On 22 Jan 1999, James Troup wrote: > Ehm, Chris this has nothing to do with chown/lchown, that produces a > quite different error message. It is a known problem though, see the > bug archives (sorry, I can't be more accurate than that offhand); IIRC > IWJ said it was a bug in some parent process of dpkg and not dpkg > itself. Oops. My bad. I was losing my mind on Friday anyway :-) Sorry! C