Bug#183845: tetex-bin: texconfig hangs forever in postinst with defunct child

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Ben Armstrong <ben@bgpc.dymaxion.ca>
Subject: Bug#183845: tetex-bin: texconfig hangs forever in postinst with defunct child
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:54:40 -0400

> Similar to the now-closed #182125, the postinst hangs forever when
> installing tetex-bin.  After poking at it for a while I finally
> determined the problem relates to me having typed "su" instead of "su -"
> to do the install.

In a sense, you are right but

> This path prohibits a default expansion. as it contains no : at either
> end, nor :: somewhere in the middle.  Please make sure, that these paths
> are ok, and otherwise change or unset them.  If you continue with wrong
> values for the above variables, texconfig might run into trouble when
> locating files on the disk.

fundamentally, the problem was wrong environment variables 
settings.  If root set wrong environment variable then even
"su -" caused the problem.

Thanks,				2003-3-8(Sat)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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