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

To: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: frb@umr.edu, Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug#33829: dpkg: if there is no utmp/wtmp entry for the shell, dpkg can't install a package
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:47:54 -0700 (MST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.990225104712.840A-100000@Wakko.deltatee.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.95q.990225081513.11563C-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Jules Bean wrote:

> > 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.

So much for the theory that APT setting SIGPIPE to SIGDFL before invoking
dpkg fixes this problem <bother>

Jason

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