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



On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:22:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> wrote:
> >> % 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
> [...]
> >> ii  dpkg-dev       1.9.6          Package building tools for Debian
> [...]
> >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.
> 
> It was also related to bug #89679, fixed (ill-fatedly) in dpkg-dev
> 1.9.11.

I had this problem too, it appeared suddenly and never went away. I
changed shells too bash and all worked again. I would like to use zsh
again one day.

> 
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> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 
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