i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same bug on this list the morning after i noticed it.
ben, any way we could get dpkg-deb to print the signal that killed it's child? Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at > > this?] > > > > > Unpacking replacement man-db ... > > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb > > > (--unpack): > > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 > > > Building manual page index in background. > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > This looks like a system problem. Looks like gzip is getting killed (the > Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running? > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- (jacob kuntz) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (megabite systems) "think free speech, not free beer."
