Comment 1 for bug 398974

Is this possibly the reason pbuilder-dist does not work for me at all in karmic?

$ pbuilder-dist hardy create
Error: Could not find "pbuilder".
$ pbuilder
Command 'pbuilder' is available in '/usr/sbin/pbuilder'
The command could not be located because '/usr/sbin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative priviledges associated with your user account.
pbuilder: command not found