On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:48:51PM +0200, annonygmouse wrote:
>
> Just let you know that it renders my system un-updateable.
> It's a chroot 32bits into an amd64...
>
> aptitude install xeyes
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> correct the problem.
> ....
>
> debianmbp:/# dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up menu (2.1.41) ...
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "ca_ES.UTF8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> Setting up libgnomevfs2-common (1:2.24.0-3) ...
> close failed: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/gconf-schemas", line 82, in <module>
> pids=os.popen('pidof gconfd-2').readlines()[0].split()
> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-common (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
This is interesting, because /usr/sbin/gconf-schemas alos use popen
and is get a Bad file descriptor, exactly the same issue than menu
has.
So this stringly suggest that popen is broken by some libc6/kernel
version.
I will report that to the libc6 package.
Thanks a lot!
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