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