sbuild schroot fails

I am trying to package an Ubuntu package as a Debian package. For maintainability I am trying to use sbuild. Following the steps here I go through the first five steps, but when I try to build I get chroot errors. These are the steps: 1 sudo apt-get install sbuild 2 sudo mkdir /root/.gnupg # To work around #792100 3 sudo sbuild-update --keygen 4 sudo sbuild-adduser $LOGNAME 5 ... *logout* and *re-login* or use newgrp sbuild in your current shell 6 sudo sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/srv/chroot/unstable-amd64.tar.gz unstable mktemp -d http://httpredir.debian.org/debian The sbuild-createchrrot command that I use is: CODE: SELECT ALL sudo sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz jessie mktemp -d http://httpredir.debian.org/debian I: SUITE: jessie I: TARGET: /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X I: MIRROR: http://httpredir.debian.org/debian I: Running debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=buildd --verbose --include=fakeroot,build-essential,debfoster --components=main --resolve-deps jessie /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X http://httpredir.debian.org/debian I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature (key id 75DDC3C4A499F1A18CB5F3C8CBF8D6FD518E17E1) I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Found additional required dependencies: acl adduser dmsetup insserv libaudit-common libaudit1 libbz2-1.0 libcap2 libcap2-bin libcryptsetup4 libdb5.3 libdebconfclient0 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcrypt20 libgpg-error0 libkmod2 libncursesw5 libprocps3 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libslang2 libsystemd0 libudev1 libustr-1.0-1 procps systemd systemd-sysv udev I: Found additional base dependencies: binutils bzip2 cpp cpp-4.9 debian-archive-keyring dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.9 gcc gcc-4.9 gnupg gpgv libapt-pkg4.12 libasan1 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libcloog-isl4 libdpkg-perl libfakeroot libgc1c2 libgcc-4.9-dev libgdbm3 libgmp10 libgomp1 libisl10 libitm1 liblsan0 libmpc3 libmpfr4 libquadmath0 libreadline6 libstdc++-4.9-dev libstdc++6 libtimedate-perl libtsan0 libubsan0 libusb-0.1-4 linux-libc-dev make patch perl perl-modules readline-common xz-utils I: Checking component main on http://httpredir.debian.org/debian ... I: Retrieving acl 2.2.52-2 I: Validating acl 2.2.52-2 I: Retrieving libacl1 2.2.52-2 I: Validating libacl1 2.2.52-2 I: Retrieving adduser 3.113+nmu3 I: Validating adduser 3.113+nmu3 I: Retrieving apt 1.0.9.8.2 I: Validating apt 1.0.9.8.2 I: Retrieving libapt-pkg4.12 1.0. It continues until it finishes, I am not sure if these are errors, but this happens right before I regain control over the terminal. I: Base system installed successfully. I: Configured /etc/hosts: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │127.0.0.1 hn localhost └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I: Configured /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │#!/bin/sh │echo "All runlevel operations denied by policy" >&2 │exit 101 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I: Configured APT /etc/apt/sources.list: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main │deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── I: Please add any additional APT sources to /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X/etc/apt/sources.list I: Setting reference package list. I: Updating chroot. Ign http://httpredir.debian.org jessie InRelease Hit http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release.gpg Hit http://httpredir.debian.org jessie Release Get:1 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7058 kB] Get:2 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6763 kB] Get:3 http://httpredir.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4582 kB] Fetched 18.4 MB in 21s (837 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I: chroot /tmp/tmp.uLbQox2R0X has been removed. I: Successfully set up jessie chroot. I: Run "sbuild-adduser" to add new sbuild users. After that I try to run: sbuild -d jessie filename.dsc Then I get this error: ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ simplescreenrecorder 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1 (amd64) 07 Feb 2016 04:15 ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Package: simplescreenrecorder Version: 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1 Source Version: 0.3.6+1~ppa1~wily1 Distribution: jessie Machine Architecture: amd64 Host Architecture: amd64 Build Architecture: amd64 E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Summary │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Then the cursor just sits there blinking. What is wrong with the chroot? How come sbuild isn't setting it up properly? How do I fix this to use sbuild? sbuild: Installed: 0.65.2-1 Candidate: 0.65.2-1 Version table: 0.66.0-5~bpo8+1 0 100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages *** 0.65.2-1 0 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status schroot: Installed: 1.6.10-1+b1 Candidate: 1.6.10-1+b1 Version table: *** 1.6.10-1+b1 0 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status **Edit:** I do not have the below file or folders nor do I really know how to manually create them. The wiki didn't really say much about these files. E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory **edit** this is the contents of my /etc/schroot folder tree /etc/schroot/ /etc/schroot/ ├── buildd ├── chroot.d │   └── jessie-amd64-sbuild-k92zq_ ├── default ├── desktop ├── minimal ├── sbuild └── setup.d └── 99check -> 00check 7 directories, 2 files this is the content of that jessie-amd64 file cat /etc/schroot/chroot.d/jessie-amd64-sbuild-k92zq_ [jessie-amd64-sbuild] type=file description=Debian jessie/amd64 autobuilder file=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz groups=root,sbuild root-groups=root,sbuild profile=sbuild when I run schroot -c jessie-amd64-sbuild E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory schroot -c jessie-amd64 E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory They still just give an error even though I am using the -c command, it's complaining about the schroot.conf file. I've tried to write this to the schroot.conf file cat /etc/schroot/schroot.conf [jessie-amd64] type=file description=Debian jessie/amd64 autobuilder file=/srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz groups=root,sbuild root-groups=root,sbuild profile=sbuild then tried to run schroot -c /etc/schroot/schroot.conf schroot -c jessie-amd64 E: /srv/chroot/jessie-amd64.tar.gz: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory then I get the above error.