Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"): > On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us > > which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help > > us a lot :-). &g

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread llucius
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It should be a simple fix to getty_ps; if anyone packages it for > Debian this will be an easy thing to do at the same time. > Yep, it looks REAL simple. It there isn't a current maintainer, I'll package it up. L.Lucius __ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o_ | The leane

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"): > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For > >reasons too complicated to explain here this

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-11 Thread Alexander Goldstein
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"): > ... > > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb > ... > >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe > >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 > >dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) > >

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-07 Thread Paul Schoenly
Hi, OK, haven't done much yet, but here's what I've done to check the getty/gzip/dpkg problem. On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is a bug in one of: > Your inetd, telnetd, rlogind, if you're logging in over the > network (some versions of the Debian netbase and/or netstd >

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-07 Thread llucius
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us > which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help > us a lot :-). > Well, I just checked and even the latest(?) version, 2.0.7i, of getty_ps sets the SIGPIPE signal

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Alexander Goldstein
> The login you're using (I know of no problem here). > Any program which started one of the above, or which is in > the calling chain for dpkg. > tcsh -> rxvt/xterm -> su -> bash -> dpkg so I guess it would either be tcsh or rxvt/xterm. [stuff removed] >

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"): >... >> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb >... >>gzip:stdout: Broken pipe >>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 >>dpkg: error processing package_x

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread llucius
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is a bug in one of: > The getty you're using. > (Some versions of getty_ps are known to have this problem.) You hit on the head for me anyway. I thought I was using agetty, but I was using an older version of getty_ps (2.0.7g) and after repl

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Ian Jackson
;re using bash as your shell). If the bug is present it will produce `cat: write error: Broken pipe'. Alexander Goldstein writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"): ... > I also often have the same problem sometimes (with some packages). It > only happens when su-ing to root. To

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-05 Thread Alexander Goldstein
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, llucius wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Schoenly wrote: > > > > > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb > >. > >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe > >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 > >dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) > > subpro

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-05 Thread llucius
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Schoenly wrote: > > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb >. >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 >dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 >