On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Jason Wright wrote:
> Howdy... > > Awhile back, I bought RedHat Motif when I thought that I'd be running > their distribution. Well, I discovered that I liked Debian better and > that alien, as shipped with Debian 1.2 would install the motif RPMs. > > I've since upgraded my installation by hand to 1.3 (without using deselect) > and now alien seems unable to install the RPMs. I get the same error when > trying to install other RPMs or .tar.gz's. > --------------- debstd processing finished -------------- > dpkg-gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29 > Package build failed. > Are you running alien from the RAW TEXT CONSOLE? (I mean: not an xterm nor Midnight Commander prompt) I got the same error running dpkg-gencontrol from debian "build", when I was recompiling debian sorce packages. The reason was that I was running build from xterm or Midnight Commander. May be there is the same problem? I hope that this may help Greetings Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .