Re: Dpkg fails to install certain packages
Dpkg will produce the error either by using dselect install, or by running
dpkg --install by hand. Oddly enough, and another person has also
verified this, it only fails with a dpkg error on Eterms which were
created before the window manager was started. A new Eterm window
installs the packages just fine. Weird. I believe this is actually an
Eterm bug in which Eterm fails to set SIGPIPE correctly.
Jake Griesbach
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Joey Hess writes ("Re: Dpkg fails to install certain packages"):
> > I doubt this is a dpkg bug, it looks like the files you downloaded are
> > corrupted, either on the mirror you got them from, or were corrupted during
> > download.
>
> No, this is the SIGPIPE set to SIG_IGN bug. It is not a bug in dpkg.
> How was dpkg invoked ?
>
> Ian.
>
> > Jake Griesbach wrote:
> > > Dpkg fails to install certain packages, due to gzip -dc returning an
> > > error. This seems prominent in more than a few current packages.
> > >
> > > Here is an example:
> > >
> > > Processing Package files...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/stable/main...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/stable/contrib...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/stable/non-free...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/potato/main...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/potato/non-free...
> > > ftp.debian.org dists/potato/contrib...
> > > non-us.debian.org stable...
> > >
> > > Constructing list of files to get...
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../utils/strace_3.1.0.1-11.deb (59k)
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../admin/gtop_0.28.1-5.deb (52k)
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../x11/gnome-panel_0.99.3.2-4.deb (314k)
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../x11/gnome-core_0.99.3.2-4.deb (1097k)
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../base/debianutils_1.11.deb (25k)
> > > already got: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../editors/vim-rt_5.3-12.deb (752k)
> > > want: ftp.debian.org dists/unstable/main/.../utils/gcal_2.40-5.deb (565k)
> > >
> > > Approximate total space required: 2864k
> > > Available space in debian: 5199190k
> > > Do you want to select the files to get [n]: y
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/gtop_0.28.1-5.deb 52k (total = 0k) [y]: n
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/debianutils_1.11.deb 25k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/editors/vim-rt_5.3-12.deb 752k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/gcal_2.40-5.deb 565k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/utils/strace_3.1.0.1-11.deb 59k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/gnome-core_0.99.3.2-4.deb 1097k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > > download: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/gnome-panel_0.99.3.2-4.deb 314k (total = 0k) [n]:
> > >
> > > Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial)
> > > dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb
> > >
> > > Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
> > > Installing files...
> > > (Reading database ... 43888 files and directories currently installed.)
> > > Unpacking libgnome0 (from .../devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb) ...
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-libs.mo', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pixmaps/calculator-font.png', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gnome/gtkrc', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libgnome31
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0', which is also in package libgnome31
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dns-helper', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome_segv', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-dump-metadata', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/dns-helper.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/gnome_segv.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/convertrgb.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/gnome-dump-metadata.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-bin
> > >
> > > gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> > > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> > > dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb (--install):
> > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libgnome0_0.30.1-5.deb
> > > DPKG ERROR
> > >
> > > (Dpkg then continues on in the normal manner with Do you wish to
> > > delete the installed package (.deb) files? [y] )
> > >
> > > Actually all of the above packages listed in this transcript fail
> > > similarly.
> > >
> > > root@gamera> ldd /usr/bin/dpkg
> > > libdpkg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libdpkg.so.0 (0x40010000)
> > > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40025000)
> > > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> > >
> > > dpkg version is 1.4.1
> > > dpkg-ftp version is 1.6.1
> > > gzip version is 1.2.4-29
> > >
> > > kernel version: 2.2.1
> > > libc-2.0.7.so
> > > perl version: 5.004.04-6
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > see shy jo
>
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