Re: Slink upgrade -- package installation problems
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:27:17AM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> Ariel Tankus <arielt@math.tau.ac.il> writes:
> > I've been upgrading a Hamm Beta into Slink.
> ...
> >It mostly went fine, but a couple of times I have received error
> >messages about non-zero exit codes from gzip -dc
> ...
> > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/libs/freetype2_1.2-3.deb
> >E: Sub-process returned an error code
>
> Maybe it really is a bad file. I suggest you run md5sum on the
> indicated .deb, and compare it with the published value in
> /cdrom/md5sum.txt, or /cdrom/indices/md5sum*, or wherever.
>
> Here's what I get:
>
> vanzandt:~# md5sum /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/libs/freetype2_1.2-3.deb
> 4e39b953d6cd9806b369dd53df5fd4d4 /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/libs/freetype2_1.2-3.deb
> vanzandt:~# grep freetype2 /cdrom/md5sum.txt
> 4e39b953d6cd9806b369dd53df5fd4d4
> ./dists/slink/main/binary-i386/libs/freetype2_1.2-3.deb
> ...
>
> This file installs fine.
>
> - Jim Van Zandt
>
I've checked my md5sum, just to find out it is ok.
The result is identical to the one on /cdrom/md5sum.txt
and both are identical to your results.
I also tried to install this package from a different Debian
CD, and even to download it by ftp and install.
None worked. The same error message regarding gzip -dc returning
non-zero return status occurs. As I mentioned in my previous
e-mail, the same phenomenon has occured in several packages;
for some packages (e.g, emacs20) I had to manually purge the old
package, then re-install.
I would guess that the problem is indeed not this specific
package, but rather that something is broken in dpkg, apt
my own database or the like. The problem is how to recover
from this situation...
Is there any way to re-build the packages database
(except from re-installing them, of course)?
-- Ariel Tankus.
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