polystrap: dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory

Hello,

While test driving polystrap did I encount this error message
dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory

To find out what is causing the error did I made these changes

--- a/polystrap
+++ b/polystrap
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ for script in $ROOTDIR/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.preinst; do
         fakechroot chroot $ROOTDIR ${script##$ROOTDIR} install
 done

+set -x
 # run dpkg --configure -a twice because of errors during the first run
-fakechroot chroot $ROOTDIR /usr/bin/dpkg --configure -a || fakechroot chroot $ROOTDIR /usr/bin/dpkg --configure -a
+fakechroot chroot $ROOTDIR /usr/bin/dpkg --debug=1 --configure -a || fakechroot chroot $ROOTDIR /usr/bin/dpkg --confi

 # source hooks


The error output again, now in context

I: Preinstall script: debian-sid-armel/var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.preinst
I: Preinstall script: debian-sid-armel/var/lib/dpkg/info/vim-common.preinst
I: Preinstall script: debian-sid-armel/var/lib/dpkg/info/vim-runtime.preinst
Leaving 'diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/help.txt to /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/help.txt.vim-tiny by vim-runtime'
Leaving 'diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/tags to /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/tags.vim-tiny by vim-runtime'
+ fakechroot chroot debian-sid-armel /usr/bin/dpkg --debug=1 --configure -a
dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory
+ fakechroot chroot debian-sid-armel /usr/bin/dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory


What should I do, so that dpkg in the chroot environment
does see the "dpkg status area"?


Groeten
Geert Stappers
Running a build host that is an fairly up-to-date amd64 unstable
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