Hi, I'm seeing the same problem on a recently debootstrapped Sid system.
The following suggests this is actually a bug in dpkg (were there any recent changes there?). root:~# apt-get install x11-xserver-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: cpp cpp-4.3 libgmp3c2 libice6 libmpfr1ldbl libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 x11-common Suggested packages: cpp-doc gcc-4.3-locales nickle cairo-5c The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp cpp-4.3 libgmp3c2 libice6 libmpfr1ldbl libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 x11-common x11-xserver-utils 0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/6090kB of archives. After this operation, 16.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org