debootstrap fails at `E: Tried to extract package, but tar failed. Exit...` on WSL

[dimpolo]

This is on the arm64 branch with WSL2 Ubuntu-24.04 on Windows11

logs:

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I: Extracting libpam-modules...
I: Extracting libpam-modules-bin...
I: Extracting libpam-runtime...
E: Tried to extract package, but tar failed. Exit...
rmdir: failed to remove '/mnt/c/Users/user/wsl/pi-gen/work/TS30/stage0/rootfs/debootstrap': Directory not empty
[22:24:32] bootstrap failed: please check /mnt/c/Users/user/wsl/pi-gen/work/TS30/stage0/debootstrap.log

debootstrap.log:

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2025-09-22 22:24:12 URL:http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.52.23-1+b1_arm64.deb [23832/23832] -> "/mnt/c/Users/user/wsl/pi-gen/work/TS30/stage0/rootfs//var/cache/apt/archives/partial/whiptail_0.52.23-1+b1_arm64.deb" [1]
2025-09-22 22:24:12 URL:http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.13.dfsg-1_arm64.deb [82744/82744] -> "/mnt/c/Users/user/wsl/pi-gen/work/TS30/stage0/rootfs//var/cache/apt/archives/partial/zlib1g_1%3a1.2.13.dfsg-1_arm64.deb" [1]
tar: ./usr/share/man/man7/pam.7.gz: Cannot create symlink to 'PAM.7.gz': File exists

I can provide full logs and more info if needed

[XECDesign]

I think the issue is that you're trying to build on an ntfs filesystem.

[dimpolo]

That was it! Thank you.
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