Troubleshoot distrobuilder

This section covers some of the most commonly encountered problems and gives instructions for resolving them.

Cannot install into target

Error Cannot install into target '/var/cache/distrobuilder.123456789/rootfs' mounted with noexec or nodev

You have installed distrobuilder into a LXD container and you are trying to run it. distrobuilder does not run in a LXD container. Run distrobuilder on the host, or in a VM.

Classic confinement

Error error: This revision of snap "distrobuilder" was published using classic confinement

You are trying to install the distrobuilder snap package. The distrobuilder snap package has been configured to use the classic confinement. Therefore, when you install it, you have to add the flag --classic as shown above in the instructions.

Must be root

Error You must be root to run this tool

You must be root in order to run the distrobuilder tool. The tool runs commands such as mknod that require administrative privileges. Use sudo when running distrobuilder.

Kernel settings

Error SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt

If running distrobuilder using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) with an unmodified kernel an error occurs during extracting rootfs.img out of Rocky Linux image.
Solution: compile new WSL2 kernel mit setting CONFIG_XZ_DEC_X86=y