Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Mar 2001 10:51:08 +0000 From fleury@cs.auc.dk Tue Mar 20 04:51:08 2001 Return-path: Received: from mailhost.cs.auc.dk [130.225.194.2] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14fJjH-0007Ah-00; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:51:07 -0600 Received: from cs.auc.dk (fleury@uppaal.s.cs.auc.dk [192.168.194.21]) by mailhost.cs.auc.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15846 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:51:05 +0100 (MET) Sender: fleury@cs.auc.dk Message-ID: <3AB73638.214371FC@cs.auc.dk> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:51:36 +0100 From: Emmanuel Fleury X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre21 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg can't configure xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-7_i386.deb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.2-7_i386 When I run "dpkg -i xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-7_i386.deb" the package is uncompressed and get stuck on the configuration stage. I have to hit to get out of this. In the same time that dpkg is trying to install this package my mouse becomes completely mad. It select some text randomly when I move it, or jump from a point to another ramdomly. I've got a PS2 mouse. Actually I'm pretty sure that the package is uncompressed because I installed it by hand. But this problem seems very strange to me. I run an strace on the command line and I get: ===== rename("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", "/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006") = 0 open("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 write(4, "#padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#padd"..., 4096) = 4096 write(4, "padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#paddi"..., 512) = 512 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 write(4, "Package: xserver-xfree86\nStatus:"..., 1183) = 1183 ftruncate(4, 1183) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 rename("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", "/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0007") = 0 open("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 write(4, "#padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#padd"..., 4096) = 4096 write(4, "padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#paddi"..., 512) = 512 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 stat("/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3253, ...}) = 0 fork() = 7789 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 wait4(7789, ===== No, I didn't forget anything. The last is cutted like that (an endless wait ????). Hope this help ! -- Emmanuel [On some PCMCIA cardbus implementations] Who makes those pieces of crap? And who buys them? I can understand it in embedded stuff simply because the chips are simpler and smaller, but in a laptop you should definitely try to avoid it. -- Linus Torvalds