Re: dpkg problems
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999, Gordon Russell wrote:
> I must be missing something, but I cannot upgrade packages anymore. dpkg
> reports that gzip reports that the data is not in gzip format. I believe
> that dpkg is piping gzip an empty stream. I am working with unstable...
> Any thought anyone? Please don't just say "upgrade", as this is clearly
> not feasable!
I saw a similar problem on a friend's slink. It was really weird and
looked like a kernel problem. dpkg's behaviour was different depending
on the filesystem .debs were on.
When they were on an ext2 partition (including one mounted through the
loopback device), dpkg would make the error you are reporting. But when
they were on an iso9660 partition (on a CD or through the loopback) or
via nfs, dpkg would behave correctly.
To fix this, we nfs-exported the hard disk .debs were on to ourselves
and it worked fine. Sadly I can't remember the kernel/dpkg/whatever
versions.
Hope this might help,
Sam.
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Samuel Hocevar <sam@via.ecp.fr> - Elève ECP promo 2ooo+1
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