Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is
running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message,
in case it gives anybody else some ideas.
I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
one
Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
one somehow had a corrupt index.bt file. Could it be that a partially
completed install produces such a corrupt file (i.e. could it be that
whatever mandb does in the background is
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben try running:
Ben dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
Ben If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the
Ben start of that line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
No errors:
lyell:~# dpkg-deb --extract
Ben Collins wrote:
That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract,
which unpacks the tarball itself.
Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it
down.
For the record, I did a clean install yesterday with the standard boot
floppies and experienced
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco
Ben wrote:
[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a
look at this?]
Unpacking replacement man-db ... dpkg-deb: subprocess
paste
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
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
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually
Ben extract, which unpacks the tarball itself.
Ben Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to
Ben track it down.
It is easy for me to reproduce - simply
Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP.
It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13.
--
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:12:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP.
It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13.
I doubt it, because i installed on a machine ... and i booted from
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
try running:
dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
You are aware that that uses a completely different codepath to
extract the package, right?
Wichert
--
/ Generally uninteresting signature
[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
this?]
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:13:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Fabrizio If you downgrade man-db (I'm reuploading 2.3.13 so
Fabrizio you'll find it in Incoming or Incoming/REJECT) and then
Fabrizio re-apt
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
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
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
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
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
try running:
dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that
line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile
(or
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
try running:
dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that
line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
i don't have a
16 matches
Mail list logo
