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>From ant@suave.net  Wed Mar 20 11:15:23 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:15:23 -0500
From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" <ant@suave.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: wait issues killing apt-get
Message-ID: <20020320161523.GA13481@suave.net>
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  ACK! I am trying to install things and suddenly I have what
appears to be an issue with wait and waitpid on my system.

  (I am currently running unstable, which may be part of the problem)

  Anyway... if I try to install a package I get 
# dpkg -i perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb
dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
dpkg: error processing perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb

and if I try to apt-get update I get 
Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages                           
  Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages                        
  Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages                       
  Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there


  download works... but the gzip bit seems to fail...
every once in a while I am also getting 
"Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default."
from a setuid perl script of mine, which was working
fine... but seem to be a result of the same problem,
I would guess, since it deals with child processes...

  Any idea where I shoud start looking to track this down,
I am stymied.

			Thank you - Anthony Ball

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