Ben Collins said: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:29:10PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.6.15 >> Followup-For: Bug #147183 >> >> If I pick some random tarred file and untar it, I can install a >> package. Sometimes I have to untar something twice before this will >> work. Right after I've installed the one package, dpkg will fail if I >> try to install a second package. I have to manually go untar some file >> to fix it (it doesn't seem to matter which file I untar, just that tar >> is used somehow). >> >> BTW, a reboot did not fix this. > > This is either completely bogus, or your system is fundamentally > screwed up beyond dpkg's control.
Always a possibility. Any way for me to check this? > IMO, the "have to untar to get dpkg to work" sounds too much like a > Windows mentality to actually be true. The two have nothing to do with > each other. Dunno how Windows fits into this, and I realize it sounds bizarre. However, the two *do* seem related, since I can untar something, then dpkg works once or a few times, then fails until I untar something else. I tried a google search using one of the error lines "subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2". One of the results mentioned glibc errors and tar, so I decided to see if tar was working. It was. I happened to retry installing something with apt, and one of the packages worked. Subsequently installing anything with apt failed again. Until I tried tar again. Yes it's weird. No I don't know why. Perhaps this information is useful for one of the dpkg wizards. > Further more, you need to supply dpkg's actual error message when the > failure happens. Leaving out that bit of info makes this bug report > pretty much useless. Dpkg has hundreds of different error combinations, > and attempting to guess which one you are hitting is not even a > possibility. The complete error message is at the top of the ticket; I submitted it when I first submitted the ticket. However, if you want to see it again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# apt-get install weather Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: int-fiction-installer The following NEW packages will be installed: int-fiction-installer weather 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/82.0kB of archives. After unpacking 311kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package int-fiction-installer. (Reading database ... 18774 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking int-fiction-installer (from .../int-fiction-installer_1.4_all.deb) ...dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/weather_1%3a1-1_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/weather_1%3a1-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (it downloaded 0 bytes because I already downloaded/installed these two packages once as a test, then apt-get removed them and installed them again) -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
