> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek It means that you don't have a utmp entry for that shell. Upgrade to a newer dpkg-dev (probably from unstable) for a version that just whines about the lack of utmp entry, instead of actually breaking... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .