fakeroot-ng with debootstrap variant fakechroot hangs on makedev

So I am trying to bootstrap a Ubuntu as unprivileged user on Ubuntu. The little script I am using is: #!/usr/bin/env bash DEBARCHIVE_URL="http://localhost:3142/de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \ fakeroot-ng -f -l"$(pwd)/fakeroot-ng.log" -p"$(pwd)/fakeroot-ng.state" \ fakechroot \ debootstrap \ --keep-debootstrap-dir \ --exclude=dhcp3-common,dhcp3-client,laptop-detect,tasksel,tasksel-data \ --variant=fakechroot \ --arch=amd64 \ $(lsb_release -sc) "${1:-$(pwd)/build_chroot}" ${DEBARCHIVE_URL} The gist is, that debootstrap hangs at the following operation: I: Configuring makedev... In htop (but not in pstree) I can see that the blocking command is: mknod mem- c 1 1 invoked by: /bin/sh - /sbin/MAKEDEV std consoleonly fd invoked by: /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/makedev.postinst configure which itself is invoked by dpkg. Summary (in order of invocation): /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/makedev.postinst configure /bin/sh - /sbin/MAKEDEV std consoleonly fd mknod mem- c 1 1 This is flabbergasting, since I am giving --variant=fakechroot and therefore should expect to have no trouble with potentially privileged commands. What am I doing wrong or how else would I go about bootstrapping a chroot environment for later use with fakeroot fakechroot chroot ...? ---------- Here's the relevant tail of the fakeroot log file: 4937: Called mknod(NONE) mknod: 4937 tried to create character device, turn to regular file mknod: 4937 mode 401 4502: Calling syscall 5 redirected from open 4937: Called mknod(RETURN) mknod: 4937 call failed with error Permission denied 4502: Called syscall 5, redirected from open open: 4502 map for dev 5 inode 1029 already exists - doing nothing process 4937 orig_sc=133 actual sc=79 state=RETURN