Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-27 11:43:44 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-02-27 10:57:56 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > BTW, when I wanted to fix the group name (gid) with > > > "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common", the BackSpace key (generating ^?) > > > didn't

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-27 10:57:56 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > BTW, when I wanted to fix the group name (gid) with > > "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common", the BackSpace key (generating ^?) > > didn't work to erase the value. I was connected via ssh. I suppose > >

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-27 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Ahh, so I assume that /var/cache/fonts exists, but it is owned by a > > > group id NOT listed in /etc/groups, so stat cannot find it. > > Note that this can happen when the group name is defined by NIS, > but when the upgrade occurs, the NIS client

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-27 02:56:37 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > dixsept:~> echo ".$(/usr/bin/stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts)." > > > .UNKNOWN. > > > > Ahh, so I assume that /var/cache/fonts exists, but it is owned by a > > group id NOT listed in /etc

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Norbert Preining wrote: > > dixsept:~> echo ".$(/usr/bin/stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts)." > > .UNKNOWN. > > Ahh, so I assume that /var/cache/fonts exists, but it is owned by a > group id NOT listed in /etc/groups, so stat cannot find it. I suggest the following fix to t

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > GROUP=$(stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts 2>/dev/null) > > On this machine (currently): > > dixsept:~> echo ".$(/usr/bin/stat --format="%G" /var/cache/fonts)." > .UNKNOWN. Ahh, so I assume that /var/cache/fonts exists, but it is owned by a group

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-27 00:22:56 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > The interesting question is *HOW* did it come that there is nothing else > saved in this variable, HOW did it happend that debconf returned > something strange. /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.config contains: GROUP=$(stat --format="%G" /var

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Norbert Preining
HI Stephen! Thanks for all the ideas... On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > That looks like an untrapped error from debconf, off-hand. debconf will > > > return strings like "UNKNOWN THIS OR THAT" on error, and it looks like > > > it was truncated to just UNKNOWN. > > > > and in posti

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Norbert Preining said: > On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > tex-common/groupname: UNKNOWN > > > > That looks like an untrapped error from debconf, off-hand. debconf will > > return strings like "UNKNOWN THIS OR THAT" on error, and it looks like > > it

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > tex-common/groupname: UNKNOWN > > That looks like an untrapped error from debconf, off-hand. debconf will > return strings like "UNKNOWN THIS OR THAT" on error, and it looks like > it was truncated to just UNKNOWN. In which circumstances

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Norbert Preining said: > Hi Vincent! > > On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Adjusting permissions of TeX font cache... chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid > > group > > tex-common/groupname: UNKNOWN > > This is strange, how did the UNKNOWN came into the tex

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-26 01:42:04 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > This is strange, how did the UNKNOWN came into the tex-common/groupname? I really don't know. It was previously 82 (in my config.dat backup from 2006-02-22 01:07:52), and now UNKNOWN. In the past, /etc/group contained: users:x:82: (I had t

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Vincent! On Son, 26 Feb 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Adjusting permissions of TeX font cache... chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid > group > tex-common/groupname: UNKNOWN This is strange, how did the UNKNOWN came into the tex-common/groupname? Did you enter it? The default for groupname is us

Bug#354401: Error "chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group" when setting up tex-common

2006-02-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: tex-common Version: 0.18 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When setting up tex-common: Setting up tex-common (0.18) ... Adjusting permissions of TeX font cache... chown: `root:UNKNOWN': invalid group dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure): subprocess post-