Bug#33829: dpkg: if there is no utmp/wtmp entry for the shell, dpkg can't install a package

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 frb@umr.edu wrote:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.1.1
> 
> 
> This is just the most recent package I installed, but most if not all packages
> I install from an xterm that has no utmp/wtmp entry fails with this error.
> 
> 
> (Reading database ... 33223 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libtool (from libtool_1.2d-1.deb) ...
> 
> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error processing libtool_1.2d-1.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libtool_1.2d-1.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code

Red herring.

This looks to me like the SIGPIPE bug.

Something in your chain of applications is turning of SIGPIPE.  Are you,
perhaps, using gnome-session and/or gnome-panel?

Jules

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