Bug#147183: marked as done (spong-common: can't install package)
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From: Kurt Yoder <kybug@shcorp.com>
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Subject: spong-common: can't install package
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Package: spong-common
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-16
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
here's what happens:
root@samerica:~# apt-get install spong-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
spong-common
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/133kB of archives. After unpacking 705kB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/spong-common_2.7.6a-5_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/spong-common_2.7.6a-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux samerica 2.4.17-686-smp #2 SMP Sat Dec 22 22:00:42 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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The fact that running tar (on anything) before running dpkg
makes a difference indicates clearly that the problem was
some sort of system flakiness.
Closing. Please forgive me and reopen if you now think
that there really is a bug in dpkg.
--
Thomas
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