04.11.26, 17:05 +0100, Greg Wooledge: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 16:57:08 +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: >> On 04/11/26 at 00:07, David Wright wrote: >>> Of course, if you've already installed the package, it's at: >>> /usr/share/doc/linux-image-6.12.115+deb13.1-amd64/changelog.gz >> >> Uhu, when I run: >> >> ~$ zless /usr/share/doc/linux-image-6.12.115+deb13.1-amd64/changelog.gz >> >> then I hit "q" to quit, "zless" yields this error message: >> >> "Input preprocessor failed (status 141) (press RETURN)" > > It's a cosmetic error. You can safely ignore this. > > Exit status 141 is what you see when a process dies as a result of a > SIGPIPE. That happens when a process tries to write to a pipe, but > the pipe has already been closed. > > In this case, there's a pipe set up between a decompressing process > and the pager. If the pager quits before the decompressor has fully > written all the output, then the decompressor gets a SIGPIPE, and > dies with status 141. A small addendum: in that particular case this means, if you scroll in the pager till the end of the document, the decompressor will have written all the output, and the error will not occur.
-- Regards mks
