Bug#31521: dpkg: dpkg dying in eterm

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Fredrik Juhlin writes ("Bug#31521: dpkg: dpkg dying in eterm"):
> I'm experiencing the exact same problem, only I'm running xterm.
> I've so far experienced it on systems running XFree86 3.3.2.3 and 3.3.3.
> I'm afraid I can't give a history of dpkg, tar or gzip versions, only that
> the ones I've used lately, which are:
> 
> ii  dpkg            1.4.0.23.2     Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
> ii  tar             1.12-6         GNU tar
> ii  gzip            1.2.4-27       The GNU compression utility.
> 
> It's always been hamm-installations though.
> 
> Oh, and trying it in a console instead did fix it.

Then that would be a bug in whatever invoked dpkg or some ancestor of
it.

Can you reproduce the problem ?

In case dpkg is too difficult a program, try the rune:
  dd if=/dev/zero | true
which should say
  jura:~> dd if=/dev/zero | true
  1+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  Broken pipe
  jura:~>
rather than
  jura:~> dd if=/dev/zero | true
  dd: /dev/full: Broken pipe
  1+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  jura:~>

Ian.