At 12:11 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >Hello there stranger!
Hey Crispin :) >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > > works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work. > > for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and > the > > second or third time it will just work. > >What does df show you? Is there lots of space in /var? /var is housed here: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 19G 8.6G 9.4G 48% / >Make a test directory. Try dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir >Does it work? All the time? Intermittently? That seems to work fine. It unpacks ok into the test dir. I know that when I do dpkg --unpack in the past it has worked intermittently. At the moment though, it's just not working at all. So the situation is that dpkg -X works but dpkg --unpack doesn't. >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and >when it doesn't work > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly ever though. :( running: strace -fF dpkg --unpack libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb doesn't tell me anything i can understand. if someone more knowledgable wants to look at the copy of the output i can send it to them. Thanks for the suggestions! Chris. ______________________________________________________ Chris McCormick - Systems Developer - PerthWeb Pty Ltd Internet Solutions for your business! Level 9/105 St George's Tc - Perth - Western Australia Ph: (08) 9226 1366 Fax: (08) 9226 1375 Visit Perth online! : www.perthweb.com.au PGP Key = http://www.perthweb.com.au/~chris/public.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
