Re: problems with dpkg
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> I've compiled and installed dpkg-1.4.0.5 on my alpha running Redhat 4.0. It
> bombs with a segmentation violation on every attempted package install. The
> backtrace at the time of the core dump looks like:
>
> #0 cu_fileslist () at archives.c:666
> #1 0x12001b2e0 in run_cleanups () at ehandle.c:129
> #2 0x12001b3a8 in error_unwind () at ehandle.c:148
> #3 0x12000e5f4 in archivefiles () at archives.c:781
> #4 0x120007628 in main () at main.c:389
>
> Anyone have any idea what's going on? Digging in to dpkg is not my idea of a
> pleasant thing to do, but it's going to be hard to get much more done until
> this is fixed.
I'm sure you've heard us UDB owners complain about the bug in dpkg. Well,
that's it.
Mail to the current maintainer e-mail address has gone completely
unanswered.
And yes, it's very hard to get much further without dpkg installing
packages properly.
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