subprocess dpkg-split killed by signal (Segmentation fault)

cparker15 · 07-26-2004, 10:43 AM

I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking debconf (and probably other programs).

It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC temporarily fixed this problem. However, now if I try to install the latest unstable dpkg and/or debconf (or anything else, for that matter), I get an error like this:

# dpkg --install dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-split killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
Errors were encountered while processing:
dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb

Is there any way I can fix this so I can use the apt system again? Without it, my system is relatively unusable at the moment.

I attempted to make and install dpkg from source, but it didn't seem like it was doing anything. It was all guesswork, since there was no INSTALL file available.

NOTE: I have also posted this to the debian-user mailing list at debian.org, and have received no replies. I posted there about a month ago.

cparker15 · 07-26-2004, 01:11 PM

Apparently, there is now a new version of dpkg in unstable as of a week or so ago, and this version's tarball has a more traditional install procedure.

It looks like I'm in luck.

cparker15 · 07-26-2004, 01:33 PM

Scratch that. Back to the drawing board.

I can ./configure, but when I go to make dpkg, I get this:

Code:

# make
make  all-include all-optlib all-lib all-dpkg-deb all-split all-scripts all-utils
      all-main all-dselect all-po all-methods all-man all-doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23'
make -w -C "include" "all"
make[2]: Entering directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/include'
make -w -C "optlib" "all"
make[2]: Entering directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/optlib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/optlib'
make -w -C "lib" "all"
make[2]: Entering directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/lib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/lib'
make -w -C "dpkg-deb" "all"
make[2]: Entering directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/dpkg-deb'
gcc  -g -O2  -Wall  -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wnested-externs
     -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wbad-function-cast
     -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Winline -Wmissing-noreturn -Wsign-compare -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
     -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I../intl -I../intl -I../include
     -I.. -I. -I../include -I.. -I. -I../optlib -DUSE_ZLIB -c build.c
build.c:40:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
build.c: In function `internalGzip':
build.c:151: error: `gzFile' undeclared (first use in this function)
build.c:151: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
build.c:151: error: for each function it appears in.)
build.c:151: error: parse error before "gzfile"
build.c:172: error: `gzfile' undeclared (first use in this function)
build.c:172: warning: implicit declaration of function `gzdopen'
build.c:178: warning: implicit declaration of function `gzwrite'
build.c:181: warning: implicit declaration of function `gzerror'
build.c:181: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
build.c:182: error: `Z_ERRNO' undeclared (first use in this function)
build.c:191: warning: implicit declaration of function `gzclose'
make[2]: *** [build.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23/dpkg-deb'
make[1]: *** [all-dpkg-deb] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/downloads/sources/dpkg/dpkg-1.10.23'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2

Now I'm completely lost.

Anybody going to save my day?

Thanks.

cparker15 · 07-26-2004, 04:47 PM

I figured it out. I needed to install a couple of libraries that I swore I already had.

The two I've had to install so far are:

- zlib
- ncurses

Hopefully, when I finally have all libraries installed (again), I will be able to make dpkg and move on with life with this machine (finally).

cparker15 · 07-28-2004, 11:36 AM

I think I'm going to cry.

I now need to install gettext, it seems. I cannot compile gettext without g77, which I do not have. I've searched everywhere for g77 source, and it's nowhere to be found.

I think I'm going to have to break down and ask my server's host to reinstall dpkg from CD, if they can. I'm hoping I don't have to do that, but at this rate, it seems that is simply the inevitable.

Does ANYONE know what I should do? Anyone???

cparker15 · 07-28-2004, 11:45 AM

I've decided that my quest for fixing dpkg and/or getting everything I need to compile it is a hopeless effort.

Instead, I'm going to downgrade perl, and cross my fingers and hope that it fixes everything. HOW I'm going to downgrade perl, I don't know, but I'll figure out a way.

I just think that if anyone knew what I could do, they would have replied by now.

Thanks for reading.