Re: broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato > libgtk, I'm getting the following: > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned

Re: broken pipe

1997-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > > Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a potential dumb question: What > > the heck is a 'broken pipe'? I get these from time to time on my Debian box. > > A pipe is when the standard output of one program is

Re: broken pipe

1997-06-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 22:49:22 CDT "Tim O'Brien" ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a potential dumb question: What > the heck is a 'broken pipe'? I get these from time to time on my Debian box. Err, first what is a pipe ? A pipe a channel between two processes:

Re: broken pipe

1997-06-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a potential dumb question: What > the heck is a 'broken pipe'? I get these from time to time on my Debian box. A pipe is when the standard output of one program is fed to the standard input of another. These types o

Re: broken pipe

1997-06-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
I think it is a problem of bash package. I downgrade to 1.14 from debian 1.2 and no more broken pipe. Last time, tetex warned that my system was in a inconsistent state and I suspected it is casued by the broken pipe. Lawrence, Tim O'Brien wrote: > > Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a