Hello there stranger! On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work. > for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and the > second or third time it will just work. What does df show you? Is there lots of space in /var? Make a test directory. Try dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir Does it work? All the time? Intermittently? You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and when it doesn't work strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output Then have a close look through the strace output. Not a solution. Just an idea. Anyone have a definite solution to this problem? Crispin
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