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and subject line Re: Bug#783234: dpkg not upgrading
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Package: dpkg

Version: 1.16.16

 

Linux xxxxxxxxx 2.6.35.4-rscloud #8 SMP Mon Sep 20 15:54:33 UTC 2010 x86_64
GNU/Linux

 

dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version

Version: 2.13-38+deb7u8

 

apt-get dist-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages will be upgraded:

  curl dpkg libcurl3 libmysqlclient18 libtasn1-3 libx11-6 libx11-data
libxml2

  libxrender1 mysql-common ntp

11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/6678 kB of archives.

After this operation, 4096 B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

(Reading database ... 48545 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace dpkg 1.16.15 (using .../dpkg_1.16.16_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement dpkg ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.16.16_amd64.deb
(--unpack):

unable to create `/usr/share/man/sv/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz.dpkg-new' (while
processing `./usr/share/man/sv/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz'): Invalid argument

dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

 


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Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 19:06:55 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 20:38:53 +1000, Ross Peachey wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.16.16

> > Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.16.16_amd64.deb
> > (--unpack):
> > 
> > unable to create `/usr/share/man/sv/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz.dpkg-new' (while
> > processing `./usr/share/man/sv/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz'): Invalid argument
> 
> This error comes from a very common open() syscall to create a file.
> If it's failing there, I assume either your filesystem or your kernel
> are misbehaving. Maybe broken disk/memory? Can you reproduce it?

This is pretty much a non-actionable bug report. And because I suspect
it is a local problem anyway, I'll be preemptively closing it.

If you can come up with more information, please reopen.

Thanks,
Guillem

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