Starting point: included - fail to build alphine

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Hi all,

When I step-by-step went thru the starting point “included” walkthrough I failed to build the alpine image with the following error. I googled a while and found someone said that this is related to rotating keys. I tried to use "udo $HOME/go/bin/distrobuilder build-lxd alpine.yaml -o image.release=3.8 -o source.same_as=3.16 " but no help.

Do you have any idea on this? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Godchild.

ERROR: unable to select packages:
doas (no such package):
required by: world[doas]
Error: Failed to manage packages: Failed to install packages: exit status 1
ERROR [2023-05-20T05:06:18-04:00] Failed running distrobuilder err=“Failed to manage packages: Failed to install packages: exit status 1”
INFO [2023-05-20T05:06:18-04:00] Removing cache directory

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maybe try to verify the availability of doas package.

apt search doas
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Hello Marek33366,

I tried. Yes, doas has been installed in my machine. After a few trial-and-error. I successfully built alpine container by “sudo $HOME/go/bin/distrobuilder build-lxd alpine.yaml -o image.release=3.8 -o source.same_as=3.12”

Thanks for your help anyway.

Best regards,
Godchild.

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Hi godchild,

Try using following command. This will work for you.

sudo $HOME/go/bin/distrobuilder build-lxd alpine.yaml -o image.release=3.9
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thanks, works fine

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I can’t get the image to build no matter what I do. I got it to build for my architecture (AARCH64) but unfortunately it didn’t run on the target machine. So I changed the architecture to ‘x86_64’ and now I’m getting the following error no matter what version I try to build.

Error: Failed to manage packages: Failed to refresh: fork/exec /sbin/apk: no such file or directory
ERROR [2023-07-31T01:49:45-04:00] Failed running distrobuilder err=“Failed to manage packages: Failed to refresh: fork/exec /sbin/apk: no such file or directory”

I was hoping I could complete all the challenges on this laptop. Can anyone help?

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Bump.

This works - I had been stuck on this box for months. This fix works. Kudos to you!! Thank you!

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If I had to make a suggestion, I would tell you to download a fresh VM image and follow the write up to a tee (With the exception that you do what 1nf3rn0s posted above you.)

I had issues for months. Fresh install was crashing at “doas”, but his command with release updated fixed the problem completely.

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thank you for this!

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thanks bro it still works at 10.09.2023

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Version bump was the answer. Thanks.

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Having a slightly different issue when trying to build alpine:

└──╼ [★]$ make
gofmt -s -w .
go install -v ./...
github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient
# github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient
../go/pkg/mod/github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient@v1.9.8/client.go:514:18: undefined: context.Cause
note: module requires Go 1.20
make: *** [Makefile:9: default] Error 2

I’ve tried installing Go 1.20.2, but then the make script chokes because it wants 1.19. Does anyone have a way to deal with this?

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This too was broken. I couldn’t get distrobuilder to build because of the Go version.

I then tried using the snap install, which worked, but then I got this error:

Error: Failed to get definition: yaml: unmarshal errors:
line 190: field incus not found in type shared.DefinitionTarget

I ended up completing it by using Method 2 on HackTricks

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Yep I am getting this same problem no matter which image-release version I try to build.
Will look into the other hacktricks method. thanks.

Error: Failed to get definition: yaml: unmarshal errors:
line 190: field incus not found in type shared.DefinitionTarget

It seems to me that the tier2 walkthroughs are a bit broken though. There is also a question asked in the Included challenge about what folder tftp stores its files in and I am pretty sure I am answering that correctly but it refuses to accept it /var/lib/tftpboot

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Edit out all the incus bits out of the downloaded alpine.yaml, then distrobuilder will build it successfully.

└──╼ [★]$ diff alpine.yaml alpine-fixed.yaml 
190,192d189
<   incus:
<     vm:
<       filesystem: ext4
202,205d198
<   types:
<   - vm
< 
< - generator: incus-agent

Edit: @Alturis add the trailing slash and it will take /var/lib/tftpboot/

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Thanks @malx. Actually, I was able to build the alpine image following a different hacktricks set of instructions and a different install sequence. Got that one solved now. Stlll stuck on a few others in the Starting Point Tier 2 group that seems like they might be broken. But will keep at it.

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AH! Just saw this. thanks!