Re: Bug#36220: apt breaks when files already exist
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ariel Tankus wrote:
> Following the upgrade to Slink, apt-get failed to install
> various packages, among them freetype2 (for example).
> There was no error message. When attempting to install
> the package (e.g, freetype2), gzip would return exit status 1,
> which in turn fails dpkg, which fails apt-get.
This sounds remarkably like the GNOME Signal problem. One of the gnome
programs does not properly set SIGPIPE which causes dpkg to fail all the
time in exactly the manner you describe. It is fixed in newer gnome
packages. By removing the gnome stuff you probably also managed to get
a console that didn't have this problem.
Sounds reasonable?
Jason
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