Re: /dev/fd/4 ??
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Gerhard Poul wrote:
> what's /dev/fd/4??
That's a temporary name for the interpreter of a script. If you use
"#!/bin/foobar", and the hurd can't find foobar anywhere, it will map this
to a temporary whatever (pipe I think) /dev/fd/4.
> I get such errors very frequently when installing new packages on my i486
> running Hurd. :-(((
Then you are lacking a script interpreter. Do you have bash installed, and
perl?
> shadow:~# dpkg -i binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-4.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package binutils.
> (Reading database ... 4181 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking binutils (from binutils_2.9.1.0.19a-4.deb) ...
> Setting up binutils (2.9.1.0.19a-4) ...
> /dev/fd/4: /dev/fd/4: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing binutils (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> binutils
binutils.postinst is a shell script, so /bin/sh must be there and not a dangling
symlink.
binutils-postinst does call install-info, which is a perl script. So I
guess you are lacking /usr/bin/perl. Did you install perl-base package? Is
perl a dangling symlink? If you have a perl.dist file, rename it to perl.
> Is this a real device?? How can I create it??
No & you can't.
Thanks,
Marcus
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