Jake Griesbach writes ("Re: Dpkg fails to install certain packages"):
> Dpkg will produce the error either by using dselect install, or by running
> dpkg --install by hand. Oddly enough, and another person has also
> verified this, it only fails with a dpkg error on Eterms which were
> created before the window manager was started. A new Eterm window
> installs the packages just fine. Weird. I believe this is actually an
> Eterm bug in which Eterm fails to set SIGPIPE correctly.
Perhaps the bug is in xdm or startx ?
Ian.
