wajig dpkg-dev apt-doc bzip2 python-apt resolvconf less Recommended packages: lockfile-progs The following NEW packages will be installed: adduser apt avahi-autoipd balloon3-config base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils dash debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common diff dpkg e2fslibs e2fsprogs emdebian-archive-keyring findutils gcc-4.3-base gnupg gpgv grep grip-config gzip hostname ifupdown initscripts libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcap1 libcomerr2 libdaemon0 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 libiw29 liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpopt0 libreadline5 libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libvolume-id0 login lrzsz lsb-base lzma makedev mawk mktemp module-init-tools mount nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin net-tools netbase ntpdate passwd perl-base procps readline-common sed sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tzdata udev util-linux wget whiptail wireless-tools zlib1g 0 upgraded, 95 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 20.6MB of archives. After this operation, 64.0MB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! libstdc++6 libbz2-1.0 readline-common libncurses5 libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 zlib1g gpgv gnupg debian-archive-keyring apt debianutils dhcp3-common libattr1 libacl1 libselinux1 coreutils lzma dpkg perl-base liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl debconf-i18n debconf dhcp3-client sed ncurses-bin lsb-base module-init-tools libssl0.9.8 wget hostname net-tools ifupdown mawk libncursesw5 nano netbase libcap1 ntpdate libpam-runtime libpam0g libdb4.6 libpam-modules passwd libvolume-id0 udev libslang2 libnewt0.52 libpopt0 whiptail grip-config gcc-4.3-base libgcc1 libc6 base-passwd base-files bash diff libcomerr2 e2fslibs libuuid1 libblkid1 libss2 e2fsprogs findutils grep gzip login mktemp mount libsepol1 sysvinit-utils initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit tar tzdata util-linux bsdutils ncurses-base dash adduser libdevmapper1.02.1 makedev procps libdaemon0 avahi-autoipd lrzsz libiw29 wireless-tools balloon3-config emdebian-archive-keyring Authentication warning overridden. Get:1 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1em1 [268kB] Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 [1,618kB] Get:3 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1em1 [37.2kB] Get:4 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main readline-common 5.2-3.1em1 [3,202B] Get:5 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1em1 [165kB] Get:6 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libreadline5 5.2-3.1em1 [108kB] Get:7 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13em1 [13.7kB] Get:8 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12em1 [48.1kB] Get:9 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main gpgv 1.4.9-3+lenny1em1 [139kB] Get:10 http://www.emdebian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main gnupg 1.4.9-3+lenny1em1 [533kB] snip snip snip Get:92 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main libiw29 29-1.1em1 [16.7kB] Get:93 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main wireless-tools 29-1.1em1 [40.0kB] Get:94 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main balloon3-config 0.4em1 [74.8kB] Get:95 http://www.emdebian.org lenny/main emdebian-archive-keyring 1.8.0em1 [5,372B] Fetched 20.6MB in 9min 3s (38.0kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode W: Unable to read ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory) I: Calculating obsolete packages I: Extracting adduser_3.110em1_all.deb... snip snip snip -> Processing conffiles for wget I: Extracting whiptail_0.52.2-11.3+lenny1em1_armel.deb... I: Extracting wireless-tools_29-1.1em1_armel.deb... -> Processing conffiles for wireless-tools I: Extracting zlib1g_1%3a1.2.3.3.dfsg-12em1_armel.deb... I: Unpacking complete. I: Tidying up apt cache and list data. Multistrap system installed successfully in ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/. # the real sources are in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ rm -f ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list touch multistrap-stamp #fix up rootfs enough to boot it and do dpkg --configure -a ROOTFS_CONFIG='rootfs-config' FILES='files' + '[' '' = ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs ']' + '[' -e ../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs ']' + ROOTFS=../../../build/rootfs/emdebian/emdebian-grip-rootfs + '[' / = ROOTFS ']' + '[' '' = files ']' + '[' -d files ']' + CONFIG=files + '[' -e config ']' + . config ./rootfs-config: line 37: .: config: file not found make[2]: *** [../../../build/rootfs/emdebianrootstrap.tgz] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs/emdebian' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/rootfs' make: *** [all] Error 1