Bug#198699: FW: dpkg -i gives segmentation fault
As so often seems to be the case, I spend days on a problem, eventually call
for help, then almost immediately solve the problem myself. On thinking
about what I was trying to install it occurred to me that some of the files
end up on the (very small) boot partition, which turns out to be full. The
segmentation fault is not the neatest way of reporting this error, so this
could still be classed as a bug, but I have now resolved the problem by
clearing some space on /boot.
Hope this is useful to you.
Regards,
Steve Pike
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Pike [mailto:spike@dart.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 8:50
To: 198699@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg -i gives segmentation fault
I am receiving a very similar error message to that reported in bug 198699.
I am running Debian Woody, upgraded from the unstable package tree. I have
built a new kernel from source, using make-kpkg. I have done this in the
past and successfully installed the resultant package using dpkg, but the
kernel has grown considerably since then due to the increase in the number
of required options in my kernel. I now receive the following error on
trying to install the package:
server:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.22.031119.
(Reading database ... 70525 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.22.031119 (from
kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ...
Segmentation fault
server:/usr/src# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Here is the same test with debugging enabled:
server:/usr/src# dpkg -D 100 -i
kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.22.031119.
(Reading database ... 70525 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.22.031119 (from
kernel-image-2.4.22.031119_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ...
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/.' tmp=`/..dpkg-tmp' new=`/..dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/boot' tmp=`/boot.dpkg-tmp'
new=`/boot.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject Directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119'
tmp=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119.dpkg-tmp'
new=`/boot/config-2.4.22.031119.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject NormalFile[01] open size=21559
Segmentation fault
server:/usr/src# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg --unpack gives the same error.
Regards,
Steve Pike
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