retitle 199653 SIGCHLD being ignored somewhere reassign 199653 general thanks
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200203/msg03490.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg01498.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2002/debian-user-spanish-200211/msg01621.html http://lists.presso.net/pipermail/allug/2002-April/001056.html All of these seem to describe the same issue. Some of the other symptoms include: - dpkg trying to wait for gzip, and not finding it, in the same way that apt does - Perl complaining "Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default" It sounds like the process is inheriting a SIG_IGN action for SIGCHLD from somewhere, though I have no idea where. There was a problem with cron doing this, as discussed in this NetBSD bug report: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=11778 but as far as I know, none of these instances involve cron, and this is fixed in Debian cron anyway since version 3.0pl1-43 (long before woody). Maybe this is a bug in one of the shells? I am CCing a the folks from debian-user who experienced this behaviour to find out more about their environment. If you could answer these questions: 1. What shell are you using when you experience this problem? 2. Run this command in the environment where you experience the problem: perl -w -e "" Does it produce any output? Specifically, this message? Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default. -- - mdz
