Re: Is this only me ? dpkg-source barfs with an error

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> % ls -ld am-utils*              
> drwxrwsr-x   16 phil     phil         1024 Jul  7 20:48 am-utils-6.0.7/
> -rw-rw-r--    1 phil     phil      1386716 Jul  7 20:48 am-utils_6.0.7.orig.tar.gz
> % dpkg-source -b am-utils-6.0.7 
> dpkg-source: building am-utils using existing am-utils_6.0.7.orig.tar.gz
> 
> gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> dpkg-source: failure: gzip gave error exit status 1
> zsh: 30633 exit 11    dpkg-source -b am-utils-6.0.7
> % dpkg -l dpkg-dev gzip libc6
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  dpkg-dev       1.9.6          Package building tools for Debian
> ii  gzip           1.2.4-33       The GNU compression utility.
> ii  libc6          2.2.3-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

For those interested, it was a collusion between:

  - windowmaker which transmits some SIG_IGN signal dispositions to
    its children, which it should not do (filed bug #103996).

  - zsh which does not clean all the signals' dispositions on
    interactive startup, which it should do (filed bug #104001).

It only happened to people running zsh from within a wmaker session.

Phil.