[Error] assemble does almost everything, except the exports

[www-wagner]

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Describe the bug
Assemble creating an Ubuntu container does almost everything but fails to export the apps with the message: touch: setting times of '/dev/null': Permission denied. Only Ubuntu images (devel, rolling) fails like this.

To Reproduce
distrobox assemble create --file ubuntu.ini

[zz-bx_ubuntu]
# --- UBUNTU ---

# next version (bleeding edge)
#image=docker.io/ubuntu:devel
# current version
image=docker.io/ubuntu:rolling
# current LTS version
#image=quay.io/toolbx/ubuntu-toolbox
#image=docker.io/ubuntu:latest

pull=false
#init=true
init=false
entry=true
start_now=true
replace=true
root=false

unshare_ipc=false
unshare_netns=false
unshare_process=false
unshare_devsys=false

nvidia=false

home="/stor/sys/_ct_/data_box/ubuntu/home"
volume="/stor:/stor"

#additional_packages="sudo libnss-myhostname"
additional_packages="mono-complete"
additional_packages="keepass2"
additional_packages="dupeguru"
additional_packages="qdirstat"
additional_packages="freefilesync"

exported_apps="keepass2"
exported_apps="dupeguru"
exported_apps="qdirstat"
exported_apps="FreeFileSync"

#exported_bins=""
#exported_bins_path=""

Expected behavior
Container successfully created with exports to the host desktop shortcuts.

Logs
Run the commands with --verbose and post the log here as a file upload
Attach also the output of podman logs or docker logs, possibly with --latest flag

distrobox.log

container.log

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Are you using podman, docker or lilipod?podman
• Which version or podman, docker or lilipod? 5.7.1
• Which version of distrobox? 1.8.2.2
• Which host distribution? Arch Linux
• How did you install distrobox? pacman

Additional context

I've run the same export parameters using Debian container and it works fine.

[Kamorst]

I think it's related with uutils/coreutils#10186, which was fixed by upstream but the version on ubuntu:25.10 is not fixed yet.

I don't know why touch /dev/null is used by distrobox-assemble but, if it is a noop just to use distrobox-enter, it could be replaced with other command with no consequence like true.