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Bug#24630: dpkg: Serious unpacking bug



Some time around  Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:10:04 PDT, 
         thrag@treepeople.dyn.ml.org wrote:
 > Package: dpkg
 > Version: 1.4.0.24
 > 
 > I get this when trying to upgrade: (the slrnpull package also runs into
 > the same kind of trouble).  When it was just slrnpull I was inclined to
 > believe that it was just a mucked up package there, but that these four
 > failed and especially that the rest of the KDE stuff worked fine points
 > to something more high level.
 > 
 > If dpkg is in fact messed up, and it refuses to install a new dpkg, how
 > should I go about replacing it?
 > 
 > (Reading database ... 81806 files and directories currently installed.)
 > Preparing to replace kdesupport0g 2:980419-b4-1 (using
 > kdesupport0g_980710-1.0-1.deb) ...
 > Unpacking replacement kdesupport0g ...
 > 
 > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
 > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
 > dpkg: error processing kdesupport0g_980710-1.0-1.deb (--unpack):
 >  subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

Usually, this happens when a .deb is corrupted, e.g. it's not a complete 
download, or maybe it's your mirror that has the corrupted copy.
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Igor Grobman           igor@debian.org                 igor@igoria.net 



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