Re: problems with dpkg, apt, perl etc. ( wait/waitpid)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library:
Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii perl 5.8.2-1 Larry Wall's
Practical Extraction and Report Language.
arch = i386
root@CR:~# uname -a
Linux CR 2.4.22 #6 Sun Nov 9 00:27:15 EET 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
latest apt-get upgrade & dist-upgrade was two days ago .
I know, maybe -devel is inappropriate list for my problems, but i don`t
know another list for that.
I think that problem was some time ago with woody ( see bug # 206187)
btw my debian version is sid
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 01:02, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:40:31AM +0200, Cristian Rauta wrote:
> > Donno if it`s because libc6 but look at this errors :
> >
> > Hit http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/non-free Release
> > Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/main Sources
> > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> > Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/contrib Sources
> > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> > Err http://ftp.tiscali.de sid/non-free Sources
> > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> > [...]
> >
> > root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb
> > dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
> > dpkg: error processing perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb (--install):
> > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > perl-doc_5.8.2-1_all.deb
> > root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives#
> > [...]
> > root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives# perl -w -e ""
> > Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> > root@XX:/var/cache/apt/archives#
> >
> > Because of that i can`t update,upgrade and install packages.
> > If anyone knows how to fix that .. please let me know how.
> > Thanx
>
> This is inappropriate for -devel.
>
> It's also like a quarter of a bug report. What versions of libc, perl,
> etc are installed? What architecture? What kernel version? What have
> you changed lately?
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