Re: 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 Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> 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,

I see nothing in the original bug report to suggest he was using apt.

Unless I badly misunderstand signals, your work-around in apt should
certainly solve the problem.

I know I've never had the problem from within apt (and I do use the
problematic components of gnome).

Jules

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