Re: Unidentified subject! - not from me !
As the true owner of 'pete@poa.uklinux.net', I am somewhat disturbed/bemused
by my address being included in this message..
>
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:04,
bounce-debian-user=pete=poa.uklinux.net@lists.debian.org wrote:
>
Whats going on anybody ?
The real Pete !
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:04,
bounce-debian-user=pete=poa.uklinux.net@lists.debian.org wrote:
> From ant@suave.net Wed Mar 20 11:15:23 2002
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:15:23 -0500
> From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" <ant@suave.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: wait issues killing apt-get
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>
> 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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