Bug#213846: dpkg: SEGFAULT: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> 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]#
Where is the core file(don't send it to the bug)? Can you reproduce this from
a clean system? However, your system is by definition clean, as the .list
file is missing.
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