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. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
