Bug#147183: dpkg: problem temporarily resolved if I manually untar something
> ...dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes
Have you manually installed some other tar program? Can you run dpkg
through strace like this:
# strace -f -o dpkg.strace dpkg <your normal options>
and send us the output. I want to see what is happening with tar.
Actually, try doing the command:
# dpkg-deb --control foo.deb
Use any random .deb package for this. This appears to be the actual
command that fails. If you can reproduce it with that command, then use
it in the same strace command shown above and send the "dpkg.out" file
when you duplicate the failure.
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