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I have a Intel 64-bit machine running Linux mint 18.1 . On this machine, when I run the following command 

sudo debootstrap --arch ia64 wheezy rootfs http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

with the following errors :

W: cannot check release signature; keyring file not available /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
I: Failed to retrieve InRelease

Now, I have a second machine with exactly similar hardware configurations, running Ubuntu 16.04. On this machine, I get the same error but it still continues and downloads the rootfs correctly.

What could be the reason? I tried copying the keyrings from the working machine to the failing machine, still no luck. Both the devices are sitting in the same network with same network configurations

Naveen
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  • Those Debian Chroot's have [a lot of problems](https://www.google.com/search?q=debootstrap+jww). After they broke signing last year, enough was enough for me. I finally gave up on them. You might find [this page](https://cryptopp.com/wiki/Debian_Chroot#Unknown_key_B4C86482705A2CE1) useful. They are basically my field notes when trying to setup and maintain a variety of them. – jww Jun 21 '17 at 18:05
  • And to comment on `sudo debootstrap --arch ia64 ...` - As far as I know, there is no emulation for ia64. There are no hits for it when running [`update-binfmts --display | grep interpreter`](https://cryptopp.com/wiki/Debian_Chroot#Debootstrap). You may need to test on real Itanium hardware. They call Itanium the Itanic because it sunk. Its hard to find the hardware in the field. – jww Jun 21 '17 at 18:10

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I tried what you did with the LinuxMint 18.1 LiveCD, and deboostrap fails not on the message you quote, but on the chroot step.

You should use --arch amd64 instead of --arch ia64.

Stéphane Glondu
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