Re: what wants dpkg-gencontrol to tell me?

> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek It means that you don't have a utmp entry for that shell. Upgrade to a newer dpkg-dev (probably from unstable) for a version that just whines about the lack of utmp entry, instead of actually breaking... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: what wants dpkg-gencontrol to tell me?

Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # dpkg-gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek > > I can't figure out what dpkg-gencontrol want to tell me 8-( That's a bug, you have to use dpkg-dev from development. Sven -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL P

what wants dpkg-gencontrol to tell me?

Hello! # dpkg-gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek I can't figure out what dpkg-gencontrol want to tell me 8-( Even old packages which build pretty fine some weeks ago, fails this way. As there is no verbose option, I don't know where I have to look 8-((