On Wed Aug 19 2015 at 11:40 AM +0200, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:32:24AM -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: > > Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed: > > > > # aptitude update > > ... > > # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common > > ... > > Reading changelogs... Done > > (Reading database ... 72512 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to unpack .../libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0_2.31.1-2+deb8u2_i386.deb ... > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly > > Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: > > > > Installing or removing specific packages also fails. apt-get works > > fine, but subsequent aptitude runs fail the same way. > > First of all, eliminate the obvious: Do you have enough free space (and > free inodes) in order to unpack the archive?
Yes. > Secondly, is the unpack process segfaulting? You might not see a message > at the console, but check if the kernel has logged an error. No sign of segfaulting. > > My other jessie system doesn't have this problem, so I assume > > something is corrupt. But I can't find a way to repair it. > > Suggestions? (Aptitude version is 0.6.11-1+b1, dpkg 1.17.25.) Thanks for the response. Digging further (belatedly), the problem appears to be that my calling script exported "SHELL=/bin/false" into the environment, apparently causing dpkg to fail. Works fine with it removed. Strange that it appeared suddenly and that it didn't affect my other jessie system..
