So I ran those two exports you gave me and added "-c precise" to my utils call, but it still seems to be running into that pbuilder bug.  Here's the output or log/precise-amd64:

pbuilder/build//cow.20008 cow-shell 
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Upgrading for distribution precise
I: copying local configuration
cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.20008/etc/hosts': No such file or directory
pbuilder update failed
E: could not update with cowdancer, try --no-cowdancer-update option
  forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.20008 
 -> Copying COW directory
  forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359 
  forking: cp -al /var/cache/pbuilder/base-precise-amd64.cow /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359 
I: unlink for ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359/.ilist failed, it didn't exist?
 -> Invoking pbuilder
  forking: pbuilder update --override-config --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359 --mirror http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ --distribution precise --no-targz --internal-chrootexec chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359 cow-shell 
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Upgrading for distribution precise
I: copying local configuration
cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.22359/etc/hosts': No such file or directory
pbuilder update failed
E: could not update with cowdancer, try --no-cowdancer-update option
  forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.22359 
cannot canonicalize filename /var/cache/pbuilder/base-precise-amd64.cow, does not exist

Thanks!



On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bruce Lefko <blefko5361@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, so it looks like in log/sid-amd64 I see the following over and over again:

  forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid-amd64.cow 
 -> Invoking pbuilder
  forking: pbuilder create --buildplace /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid-amd64.cow --mirror http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ --architecture amd64 --distribution sid --no-targz --extrapackages cowdancer 
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
I: Running in no-targz mode
I: Distribution is sid.
I: Building the build environment
I: running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving Release
E: debootstrap failed
W: Aborting with an error
pbuilder create failed



On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Lefko <blefko5361@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to tweak mod_spandsp in master and deb package the code for use in my application.

I'm running "./debian/util.sh build-all -ibn -z9 -f /tmp/modules.conf" but it consistently gets stuck at "Building sid-amd64 debs.." 

First off, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to package custom changes, but also why is the debian build stuck at this step?

Thanks!