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Re: glibc 2.1 on Intel



On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:44:10PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have glibc 2.1 working on i386 Debian?  I managed to get
> the source package to compile and untarred it on top of base2_0.tgz.
> 
> The chrooted environment partially works, but "dpkg-deb" doesn't work.
> It fails with:
> 
>  # dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.0.95-980825-0.1_i386.deb 
> 
>  gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>  dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> 
> Which might be caused by a failed _llseek:
> 
>  # strace dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.0.95-980825-0.1_i386.deb 
>  [...]
>  read(3, "!<arch>\ndebian-binary   9071235"..., 4096) = 4096
>  _llseek(0x3, 0, 0xfffff34c, 0xbffffb10, 0x1) = 2147483626
>  pipe([4, 5])                            = 0
>  [...]
> 
> But, the return value (from the kernel) is 7FFFFFEA, which isn't -1,
> so I'm not quite sure what is going on.  (This is running with a
> 2.1.122 kernel, compiled against 2.1.123 includes.)


What version of dpkg are you using?  This error was typical up until
.25 or so.

Dan


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