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 this list the morning after i noticed it. > > ben, any way we could get dpkg-deb to print the signal that killed it's > child? >
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 -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'