Problem with wait/waitpid... can't install packages

["Anthony R. J. Ball" <ant@suave.net>]

  I am trying again, since my last post got lost in
a mess of header munge...

  I recently installed debian, and things were going 
fine for a few weeks, but now I am having an odd issue
that seems to be affecting wait/waitpid. 

  When I try to do an apt-get install my install dies with:
Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/figlet_2.2-11_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/figlet_2.2-11_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  Now, I know the:
 'Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.'
is from perl, which I am also getting from a suidperl script
I wrote for my system, but the:
 'gzip -dc failed: No child processes' 
makes me think this is bigger than just a perl problem.

  Can someone point me in the right direction to try
to track this down... so far I have had no luck...

  If I reboot the system I can install packages for a little
while, but then the problem resurfaces after a short while...

				Thanks - Ant

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