Hmm, this is a little strange. I was surprised that the BTS hadn't blown up with all the reports, so there must be something screwy with my system. My / partition is a little tight, but not so tight that it causes problems for any other packages.
Here's a CLI session reproducing the problem. The deb I'm using here was copied without modification from /var/cache/apt/archive. came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 327M 284M 27M 92% / tmpfs 1.3G 0 1.3G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 196K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 1.3G 856K 1.3G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda9 55G 25G 28G 47% /home /dev/sda8 373M 12M 342M 4% /tmp /dev/sda5 11G 7.2G 2.4G 75% /usr /dev/sda6 7.0G 2.6G 4.2G 38% /var came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ which dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 371824 Dec 23 03:26 /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i dpkg_1.15.5.5_i386.deb [sudo] password for cameron: (Reading database ... 290683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.15.5.5 (using dpkg_1.15.5.5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... Setting up dpkg (1.15.5.5) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ which dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg ---------- 1 root root 371824 Dec 23 03:26 /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ which dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 371824 Dec 23 03:26 /usr/bin/dpkg came...@jupiter:~/Downloads$ Thanks for your time! 2009/12/28 Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> > > tag 562799 unreproducible moreinfo > severity 562799 important > thanks > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > dpkg stopped working after installing this version of the > > package. Investigation revealed that /usr/bin/dpkg had permissions > > of 000. `chmod 755 /usr/bin/dpkg` fixed the problem. > > This version does not install dpkg with 000 permissions. Something else > screwed the permission... otherwise many other people would have already > reported the problem! > > Was the dpkg installation run interrupted in some way ? > > What else did you do after the dpkg upgrade ? > > What filesystem are you using for /usr ? > > Unless you can come up with new elements (inspired by the above > questions), there's nothing to be done of this bug report until > we can reproduce it and it will be closed in due time. > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog -- Cameron Horsburgh blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
