Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.18 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #213543
Had the same/similar problem. I have a very small boot partition: home:/home/jens# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7.8G 6.3G 1.2G 84% / /dev/hda1 7.6M 6.0M 1.2M 84% /boot /dev/hda4 4.1G 2.8G 1.1G 73% /home When I try to install a new kernel into /boot, so that the there would not be enough space on the boot partition, the dpkg segfaults: home:/home/jens# dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_meinkernel.v03_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.20. (Reading database ... 136037 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.20 (from .../kernel-image-2.4.20_meinkernel.v03_i386.deb) ... Speicherzugriffsfehler home:/home/jens# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) ### Then I have to press <ENTER> to get back to the prompt (don't know if that is important N.B.: Speicherzugriffsfehler means Segmentation Fault in German (sorry about that) After the unsuccessful installation: home:/home/jens# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7.8G 6.3G 1.2G 84% / /dev/hda1 7.6M 7.6M 0 100% /boot /dev/hda4 4.1G 2.8G 1.1G 73% /home - -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux home 2.4.23-1-686 #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.18 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an - -- no debconf information
