On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2009-12-27 02:55 +0100, John Martin wrote:
>
>> Package: emacs23
>> Version: 23.1+1-5
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the
>> following in a window "*jka-compr-error*".
>>
>> ,----
>> Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d <
>> /usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz"
>>
>> gzip: invalid option -- 'q'
>> BusyBox v1.14.2 (Debian 1:1.14.2-2) multi-call binary
>
> Why did you install busybox as gzip? This is asking for trouble,
> because it does not support all options (e.g. -q) of GNU gzip.
>
> If this is really what you want, you will have to customize the
> jka-compr-compression-info-list variable, I'm afraid.
Not what I want and not what I intended.
,----[ debsums gzip | grep /bin/gzip ]
/bin/gzip
OK
`----
Moreover, from a command line.
,----[ /bin/gzip -c -q -d
</usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz
| head ]
Debian Reference
Osamu Aoki
Copyright © 2007-2009 Osamu Aoki
This Debian Reference (v2) (2009-11-28 18:06:13 UTC) is intended
to provide a broad overview of the Debian system as a
post-installation user's guide. It covers many aspects of system
administration through shell-command examples for
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
`----
I get the same misbehavior with emacs -q.
This is a fairly new installation (10 days) with very little
customization. Busybox and gzip were upgraded immediately after
installation from a 4/2009 debian 5.0 DVD on 17 Dec. Emacs23 was
installed shortly thereafter. This problem arose about 3 days ago.
Purging busybox had no effect on the emacs problem and neither did
reinstalling busybox, gzip, and emacs23 with emacs23-bin-common.
-jam
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