On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Gerhard Poul wrote: > what's /dev/fd/4??
That's a temporary name for the interpreter of a script. If you use "#!/bin/foobar", and the hurd can't find foobar anywhere, it will map this to a temporary whatever (pipe I think) /dev/fd/4. > I get such errors very frequently when installing new packages on my i486 > running Hurd. :-((( Then you are lacking a script interpreter. Do you have bash installed, and perl? > shadow:~# dpkg -i binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-4.deb > Selecting previously deselected package binutils. > (Reading database ... 4181 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking binutils (from binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-4.deb) ... > Setting up binutils (2.9.1.0.19a-4) ... > /dev/fd/4: /dev/fd/4: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing binutils (--install): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > Errors were encountered while processing: > binutils binutils.postinst is a shell script, so /bin/sh must be there and not a dangling symlink. binutils-postinst does call install-info, which is a perl script. So I guess you are lacking /usr/bin/perl. Did you install perl-base package? Is perl a dangling symlink? If you have a perl.dist file, rename it to perl. > Is this a real device?? How can I create it?? No & you can't. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
