Bug#213846: dpkg: SEGFAULT: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: important
Priority set to important because system is left in a 'very bad inconsistent
state' in words of dpkg (see below).
dpkg segfaults when installing a new package+dependencies:
femto:/home/eric[0]# apt-get install octave
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
atlas2-base octave2.1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
octave octave2.1
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 193 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/5763kB of archives. After unpacking 19.1MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `atlas2-base' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
54408 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace atlas2-base 3.2.1ln-11 (using .../atlas2-base_3.2.1ln-11_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement atlas2-base ...
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
localepurge: checking system for new locale ...
Some new locales have appeared on your system:
en@IPA en_RN ia lg mn
They will not be touched until you reconfigure localepurge
with the following command:
dpkg-reconfigure localepurge
localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: processing man pages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
femto:/home/eric[0]#
Then when trying to remove the package:
femto:/home/eric[0]# apt-get remove atlas2-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atlas2-base
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 193 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs... Done
dpkg: error processing atlas2-base (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
atlas2-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
femto:/home/eric[0]#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux femto 2.6.0-test1 #2 Thu Sep 18 15:41:43 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_BE@euro)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.10 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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