dpkg-gencontrol error when building kernel with kernel-package

[Joost Kooij <joost@kooij.com>]

Hi you gurus out there,

dpkg-gencontrol suddenly breaks when I try to build a debian-packaged
kernel image.  
The last time I tried this it worked, the system was an upgraded 1.3 then.
The only differences between now and then that I can think of are some
installed packages from bo-updates, including the libc5.
This is more or less what happens: 


# make xconfig

# make-kpkg clean

# make-kpkg -revision custom.4.0 kernel_image

..
..
(if [ -f modules/NET_MISC_MODULES ]; then \
      cd debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.0.29/misc; \
      mv ./NET_MISC_MODULES ../../../../usr/doc/kernel-image-2.0.29/; fi)
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage \
                   debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29
cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.29
cp System.map debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.29
chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29 \
                  debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.29 \
                  debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.29
dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.29 -Pdebian/tmp-image/
dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
make: *** [stamp-image] Error 29



# dpkg -l dpkg*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  dpkg            1.4.0.8        Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
pn  dpkg-cross      <none>         (no description available)
ii  dpkg-dev        1.4.0.8        Package building tools for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-ftp        1.4.8          Ftp method for dselect.
un  dpkgname        <none>         (no description available)

# dpkg -l libc5*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  libc5           5.4.33-3       The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
ii  libc5-dbg       5.4.33-3       The Linux C library version 5 (debug files).
ii  libc5-dev       5.4.33-3       The Linux C library version 5 (development f

# dpkg -l kern*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
un  kernel-headers  <none>         (no description available)
un  kernel-image    <none>         (no description available)
hi  kernel-image-2. custom.3.0     Linux kernel binary image.
ii  kernel-package  3.28           Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
un  kernel-source   <none>         (no description available)
ii  kernel-source-2 2              Linux kernel source.


Thanks,


Joost


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