Bug#351174: debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:45:11AM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> Package: debconf
> Version: 1.4.69
> Severity: normal
>
>
> For quite some time now, I have been getting mysterious errors when
> installing packages via apt and aptitude (but not triggered by dpkg
> directly). I can't work out what is going on, except that the errors
> do disappear when I comment out /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf. After
> the bogus output, installation proceeds as normal. Google is not
> telling me anything...
>
>
> apt-get --reinstall install rxvt-beta
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/256kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> Reading package fields... Done
> Reading package status... Done
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> E: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (100)
> E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/rxvt-beta_2.7.10-1_i386.deb
> debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor(Reading database ... 127710 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace rxvt-beta 2.7.10-1 (using .../rxvt-beta_2.7.10-1_i386.deb) ...
>
Have not seen this recently, thus closing. If you can still reproduce it
with a recent APT; please re-open.
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