So... who do I have to sleep with to get a response? :)
This is really a problem, and I have no idea how to track it down...
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:44:07PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote:
When I try to install packages I get the messages below.
If I reboot I can install packages for about 10 minutes till
the problem rears its ugly head once again. It seems to be a
problem in the default CHLD handler, but I don't know for sure.
Can anyone offer advice?
www:/home/ant# apt-get install dnsmasq
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dnsmasq
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.8kB of archives. After unpacking 131kB will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main dnsmasq 1.3-1 [26.8kB]
Fetched 26.8kB in 0s (30.2kB/s)
Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes
Just a shot in the dark, but do you have gzip installed?