Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
> one somehow had a corrupt index.bt file. Could it be that a partially
> completed install produces such a corrupt file (i.e. could it be that
> whatever mandb does in the background is
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is
> running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message,
> in case it gives anybody else some ideas.
I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
on
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> try running:
Ben> dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
Ben> If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the
Ben> start of that line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
No errors:
lyell:~# dpkg-deb --extra
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> try running:
>
> dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
You are aware that that uses a completely different codepath to
extract the package, right?
Wichert
--
/ Generally uninteresting signatur
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:12:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP.
>
> It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13.
I doubt it, because i installed on a machine ... and
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP.
It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually
Ben> extract, which unpacks the tarball itself.
Ben> Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to
Ben> track it down.
It is easy for me to reproduc
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
>> i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh
>> installs of potato from the netboot test cd on
>> cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the other
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco
Ben> wrote:
>> [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a
>> look at this?]
>>
>> > Unpacking replacement man-db ... > dpkg-deb: sub
Ben Collins wrote:
> That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract,
> which unpacks the tarball itself.
>
> Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it
> down.
For the record, I did a clean install yesterday with the standard boot
floppies and experien
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > try running:
> >
> > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
> >
> > If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that
> > line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
>
>
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> try running:
>
> dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
>
> If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that
> line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile
(o
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
> potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
> other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
> bug on th
i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
bug on this list the morning after i noticed it.
ben, any way we could get dp
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
> this?]
>
> > Unpacking replacement man-db ...
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archiv
[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
this?]
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:13:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>
> Fabrizio> If you downgrade man-db (I'm reuploading 2.3.13 so
> Fabrizio> you'll find it in Incoming or Incoming/REJECT) and then
> Fabrizio> re
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