----- Forwarded message from Bob Hunter <bob_hunter30@hotmail.com> ----- From: "Bob Hunter" <bob_hunter30@hotmail.com> To: branden@debian.org Cc: bob_hunter30@hotmail.com Subject: Fwd: Re: installation oddities Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:07:28 +0000 Message-ID: <F213IgoFT3kMUVfNIJW00000e6a@hotmail.com> -- Bob >From: "Bob Hunter" <bob_hunter30@hotmail.com> >To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org >CC: bob_hunter30@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: installation oddities >Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:39:26 +0000 > > >>>This is my new list of broken packages: >>>1.5M xnest_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >>>183k xserver-common_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >>>4.4M xserver-xfree86_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb > >>What, exactly, do you assert is broken about these? > >I enclose the straces. Other details are below. > >------------- > >--> strace -o strace.xnest -f dpkg -i xnest_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >Process 14594 attached >Process 14593 suspended >Process 14593 resumed >Process 14594 detached >Process 14595 attached >Process 14593 suspended >Process 14596 attached >Process 14596 detached >Process 14597 attached >Process 14598 attached >Process 14597 detached >Process 14598 detached >Process 14593 resumed >Process 14595 detached >(Reading database ... 96977 files and directories currently installed.) >Preparing to replace xnest 4.1.0-2 (using xnest_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement xnest ... >Process 14599 attached >Process 14600 attached >Process 14601 attached >Process 14599 suspended >dpkg: error processing xnest_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb (--install): >failed in buffer_read(fd): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/X11R6/bin/Xnest': >Function not implemented >Process 14599 resumed >Process 14601 detached >Process 14600 detached >dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: Function not implemented >Process 14599 detached >Process 14602 attached >Process 14593 suspended >Process 14593 resumedProcess 14602 detached >Errors were encountered while processing: >xnest_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >--> > >------------------------------------------- > > >--> strace -o strace.xnest -f dpkg -i xserver-common_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >Process 14614 attached >Process 14613 suspended >Process 14613 resumed >Process 14614 detached >Process 14615 attached >Process 14616 attached >Process 14613 suspended >Process 14617 attached >Process 14618 attached >Process 14616 detached >Process 14617 detached >Process 14618 detached >Process 14613 resumed >Process 14615 detached >(Reading database ... 96977 files and directories currently installed.) >Preparing to replace xserver-common 4.1.0-2 (using >xserver-common_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb) ... >Process 14619 attached >Process 14613 suspended >Process 14613 resumed >Process 14619 detached >Process 14620 attached >Process 14613 suspended >Process 14621 attached >Process 14621 detached >Process 14622 attached >Process 14622 detached >Process 14613 resumed >Process 14620 detached >Unpacking replacement xserver-common ... >Process 14623 attached >Process 14624 attached >Process 14625 attached >Process 14623 suspended >Process 14624 detached >Process 14623 resumed >Process 14625 detached >dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: Function not implemented >Process 14623 detached >dpkg: error processing xserver-common_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb (--install): >subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 >Process 14626 attached >dpkg: error while cleaning up: >subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal instruction) >Process 14627 attached >dpkg: error while cleaning up: >subprocess rm cleanup killed by signal (Illegal instruction) >Errors were encountered while processing: >xserver-common_4.1.0-2_powerpc.deb >--> > >--------- > > > >-- Bob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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