Hi, Could you please run lintian under strace and attach the output to the bug report (only on the case where it fails)? This should do it: strace -f -o lintian.log lintian ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb Hopefully the strace log will provide enough details to hunt down this bug. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net