I've got a problem with dpkg on Debian unstable, that's preventing further package installation (I can remove packages fine).
Here's some output to illlustrate: detritus:~# apt-get install xlibs-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibs-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2723kB of archives. After unpacking 10.6MB will be used. (Reading database ... 90659 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xlibs-dev (from .../xlibs-dev_4.1.0-17_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-dev_4.1.0-17_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to create ./usr/X11R6/man/man3/XGetWMIconName.3x.gz': Too many open files dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-dev_4.1.0-17_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) detritus:~# This is not peculiar to this package, nor seemingly the filesystem it's writing too. There's plenty of filehandles and inodes available, the filesystem is mounted read/write, and I can create files in these directories manually. I'm lost, any ideas? Brad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
