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Re: dpkg-deb: failed to exec tar: Too many levels of symbolic links



On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:59:15PM +0200, stavel@brailcom.org wrote:
> I can't install anything:
> 
> root@3[root]# dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386.deb 
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to exec tar: Too many levels of symbolic links
> dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
> dpkg: error processing /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386.deb (--install):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Do you have star installed? The developer IRC channel currently thinks
that this is due to http://bugs.debian.org/#190415.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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