On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Guillem Jover wrote:
> The problem is that something messes with dpkg's standard output and
> error, and it fails when doing the fflush() and ferror() check on it
> in m_output() I think. But this seems to be coming from something
> lower than dpkg or apt, perhaps a change in glibc or the kernel. As
> I've tried with downgraded versions matching the ones in stable, and
> it still fails. I've not tested further.
> 
> The last thing reported from dpkg to apt through the status-fd channel
> is:
> 
>   status: git : error : error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or 
> directory

This is not without reminding me of this years old bug on launchpad (with
hundreds of duplicates) that we never clearly understood:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/545790

I don't know if they are related but if that's the case, then it's good to 
finally
have a way to reproduce it more reliably.

Cheers,
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