As so often seems to be the case, I spend days on a problem, eventually call for help, then almost immediately solve the problem myself. On thinking about what I was trying to install it occurred to me that some of the files end up on the (very small) boot partition, which turns out to be full. The segmentation fault is not the neatest way of reporting this error, so this could still be classed as a bug, but I have now resolved the problem by clearing some space on /boot.
Hope this is useful to you. Regards, Steve Pike -----Original Message----- From: Steve Pike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 8:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dpkg -i gives segmentation fault I am receiving a very similar error message to that reported in bug 198699. I am running Debian Woody, upgraded from the unstable package tree. I have built a new kernel from source, using make-kpkg. I have done this in the past and successfully installed the resultant package using dpkg, but the kernel has grown considerably since then due to the increase in the number of required options in my kernel. I now receive the following error on trying to install the package: server:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.22.031119. (Reading database ... 70525 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.22.031119 (from kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... Segmentation fault server:/usr/src# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Here is the same test with debugging enabled: server:/usr/src# dpkg -D 100 -i kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.22.031119. (Reading database ... 70525 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.22.031119 (from kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/.' tmp=`/..dpkg-tmp' new=`/..dpkg-new' D000100: tarobject already exists D000100: tarobject Directory exists D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/boot' tmp=`/boot.dpkg-tmp' new=`/boot.dpkg-new' D000100: tarobject already exists D000100: tarobject Directory exists D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119' tmp=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119.dpkg-tmp' new=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119.dpkg-new' D000100: tarobject already exists D000100: tarobject NormalFile[01] open size=21559 Segmentation fault server:/usr/src# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg --unpack gives the same error. Regards, Steve Pike
