Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:33:27PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote:
> > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote:
> > >Can you dump it on a webpage and post the URL to the list?
> > 
> > Sure,
> > http://203.59.70.242/strace_dpkg_output.txt
> 
> [pid  4582] ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, 4580, 0, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> [pid  4582] ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, 4577, 0, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> 
> this is something tar is trying to do and failing, thus breaking the
> pipe...

I think it actually means that strace couldn't attach to the processes
in question.

I only have a very vague memory of the original problem, but that vague
memory says it got fixed sometime during the woody development process.
An upgrade (upgrading dpkg first) might be worthwhile.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]