Unidentified subject! SHOULD BE: ait issues killing apt-get
I am terribly sorry, I just noticed this went out and got all
fubar'd, I'm not sure why, but it may have something to do with
qmail-scanner and spamassassin... Hopefully this message comes
through alright...
> ACK! I am trying to install things and suddenly I have what
> appears to be an issue with wait and waitpid on my system.
>
> (I am currently running unstable, which may be part of the problem)
>
> Anyway... if I try to install a package I get
> # dpkg -i perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb
> dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
> dpkg: error processing perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb (--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb
>
> and if I try to apt-get update I get
> Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
> Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
> Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
>
>
> download works... but the gzip bit seems to fail...
> every once in a while I am also getting
> "Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default."
> from a setuid perl script of mine, which was working
> fine... but seem to be a result of the same problem,
> I would guess, since it deals with child processes...
>
> Any idea where I shoud start looking to track this down,
> I am stymied.
>
> Thank you - Anthony Ball
>
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