[cowbuilder-dist] login doesn't show shell prompt

Thanks. This affects pbuilder-dist too. I wonder if some environment variables aren't passed in or something. Can you run env in cowbuilder-dist login and cowbuilder --login and see if there's any discrepancies (or paste it in here)?

With cowbuilder-dist:

COWDANCER_REUSE=yes
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/cowdancer/libcowdancer.so
LC_ALL=C
PBCURRENTCOMMANDLINEOPERATION=login
USER=root
SUDO_USER=root
SUDO_UID=0
USERNAME=root
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
PWD=/
LANG=C
SHLVL=2
SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/cowbuilder --login --basepath /opt/pbuilder/karmic-base.cow --distribution karmic --buildresult /opt/pbuilder/karmic_result/ --logfile /opt/pbuilder/karmic_result/last_operation.log --aptcache /var/cache/apt/archives/ --override-config --components main restricted universe multiverse
HOME=/home/bigon
LOGNAME=root
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
SUDO_GID=0
DISPLAY=:0.0
COWDANCER_ILISTFILE=/.ilist
XAUTHORITY=/home/bigon/.Xauthority
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
_=/usr/bin/env

With plain cowbuilder:

COWDANCER_REUSE=yes
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/cowdancer/libcowdancer.so
LC_ALL=C
PBCURRENTCOMMANDLINEOPERATION=login
USER=root
SUDO_USER=bigon
SUDO_UID=1000
USERNAME=root
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
PWD=/
EDITOR=vim
LANG=C
SHLVL=2
SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/cowbuilder --login --basepath /opt/pbuilder/karmic-base.cow/
HOME=/home/bigon
LOGNAME=root
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
SUDO_GID=1000
DISPLAY=:0.0
PBUILDFOLDER=/opt/pbuilder
COWDANCER_ILISTFILE=/.ilist
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/home/bigon/.Xauthority
_=/usr/bin/env

mmm is it due to the chained sudo call?

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.139

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.139) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * syncpackage, backportpackage, sponsor-patch: Use -nc when building source
    packages. Avoids needing build-deps on the build machine.
  * sponsor-patch:
    - Determine the task from the UDD branch.
    - Support syncs of new packages.
    - Support syncs from a non-default series (LP: #931644)
    - Check for dependencies that the package doesn't Depend on. Recommend
      dput, lintian, patch, quilt. (LP: #846385)
  * Re-add dgetlp. Still needed for downloading source packages from +queue.
    (LP: #919805)
  * pbuilder-dist:
    - Export DISTRIBUTION and ARCHITECTURE as well as DIST and ARCH. Thanks
      Alessio Treglia. (Closes: #659060, LP: #423609)
    - Pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS through (LP: #685786)
  * reverse-depends: Now that Debian is supported server-side:
    - Convert Debian release aliases to codenames.
    - Default to the devel release of the vendor distribution.
    - Provide transitional reverse-build-depends wrapper to help users
      discover reverse-depends. (LP: #910420)
  * backportpackage: Map Debian release aliases to codenames (LP: #918231)

  [ Evan Broder]
  * sponsor-patch, requestsync, syncpackage: Add a config variable for -k
    arguments.

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:21:39 +0200