Liao Zhing-Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is the error messages
>Preconfiguring packages ..
>(Reading database ... 37745 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace console-tools 1:0.2.3-22 (using
>.../console-tools_1%3a0.2.3-23_i386.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement console-tools ...
>dpkg: error processing
>/var/cache/apt/archives/console-tools_1%3a0.2.3-23_i386.deb (--unpack):
> failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory
>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

dpkg 1.9.0 will be coming out real soon now (a couple of days), and
promises to fix these segfaults, not to mention an enormous amount of
other stuff. (It has one of the longest changelogs I've ever seen
outside X.)

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Colin Watson                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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