As the true owner of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', I am somewhat disturbed/bemused by my address being included in this message..
> On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Whats going on anybody ? The real Pete ! On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 20 11:15:23 2002 > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:15:23 -0500 > From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: wait issues killing apt-get > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.11 > > > ACK! I am trying to install things and suddenly I have what > appears to be an issue with wait and waitpid on my system. > > (I am currently running unstable, which may be part of the problem) > > Anyway... if I try to install a package I get > # dpkg -i perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb > dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes > dpkg: error processing perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb > > and if I try to apt-get update I get > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages > Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there > > > download works... but the gzip bit seems to fail... > every once in a while I am also getting > "Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default." > from a setuid perl script of mine, which was working > fine... but seem to be a result of the same problem, > I would guess, since it deals with child processes... > > Any idea where I shoud start looking to track this down, > I am stymied. > > Thank you - Anthony Ball
