On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 16:57:08 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 04/11/26 at 00:07, David Wright wrote:
> > Of course, if you've already installed the package, it's at:
> > /usr/share/doc/linux-image-6.12.115+deb13.1-amd64/changelog.gz
> 
> Uhu, when I run:
> 
> ~$ zless /usr/share/doc/linux-image-6.12.115+deb13.1-amd64/changelog.gz
> 
> then I hit "q" to quit, "zless" yields this error message:
> 
> "Input preprocessor failed (status 141)  (press RETURN)"

It's a cosmetic error.  You can safely ignore this.

Exit status 141 is what you see when a process dies as a result of a
SIGPIPE.  That happens when a process tries to write to a pipe, but
the pipe has already been closed.

In this case, there's a pipe set up between a decompressing process
and the pager.  If the pager quits before the decompressor has fully
written all the output, then the decompressor gets a SIGPIPE, and
dies with status 141.

Normally this kind of detail is hidden from the end user (you), but
in this case, for whatever reason, it was revealed.  It's nothing
you need to worry about.

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