Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02.11.05 Joe Drew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > >> 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 >> dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> > I can reproduce that bug. But only if I have configured debconf to > ask me the low questions too and selecting var at the first question > (BTW: Selecting cache is said to be the default, but it's not > selected). > When calling dpkg --pending --configure a second time the > configuration succeeds. The file in question however still does not > exist....
Can you describe exactly what you were doing, including what system you were starting from? I just tried in a pbuilder environment, and it didn't give an error... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
