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Re: Please Help! Can't install packages!



  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
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsmasq_1.3-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsmasq_1.3-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
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