This looks to me as if the home was exported with root_squash from the server. This will make cups-pdf fail in any case since it uses /home as output directory on Debian. Martin-Éric - is it possible for the installation to check this and issue an warning?
Volker On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 08:53, Jari Aalto wrote: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 1.7.3-3 > Severity: normal > > The /home directory can be NFS mounted and may cause following error. > directly. Please take a look. > > # mount | grep /home > # server:/home on /home type nfs > (rw,noatime,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,bg,addr=192.168.1.2) > > > Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y > Get:1 http://deb unstable/main cups-pdf 1.7.3-4 [17.4kB] > Fetched 17.4kB in 1s (9535B/s) > (Reading database ... 139867 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace cups-pdf 1.7.3-3 (using .../cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.deb) > ... > mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ANONYMOUS': Permission denied > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-pdf_1.7.3-4_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) > > Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on: > ii cupsys 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) > - > ii gs-esp 8+8.15rc4.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript > interpr > ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > > cups-pdf recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax)
