Bug#147183: dpkg: problem temporarily resolved if I manually untar something
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:29:10PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.6.15
> Followup-For: Bug #147183
>
> If I pick some random tarred file and untar it, I can install a package.
> Sometimes I have to untar something twice before this will work. Right
> after I've installed the one package, dpkg will fail if I try to install
> a second package. I have to manually go untar some file to fix it (it
> doesn't seem to matter which file I untar, just that tar is used
> somehow).
>
> BTW, a reboot did not fix this.
This is either completely bogus, or your system is fundamentally screwed
up beyond dpkg's control.
IMO, the "have to untar to get dpkg to work" sounds too much like a
Windows mentality to actually be true. The two have nothing to do with
each other.
Further more, you need to supply dpkg's actual error message when the
failure happens. Leaving out that bit of info makes this bug report
pretty much useless. Dpkg has hundreds of different error combinations,
and attempting to guess which one you are hitting is not even a
possibility.
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