Re: problems with dpkg, apt, perl etc. ( wait/waitpid)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:40:31AM +0200, Cristian Rauta wrote:
> Donno if it`s because libc6 but look at this errors :
> 
> Hit http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/non-free Release
> Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/main Sources
>   Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/contrib Sources
>   Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/non-free Sources
>   Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> [...]
> 
> root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb
> dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
> dpkg: error processing perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb
> root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives#
> [...]
> root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives# perl -w -e ""
> Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives#
> 
> Because of that i can`t update,upgrade and install packages.
> If anyone knows how to fix that .. please let me know how.
> Thanx 

This is inappropriate for -devel.

It's also like a quarter of a bug report.  What versions of libc, perl,
etc are installed?  What architecture?  What kernel version?  What have
you changed lately?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer