New comment by CameronNemo on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/33088#issuecomment-933039843 Comment: >I had to reconfigure base-files from inside the chroot and then everything works fine. FWIW I would recommend *always* re-configuring base-files from within the chroot. >I am not sure what's happening here, because running the commands manually works fine Uh did you mount /dev into the chroot? You need to have /dev and /proc in the chroot. When I was not mounting /proc into my chroot, I saw breakage with the GNU install command: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2020-09/msg00009.html