Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tex-common > Version: 0.9 > Severity: grave > > tex-common fails to install because it can't chmod an ls-R file. > /var/lib/texmf exists on my system, but the ls-R file doesn't. > > Setting up tex-common (0.9) ... > chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/texmf/ls-R': No such file or directory [...] > -- debconf information: > tex-common/groupname: cachegroup > tex-common/cnf_name: > tex-common/managedlsr: cache
This is strange: It tries to chmod on /var/lib/texmf/ls-R, but you have chosen to manage only "cache", which corresponds to /var/cache/fonts/ls-R. I also cannot reproduce the bug: When I install tex-common and choose to manage "cache", and assign it to "cachegroup" (which doesn't exist in my pbuilder environment, but that shouldn't make a difference), I get: You can choose a specific group which the previously selected ls-R files should belong to. If you do not enter a group name here, the group ownership of the selected files will not be touched at all. If you have selected 'cache' in the previous question, we would suggest to select the group 'users' here. Which group should own the ls-R files? cachegroup chmod: cannot access `/var/cache/fonts/ls-R': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# So there is an error message (which is a bug), but it does not cause the postinst to fail. Joe, did you install from a system without any tex-common on it, or with tex-common in rc state, or was it an upgrade (from which version)? Norbert, do you have an idea? It looks as if we should check for the existence of the ls-R files before trying to chmod them, but that cannot explain that it does not fail on my system (but gives an error message I expected), but fails on Joe's with a message that is strange. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
